Coronavirus Death Thread

[Giggles]

You seem to be under the impression that they aren’t already being infected with bullshit at home anyway.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Well, true.

[Dquincy]

To do what with the data?
Open a window....

[ScousePig]

You seem to be under the impression that they aren’t already being infected with bullshit at home anyway.

Yeah, that's a bigger worry.

[ScousePig]

To do what with them?

Apparently it's supposed to be in between two numbers. That's the extent of my knowledge.

[Pepe]

Apparently it's supposed to be in between two numbers. That's the extent of my knowledge.

I see. I thought that maybe someone was doing a study or something.

Do you know what the numbers are, by any chance?

[Lofty]

Encountered the rarest of beasts today, the anti-vax covid fearer. Loudly announced she hadn't had the vaccine before asking us to keep our distance (we were masked, she was not) as she didn't want to catch Covid as she couldn't afford to be off work ill for a few days :D

[Kikó]

I'll accept your apology Pepe when ready.

[Pepe]

I'll accept your apology Pepe when ready.

There you go. (https://youtu.be/zrPncxlX2tU?t=5)

[Dquincy]

I feel rough af.

Pray for me.

[ScousePig]

I see. I thought that maybe someone was doing a study or something.

Do you know what the numbers are, by any chance?

Of course.

[Pepe]

:moop:

[ScousePig]

It's not sharing the numbers that's important, it's knowing that you know them.

[Don]

:rasta:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Lol

His visa has now been officially cancelled so he's got to leave the country.

[Lofty]

That needs a vascular surgeon immediately. Go to A&E.

He has been in A&E for 4 hours, they took bloods and the on duty doctor has said he doesn't have the expertise to deal with it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He's fucked.

[Spikey M]

His visa has now been officially cancelled so he's got to leave the country.

:lol:

[Gray Fox]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIXm2LJXIAUO0Yb?format=jpg&name=900x900

[Lewis]

He has been in A&E for 4 hours, they took bloods and the on duty doctor has said he doesn't have the expertise to deal with it.

Google must be down.

[Lofty]

Probably googled the pic, found this thread and panicked.

[Spikey M]

He has been in A&E for 4 hours, they took bloods and the on duty doctor has said he doesn't have the expertise to deal with it.

He'll be back up with the post-mortem lads in a bit.

[Queenslander]

:lol:


‘We will gather on the street’: Djokovic’s dad makes shock threat after world No.1 ‘held captive’

https://www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/australian-open/tennis-2022-australian-open-novak-djokovic-receives-exemption-to-enter-australia-unvaccinated-covid19/news-story/f4c711fffec3ef050d5114f650243307?fbclid=IwAR3SBy4G oWAjhhveXg-rtnlshtICe3RtLzlZazaLu5bwAKuFJwq_R-2xWCs

[Don]

Would love to watch him on centre court with accompanying anti-vax chants of support. The concentration of soft shites there :happycry:

[Shindig]

Oh, lads. Don't ... don't turn this into Sarajevo.

[Manc]

I feel rough af.

Pray for me.

Phwoar.

[Queenslander]

Both my neighbours have covid. If I'm not currently walking around with it ATM I'll be stunned.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Aren't you about 5 miles away from your neighbours?

[Queenslander]

Not in the inner city.


My neighbours brother lives in northern NSW and he would be miles from his closest neighbour.

[Lofty]

The doctors said he needed to have plastic surgery at 8am today, he has refused and asked for antibiotics instead :moop:

[Spikey M]

You don't half knock about with some retards.

Us included.

[Kikó]

Does he not like his limbs?

[7om]

Paging randomlegend

[Lofty]

Apparently he is concerned the shop he manages (not the owner) would struggle at short notice so rejected the plastic surgery appointment this morning in favour of 'my own plan' which is take anti biotics until Sunday then go back and ask for plastic surgery if it hasn't improved. This seems risky not least because he previously said it was improving a week ago when he was limping into a cinema with pus leaking out of it, a week after the initial complaints.

[Spikey M]

He actually deserves to lose the leg at this point.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Could do with a brain transplant while he's at it.

[Ian]

Is nobody telling this cretin that, well, he's a fucking cretin, Lofty?

[Lofty]

Yes myself and others have suggested that they aren't making him an urgent appointment with a specialist for a laugh, and maybe his health is more important than his job, but he is and always been very stubborn about going to the doctors etc.

[Ian]

So I got a call on my work phone this morning that I didn't recognise and said it was from Kettering. I couldn't have told you Kettering and Corby are local to each other so just binned it as spam and thought no further of it. Then got another message asking me to book my COVID jab so I googled the number that called me and sure enough it's the same medical centre who'd messaged me. I'd messaged them via their website but they've probably not read it yet.

So they follow up with another text reassuring me (by the wrong name) that this is definitely for me. So I text them back and they respond (presumably automated) with a link to reply so I click that. It starts "Hi Matthew", which wasn't a strong opening and then it wanted me to add this fella's date of birth to proceed so that's a no go.

Fuck it, I think, I'll just call them.

"You are number...... 7..... in the call queue."

Nope.

Increasingly looks like it'll be easier to just assume this fella's identity. Do we already have a member called Matthew or will I be free to switch over?

They're back.

"Dear [not me],
Your online query will be
reviewed on Monday and a
clinician will contact you if
necessary."

Wonder what's wrong with him.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I mean, I'm stubborn about going to the doctor, but if my leg was rotting away in front of me I think I might be minded to lift that stubbornness on a one-off basis.

[Spikey M]

They're back.

"Dear [not me],
Your online query will be
reviewed on Monday and a
clinician will contact you if
necessary."

Wonder what's wrong with him.

Looks like you dodged a bullet after all.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is Ian definitely who he thinks he is? He could be an ill man in Corby who has been mistaken for some time.

[Ian]

If I'm hallucinating and the best my crumbling diseased brain can come up with is a flat in Hamilton overlooking a wheelie-bin filled car park and the back of a church then maybe I don't deserve to get better.

[Yevrah]

I had a nice scam text the other day saying I could be fined if I didn't get my booster.

[Kikó]

Get that leg looked at Ian ffs.

[Spikey M]

Septicaemia induced hallucinations could well be quite bland.

[Ian]

That's a perfectly healthy looking body part relative to what some of the (imaginary?) locals look like.

[Pepe]

True company man, Mr. Leg Man. We could all learn from his example. :cool:

[Lewis]

The Lofty Universe (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?14-The-little-things-in-life-that-fuck-you-off&p=501130&viewfull=1#post501130) strikes again. I would like to see a full character inventory.

[Lewis]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59895598


About 1.3 million people in the UK have "long Covid", symptoms lasting more than four weeks after an initial infection, an Office for National Statistics survey suggests... The survey asked nearly 352,000 people to record their own symptoms... In line with previous analyses, about 20% said their symptoms meant their ability to do day-to-day activities had been limited a lot.

And those most likely to have long Covid are:


women
35- to 69-year-olds
people with underlying conditions
those working in health, social care and education


https://i.imgur.com/FqS5KvV.gif

[Magic]

You forgot fat. Being fat is not an underlying health condition FYI.

[Lofty]

The Lofty Universe (https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?14-The-little-things-in-life-that-fuck-you-off&p=501130&viewfull=1#post501130) strikes again. I would like to see a full character inventory.

I have a delinquent cousin who has over 300 criminal convictions. His career highlight was falling off somebody's back yard wall in the middle of some nefarious act and breaking his leg, so dialling 999.

[Lofty]

This woman who took her kid to Italy for a jab on TV this morning, as if it wasn't a stunt to achieve exactly this.

[Raoul Duke]

Indian guy has eight COVID jabs: BBC (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59905339). He's like the inverse Magic

[Magic]

https://news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-sajid-javid-directly-challenged-on-mandatory-coronavirus-jabs-by-unvaccinated-nhs-doctor-12511224?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=16415862153427&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fcovi d-19-sajid-javid-directly-challenged-on-mandatory-coronavirus-jabs-by-unvaccinated-nhs-doctor-12511224

:happycry:

[Don]

:rasta:

[Yevrah]

A lid does need to be blown on the reduction in transmission from being vaccinated, it seems to be hazily detailed at best.

This also caught my eye:

https://i.postimg.cc/3RZT6d9G/Graph.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

There are still more NHS staff off with other things than COVID and there appears to be 5% constantly off anyway? WITAF?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Does that include staff on leave? If so would seem normal. The graph labels, as with most BBC statistical output, are shite.

[Yevrah]

I've never worked anywhere where having a holiday is included in the absence statistics.

[Yevrah]

A fourth vaccine dose being seriously discussed, but shelved for now. Gotta keep that gravy train going...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59915560

And there'll come a time when a 4th shot should be given to the vulnerable and that's fine, but if we're jabbing 19 year olds ahead of third World citizens having had a first dose then we're taking the absolute piss.

[-james-]

Who do they think they are taking annual leave anyway, don't they know we're in a pandemic?

[Jimmy Floyd]

5% sick may not be too far off the going rate either, tbh, this being a setting full of ill people.

[Yevrah]

5% sick may not be too far off the going rate either, tbh, this being a setting full of ill people.

I would love to see how that splits between doctors and nurses and those doing a nonsense job in an office.

[Yevrah]

Heads have gone part whatever:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59919105


A US teacher has been arrested after allegedly locking her Covid-positive son in a car boot to protect herself from exposure to the virus as she drove to a testing site, say local media.

Sarah Beam, 41, is reportedly charged with endangering a child.

A witness called police after hearing someone in the vehicle's trunk on 3 January at the site in Harris County, Texas, according to click2Houston.com.

[Shindig]

Dr. John Campbell now seems to be entertaining an idea that Omicron was lab-based due to the lack of history within the population and it being specifically tuned to mice receptors.

Imagine if that's how this ends. :D

[Pepe]

Heads have gone part whatever:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59919105

Teacher? You don't say!


And those most likely to have long Covid are:

women
35- to 69-year-olds
people with underlying conditions
those working in health, social care and education

[Lewis]

Half the non-essential Navy bods in Portsmouth (and presumably elsewhere) had their Christmas leave canned at the last minute to help the booster rollout, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to do the same to the NHS Heroes.

[Shindig]

No LFT's available in town today. I wonder how many people are off work because they can't test to get through the doors?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Anywhere testing to go into buildings at this point is utterly insane.

[Shindig]

I'm not insane, I'm doing what I'm fucking told. The government's insistence on testing has created a scenario where testing is hard to fucking do.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Try reading next time.

[Shindig]

Fuck. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Just order them online.

[Spikey M]

He's not insane Mahow, you cunt.

[niko_cee]

I can send you some. I've got armfuls of the bloody things. Not sure what I'd put on the customs form though. :/

[Shindig]

I've got one left in this pack so I'll be fine for another week.

[Magic]

I've got one left in this pack so I'll be fine for another week.

Wrong un

[Baz]

I can send you some. I've got armfuls of the bloody things. Not sure what I'd put on the customs form though. :/I got stung £43 for a box of wrestling cards the other day. Forty three quid. The cards only cost £147. Madness.

So don’t put “trading cards, value $199” :o

Plus shipping was already $26.

It’s annoyed me greatly. Especially as I’m trying not to spend any money (bills aside) in January.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, gift under £30 or whatever is the winning customs entry. You still have to say what it is though, and shipping out free LFTs might raise eyebrows with the postal staff (its a small place).

[Gray Fox]

I got stung £43 for a box of wrestling cards the other day. Forty three quid. The cards only cost £147. Madness.

So don’t put “trading cards, value $199” :o

Plus shipping was already $26.

It’s annoyed me greatly. Especially as I’m trying not to spend any money (bills aside) in January.

Didn't you also once spend about £300 on a NFT?

[Baz]

Didn't you also once spend about £300 on a NFT?Cant remember specifics but I admit that particular spending wasn’t a wise choice.

[Lofty]

Leg man update: his leg smells like death, no improvement.

[Shindig]

MRSA's going to have some fun with that leg.

[Baz]

Certainly whiffs of that necrosis video with the leg being chicken wired off after injecting “krokodil.”

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Leg man update: his leg smells like death, no improvement.

Is he still going to work?

[Lofty]

Yes. He is going to seek 'a second opinion' tomorrow apparently, can't see that being any other than the original diagnosis except 'it's worse now'.

[Lewis]

Making lateral flow tests a tenner a pop (say) is right up my street. Everywhere will just stop asking for them and get back to normal, whilst the bedwetters will have to sit seething indoors for the rest of their lives. Win/win, which probably means they won't do it.

[-james-]

I'm testing regularly but only out of the hope I finally catch the fucker so I can spend a week indoors

[Spikey M]

I'm testing regularly but only out of the hope I finally catch the fucker so I can spend a week indoors

I thought you caught it and took it to Greece?

[-james-]

I thought you caught it and took it to Greece?

Nah I somehow didn't get it, just spent the week over there in isolation. :eyemouth:

I've had that many close contacts but not caught it yet that I must have something about me. That and no side effects from the vaccine are basically my personality now.

[Lofty]

Definitely more mask flouting now I'd say.

[Magic]

I went to see my positive family yesterday. Neither they nor I cares. Beautiful.

My sister is symptomless and my dad has a small cold. My stepmum was in bed because she was feeling under the weather.

Like the good old days.

[Spikey M]

"I purposefully exposed myself to a virus that's already nearly killed me once" is a strange boast.

[Shindig]

The beautiful thing is his previous Delta infection means fuck all to Omicron.

[Magic]

I went to see two people who weren't ill and the one that was was in bed.

Really dangerous.

[Spikey M]

To the vulnerable (that's you) it is, yeah.

[Magic]

(it's not)

[niko_cee]

Nah I somehow didn't get it, just spent the week over there in isolation. :eyemouth:

I've had that many close contacts but not caught it yet that I must have something about me. That and no side effects from the vaccine are basically my personality now.

Apparently 1 in 10 people are 'naturally immune'* [ie just won't get it] so maybe you are one of those.

* I may have made this up/or read it somewhere where someone else made it up.

[Lofty]

Another variant found :D

[Giggles]

Another variant found :D

Isn’t that what we want?

[Lofty]

If it is anything like Flu though the potential for variants is infinite, so what then?

[Spikey M]

Leave the Virologists and Vaccine Developers to it and take a booster each Autumn. Job done.

[Magic]

Djok. :drool:

[Don]

A proud day for all citizens of Novakistan.

[Manc]

If it is anything like Flu though the potential for variants is infinite, so what then?

We stay indoors forever.

[Spikey M]

A proud day for all citizens of Novakistan.

I thought it was Novakstan, you gammon.

[Don]

Or is it Novaxstan. Fuck knows, we've been drinking through the night.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Leave the Virologists and Vaccine Developers to it and take a booster each Autumn. Job done.

But is that a case of 'here it is if you want it, it's up to you' or 'here it is and we required X percentage of people to take it otherwise we'll bring in restrictions on freedoms'?

[Spikey M]

But is that a case of 'here it is if you want it, it's up to you' or 'here it is and we required X percentage of people to take it otherwise we'll bring in restrictions on freedoms'?

Hopefully the former, but who knows? I saw the below earlier. We really should just be letting the AntiVaxx mongs die now.

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[Spikey M]

Oi, Lofty, Can we have a Sepsis update please?

[Lofty]

The jammy bastard appears to have swerved it, despite his leg looking terrible still they intially told him to just come back twice a week for review and told him last night just to come in for dressing changes. Tattoo probably wrecked, and not sure the 'I'm doing what I want' approach to medical problems will see him right later in life but he's won this round.

[Shindig]

Nah, they just can't spare the bed. Or staff.

[CJay]

Finally got involved in the covid action this week. My son got it off a kid at the childminder's last week. He had a headache on Saturday and then a temperature on Sunday and tested positive on Monday morning. My wife just tested positive this morning. Alpha male that I am, I remain negative.

Doing a test (LFT) on a 4 year old is brutal. I was surprised I got enough 'content' for a test but the positive line came up immediately so he must have been fully loaded with it at the time.

[Magic]

Testing your kid. :harold:

[Pepe]

Seeing your kid. :harold:

[Spikey M]

Testing your kid. :harold:

Your kid tested positive without having a test?

[Magic]

I didn't test her.

[randomlegend]

Seeing your kid. :harold:

:lol:

[Baz]

If anyone needs a Covid pass, I know a guy... £100.

[randomlegend]

A negative lateral flow still qualifies you for a covid pass right? Unless you know you're covid positive (in which case you're obviously pond life if you're trying to get a pass to go spread it around), why would anyone pay £100 for a pass when you can just do a test for free?

[Baz]

A negative lateral flow still qualifies you for a covid pass right? Unless you know you're covid positive (in which case you're obviously pond life if you're trying to get a pass to go spread it around), why would anyone pay £100 for a pass when you can just do a test for free?It says you’ve been vaccinated.

[Lewis]

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:harold:

[Yevrah]

The victories keep coming...

And international harmony. :D

The shitehawks just didn't want anyone questioning science.

[Lewis]

That sort of wibble would appear to confirm previous suspicions about why proper border controls haven't ever been considered.

[Yevrah]

That sort of wibble would appear to confirm previous suspicions about why proper border controls haven't ever been considered.

When the virus broke? What were such suspicions?

[Lewis]

That basically the sort of people making these decisions - scientists, civil servants, politicians - would sooner do literally everything else than shut the borders, because 1) it's just not something they could ever contemplate; and 2) if they managed to do it then people might expect them to keep some of the infrastructure/restrictions in place in the longer term.

[Lewis]

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Yeah right.

[Luke Emia]

There’s some right bullshitters around. Pretty much everyone most have broken at least one rule more than once. Even if it was just going for exercise more than once a day.

[Kikó]

Believing SCIENTISTS :harold:

[Giggles]

I even broke rules.

[Pepe]

I have never broken any rule.

[Luke Emia]

Did you even have rules in the USofA when The Donald was in charge?

[Pepe]

I do remember early in the pandemic Tronald suggesting closing the border to China and people moaning about how racist and xenophobic that was.

[Pepe]

Did you even have rules in the USofA when The Donald was in charge?

For a while, yes. More than under Biden, actually (and thankfully).

[Alex]

I tested positive today. Which, assuming it is correct, means I have caught it twice in the space of six weeks. :face:

So fuck knows what is going on there. I might have to join Magic and Taz on Team Bovid.

[Giggles]

I tested positive today. Which, assuming it is correct, means I have caught it twice in the space of six weeks. :face:

So fuck knows what is going on there. I might have to join Magic and Taz on Team Bovid.

Again though that’s the misconception that so many have, that vaccines or being a positive case have any bearing on you catching it. Completely false (someone please tell my butcher). It hugely reduces the chances of being seriously ill, not reduces the chance of testing positive.

[Alex]

I don't doubt that. Obviously I'm aware you can be fully vaccinated and still catch it. That is exactly what happened to me at the beginning of December. To catch the same illness twice in the space of six weeks is a bit of a piss take though. Different variants, maybe?

I trying to think of a time in my life where I have ever, for example, caught two colds in such close proximity. I can't think of any. But then you don't mentally keep track of these things do you. It's undoubtedly possible I assume.

[Magic]

Bring on the baccine passports. :harold:

[Shindig]

Why? You don't fucking travel.

[Spikey M]

I don't doubt that. Obviously I'm aware you can be fully vaccinated and still catch it. That is exactly what happened to me at the beginning of December. To catch the same illness twice in the space of six weeks is a bit of a piss take though. Different variants, maybe?

I trying to think of a time in my life where I have ever, for example, caught two colds in such close proximity. I can't think of any. But then you don't mentally keep track of these things do you. It's undoubtedly possible I assume.

Most people with Kids have been achieving back to back colds all winter. :moop:

[Alex]

Most people with Kids have been achieving back to back colds all winter. :moop:

:D

Fair point actually. My Mum is a nursery teacher and seems to have spent about two thirds of the last twenty years or so with a cold of some description.

[Waffdon]

Yeah my missus has been full time primary teacher since September and I was expecting colds every month. Was going fine until December hit and I think she’s had a cold of some sort ever since.

It probably doesn’t help that the bastard schools make you keep the windows open all year round. All the kids studying in their jackets with scarfs on :lol:

[Pepe]

At least them CO2 levels are low.

[Spikey M]

Yeah my missus has been full time primary teacher since September and I was expecting colds every month. Was going fine until December hit and I think she’s had a cold of some sort ever since.

It probably doesn’t help that the bastard schools make you keep the windows open all year round. All the kids studying in their jackets with scarfs on :lol:

I've mostly done ok to be fair. We had a brutal cold back in November, and another one hot on its tail, but fine ever since. There's a good few of the mums at the schoolgates that do seem to have been ill for months now though.

[Waffdon]

Why? You don't fucking travel.

Yep. They trained the kids to keep an eye on and it shout for the door to be opened or windows opened wider when it gets to a certain level :D

[Pepe]

Fuckin' hell. :D

[Shindig]

Christ. The state we're in. :D

[randomlegend]

Most kids we swab at work at the moment are rocking 3+ viruses at once.

[Boydy]

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phonics

[Shindig]

Explains why the Dutch are doing well. :D

[Raoul Duke]

:rasta:

[CJay]

Isolation debate:

My wife’s symptoms started this morning (the 12th) and she tested positive this morning. Is today day 1 of isolation? Test and Trace told her it’s technically ‘day 0’ and she won’t be out until the 23rd. But that makes for 11 days of isolation including today, which seems a bit stupid.

[Waffdon]

Just leave when she tests negative or 10 days from now

[Don]

Roll her a zoot and explain to her a cold isn't gonna kill her and she isn't a hero.

[phonics]

I'm fucking superman. I'm like the opposite of 'what doesn't kill me makes me stronger' 'i am weak therefore I cannot be killed'

[Magic]

I'd enjoy phonics dying more than Giggles.

[Giggles]

The best death of all for you would be the sweet release of your own demise.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59963857

So are they taking them forever now?

[Spikey M]

It says they're giving them to patients, so they'll stop when they're better. It's an Antiviral the same as TamiFlu which they gave me after I caught Swine Flu back in 2009, after an interview at Birmingham Airport.

Hopefully, unlike TamiFlu, it actually does something. Load of shit that was. Swine Flu was brutal.

[Magic]

What the

[Manc]

Always knew Spikey was the type to roll around in his own shit.

[niko_cee]

It says they're giving them to patients, so they'll stop when they're better. It's an Antiviral the same as TamiFlu which they gave me after I caught Swine Flu back in 2009, after an interview at Birmingham Airport.

Hopefully, unlike TamiFlu, it actually does something. Load of shit that was. Swine Flu was brutal.

Didn't the government buy 800m boxes of that shit and never use them? I suppose we should have seen then what potential there was for the sort of epic bed-wetting that is the 'new normal'.

[CJay]

It says they're giving them to patients, so they'll stop when they're better. It's an Antiviral the same as TamiFlu which they gave me after I caught Swine Flu back in 2009, after an interview at Birmingham Airport.

Hopefully, unlike TamiFlu, it actually does something. Load of shit that was. Swine Flu was brutal.

Swine Flu crew represent. :cool: I was never given any treatment, though it sounds like I didn't miss much.

Those first 3 days was the sickest I've ever been. Couldn't move from my bed and only woke up whenever my mum came in to top up my paracetamol. After that it was great - I just sat at home on my own and played FM all day.

[Spikey M]

Swine Flu crew represent. :cool: I was never given any treatment, though it sounds like I didn't miss much.

Those first 3 days was the sickest I've ever been. Couldn't move from my bed and only woke up whenever my mum came in to top up my paracetamol. After that it was great - I just sat at home on my own and played FM all day.

More or less the same, although FM was replaced by Bully (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_(video_game)), which I played on the battered old PS2 I took to Uni with me. :cool:

My overriding memory of Swine Flu was trying to get out of bed on the first day, only to fall to the floor in a heap. That and sweat. Lots and lots of sweat.

[Luke Emia]

I've got the Rona. Supposed to be going skiing the end of next week so that's very touch and go now. No symptoms though.

[Magic]

Oh noes! Better not enjoy something because you've got nothing!

[Waffdon]

:D

It’s easy to see why you were battered outside Khans

[Spikey M]

Because he's a pussy?

[Luke Emia]

Oh noes! Better not enjoy something because you've got nothing!

Or I'm not going to be able to go if I can't fucking supply a negative test before I go you absolute imbecile.

[Kikó]

He's a complete weapon.

[Yevrah]

Isolation cut to five days. The wins just keep coming...

[Magic]

Or I'm not going to be able to go if I can't fucking supply a negative test before I go you absolute imbecile.

I'll do one for you.

[Spikey M]

"Well, he's negative for Covid, but his Bovid levels are off the charts!"

[Magic]

As if I'd do a BFT.

[Pepe]

How's life, Magic? I don't recall seeing you post anything but 'lol Covid' for months. Surely you have something else going on. Cheer up, lad.

[Magic]

I do, but it's nothing miserable. Sorry that makes me boring now. :(

[Pepe]

:D

Just stop coming to this thread and go post in the others.

[Pepe]

https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/102_briefing_United_States_of_America_3.pdf


Our alternative policy scenarios, including more rapid scale-up of boosters to all who have been previously vaccinated, increasing mask use to 80%, and vaccinating the partially hesitant, have only a small impact on the trajectory over the next 4 months. The speed of the epidemic is so fast that policy interventions will have little impact. In previous waves, the control strategy has been to control infection and thus reduce hospitalization and death. Given that there is little prospect of controlling infection, strategies need to focus on reducing harm in the vulnerable and minimizing disruption.

Can we please trust SCIENCE on this one? :drool:

[Giggles]

A lad in work has it now after having it in October and the office is full of talk of the vaccine not working :face:

[niko_cee]

Some of these stories of people being fined for breaches of lockdown [in the context of these Downing Street REVELATIONS] really paint a worrying picture of society. Of how easy it is for the veneer of a free, civil society to be undermined by a populace who seem to secretly crave authoritarianism [the curtain twitchers who presumably dobbed the offenders in, the survey folk hellbent on restrictions forever] and of a police force all to happy to oblige.

To borrow the language of Boydy, anyone who reported a breach of covid rules should probably be at the front of the queue for the gulag/wall treatment.

[Boydy]

Nah, you've got to have them last because how are you going to get anyone else into the gulag without the snitches in society?

[CJay]

Finally tested positive this morning. Bring on the 5 day isolation rule ASAP please.

[Ian]

civil society to be undermined by a populace who seem to secretly crave authoritarianism

It's not that secret, they keep voting the party in who want to do it to them.

[Yevrah]

It's not that secret, they keep voting the party in who want to do it to them.

Well that's not true, is it? Labour were gagging to have us all subjected to further restrictions in December and hesitant to let us out last Spring/Summer.

[Spikey M]

Covid Rules are one thing, making any protest you don't like illegal is another. This government has been one big power grab.

[Kikó]

What about labour tho

[Ian]

Well that's not true, is it? Labour were gagging to have us all subjected to further restrictions in December and hesitant to let us out last Spring/Summer.


Covid Rules are one thing, making any protest you don't like illegal is another. This government has been one big power grab.

What Spikey said. Plus 'well wouldn't it be better if politicians could interfere in court cases when they fancy?" and "What if we threaten the BBC every time they make a joke about us?" and whatever else.

[Yevrah]

Covid Rules are one thing, making any protest you don't like illegal is another. This government has been one big power grab.

We're yet to see how that actually works, but last I checked protests were still alive and (in some cases annoyingly) well.

This government has been a shambles on many levels and is clearly led by an habitual liar, but on COVID (and while far from perfect) they've done a better job than most other countries in the World in letting us get on with things once the vaccines were deployed.

EDIT: As Niko said, it's the populace that's shit the bed even more. "Tell me whether I should go to a Christmas party or not, it's ridiculous that you won't". :cab:

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think there's a general trend in the western right (and maybe left, tbh, where they're in power) towards authoritarianism at the moment. Boris Johnson isn't a natural dictator, he's the opposite, but once in power he's in an environment where he doesn't see why he should compromise on anything, and is being barracked in that direction from the back benches too. The options are soppy twats like Biden who will never get anything done, or vicious bastards who will get the wrong things done.

The Blair type of strong centrist just isn't on the table anymore, due to the cultural polarisation, infantilisation and everything else that the internet has ushered in.

[Lewis]

Yes, New Labour never used their majority to introduce all sorts of authoritarian shit and re-shape institutions along preferred lines.

[Kikó]

What about labour tho

[Lewis]

This is what [large] majority government looks like. The only difference is that Boris Johnson is a mess, and New Labour didn't have to bully the BBC because they could count on its support (except that time it didn't support them, so they drove David Kelly to his death and bullied Greg Dyke out of a job).

[Magic]

Lewis buzzing because his opinions hold weight now.

[Magic]

Lol so up here dentists are still working under full bovid restrictions.

[Magic]

UPDATE for bloodpissgate: forgot to tell you cunts this but I eventually got a consultation in Dec, went up and got an ad-hoc finger up my arse and an ad-hoc cystoscopy. It was thee worst experience of my life. I had to drive home (40 miles) with my legs crossed in agony. I passed out in my bird's car later that night with the pain. Ended up with a UTI and was bed-ridden for a week and missed my works xmas do. :harold:

Anyway all is fine but fucking hell I'd rather die than get that again. Apparently I've got a very strong prostate.

[Lewis]

Lewis buzzing because his opinions hold weight now.

Beyond a half-good Brexit the rest of their agenda is shithouse up to now (which also means that they are wasting the Brexit). I think people have just forgotten how majority government functions in this country. They can't even get their candidates into public bodies because the people and processes New Labour put there twenty years ago confound them.

[Lewis]

1481928498906386436

[Spikey M]

:lol:

There's some quality bingo-swingo going on under those arms.

[Shindig]

Triple jabbed. It was busier than the second time but nowhere near as mad as my first shot. I had an army bloke do the jab so I guess they were needing something to do.

That's it. No more of 'em until I'm the vulnerable side of fat.

[Magic]

BBC News - Covid coma pregnancy: Wolverhampton mum 'devastated' to lose son
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59996683

Pretty big shoulders there.

[Magic]

https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/deathsfromcovid19withnootherunderlyingcauses?s=08

Oh dear...

[Kikó]

It's a fucking stupid measure.

[Magic]

Correct, 17000 deaths over 2 years lol. Not wetting the bed now are we.

[Kikó]

You're absolutely fucking thick mate.

[Magic]

No sleep again? :harold:

[Kikó]

Plenty. Have you got brain damage?

[Shindig]

The fit and healthy crew making up a tenth of the death total is a tiny bit grim.

[Magic]

The fit and healthy crew making up a tenth of the death total is a tiny bit grim.

Is being a fat cunt a comorbidity?

[Shindig]

What was your excuse for winding up with lungs like a flatfish? There's probably something you're parents aren't telling you.

[Giggles]

There's probably a study to be done there on mental ability and lung health.

[Shindig]

I'm guessing he spent months after the divorce sleeping in his car whilst staring intently at his ex-wife's bedroom window. That probably primes pneumonia.

[Giggles]

And that exhaust constantly running probably does both.

[Spikey M]

Daughter tested positive this morning. :moop:

(Yes Magic, I tested her when she displayed symptoms harhar)

[Shindig]

The brother in law and nephew tested positive within the last week as well. The kid bounced off it inside a day but his dad's still knackered by it. Just my parents seem to have escaped it from the immediate family.

Jab side effects were the same as last time. One day of shivers. I think I finally got to sleep around 3am.

[Spikey M]

I thought my daughters test was a dud at first, the positive line came up literally immediately. One of my daughters school friends has had the same this morning though.

Still, atleast it's only 5 days now. Unless the rest of us get it too. :moop:

[Giggles]

We’ve stopped having to isolate at all if you’re a close contact so long as you’ve had it or are vaccinated. And the pubs are still on curfew.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, same here, but she can't be left home alone, so bar one of us going to the shop or something we may as well all be isolating.

[Spikey M]

My Sister in Law has opened all her windows and is undergoing a deep clean.

We last saw her New Years Eve. It was not in her house. :happycry:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60023968

Beijing city officials are recommending people stop ordering items to be delivered from overseas, after saying a local woman may have been infected by Omicron after opening a parcel.

They repeated the theory that Covid-19 could be spread internationally on imports of frozen food, something many scientists have questioned.

:lol:

[Spikey M]

"They added they found traces of the virus on a package she received."

Traces of Covid found on the possessions of a person with Covid? Well, that settles it. :cab:

[Spikey M]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-60021098?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=61e551d0e0f9ce3d8e6516e1%26Tsunami-hit%20Tonga%20fears%20aid%20could%20bring%20in%20C ovid%262022-01-17T11%3A47%3A17.047Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:c2828f58-aa7a-4e95-bcce-ed2c1d6b1805&pinned_post_asset_id=61e551d0e0f9ce3d8e6516e1&pinned_post_type=share


On Saturday, the Pacific island of Tonga was hit by a tsunami.

Now, officials are worried that the international response could bring coronavirus to the Covid-free nation.

Significant damage has been reported on the island, after the eruption of a volcano led to the emergency. But it's unclear how bad things are, as the disaster has affected communications.

"We don't want to bring in another wave - a tsunami of Covid-19," a Tonga official tells the Reuters news agency.

Curtis Tu'ihalangingie, Tonga's deputy head of mission in Australia, is appealing for patience while priorities for aid are decided.

Aid sent to Tonga will need to be quarantined, and foreign personnel will likely not be allowed to leave aircraft, he says

"Sorry lads, you'll have to drink the Cholera infected water, the bottled stuff is too dangerous"

[Luke Emia]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60023968

Beijing city officials are recommending people stop ordering items to be delivered from overseas, after saying a local woman may have been infected by Omicron after opening a parcel.

They repeated the theory that Covid-19 could be spread internationally on imports of frozen food, something many scientists have questioned.

:lol:

I saw this. These cunts have taken the piss the whole way through and yet no one ever seems to pull them up on anything. Like the point at the beginning of this when they had like 100,000 cases and then all of a sudden literally dropped to none.

While I'm at it their death rate is 0.3 of the total cases they have had which isn't even close to the rest of the world. At least make the numbers look semi realistic

[niko_cee]

8% year on year growth for some 40 years?

Systemic lying is built in [and largely accepted by everyone else for their own/mutual benefit]

Oh look (https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-12-22/China-s-economy-to-grow-8-in-2021-World-Bank-16c5sXrIlOw/index.html)

[Jimmy Floyd]

They'll get their comeuppance in the end. We all do.

[Shindig]

Their bubble bursting will be bigger than we could've possibly imagined.

[Giggles]

Who, China? They’re untouchable.

[Shindig]

There is a hint of too big to fail about them. I don't know how they think they can stop Omicron spreading like mad, though.

[Spikey M]

China have donned the west mad over the last few decades, but the last couple of years they've absolutely taken the piss. They've spent decades hoarding billions upon billions of dollars, then, as the US start printing money to deal with the Chinese made Pandemic, they dump the lot back into circulation, triggering massive inflation and buy all their gold on the cheap. Wake up sheeple.

https://www.indigopreciousmetals.com/media/blog/currency-wars-china-us-gold-cartoon.1632338498.jpg

[Magic]

Bhina.

[Lofty]

Aren't they already having some kind of Enron style scandal that could cause chaos?

[Shindig]

Evergrande. Billions in the hole.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They've collapsed multiple times in history and will collapse again, particularly if they continue on their current path towards more ethno-authoritarian government. Ultimately all empires need their bourgeoisie/elites to make them the money that pays for everything, and elites like to have freedom to enjoy their status. In the long run that won't work alongside the jackhammer approach of the CCP.

Xi is a particularly monstrous tyrannical figure, probably the worst since Mao. Once he dies/is overthrown you'll see them realise they've fucked it and start inching back the other way. They have a lot of economic influence worldwide (particularly in Africa) but basically zero cultural influence, which counts for quite a lot.

[Lewis]

Its economy will slow down/crash and it is still a long, long way off per capita economic parity with proper countries; but China is a four-thousand year old civilisation state, and its people aren't going to start clamouring for democracy any time soon just because that was what happened when European countries reached a certain level of development. Fortunately for them, Europe is clown town and America is sat in the garage with the car running, so they can just wait another thirty years for the ball to pop out rather than forcing anything, although it might be worth having a nibble at Taiwan to test the waters at some point.

[Queenslander]

Xi will die peacefully in his bed surrounded by loved ones.

The Chinese adore Grandpa Xi.

[Spikey M]

China's (and over Poverty stricken nations) main brainwave was becoming the production capital of the world. If they go pop, what do we do? Good luck replacing that supply chain with a first world, health & safety, living wage, bank holiday, union rep, VAT, mandatory pension society.

[Shindig]

We build back better (tm).

[Queenslander]

China's (and over Poverty stricken nations) main brainwave was becoming the production capital of the world. If they go pop, what do we do? Good luck replacing that supply chain with a first world, health & safety, living wage, bank holiday, union rep, VAT, mandatory pension society.

Im an idiot but I cant see them going bust in my lifetime.

[Spikey M]

Positive. :moop:

Giggles butcher was right. :(

[CJay]

If it’s any consolation Spikey, my wife is still positive on day 6. The darkest test line on a LFT I’ve ever seen. :facepalm:

[Magic]

My step mum was testing positive on day 11. :harold:

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/59870550

Alpha Men Assemble. :D There's one woman in the photo.

NOTICE-OF-LIABILITY-FOR-HARM-OR-DEATH Who fucking falls for that? :D

[Spikey M]

The overcompensation :drool:

Not a 6 incher in the group.

[randomlegend]

Not had any of them outside work, would brighten up my morning.

[Magic]

Hong Kong about to obliterate every animal in a pet shop after the manager tested positive. :D

[randomlegend]

Lads do you reckon we can convince DEFRA that Magic is a Llama with TB?

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://twitter.com/kirkkorner/status/1483705791379034112

Great thread with some examples of things the general public were fined for during lockdowns, in context of Boris's continued wriggling.

The 66 year old man being fined for meeting up at his allotments really got me. No matter how much of an 'unknown' the disease may have been, the fact that we were all banned from meeting outside at one point is genuinely insane.

[niko_cee]

Dunno if I put it on here, but that thread/story about the Scottish GP vaccinator detailing his breach of the rules when he hugged a recently bereaved woman threw into stark contrast the absolute madness and inhumanity of it all. There was a guy (doctor) who the police admonished for going round to his parents house to unsuccessfully administer CPR on his dying father. They then denied his sister access to the house to see her dead dad. I know you won't agree but the police (and those who enable them through snitching) are genuinely a malevolent force fundamentally opposed to free society.

[Manc]

Round them all up and throw them into the sea.

[Ben]

Saw this (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tskir/england-coronavirus-excess-deaths/main/excess.png) yesterday. Even with loads of cases this winter, total deaths in over 65's below expected.

I'd say this is why restrictions are getting dropped early but we all know it's Boris trying to save his arse. Requirements to even test and isolate will be abolished soon enough too I reckon.

[Kikó]

Dunno if I put it on here, but that thread/story about the Scottish GP vaccinator detailing his breach of the rules when he hugged a recently bereaved woman threw into stark contrast the absolute madness and inhumanity of it all. There was a guy (doctor) who the police admonished for going round to his parents house to unsuccessfully administer CPR on his dying father. They then denied his sister access to the house to see her dead dad. I know you won't agree but the police (and those who enable them through snitching) are genuinely a malevolent force fundamentally opposed to free society.

Defund the police.