Coronavirus

[stringvest]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

On a doublejab? What about the other two?

they had each contracted it twice before getting the first jab 

[Mudface]

My brother's had it twice- both times he tried denying it, but he was so ill for weeks after the second bout (scarred lungs, fatigue etc), that he finally gave in and got the vaccine. Eejit.

[Bruce Spanner]

@Moctezuma are they downgrading COVID safety protocol in hospitals?

 

Something I heard earlier and didn’t fully understand.

 

Edit: Don’t worry I found an overview.

 

Good time to bury contentious news!

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/hospitals-in-england-relax-covid-rules-to-help-tackle-waiting-lists

 

 

[Mudface]

Presumably they can reduce waiting lists by killing off vulnerable patients with Covid.

[Elite]

There's a cunt of a cold going around at the moment, I'm coughing like fuck but it's not Covid. 

[Section_31]

25 minutes ago, Elite said:

There's a cunt of a cold going around at the moment, I'm coughing like fuck but it's not Covid. 

Yeah my Mrs has had it since Friday, tested negative for Covid but bad cough, sneeze and the rest of it. Reckon it's social distancing probably making people less able to take the edge off these things. Bet flu season will be a right cunt.

[Clem H Fandango]

2 hours ago, Elite said:

There's a cunt of a cold going around at the moment, I'm coughing like fuck but it's not Covid. 

Ditto. It's taken nearly a week of sleepless nights and coughing up a lung, constant sneezing. Tesco throat lozenges have helped me through it.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

14 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

@Moctezuma are they downgrading COVID safety protocol in hospitals?

 

Something I heard earlier and didn’t fully understand.

 

Edit: Don’t worry I found an overview.

 

Good time to bury contentious news!

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/hospitals-in-england-relax-covid-rules-to-help-tackle-waiting-lists

 

 

Surely they need to start looking at the 5.2 million people waiting for treatment? 
 

I heard somewhere the other day (Radio 5 possibly) that it will take up to 2034 to catch up those people. That’s not acceptable. 

[Clem H Fandango]

18 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Surely they need to start looking at the 5.2 million people waiting for treatment? 
 

I heard somewhere the other day (Radio 5 possibly) that it will take up to 2034 to catch up those people. That’s not acceptable. 

We could start clapping again, should inspire them to clear the list by new year.

[Bruce Spanner]

27 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Surely they need to start looking at the 5.2 million people waiting for treatment? 
 

I heard somewhere the other day (Radio 5 possibly) that it will take up to 2034 to catch up those people. That’s not acceptable. 

 

Agreed, but I was just wondering how far they had gone.

 

Schools are a complete fuck up and I was wondering if the new hospital protocol was the same which led to more trouble than it solved.

[Moctezuma]

16 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

@Moctezuma are they downgrading COVID safety protocol in hospitals?

 

Something I heard earlier and didn’t fully understand.

 

Edit: Don’t worry I found an overview.

 

Good time to bury contentious news!

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/hospitals-in-england-relax-covid-rules-to-help-tackle-waiting-lists

 

 

Within our trust there hasn't been any rolling back, but I can understand where this is coming from given the requirement to get elective services to start chewing through the gigantic backlog.

 

We have had some visitors trying to visit relatives without a mask (for non-clinical reasons) and occasionally you get staff in the hospital for whom the public's lacksadaisical approach to mask wearing has been imbued.

[Bjornebye]

14 hours ago, Clem H Fandango said:

Ditto. It's taken nearly a week of sleepless nights and coughing up a lung, constant sneezing. Tesco throat lozenges have helped me through it.

careful.... the karen colander gang will research shoving them up your arse soon 

[Bjornebye]

Mook>Karen Colander Gang 

[Captain Howdy]

16 hours ago, Elite said:

There's a cunt of a cold going around at the moment, I'm coughing like fuck but it's not Covid. 

Yeah I had it for about ten days, started with a sore throat. Worst cold I’ve had in years and the first since before lockdown

[Curly]

16 hours ago, Elite said:

There's a cunt of a cold going around at the moment, I'm coughing like fuck but it's not Covid. 

We’ve all had that. The baby and the wife had it first, then I got it. Shite sore throat that kept coming and going - worst at night. Little lad is over the throat it seems, but runny nose and lingering cough on him. 

[Clem H Fandango]

Cases of covid have risen massively here in Hampshire.

I'm not surprised seeing as hardly anyone wears a mask anymore, it's like we who have common sense are a very small minority.

[Harry's Lad]

Appointment booked for Covid booster on Sunday, Mrs can't have hers until the end of November as it hasn't been 6 months since her 2nd jab.

 

A lot of staff testing positive with Covid in the school where she works due to irresponsible dickheads  sending their kids to school when they have tested positive. 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Clem H Fandango said:

Cases of covid have risen massively here in Hampshire.

I'm not surprised seeing as hardly anyone wears a mask anymore, it's like we who have common sense are a very small minority.

Scummers

[Jairzinho]

Covid cases in Spain, Italy and France are between 2500 - 6000 a day. It's 35000 in the UK.

 

Why?

[Section_31]

6 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Covid cases in Spain, Italy and France are between 2500 - 6000 a day. It's 35000 in the UK.

 

Why?

Are any lockdown measures still in place in those countries? Could be testing too, might be more easily available here, just a guess like.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Are any lockdown measures still in place in those countries? Could be testing too, might be more easily available here, just a guess like.

Definitely nothing to do with masks as they don't do anything. It will be over by this Winter.

[Strontium]

It's usually a function of the increased amount of testing we do. Spain, for instance, did 604,580 tests in the last week for which there is data (week 38). Whereas the UK is doing almost 1 million tests per day.

[Bruce Spanner]

14 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Covid cases in Spain, Italy and France are between 2500 - 6000 a day. It's 35000 in the UK.

 

Why?

 

Mass testing is still happening and picking up lots of asymptomatic cases.

 

It's been dialed down elsewhere.

 

Lateral flow tests make up a lot as they are still happening.

 

And we're scum, proper filthy scum.

[Jairzinho]

11 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Mass testing is still happening and picking up lots of asymptomatic cases.

 

It's been dialed down elsewhere.

 

Lateral flow tests make up a lot as they are still happening.

 

And we're scum, proper filthy scum.

 

18 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

Are any lockdown measures still in place in those countries? Could be testing too, might be more easily available here, just a guess like.

 

Yeah, I assumed testing would be key.

 

Can't help but think the fact people still wear a mask on public transport, in shops, etc helps.

[Jairzinho]

Although deaths are about 50 a day in Spain, Italy and France, while they're about 150-200 a day in the UK, so presumably even taking into account the extra testing something is making things worse.