Coronavirus outbreak

[fossyant]

How long does a roll last you?

Probably go through 2 a day in this house at least.

 

[tom73]

I think that kids will not be a priority for testing according to Hancock. I wonder if that means 2 weeks isolation for families if kids have symptoms?

Not sure he see's many as priority after formally setting out rationing list for testing.
In ranking order this is how tests will be prioritised:

1. NHS hospital patients, including all new inpatient admissions
2. Care home staff (weekly) and residents (monthly and on admission)
3. NHS staff
4. Surveillance studies to collect data, and targeted testing at high-risk environments
5. Teachers who have symptoms
6. Members of the public with symptoms in areas with high infection rates
7. Members of the public with symptoms in other areas

Care givers look to be forgotten as are hospice staff. No word on husbands , wife's or partners of the care and NHS staff. Take it we are at the bottom too. So how many staff will that take out of the work force as they have to wait for them to get a test?

 

[midlife]

NHS staff with symptoms are usually tested via the hospital testing system through occupational health. They don't have to book an appointment so not sure how Mr Hancock can influence that?

 

[mjr]

Having been majorly caught out at the start of the lock down, we have got a month's supply of cat food at the weekend as it was significantly cheaper to buy in bulk, one spare pack of loo rolls, and one shopping bag full of none perishables (tins of soup, spaghetti etc, and some flour). There is enough food to manage a couple of weeks

I was all ready to grumble at you for starting the panic buying surge off, but "enough food to manage a couple of weeks" is actually what we all should probably have in unless we've got dependable friends or relatives nearby who would shop for us, given that we're meant to quarantine for at least a couple of weeks if we catch this thing.

 

[mjr]

There is a walk-in centre close to me, but rumour has it that it isn't walk in but needs an appointment.

It is walk-in, but that's as opposed to drive-through which is the other main type of public test centre. It's shoot naming. It probably should have been called walk-through.

The rest of what you write is similar to what I read from friends and fakebook.

 

[tom73]

NHS staff with symptoms are usually tested via the hospital testing system through occupational health. They don't have to book an appointment so not sure how Mr Hancock can influence that?

No i'm not either think it's playing to gallery though primary care are not able to access hospital test system. Mrs 73 can't she was told she had to book a test like everyone else.

 

[mjr]

Remember the virus alert level ?
They've now changed the bulb and it’s been set to level 4 for what good it is means transmission is high or rising exponentially.

I thought 1 was the highest alert level. It certainly is for DEFCON. DEFCON 2 is Cuban Missile Crisis level stuff. DEFCON 1 means the nukes have launched and we're all about to die.

In other words: have Dom and Boris even got the farking alert levels upside down?

 

[mjr]

I think these tests from school children will be generally negative. The school turns into a petri dish for colds and coughs during the first couple of weeks

I wonder if the number of school-transmitted colds and coughs are down this year due to the extra precautions, or not.

 

[Archie_tect]

I thought 1 was the highest alert level. It certainly is for DEFCON. DEFCON 2 is Cuban Missile Crisis level stuff. DEFCON 1 means the nukes have launched and we're all about to die.

In other words: have Dom and Boris even got the farking alert levels upside down?

Don't let Hancock anywhere near a flashing red button.

 

[Johnno260]

My daughter got a COVID test today. Over the weekend she got a sore throat, high temperature and is now coughing a lot. Almost certainly just a cold picked up from a couple of weeks back at school - every new term there is some cold/flu doing the rounds, especially after so long on holiday.

School won't let her back in for at least 2 weeks unless she has a COVID test which is negative.

So, I tried to book online. All busy. There is a walk-in centre close to me, but rumour has it that it isn't walk in but needs an appointment. Since the website simply isn't responding by now, I phone 119. Go through a forest of menu options. Talk to a human. Ask if the local COVID centre allows walk in or appointment only. She says she isn't allowed to say. That I need to book online. I say that the website says it is "busy" and to contact 119, which is where I am now. I ask her if she is familiar with the works of Franz Kafka.

We go to the centre anyway. No walk-ins allowed. We explain the situation. We stand around hopefully. We get let in because the system is farked and they feel sorry for us. Virtually no-one is using it. We do the test and leave hearing a couple of other people recounting similar stories to us.

One thing I did learn was that you could book an appointment anywhere in the UK and turn up at your local test centre. As long as you have the mystical QR code in your possession then all is good. A friend confirmed this - she booked up for Aberdeen (we are in London) and just rocked up to her local centre. No problems.

So there we have it. A system utterly farked. Apparently testing demand has shot through the roof since it transpired there was a shortage of tests - the bog roll crisis except with test-tubes and swabs. And, of course, with schools going back all viruses are back in circulation. Apparently there are many children off school from my daughters class all with similar symptons. And all trying to get COVID tested. I mean, it hardly takes Nostradamus to work out that millions of children going back to school may end up with a lot of suspected symptoms does it?

We were told the website refreshes after 8pm and 8am it worked for us booking a test for a child.

Sorry saw you got one now, hopefully the above may help others.

 

[Johnno260]

I was reading about a nurse who had exactly the same opinions She has been struck off the nursing register

Has quite a following apparently.of which I am not one .Does she not realise Corona Virus is noon hoax or a government plot to control are minds.I suppose in her opinion the deaths are all propaganda

She thinks it’s all a hoax, I told her stay away from my wife as she is a nurse and not impressed with my Aunts thoughts.

I disabled FB due to the sheer amount of total no nonsense on it, the conspiracy nuts are out in force.

 

[Julia9054]

I wonder if the number of school-transmitted colds and coughs are down this year due to the extra precautions, or not.

Not if the classes I have taught today are anything to go by

 

[tom73]

Don't let Hancock anywhere near a flashing red button.

No fear of that he'd outsource the pushing of the button.

 

[classic33]

I thought 1 was the highest alert level. It certainly is for DEFCON. DEFCON 2 is Cuban Missile Crisis level stuff. DEFCON 1 means the nukes have launched and we're all about to die.

In other words: have Dom and Boris even got the farking alert levels upside down?

DEFCON 2, Defense Condition 2 is American. We don't use it.

 

[tom73]

Yet another late night Boris covid message.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54242634
Pubs, restaurants to close from 10 pm and table service only.