Coronavirus outbreak

[fossyant]

These rules are a joke in T3. It's ok for 5 people to sit together (no social distancing) for lunch in a restaurant because they are from the same work place, but not OK for me to take my mum.

Said five people were nurses from the local practice. It was not a business meeting. Thank goodness I don't use that GP practice.

Bloody joke.

 

[oldworld]

Here in France the numbers of daily infections is way higher than the UK (about double) so take heart.
However, the number of daily deaths from Covid in the UK is higher than those in France.
There must be a reason for this difference but I'm not sure what it is.
I can only think the UK population is generally more unfit/ overweight/ living in poorer condition/ more ethnically diverse. Any or all could be the reason.
More worrying is the possibility of deaths increasing at the same % of new infections if this continues.
No European country has got this pandemic under control but the UK government seems to be 'world beating' in their poor handling of the outbreak.

 

[tom73]

These rules are a joke in T3. It's ok for 5 people to sit together (no social distancing) for lunch in a restaurant because they are from the same work place, but not OK for me to take my mum.

Said five people were nurses from the local practice. It was not a business meeting. Thank goodness I don't use that GP practice.

Bloody joke.

mmmm I'd report them at best it's ill judged at worse it's bringing the profession into disrepute. It "maybe" within the rules but at the moment in Tier 3 area is not the best thing to do. I take it all in uniform ? Can't see the practice being happy to be seen promoting areas of "grey" at a time like this. It maybe against the practice the uniform policy to start with.

 

[Julia9054]

"Prolonged use of such sanitiser may cause dermatitis, eye irritation, upper respiratory system irritation and headaches"

No shoot sherlock ! Same goes for any sanitiser. Some of them nearly get you piddled by the smell.

We have non alcohol hand sanitizer in the science labs at school as they don’t want teachers setting fire to their hands using Bunsen burners.
Not sure how good it is - here is an incubated agar plate where I dipped one thumb in hand sanitizer and left one thumb dirty. Doesn’t show what I was aiming for it to show!

 

[fossyant]

mmmm I'd report them at best it's ill judged at worse it's bringing the profession into disrepute. It "maybe" within the rules but at the moment in Tier 3 area is not the best thing to do. I take it all in uniform ? Can't see the practice being happy to be seen promoting areas of "grey" at a time like this. It maybe against the practice the uniform policy to start with.

All in uniform

 

[Rusty Nails]

And you're surprised at *that.

Not surprised at the Telegraph, nor at @MarkF for posting it.

 

[tom73]

All in uniform

I'd defo be reporting that then.

 

[tom73]

Remember the £500 self isolation payment for low income households? If the app tells you to isolate you can forget the £500 you can't have it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54660237

 

[classic33]

Not surprised at the Telegraph, nor at @MarkF for posting it.

Relates to the Manchester Evening News piece. I posted the Telegraph link. In the main because of the number in ICU's quoted. Have we got 2,880 ICU's in the UK.

Local ICU has nine beds taken by Covid-19 cases, 3/4's full.

 

[Rezillo]

20th October:

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...hester-which-covid-patient-data-are-borne-out

How many people with Covid-19 are in hospital in the region?
As of last Friday, Greater Manchester hospitals were treating a total of 520 inpatients left seriously ill by the coronavirus, of whom 90 were in ICU and 20 were receiving Cpap or Bipap, the dashboard said. However, the Health Service Journal reported on Monday that there had been “a large increase in Covid patients since yesterday, with beds occupied by Covid-positive patients rising from just over 500 to around 650”.

 

[cookiemonster]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4NNb0fmKR4


Nailed.

 

[Lovacott]

Remember the £500 self isolation payment for low income households? If the app tells you to isolate you can forget the £500 you can't have it.

The firm I work for will pay statutory sick pay only to anyone who is asked to isolate by the app but at the same time, they want us all to download the app?

They will give us full pay for a bad back, common flu, depression, sports injury or Delhi belly, but just SSP if we isolate because one of our close contacts has been confirmed as Covid positive?

I wonder how that will work out?

 

[fossyant]

The firm I work for will pay statutory sick pay only to anyone who is asked to isolate by the app but at the same time, they want us all to download the app?

They will give us full pay for a bad back, common flu, depression, sports injury or Delhi belly, but just SSP if we isolate because one of our close contacts has been confirmed as Covid positive?

I wonder how that will work out?

People will just go to work !

 

[Lovacott]

People will just go to work !

Sod that.

I'm going to break my leg falling off my bike.

 

[midlife]

People will just go to work !

My employer is pretty clear about being told to isolate by test and trace. You do it and don't come into work. You tell occupational health and the line manager and you will be granted paid leave. I assume my employer (NHS) has access to test and trace to check.

Not heard anything about being told by the app. We are told to turn it off at work and that's it......