Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[COYBL25]

True. My only main concern is long COViD really. CBA getting that

The description of long covid is wide and varied though.

My 15 yr old lad hasn`t had proper smell or taste since Sept last year.

I had to go on inhalers a couple of months ago( brown and blue ) due to impaired lung function, which as you can imagine is a bit of a pain with with my running.

It is was it is.

 

[Moomin]

@Moomin
the thread...

Four weeks ago or whenever it was that they pushed back June 21, BBC and ITV were asking why the date had been pushed back, despite having run loads of stories in the weeks previous suggesting it should be pushed back.

People are sick of it, properly sick of it.

Bit harsh calling him a prat over that like.

Just speaking about a personal experience about his late wife.

Did you read the whole thread?

 

[Moomin]

The description of long covid is wide and varied though.

My 15 yr old lad hasn`t had proper smell or taste since Sept last year.

I had to go on inhalers a couple of months ago( brown and blue ) due to impaired lung function, which as you can imagine is a bit of a pain with with my running.

It is was it is.

Nightmare, my missus still gets dizzy if she stands up to fast and they reckon thats down to long Covid.

Hopefully with time these issues past.

 

[tsubaki]

Its pretty difficult to surge test before you identify an outbreak though?

You regularly mention a better test and trace system but I still don't really understand what system you want to see implemented.

That is the thing though - you don’t surge test before you have an outbreak; what you have is a system which can pick up the first few people in a potential chain of infection and then stop the disease before it ever becomes an outbreak.

In an ideal world you’d have people phone up when they get symptoms, someone would be despatched to where the person is and test them (and the rest of the people in the house), whilst that is happening the phone operator is getting a list of contacts. If they test positive for something posing a risk, they isolate and people are sent to contact the contacts, obtain their contacts and test them, and so on down the line until you’ve stopped it spreading.

What surge testing does is wait until local cases are of such a scale they can’t really be contained, and then starts. As a warning or prevention system it’s rather useless, sort of like a smoke alarm that only starts working at 1500 degrees centigrade.

 

[Kev The Rat]

But why would you willingly expose yourself to a disease to prove a point that literally nobody cares about? Doesn't affect anybody else, only you.

ive just said i didnt like the side effects, no reason to put myself through that at all - and according to the government who have somehow justified it, the risks to unvaccinated people are negligible anyway, as they havent said unvaccinated people are required to operate in a different manner to everyone else.

 

[Paris]

I certainly don’t agree with the decision to revoke the mask on public or wfh mandate, not for another year at least. It was obvious that Whitty or Vallance didn’t agree with it either.

All others I’m ambivalent about.

 

[Mrk]

ive just said i didnt like the side effects, no reason to put myself through that at all - and according to the government who have somehow justified it, the risks to unvaccinated people are negligible anyway, as they havent said unvaccinated people are required to operate in a different manner to everyone else.

lol Utter nonsense. How on earth can the government enforce separate measures for unvaccinated people when there's a fair chunk of society who aren't able to get the vaccine through no fault of their own?

If you don't want to get the vaccine, fine - doesn't really matter to anybody else. But to try to make out that you're doing it out of a principled stance to avoid being a "guinea pig" in their political games... lol do me a favor.

 

[grandjoeblue]

They have just confirmed that you still have to isolate if you're in contact up until 16th August. No wonder millions aren't using the app and are using fake contact details at pubs and restaurants across the country.

 

[arminisgod]

we are all in now, pushing on for herd immunity. Countries will be watching us as the guinea pig.

Yesterday told me they now want people to catch COVID.

Fine by me

 

[ToffeeTim]

we are all in now, pushing on for herd immunity. Countries will be watching us as the guinea pig.

Yesterday told me they now want people to catch COVID.

Fine by me

How?

Every adult in the UK can get a jab if they want one.

 

[COYBL25]

I certainly don’t agree with the decision to revoke the mask on public or wfh mandate, not for another year at least. It was obvious that Whitty or Vallance didn’t agree with it either.

All others I’m ambivalent about.

Masks haven`t been revoked though, it`s just up to the individual now whether they wear one or not.

As you can see from the comments on here, most people will still wear them in certain situations and I`d say that`ll still apply to the public in general.

 

[arminisgod]

How?

Every adult in the UK can get a jab if they want one.

They want immunity from the vaccine and through cases.

 

[Kev The Rat]

How?

Every adult in the UK can get a jab if they want one.

ive heard people demand that people get vaccinated, and that they are not happy being in the same space as the unvaccinated.

the government has said otherwise.

 

[TaffyToffee85]

In regards to my comments earlier about holidays, I’m just under the impression that the world wants to get on with everything now and slowly but safely welcome people back to visit their countries. Covid is always going to be here like flu and we just cannot keep cowering away from it while having restriction after restriction. It’s time to trust the vaccine like Iceland is doing and just get on with things, no matter when we reopen, the consequences will always be the same. Zero Covid sadly does not exist and even in Gibraltar when they had 0 active cases they soon had active cases again.

 

[Moomin]

In regards to my comments earlier about holidays, I’m just under the impression that the world wants to get on with everything now and slowly but safely welcome people back to visit their countries. Covid is always going to be here like flu and we just cannot keep cowering away from it while having restriction after restriction. It’s time to trust the vaccine like Iceland is doing and just get on with things, no matter when we reopen, the consequences will always be the same. Zero Covid sadly does not exist and even in Gibraltar when they had 0 active cases they soon had active cases again.

What is Iceland doing??