Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Ming the Merciless]

Not sure you are allowed visitors in the garden under tier 4?

Nor in tier 3.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Virus and free and doing the one thing to most protect ourselves. Socially distancing at all times and no visitors even when allowed.

 

[classic33]

Another test today, quicker results, negative again(Luck or doing things right?).

One hesitation on this latest test, it's only 50% as accurate (At best) as the previous ones, which are 90% accurate.
Are they rushing tests through?

 

[lane]

Definitely not. Nor in the garage like our neighbors do. They even installed a log burner in the garage which pollutes our garden.

 

[DCLane]

Oh how I so wish Covid was more discriminatory!
The next door neighbour who had 5 cars of visitors on Christmas Day had 2 more today, on the day we moved into Tier 4. The look of shock on his face and his vocal stumblings as he saw me and my youngest daughter as he then asked his guests to go down the far side of the house into his garden, rather than through the front door, suggests he was not expecting me my youngest daughter to be working on her car in the snow. Aside from being in Tier 4, of course his guests were entertained in his garden (not).
It's no effing wonder this virus is causing chaos.😡

I'd be reporting them. The idiots have killed enough people I know. Personally I'd want a more severe punishment; 4 weeks in jail minimum rather than a paltry fine.

 

[classic33]

Oh how I so wish Covid was more discriminatory!
The next door neighbour who had 5 cars of visitors on Christmas Day had 2 more today, on the day we moved into Tier 4. The look of shock on his face and his vocal stumblings as he saw me and my youngest daughter as he then asked his guests to go down the far side of the house into his garden, rather than through the front door, suggests he was not expecting me my youngest daughter to be working on her car in the snow. Aside from being in Tier 4, of course his guests were entertained in his garden (not).
It's no effing wonder this virus is causing chaos.😡

I've a neighbour tested positive for the fourth time. He's spent the last two weeks fixing cars up and selling them on. A third one arrived this morning.

Currently not allowed to work until he provides a negative, so he's taken to supplementing his pay selling cars he's fixed up.

 

[midlife]

Another test today, quicker results, negative again(Luck or doing things right?).

One hesitation on this latest test, it's only 50% as accurate (At best) as the previous ones, which are 90% accurate.
Are they rushing tests through?

Depends on the test, a good swab for a PCR test is quite accurate (all that sensitivity / specificity stuff) but the 30 minute lateral flow tests are less so.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Another test today, quicker results, negative again(Luck or doing things right?).

One hesitation on this latest test, it's only 50% as accurate (At best) as the previous ones, which are 90% accurate.
Are they rushing tests through?

Is this mass testing or something else prompted you to have a test?

 

[Bazzer]

Oh how I so wish Covid was more discriminatory!
The next door neighbour who had 5 cars of visitors on Christmas Day had 2 more today, on the day we moved into Tier 4. The look of shock on his face and his vocal stumblings as he saw me and my youngest daughter as he then asked his guests to go down the far side of the house into his garden, rather than through the front door, suggests he was not expecting me my youngest daughter to be working on her car in the snow. Aside from being in Tier 4, of course his guests were entertained in his garden (not).
It's no effing wonder this virus is causing chaos.😡

A correction to my post.
I understood my area entered Tier 4 at midnight on Wednesday night and not midnight on Thursday. Indeed, my 'phone app was telling me yesterday I was in Tier 4. However it seems it was midnight last night and not 24 hours earlier.
Nevertheless, the behaviour was unacceptable for a Tier 3 and in a local area which has by some distance the highest in the borough.

 

[classic33]

Is this mass testing or something else prompted you to have a test?

St. Georges Hall, Bradford. Testing station set up inside, with people outside asking if you would you be willing to be tested. Different test*, so I said yes.

Odd in that there's a second testing station on the far side of the Town Hall. And the first I've seen set up inside a building.

*Same procedure I know.

 

[midlife]

A correction to my post.
I understood my area entered Tier 4 at midnight on Wednesday night and not midnight on Thursday. Indeed, my 'phone app was telling me yesterday I was in Tier 4. However it seems it was midnight last night and not 24 hours earlier.
Nevertheless, the behaviour was unacceptable for a Tier 3 and in a local area which has by some distance the highest in the borough.

I thought the tiers changed midnight Wednesday so new year's eve was included in the new tiers?

 

[Bazzer]

QUOTE="midlife, post: 6253170, member: 36570"]
I thought the tiers changed midnight Wednesday so new year's eve was included in the new tiers?
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Ahh, that would make sense then with what the app told me and what I understood the position to be. Thank you.
I'd seen on the local authority web site this morning a banner headline that we were now in Tier 4, which wasn't there yesterday, so thought I had misinterpreted the original information.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I saw an article in The Telegraph that said in order to get herd immunity the UK has to vaccinate 70% of the country. At a million a week that would take to November, what with new improved strain. Does that mean we have to stay locked down until November, because I don't want to. If the government just inoculates the most at risk 10%, can't they just let the rest of us go?

 

[lazybloke]

I saw an article in The Telegraph that said in order to get herd immunity the UK has to vaccinate 70% of the country. At a million a week that would take to November, what with new improved strain. Does that mean we have to stay locked down until November, because I don't want to. If the government just inoculates the most at risk 10%, can't they just let the rest of us go?

If you look at hospital admission data by age groupings, it looks like the over-85s outnumber the total of ALL other age groupings combined.
So those over-85s are definitely among the low-hanging fruit in the vaccination battle.

Unfortuantely that's 12 million people, so even at 1 million per week it's still the best part of 3 months to vaccinate them. But that suggests things should be looking better by Easter time, approx. How the 2nd dose argument will affect this is anyones guess!

However, the infection rates are driven by the activities of younger age groupings, so I imagine we'll see infection rates remaining high for many months, only dropping with the better weather, and then returning with autumnal weather later in the year.

Air travel will surely remain heavily supressed, and I should think a vaccination certificate will be needed.
More variants will emerge. Maybe this is a battle we'll have to fight again every couple of years.

 

[C R]

I saw an article in The Telegraph that said in order to get herd immunity the UK has to vaccinate 70% of the country. At a million a week that would take to November, what with new improved strain. Does that mean we have to stay locked down until November, because I don't want to. If the government just inoculates the most at risk 10%, can't they just let the rest of us go?

Not really. With a large susceptible population you will still get large outbreaks. Bear in mind that herd immunity to any infectious disease has only ever been achieved through systematic vaccination.