Coronavirus outbreak

[Brandane]

With reference to the above graph, why would any country open their borders to UK travellers?
Boris can put as many countries as he likes on his "green list" and announce it as some sort of victorious progress, but it means absolutely hee-haw as long as the green list countries won't let us in (without severe conditions attached)!

 

[Brandane]

Banning the plague riddled people of Manchester visiting didn't help then.

The good people of Manchester must have been gutted that they weren't allowed to come to Scotland and take it home with them .

 

[Bazzer]

It was present a few days ago. On babysitting duties, for a change Mrs B and I took our grandchild into Manchester on the tram. Use of masks and where used, being on the face properly, left a lot to be desired. With hindsight, we should have acted upon our discomfort and without our granddaughter, we would probably have abandoned the journey.
We chose the tram thinking, a) it was environmentally better than driving and b) mask use would be commonplace. This has backfired badly on us both, as we were both pinged today by the NHS app and went for Covid tests. - The outcome of which is awaited.
Tracking back our activities, unless it is a false notification, the contact could have only happened on the day we went on the tram and on the tram itself.😡

Well, at least we are both negative, although I would have been shocked if it had been positive.
Really not looking forward to being a lab rat after the 19th.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Fraulein Sturgeon

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[FishFright]

It sounds scary but some medications already do that, as do things like glucose.

I could do random Google searches, but I expect the health scammers rank higher than reasonable peer-reviewed opinions and medical texts are not easy for non-specialists.

Google scholar only returns peer reviewed paper and the top result is from Nature but I'll bear in mind what you reckon.

 

[Low Gear Guy]

Fraulein Sturgeon has gone strangely quiet recently. No regular TV briefings to reassure her foot soldiers that everything was going to be fine.
The cynic in me suspects this graph might explain why she has been lying (no pun intended) low:

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Why are you looking at data for 2020?

 

[Brandane]

Why are you looking at data for 2020?

Good point! I'm assuming a typo by the BBC? As it is on today's news page....
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[classic33]

People can still wear the face shields.

To be worn with a mask at the same time, since July last year.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

My daughter has finally managed to get a booking for her 2nd jab. I posted about this before the end of June and I got advice from a CC member via conversations. Her NHS app was showing that she'd had her 2nd in Buckinghamshire in June but the app had somehow got crossed with someone with a similar (but not identical) surname. She still can't use the app but she can get a needle in her arm on Monday.

Thanks to those who helped with this.

 

[midlife]

Cancelled clinics at work again because staff are isolating. Staff being pinged by the app have to phone occupational health and they will decide what you should do.

Is on the news that's its going to get worse before it gets better.... Just how much worse nobody at work will, or can't, tell us.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Cancelled clinics at work again because staff are isolating. Staff being pinged by the app have to phone occupational health and they will decide what you should do.

Is on the news that's its going to get worse before it gets better.... Just how much worse nobody at work will, or can't, tell us.

And listening on the radio, I just discovered that ''pingdemic'' was now a word!

 

[Bazzer]

Cancelled clinics at work again because staff are isolating. Staff being pinged by the app have to phone occupational health and they will decide what you should do.

Is on the news that's its going to get worse before it gets better.... Just how much worse nobody at work will, or can't, tell us.

I'm curious. How does that work with occupational health? Surely staff should follow the government guidelines?

 

[midlife]

There is no legal obligation to follow the alerts on the app, unlike test and trace where there is (and a fine)

If we are contacted by test and trace we have to do as we are told. Occupational health run the PCR testing for staff and family and I think that's how it goes. Bucket loads of testing not isolating if pinged by the app.

I'm sure I sent the email to my home account I'll check.

 

[mjr]

There is no legal obligation to follow the alerts on the app, unlike test and trace where there is (and a fine)

Maybe not legal, but the question was whether it followed the guidelines.

It is odd that law and guidelines disagree so much IMO but that's been the case throughout this crisis.

 

[mjr]

King's Lynn pub closed after covid outbreak linked to England-Ukraine footsie match. I'm surprised it's only one pub here so far, what with most screens being indoors and people shouting and hugging each other after goals and final whistle. https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/kings-lynn-pub-closes-after-coronavirus-outbreak-9206860/