Coronavirus

[Bruce Spanner]

Kicked off in London today.

 

Police charged protesters at 4pm, effectively turned into a brawl with one side having the power of arrest and sticks, scenes! 
 

 

[Section_31]

Refusing social distancing and refusing vaccines, I suspect that problem might sort itself.

[Champ]

37 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Refusing social distancing and refusing vaccines, I suspect that problem might sort itself.

We can only hope 

[Strontium]

Further to my earlier post, more detail on why social distancing and lockdowns may not always be the best strategies for minimising death tolls (thread).

 

 

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Stront19m Dog™ said:

Further to my earlier post, more detail on why social distancing and lockdowns may not always be the best strategies for minimising death tolls (thread).

 

 

Completely ignoring last nights points/questions. 

 

How was Trafalgar Square today? 

[Bob]

I caught a q cold off my daughter last week. She’d come home from school Witt the sniffles.

 

hers seems to have cleared up but yesterday I’d started coughing quite a bit. Today I’ve not been caught here much at all and other than feeling a bit shit, and having a woolly head and a blocked nose, I think I’m doing ok.

 

only, I’ve just realised I can’t smell anything at all.

 

i can still taste, but not smell a thing. 
 

ive got vicks on my chest and albas oil on my pillow and can’t smell either of them.

 

but concerning that.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Seems a strange decision to take if cases aren't rising in London? 

 

 

[Mudface]

20 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

I caught a q cold off my daughter last week. She’d come home from school Witt the sniffles.

 

hers seems to have cleared up but yesterday I’d started coughing quite a bit. Today I’ve not been caught here much at all and other than feeling a bit shit, and having a woolly head and a blocked nose, I think I’m doing ok.

 

only, I’ve just realised I can’t smell anything at all.

 

i can still taste, but not smell a thing. 
 

ive got vicks on my chest and albas oil on my pillow and can’t smell either of them.

 

but concerning that.

Have you seen if you can get a test?

[Section_31]

Seems to be lots of stuff floating around from 'sources close to the prime minister' that he's skint/bored/sick/pissed off.

 

His acolytes are deffo being lubed up for an early exit.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

I caught a q cold off my daughter last week. She’d come home from school Witt the sniffles.

 

hers seems to have cleared up but yesterday I’d started coughing quite a bit. Today I’ve not been caught here much at all and other than feeling a bit shit, and having a woolly head and a blocked nose, I think I’m doing ok.

 

only, I’ve just realised I can’t smell anything at all.

 

i can still taste, but not smell a thing. 
 

ive got vicks on my chest and albas oil on my pillow and can’t smell either of them.

 

but concerning that.

Hope it turns out to be nothing serious mate. 

53 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Seems a strange decision to take if cases aren't rising in London? 

 

 

They are despite what idiots might suggest.

 

 

 

 

Chris Whitty might 'spill the beans' if he doesn't get his way with a second lockdown according to the daly heil. What beans might they be..... I doubt the aRdja kind. 

 

 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

11 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Hope it turns out to be nothing serious mate. 

They are despite what idiots might suggest.

 

 

 

 

Chris Whitty might 'spill the beans' if he doesn't get his way with a second lockdown according to the daly heil. What beans might they be..... I doubt the aRdja kind. 

 

 

 

Mr. Witty looks rather angry in this pic that I saw on Twitter yesterday. He's probably had enough of working with clueless bellends. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

I caught a q cold off my daughter last week. She’d come home from school Witt the sniffles.

 

hers seems to have cleared up but yesterday I’d started coughing quite a bit. Today I’ve not been caught here much at all and other than feeling a bit shit, and having a woolly head and a blocked nose, I think I’m doing ok.

 

only, I’ve just realised I can’t smell anything at all.

 

i can still taste, but not smell a thing. 
 

ive got vicks on my chest and albas oil on my pillow and can’t smell either of them.

 

but concerning that.

A bit of science helps here...loss of taste and smell symptoms are caused by depleted zinc. Zinc is used by the body for quick turn around functions, like hair growth/colouring, nail growth, sense of taste, smell, touch and immune system. Zinc and copper is used by the body in priorities, so immune system is highest priority. If you are ill, your immune system uses all the zinc and copper to fight the illness. Hair growth, nail growth, taste, smell, take a back seat during illness. 

 

It could be a normal cold, flu, anything that prompts an immune system response. It's a good sign that your body is fighting it with it's immune response.

[Bob]

3 hours ago, Mudface said:

Have you seen if you can get a test?

Been on the gov website about 15 times all told since Friday and just get the same message - system is busy try again later.

[Bjornebye]

42 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Been on the gov website about 15 times all told since Friday and just get the same message - system is busy try again later.

The whole site is designed to make you jump through that many hoops that you give up. Thats what they want. Not just Covid but tax, complaints the lot. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

We are fucked.

[Anubis]

So, despite telling us how I’ll he was, Bob went the pub. Bastard.

[Barrington Womble]

10 hours ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Seems a strange decision to take if cases aren't rising in London? 

 

 

I think that's because people can't get tested in London. It's only anecdotal I know, but I had a meeting with someone on Friday who early in the week tried and failed to get a test before putting in a Leicester postcode and driving to Leicester to get tested. The Zoe app is showing numbers high in London. 

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

Zoe figures just keep on increasing. The number of people with symptoms back to levels in June. The number of daily cases rises by another 1,000 to not far short of 10,000 per day. 

 

 

[Curly]

Thing with this Zoe app in my mind - some of the spike in symptoms are going to be Covid related, but surely time of year will be part of it. The famous “freshers flu” is this time of year, every year, where new students take germs to and from uni. There’s a cold kicking about, which loads of people I know have had, so I assume that would pick up Covid symptoms on a tracker. The weather is changing - it’s normal.

 

Before anyone goes at me, I’m just looking for positives in all the misery and predictions of shit.

 

The other thing which I think is good, and I’m hoping it stays that way, is the death rate is low. Any death rate is shit, but if it stays low as cases rise, that can only be a good thing?

 

[Barrington Womble]

11 minutes ago, belarus said:

Thing with this Zoe app in my mind - some of the spike in symptoms are going to be Covid related, but surely time of year will be part of it. The famous “freshers flu” is this time of year, every year, where new students take germs to and from uni. There’s a cold kicking about, which loads of people I know have had, so I assume that would pick up Covid symptoms on a tracker. The weather is changing - it’s normal.

 

Before anyone goes at me, I’m just looking for positives in all the misery and predictions of shit.

 

The other thing which I think is good, and I’m hoping it stays that way, is the death rate is low. Any death rate is shit, but if it stays low as cases rise, that can only be a good thing?

 

Someone posted a few pages back about some of the things Zoe are able to do with the symptoms they track where they have a pretty good idea what is and isn't covid rather than another virus. In addition to this, they're able to use the testing programme they're actually a part of to be able to relate positive tests to symptoms out there. So it's not "he's not feeling well, he has covid". I'd put more value in Zoe than any other source of data out there right now, because the value of the government data is not great because not everyone is getting a test who wants one and it take so long to get the results of any tests. My family have all had tests this last week and our results were returned at an average of 90 hours to return. 

[Mudface]

14 minutes ago, belarus said:

Thing with this Zoe app in my mind - some of the spike in symptoms are going to be Covid related, but surely time of year will be part of it. The famous “freshers flu” is this time of year, every year, where new students take germs to and from uni. There’s a cold kicking about, which loads of people I know have had, so I assume that would pick up Covid symptoms on a tracker. The weather is changing - it’s normal.

 

Before anyone goes at me, I’m just looking for positives in all the misery and predictions of shit.

 

The other thing which I think is good, and I’m hoping it stays that way, is the death rate is low. Any death rate is shit, but if it stays low as cases rise, that can only be a good thing?

 

We had this a few pages back, mate. If you report as ill with the Zoe app, it asks a couple of dozen questions about your symptoms- I'm pretty sure that it then assigns a weighting based on earlier responses combined with actual test data to determine whether or not you likely have it. The guy who heads up the research team said earlier in the week that if you have the classic cold symptoms of sneezing and a runny nose, then you almost certainly don't have Covid.

 

The app has pretty much been spot on with trends in actual testing data and such a large increase- it was about 1600 a day not so long ago- is really bad. As for deaths, they will lag infections and hospitalisations, so it's a few weeks before you see the figures. Both deaths and hospitalisations have pretty much doubled from a couple of weeks back already though.

[Curly]

14 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Someone posted a few pages back about some of the things Zoe are able to do with the symptoms they track where they have a pretty good idea what is and isn't covid rather than another virus. In addition to this, they're able to use the testing programme they're actually a part of to be able to relate positive tests to symptoms out there. So it's not "he's not feeling well, he has covid". I'd put more value in Zoe than any other source of data out there right now, because the value of the government data is not great because not everyone is getting a test who wants one and it take so long to get the results of any tests. My family have all had tests this last week and our results were returned at an average of 90 hours to return. 

 

11 minutes ago, Mudface said:

We had this a few pages back, mate. If you report as ill with the Zoe app, it asks a couple of dozen questions about your symptoms- I'm pretty sure that it then assigns a weighting based on earlier responses combined with actual test data to determine whether or not you likely have it. The guy who heads up the research team said earlier in the week that if you have the classic cold symptoms of sneezing and a runny nose, then you almost certainly don't have Covid.

 

The app has pretty much been spot on with trends in actual testing data and such a large increase- it was about 1600 a day not so long ago- is really bad. As for deaths, they will lag infections and hospitalisations, so it's a few weeks before you see the figures. Both deaths and hospitalisations have pretty much doubled from a couple of weeks back already though.

Fair enough. That’s pretty much pissed on my chips then...

 

 

[Section_31]

Your daily reminder that Bolton is the arsehole of planet earth.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/20/covid-scepticism-behind-high-bolton-infection-rate-says-local-mp

 

@Remmie am I right brother?

[Stickman]

3 hours ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

We are fucked.

 

Harry Kane on a night out isn’t it . 

[Anubis]

Good news for my sister-in-law, who’s tested negative.