Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #109

[Ohflogoff]

My cousin’s daughter has covid.
She is 9.
her three mates at school tested positive on a LFT Monday.
She tested positive today after school asked them all to test.
there is nothing wrong with her whatsoever. No cough. No fever. No loss of taste or smell.
Stuck indoors now until after Xmas. Sad times.

 

[jackolantern]

I'm ALL for keeping the pub's open, but regardless of who makes a living from nightclubs I do think they are and always have been the least essential type of business that there is.

How you define essential though and who gets to? Nightclubs bring alot of people a great amount of joy. Is joy essential for life in the way that food and water is? Sure you could say no, but I'd say the amount of suicides and people even thinking about it facing another lockdown - shows you how essential joy really is, whichever way you get it. Plus it's pretty damn essential for the people whose livelihoods depend on them and by proxy - everyone who makes money when those people spend elsewhere. It's all a cycle and I hate this attitude over the past few years that some people have been elevated to a god like status and everyone else (or their business) is disposable. Everything has a place.

 

[JLXRD]

Haaaa my Trust has just sent out an email "strongly advising" staff not to do any socialising outside of work due to the number of staff now off waiting for PCR tests.
Noooooope.

This is a ridiculous request to make of your staff, you can do what you like outside of work. I really do find it vile to put this guilt burden on people for living their life.

Me and my mum don’t want another lockdown for the simple reason that our next door neighbours are awful parents who swear at their kids morning, noon and night and we can’t stand the shouting and screaming coming through the walls

Please report this x

 

[Sea]

We don't need to save the NHS, they and the govts have a duty to save us.

 

[HoGi]

You cannot make this shit up. It is so scripted it hurts

 

[Elizaaaaa]

Stupid question but... How do we go from "there are no tests available anywhere" and people panicking, to 1.6million tests in a day?!

 

[ordinaryjelly]

I have suggested we contact someone, but my mum’s too worried about getting on the wrong side of the parents

Sorry to derail the thread, but we’ve had to move into my dads because we were getting verbal abuse off our next door neighbour, so we don’t want to get on the wrong side of anyone else

I feel sorry for the kids (one of them is disabled), and she screams and screams and screams to the point where the parents are shouting “SHUT THE FUCK UP”. It’s such a toxic environment and we have no idea what to do

They won't know it is you. You can make an entirely anonymous report.

Better to be on the wrong side of some parents than do nothing and let the situation continue and potentially escalate.

 

[Tippingpoint23]

Have your 2 vaccines + booster but that’s not enough so we’ll lock you down and make your life suffer.

 

[Blond3g1rl]

Even Diane Abbott voted no. First time I’ve ever agreed with her

 

[HoGi]

I really don't understand why some people think it's a choice between getting the vaccine or being on a ventilator/dying

Do they have no awareness of the statistics related to this illness?

Its because the media have portrayed it that way.

And statistics out of context mean nothing. But looking at them in context makes you a conspiracy theorist

 

[jackolantern]

I think it's worse this time around because people can only tolerate stuff so many times. To begin with it was new, we didn't know the real risks so we almost felt like they were doing us a favor, the weather was nice etc. Now, we are very much been there done that, expected it all to be done with, it's winter etc.

People have had enough and rightly so. The data doesn't justify going back to March 20.

 

[Tippingpoint23]

What anxiety does it cause? What's the worse that can happen if there is a lockdown? Have people forgotten how many died after Christmas last year? The only worry I ever have is the kids and vunreable people with a poor life becoming invisible but shops, pubs and all that being shut doesn't really affect me?

You sound incredibly privileged. For many the idea of pubs shops restaurants and beauty salons shutting means anxiety and fear over their livelihoods. For many the idea of not being able to go to the shops or pub or restaurant or beauty salon means detrimental things to their mental health. For many not being able to see loved ones means detrimental things to their mental health. What is the point of having 3 vaccines if the answer is to completely shut down constantly?

 

[Tippingpoint23]

Its getting so tiring listening to people be so critical over socialising now the drama is all kicking off again. If you don't want to socialise that is fine, but its your decision - don't try and guilt others because they aren't doing the same as you.

This!!!! If you’re worried fine cut back and restrict your socialisation. If you’re not worried about what so far appears to be a cold then carry on doing as you bloody well please. We are NOT in lockdown so make the most of actually being able to do things before they inevitably do try to enforce a lockdown in the new year!!!!!!!!

 

[ATV2021]

Tonight was lovely. There was a 90 year old woman who got up dancing to the abba tribute and didn't give a F and everyone cheered her. Living her goddam life and not hiding away

 

[Brian Butterfield]

I haven't had any of the vaccines and don't want them.

Same, my love. Not anti-vax per se, but I've never felt comfortable with this vaccine and the surrounding propaganda and hysteria around COVID.
And I say this as a chronically ill person with an autoimmune disease that has cared for someone with COVID and not caught it.

 

[Kim Mild]

What anxiety does it cause? What's the worse that can happen if there is a lockdown? Have people forgotten how many died after Christmas last year? The only worry I ever have is the kids and vunreable people with a poor life becoming invisible but shops, pubs and all that being shut doesn't really affect me?

People who already have anxiety like to plan and have a routine and predictability . The threat of restrictions or even the threat of change can make things more difficult than it needs to be for people .

 

[clm198]

Good question! I’ve never thought about this before but if everyone was testing regularly for the common cold and everyone was ‘cold tested’ on hospital admission/during hospital stays, and any death within 28 days of a positive ‘cold test’ were counted in the same way that Covid deaths are then I imagine the answer to “Do colds kill 100k people a year?” would probably be ‘Yes’.

“Is there long cold……..” I believe there is, yes. More commonly referred to as post viral fatigue. Viruses and the immune system response they trigger can and do cause other longer lasting issues. They’ve never been made such a fuss of previously though.


Is this for anyone testing positive in a PCR?

Good question! I’ve never thought about this before but if everyone was testing regularly for the common cold and everyone was ‘cold tested’ on hospital admission/during hospital stays, and any death within 28 days of a positive ‘cold test’ were counted in the same way that Covid deaths are then I imagine the answer to “Do colds kill 100k people a year?” would probably be ‘Yes’.

“Is there long cold……..” I believe there is, yes. More commonly referred to as post viral fatigue. Viruses and the immune system response they trigger can and do cause other longer lasting issues. They’ve never been made such a fuss of previously though.


Is this for anyone testing positive in a PCR?

Yes ‘long Covid’ is what is normally called ‘post viral infection’ or ‘post viral fatigue’ which is common after very bad colds or flu. I’ve had both and signed off work for six weeks after I contracted flu in 2014

 

[Pinkii]

they just need to stop asking asymptomatic people to test. Obviously that way the numbers are high.

We get colds & flu’s yet we’re expected to go to work most of the time and pass it on, before covid winter 2019 literally everyone in my office had a cold from nov- jan if we went by the same rules of covid, business would have had to shut down.

yes i know we can potentially pass it onto someone vulnerable if we aren’t aware we’re carrying but we’ve all had jabs and if that’s not enough then what is? the flu can also be deadly for the same kind of people yet we don’t do anything’s about that.

Also i think Being locked up is even worse for immune systems, my daughter has been ill non stop this autumn/winter whereas as before lockdown she barely got a sniffle and she went softplay/nursery/playgroup

 

[Oohthedrama]

Exactly what I said. And the winter cold also spreads like wildfire. Back in full office days, one person the other side of the room sneezed and by hometime everyone had it. Wasn't any mental reaction then of closing the offices! You just got your lemsip and tissues and got the F on with it

apparently it’s now important to cripple the economy because people have the sniffles.
fucking ridiculous.

 

[Dancing Dave]

I have Covid I'm on Day 4 of symptoms and today was hell never had a headache like it. Mostly just been really bad muscle aches and cough. But, today spent the whole time counting the hours taking paracetamol and holding my hands to my head. I'm hoping tomorrow is a better day, I'm so bored isolating in my room relying on my brother to keep bringing food/drink when I need. I'm already over Netflix, I'm no energy to do even a simple workout in my room. My head is truly banging.

I'm honestly just glad I'm fully vaccinated as God only knows how much worse I'd feel. At least I'll be out of isolation before Christmas dinner For now, it's just me, tattle, TikTok and every streaming service known to the internet.