Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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navidson said:
I also saw a video clip of commuters being interviewed this morning - A number of them were saying 'Yeah I can work from home but I prefer to come into the office so here I am'

Isn't that essentially illegal at the moment you Southern biffs?
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Depends on the company tbf

Anyone who can work from home should be doing though yeah. It's ludicrous right now. FFS it's Christmas, why do they want to get up an hour early :D

I mean, I guess I don't live in London so I have the joy of space. Not everybody has that in big cities and they might not want to be in a small flat all day. It's fair enough in that sense... not worth the risk like imo
 
tsubaki said:
TBF the one glimmer of light in the timing of this is how many businesses and organisations that would normally be crippled by absence on this scale are already going to be closed for two weeks.

Still going to be very difficult for the emergency services, hospitals etc
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Well, we'll see.

It will be difficult, whatever. More difficult than normal winters that's for sure, and we all know they're difficult.

But all the data from multiple other countries does show that, for whatever reason, this variant is milder (even if that's because of immunity within the community (rhyme not intended)).

Can only be thankful for all the people who work in it.
 
navidson said:
I also saw a video clip of commuters being interviewed this morning - A number of them were saying 'Yeah I can work from home but I prefer to come into the office so here I am'

Isn't that essentially illegal at the moment you Southern biffs?
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They've kept our office open for people who really struggle working from home for whatever reason.

Someone felt ill, took a test and got negative, went in and turned out they had COViD and gave it to 5 or 6 others.

HR were livid lol

Cannot believe how stupid people can be. She is a proper jobsworth too, she would have loved people seeing her be ill but happy to carry on
 
Ghost Rider said:
See below Bruce

So how many millions of tests would people have to take every single day for every headache , every runny nose, every sore throat?

Imagine how many tests would be needed during spring and summer in hayfever season, those are some of the symptoms.

Every single cold throughout the year would require a test.

Every stress headache would require a test.

Every sore throat a test.

I can keep going on and on with this.

Billions of tests every single year that would equate to for every time a symptom showed itself.

Is that realistic?
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Can't be arsed to read all the pages here, but are you inconvenienced by taking a test? Is that what this is about? It's just a test. And it provides you with some knowledge about potential transmission. What's the issue?
 
BlueToff said:
The official list of symptoms are everything under the sun when you do take Delta into account too.

Just saying.

So the only solution would be to test everybody in the country every few days. Because a lot of people - 70% of people boosted - will be asymptomatic with Omicron. So how do you pick it up then?
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I've just said you test the symptoms when they arrive, based on the theoretical thinkers idea that symptoms crossing over (which has always happened in hundreds of illnesses) means that others illnesses cease to exist, you differentiate common symptoms by testing, like medical practitioners have done for decades.

I'm not the one claiming that means we have to test everyone everyday, you test people with symptoms, offer the opportunity to self test (preferably without ripping them off).

Asymptomatic is a totally different debate and not one i was involved in, I guess its a double edged sword as it means the vaccines are protecting them but the true numbers of covid will be hard to know. No data is useless so I'm sure the numbers would be valuable to smarter men than me ,but if we are gauging public policy on hospitalisations or cautious modelling of hospitalisations I assume it's still workable. But, getting back into the debate I was in, my very controversial idea was that if someone is ill and has symptoms, they get tested and diagnosed, hopefully medical science can develop this far fetched concept.

Anyways, I'm bailing from this for the night, I'm sure the lad is a nice guy but if I have to read him misuse the word theoretical one more time I will stick a spoon through my eye. On top of that Everton haven't made me hate life so I want to bottle that feeling until the english cricket team take it away from me in about 20 mins. Good luck to all and stay safe, even the lawrence fox crew on here
 
Walken said:
I've just said you test the symptoms when they arrive, based on the theoretical thinkers idea that symptoms crossing over (which has always happened in hundreds of illnesses) means that others illnesses cease to exist, you differentiate common symptoms by testing, like medical practitioners have done for decades.

I'm not the one claiming that means we have to test everyone everyday, you test people with symptoms, offer the opportunity to self test (preferably without ripping them off).

Asymptomatic is a totally different debate and not one i was involved in, I guess its a double edged sword as it means the vaccines are protecting them but the true numbers of covid will be hard to know. No data is useless so I'm sure the numbers would be valuable to smarter men than me ,but if we are gauging public policy on hospitalisations or cautious modelling of hospitalisations I assume it's still workable. But, getting back into the debate I was in, my very controversial idea was that if someone is ill and has symptoms, they get tested and diagnosed, hopefully medical science can develop this far fetched concept.

Anyways, I'm bailing from this for the night, I'm sure the lad is a nice guy but if I have to read him misuse the word theoretical one more time I will stick a spoon through my eye. On top of that Everton haven't made me hate life so I want to bottle that feeling until the english cricket team take it away from me in about 20 mins. Good luck to all and stay safe, even the lawrence fox crew on here
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It's okay mate, the cricket doesn't start for 3 hours does it, so you can enjoy the Everton win a bit longer!
 
coollino said:
They've kept our office open for people who really struggle working from home for whatever reason.

Someone felt ill, took a test and got negative, went in and turned out they had COViD and gave it to 5 or 6 others.

HR were livid lol

Cannot believe how stupid people can be. She is a proper jobsworth too, she would have loved people seeing her be ill but happy to carry on
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If one good thing happens out of Covid I hope this attitude gets knocked on the head.
 
LinekersLegs said:
If one good thing happens out of Covid I hope this attitude gets knocked on the head.
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It anything this attitude has got worse in my firm.

There’s a clear judgement on people who choose to WFH, even in this environment. People have gone in with a ‘cold’ having not taken a test. Half of the team have covid and are wfh. There’s pressure to continue to work even if ill.

It’s all quite toxic tbh. But I suppose that’s the industry.
 
mill said:
It anything this attitude has got worse in my firm.

There’s a clear judgement on people who choose to WFH, even in this environment. People have gone in with a ‘cold’ having not taken a test. Half of the team have covid and are wfh. There’s pressure to continue to work even if ill.

It’s all quite toxic tbh. But I suppose that’s the industry.
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My brother worked from home while off with covid. Purely due to the fact that he would have a complete s&#t storm to deal with when he got back in!
 
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