Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[classic33]

Hey, look, there's a poll at the top...

Can't get anything past you, can we.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

So? Are they going to die? No. Nobody cares about Covid anymore, we’ve moved on and won’t be fooled by their damaging lock downs ever again.

I don't know what all the fuss is about either. Someone I work with caught it again last week, and had a few days off sick as he was feeling rather rough.
I feel fine but who knows, I might have got a dose of it too. Currently, they reckon about 1 in every 45 people has the virus at any one time. So when I was drinking in the pub at the weekend and it was very busy, there were statistically at least two, if not three people in there with the virus.

Obsessing about positive and negative tests is pointless. If you feel ill enough to stop your daily routine, then take it easy at home for a few days. If you don't feel that bad, then just carry on as normal. Some people with nothing more than a sniffle are turning it into an art form of how to take off the maximum amount of sick time at work without getting the sack. Everyone who does turn up for work then gets lumbered with the absentee's workload!

 

[classic33]

I don't know what all the fuss is about either. Someone I work with caught it again last week, and had a few days off sick as he was feeling rather rough.
I feel fine but who knows, I might have got a dose of it too. Currently, they reckon about 1 in every 45 people has the virus at any one time. So when I was drinking in the pub at the weekend and it was very busy, there were statistically at least two, if not three people in there with the virus.

Obsessing about positive and negative tests is pointless. If you feel ill enough to stop your daily routine, then take it easy at home for a few days. If you don't feel that bad, then just carry on as normal. Some people with nothing more than a sniffle are turning it into an art form of how to take off the maximum amount of sick time at work without getting the sack. Everyone who does turn up for work then gets lumbered with the absentee's workload!

Some of us have little choice on the checking side. Why do you persist in knocking those whose access to treatment* depends on a negative result?

It's still a notifiable disease, so how would you feel if they closed any pub that has people in that tested positive.

The "I'm alright jack" attitude is great if you only want to drink. Remember your previous posts on pubs being shut, when you said they should be open. Maybe take up home brewing and then you'd not have to worry about the pubs shutting.



*Test positive and you won't be seen, and then face the possibility of going to the back of the list, at best, removed at worst. And these appointments have restarted in only the last three months.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It's still a notifiable disease, so how would you feel if they closed any pub that has people in that tested positive.

It’s only GPs that are required to notify. Since no one is going anywhere near their GP, and the vast majority are not testing, it’s only going to be notified if someone ends up in hospital. Contact tracing was a joke at the best of times, and will never be traced back to a pub.

 

[lazybloke]

My boss avoided covid for a v long time, but tested positive just over a week ago, then recovered...
.. but today was suddenly admitted to hospital with Atrial Fibrilliation.
Sounds like a tough fortnight. I wonder if the AF has any link with the Covid.

 

[midlife]

Eldest currently in Lancaster Royal tested positive, not sure he is exercising his art form to get the maximum time off work….

 

[Julia9054]

With the customary caution about using “people I know” as a sample size, it does rather seem to be taking off again. Not at school though, pretty much covid free there (I think just about all the staff and kids have had it at least once).

 

[Milzy]

It’s all one big joke. My mother in law is 74 & has that fluid on the heart condition. Her doctor said don’t get vaccinated under any circumstances & she’s not even caught Covid once.
It seems the media are always reporting young fit people suddenly dropping dead. What’s all that about?

 

[MrGrumpy]

It’s all one big joke. My mother in law is 74 & has that fluid on the heart condition. Her doctor said don’t get vaccinated under any circumstances & she’s not even caught Covid once.
It seems the media are always reporting young fit people suddenly dropping dead. What’s all that about?

Right ok !! It’s all one big joke ………

 

[Ajax Bay]

It seems the media are always reporting young fit people suddenly dropping dead. What’s all that about?

That's because young fit people sadly dying is very very unusual. Of all deaths reported in the last reporting period, about 2.5% had COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate. The median age for that cohort was 82 (about the same as for all deaths).
One cannot reasonably find these data 'a joke'.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I've always said it's up to those with a good reason to avoid catching the virus to minimise their exposure to the rest of us. No-one expects everyone else to shut themselves away and take incessant tests just in case they might be carrying any number of other viruses that always circulate around.
We dont have flu lockdowns or common cold lockdowns or measles lockdowns. Everyone who works or studies or socialises is constantly exposed to all sorts of germs, and we frequently get infected with something or other. It doesn't influence the way we live our lives, we just get on with it and if you catch something then you catch something. Why should the Coronavirus be treated differently to any other infectious illness? It's just another germ.

 

[C R]

My boss avoided covid for a v long time, but tested positive just over a week ago, then recovered...
.. but today was suddenly admitted to hospital with Atrial Fibrilliation.
Sounds like a tough fortnight. I wonder if the AF has any link with the Covid.

That's what happened to our neighbour, seems to be one of the manifestations of long covid.

 

[Milzy]

I've always said it's up to those with a good reason to avoid catching the virus to minimise their exposure to the rest of us. No-one expects everyone else to shut themselves away and take incessant tests just in case they might be carrying any number of other viruses that always circulate around.
We dont have flu lockdowns or common cold lockdowns or measles lockdowns. Everyone who works or studies or socialises is constantly exposed to all sorts of germs, and we frequently get infected with something or other. It doesn't influence the way we live our lives, we just get on with it and if you catch something then you catch something. Why should the Coronavirus be treated differently to any other infectious illness? It's just another germ.

Exactly. It came out of a lab maybe by accident or on purpose. Not from a bat in a wet market.
Many are receiving compensation claims for damage done by the vaccines. People on here have been mind washed & double downed on all the B.S they’ve been fed.

 

[classic33]

I've always said it's up to those with a good reason to avoid catching the virus to minimise their exposure to the rest of us. No-one expects everyone else to shut themselves away and take incessant tests just in case they might be carrying any number of other viruses that always circulate around.
We dont have flu lockdowns or common cold lockdowns or measles lockdowns. Everyone who works or studies or socialises is constantly exposed to all sorts of germs, and we frequently get infected with something or other. It doesn't influence the way we live our lives, we just get on with it and if you catch something then you catch something. Why should the Coronavirus be treated differently to any other infectious illness? It's just another germ.

You are aware that should you test positive, public transport is out of bounds to you. And in parts of the country taxis and private hire vehicles.

Flu, you'd not be able to go into work from what I've heard and read. Never had it, so I've to base my defense against it on what I hear and read.

You'd have no problems with barstaff sneezing into your drink, food or over you as they served you. After all it is your responsibility to protect yourself from what others have/may have. Using your rules above. And should you come down with anything, there's no-one to blame but yourself.


As for a measles lockdown, I came across one 21 years ago. An entire street taped off, no one allowed out, only medical personal allowed in. As a street they did pretty well managing not being allowed out fairly well on their own. Relatives/family doing the shopping and dropping it at the tape.

These last 830 days have been a minor irritation for me, nowt else. Hospital appointments stopped, staff required elsewhere. Some staff being patients, some never making it back to staff status, never making it home even.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I've always said it's up to those with a good reason to avoid catching the virus to minimise their exposure to the rest of us

A bit difficult for those of us who are vulnerable and essential workers, of course. I'm not sure how employers would react to that idea, or indeed how the general public would feel about headlines like:

"Hospitals at reduced capacity because vulnerable staff can't work, but this means pubs can stay open."

It sounds a bit like the arguments that cyclists shouldn't ride on roads so drivers don't have to worry about running them over.