We’ve cancelled Christmas fairs and things but everything else totally normal.
Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!
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sbbefc
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Have colleagues in Denbighshire and a former colleague who lives in Kent. They'll be continuing the term on teams.
Haydn
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Well remembered LL. Done a fair bit of heating and ventilation design and installation over the years. It wouldn’t be a cheap or easy job to retro fit kit successfully to serve an unventilated space such as a classroom.
We have installed reasonably cheap CO2 monitors in any offices where people may have to congregate for any length of time. These give immediate indication of the freshness / staleness of the air. Above 1000ppm = not good, you are breathing someone else’s exhaled air. People are reassured to see the generally low readings proving that the ventilation system is working.
We have also installed humidifiers (Dyson) with inbuilt high efficiency filters as stand alone units. Not a scientists view, just from reading and researching it appears logical that the very low humidity typically seen in UK indoor spaces in winter promotes an environment for a virus, or anything else small enough, to circulate freely in the air as they will be buoyant. Fill that air with water vapour and hopefully anything in the air adheres to the water and tends to settle out.
The high efficiency filters will certainly help clean up the air.
The dryness caused by the low humidity also removes the moisture from your nasal membranes making you more susceptible to any infection.
Touch wood, very successful so far in highly populated and unavoidable indoor areas.
Obviously your sister would follow her GPs advice but have to say am a bit surprised by it.
@DrEFC is that the usual guidance for UK people trying to get pregnant?
Know that here in US CDC have been trying to get those trying to become pregnant to get vaccinated because of the increased dangers.
Vaccination Considerations for People Pregnant or Breastfeeding
Find information about COVID-19 vaccination considerations for people who are pregnant or breastfeeding.www.cdc.gov
- People who are pregnant or recently pregnant are more likely to get severely ill with COVID-19 compared with people who are not pregnant.
- Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can help protect you from severe illness from COVID-19.
- COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or might become pregnant in the future.
- People who are pregnant may receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.
- Evidence about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy has been growing. These data suggest that the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine outweigh any known or potential risks of vaccination during pregnancy.
- There is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men.
Yes, I have also seen conflicting reports. I have read stories of covid being the cause of miscarriages and how a vaccine could have helped. Then where the vaccine should be avoided as it can effect the cycle.
Yes, mate.
I've not been commenting, but things are - very quickly - turning rather grim. Every single available metric we're using is pointing toward a rough 6-8 weeks ahead of us.
This boils down to a reluctance to vaccinate the world. We were given an opportunity to end this but - yet again - money got in the way of things.
For those of you saying that we need to 'live with the virus', what does that look like? New variants, constant reinfections, tens-to-hundreds of thousands of people strucken with the long term effects of viral pneumonia, tens of thousands of our elderly population being too scared to leave the house year on year?
We've [Poor language removed] it.
This boils down to a reluctance to vaccinate the world. We were given an opportunity to end this but - yet again - money got in the way of things.
For those of you saying that we need to 'live with the virus', what does that look like? New variants, constant reinfections, tens-to-hundreds of thousands of people strucken with the long term effects of viral pneumonia, tens of thousands of our elderly population being too scared to leave the house year on year?
We've [Poor language removed] it.
grandjoeblue
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It's not normal people's fault that big pharma are horrendously greedy. There is no option other than to live with the virus, how do you plan to get zero COVID with a variant that's 5 or 6x more transmissible than the original variant?
Imagine if the loony lefties were listened to and vaccine patents were waivered.
Surprised by that advice from a GP.
The yellow card reporting shows little evidence of fertility issues related to Covid and as far as I've seen there is little to no evidence linking any vaccine to fertility issues.
Having just had a child, I'm aware of information for expectant mothers being hard to find, but recent experience is that there is a huge push among clinical staff, particularly midwifery, to promote the vaccine.
grandjoeblue
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In an ideal world mate they would have been but can governments even force that? Realistically they probably would have been able to vaccinate the vast majority of the world too but obviously that hasn't happened.
Scotland are changing their rules tomorrow, England will probably follow their lead relatively soon.
ForeverBlue92
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What other option do we have?
Turn the News off and go enjoy yourself whilst you can - we aint meant to live forever.
Er, act with caution until it ultimately becomes benign like nearly all viruses?
Really you want to achieve a position where it's such a low prelevance in the community that it can be managed like any other viral outbreak. Test and trace, isolation, non clinical intervention, vaccination.
ForeverBlue92
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Neither of those are coronaviruses.
The last one like this took 6 years without vaccines and medical advancement.
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