Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[marnie]

When you're telling @marnie to fornicate with birds it's perhaps not the right look.

All's good with me and you kidda.x

 

[jonnyboy316]

I caught it a week ago and I am now out the other side. Not pleasant but can live with it once a year. Fingers crossed by the time we get into May the infections have fallen dramatically and we can have a decent late Spring and Summer

 

[Bluerover]

We live in very strange times.

Sweet loving Jesus. How many twits do we seem to elect...we have quite a few in Ireland too.

 

[Bluerover]

My In laws are both 70 and my MIL has spent the last 4 weeks now trying to recover from it.

Best wishes to her mate

 

[Goat]

Best wishes to her mate

Shes almost over it now thankfully, She works on transport for a school with vulnerable children, they were constantly on her back to return to work after the first day, madness the way its going now.

 

[Bluerover]

Shes almost over it now thankfully, She works on transport for a school with vulnerable children, they were constantly on her back to return to work after the first day, madness the way its going now.

My dear Mam passed in February last year in her 94th year. Thankfully she avoided CV despite being in a nursing home for three years.

I am so glad to have taken early retirement in December.

As posted earlier my very healthy nurse daughter tested positive recently despite vaccination, as did my sister and niece. So far I am negative DG

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Here we go again: Is evidence-based medicine an "illusion"?

Every so few years, someone writes in a reputable journal that evidence-based medicine is corrupt or an "illusion." Here we go again.

respectfulinsolence.com

 

[summerisle]

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

My other half and I have both got it. She's on the mend and I'm in the midst of it having caught it off her. It's absolutely rampant, loads where we both work (different places) off sick as well as at other organisations we deal with.

It's not nice to have, but so far nothing particular serious for either of us.

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

My other half and I have both got it. She's on the mend and I'm in the midst of it having caught it off her. It's absolutely rampant, loads where we both work (different places) off sick as well as at other organisations we deal with.

It's not nice to have, bit so far nothing particular serious for either of us.

Same here. It is more of an annoyance than anything for me - mainly as my throat has managed to become sore, tickly and dry and this trio have had me awake since about 3:30 this morning! ?

 

[grandjoeblue]

I keep reading about airports and airlines using COVID as their reasoning for poor performance. Whilst some staff will be off their decisions to fire huge numbers of employees during the pandemic is surely partly to blame. Manchester Airport for example have let huge numbers of staff go and have tried to replace them with low paid agency workers.

 

[Goat]

crikey

 

[roydo]

I keep reading about airports and airlines using COVID as their reasoning for poor performance. Whilst some staff will be off their decisions to fire huge numbers of employees during the pandemic is surely partly to blame. Manchester Airport for example have let huge numbers of staff go and have tried to replace them with low paid agency workers.

I was always of the impression that tons of folk working at an airport are not actually employed by them. Pretty much all the drinking/eating/shopping places are franchises. The ground crew (at Bristol anyrate), are a separate employer, Serviceair or sommet. So thats loading, unloading planes, and nearly everything that most folk actually do at an airport, not employed by them. Even check in staff are airline staff. Cleaning is almost certainly out sourced, security too.

Maybe Manchester is different.

 

[grandjoeblue]

I was always of the impression that tons of folk working at an airport are not actually employed by them. Pretty much all the drinking/eating/shopping places are franchises. The ground crew (at Bristol anyrate), are a separate employer, Serviceair or sommet. So thats loading, unloading planes, and nearly everything that most folk actually do at an airport, not employed by them. Even check in staff are airline staff. Cleaning is almost certainly out sourced, security too.

Maybe Manchester is different.

It's the security bit with the x-rays for hand luggage that's causing the problems at Manchester. I believe the airport were definitely involved in recruitment decisions that have had a massive impact.

They're currently in the process of training hundreds of staff and they expect them to be working by May but in the meantime there are 4 hour queues.

 

[roydo]

It's the security bit with the x-rays for hand luggage that's causing the problems at Manchester. I believe the airport were definitely involved in recruitment decisions that have had a massive impact.

They're currently in the process of training hundreds of staff and they expect them to be working by May but in the meantime there are 4 hour queues.

It must be a localised issue at Manchester I reckon. Unless I have missed sommet. (Quite likely). Airlines are cancelling flights due to covid absences, but I keep hearing its mainly the budget ones, who have for ever been staffed at the bare minimum.