Corona Virus: How Are We Doing?

[Fab Foodie]

Yesterday morning....

Feeling pretty crap, but not the worst flu I have had by a long way.
We have two 70 y/o rellies over from the USA at the moment so doing some serious isolating before they go (hopefully) back next week.
shoot timing all-round.

It's not like I have been anywhere busy, just the local Tesco!

 

[Fab Foodie]

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[lazybloke]

What happens now regarding work with Covid?

Obviously if too ill to work whatever sick pay scheme someone has will kick in but am I correct in thinking that if you're ok to work you can go in?

Self certify if you need, up to whatever the legal limit is now. Think it was increased in 2020.

I cancelled my a/l today, and rebooked it as covid sickness absence; spent most of the day in bed but will aim to work from home on Monday.

 

[Ajax Bay]

Hospital admissions (England) - virtually all the rise is over 65s. About half and half 'with' / 'because of'.
About 90% BA5, 8% BA4 and a little BA2. No new variants (yet).
Everyone wave. Maybe better now than in 3 months (edit to make clear: waves seem to have a low-low period of 4 months, so we can but hope that it'll be back down by Christmas).

ONS also suggests infections on increase wef 9 Sep - varies across the UK (Scotland and NI down, Wales up, England slightly up)
Main rise is in 'back-to-measles camp' 7-12 year olds. The other age groups fairly neutral.

 

[Bazzer]

More victims of (air)port waiting areas? They still don't seem to have the right balance between security and ventilation, so seem high risk places for this.

I don't know.
From what they have said, they have both been generally careful. - One of their adult daughters has health problems. But when my wife returned from Crete 10 days ago, there was no mask wearing on the plane except for my wife and her friend. So personally I wouldn't be surprised if the more confined space of the aircraft was the opportunity for transmission.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Self certify if you need, up to whatever the legal limit is now. Think it was increased in 2020.

I cancelled my a/l today, and rebooked it as covid sickness absence; spent most of the day in bed but will aim to work from home on Monday.

Ha! Exactly the same as me then...must be something in the air....

 

[Slick]

That's far from certain. Someone I know tested negative until four days after symptoms started and the worst was after that. Stopped testing positive after another four days, though, unlike my 9!

Pretty much mirrors my own experience, but I was reacting to information shared.

What happens now regarding work with Covid?

Obviously if too ill to work whatever sick pay scheme someone has will kick in but am I correct in thinking that if you're ok to work you can go in?

My work, which is a non departmental government body expects you in unless you are unfit. Covid is to be treated like any other illness.

 

[Alex321]

I think this is the case unless your workplace says something more specific.
I don't like it. I would prefer a clear rule. I would feel guilty for being at home when not too unwell and dumping on my colleagues and also guilty if I go in and infect them.

In our company, we now almost all have hybrid working as the norm, so the expectation is that if you are ill (with anything), but well enough to work, you will just work from home until no longer ill.

 

[lazybloke]

Pretty much mirrors my own experience, but I was reacting to information shared.

My work, which is a non departmental government body expects you in unless you are unfit. Covid is to be treated like any other illness.

It's only guidance to self-isolate now, daily deaths are a fraction of what they were, but I think covid is still a notifiable disease, and employers have a duty of care to their workforce so should be promoting self-isolation. All seems a bit muddled.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Jab #6 Booked!

Two doses of AZ and two doses of the Virus itself will suffice for me. If I get a fifth dose it will be the Virus again, not another vaccine.

 

[Chislenko]

Two doses of AZ and two doses of the Virus itself will suffice for me. If I get a fifth dose it will be the Virus again, not another vaccine.

Is that the way it works John. I had a booster called Spikevax on Wednesday and have felt like crap ever since. As that was my fourth are you saying they actually give you the virus in a way to build up your immunity to it?

 

[vickster]

Is that the way it works John. I had a booster called Spikevax on Wednesday and have felt like crap ever since. As that was my fourth are you saying they actually give you the virus in a way to build up your immunity to it?

Info about how vaccines work
https://uk.wedovaccines.com/about-vaccines#how

Spikevax = Moderna vaccine

 

[Ajax Bay]

I had a booster called Spikevax on Wednesday and have felt like crap ever since.

The Moderna 'Spikevax' is a bivalent vaccine (which I think the NHS are generally using for all 'autumn boosters'. It's (literally) designed to provide protection from serious illness from both the original and the Omicron variants.

 

[MontyVeda]

For a lot of people the big question is Can I afford to not go to work? I know I can't and if I did test positive, I'd be going in if physically able to.

 

[Andy in Germany]

For a lot of people the big question is Can I afford to not go to work? I know I can't and if I did test positive, I'd be going in if physically able to.

Not "wow" at you, for the record: I didn't realise that the UK didn't have support for people when they test positive.