Coronavirus Death Thread

[Shindig]

One less thing to fill in on my way back. Cool. All I've got to worry about now are the scorpions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/60685794

But Novak, I thought you recovered from the virus and had the paperwork to prove it?

[Don]

You're making about as much sense as the rules.

[Ben]

There's no recovery exemption in the US currently. Vaccinated or you're not coming in.

[Shindig]

I thought they did but it seems the recovery bit covers only vaccinated folks.

[Bernanke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YOD9drZasM&t=2s&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell

Nurse John is now anti-vax.

[Giggles]

Anyone that thinks the vaccines were a bad thing are mongs beyond words.

[niko_cee]

I think you can definitely see the effect of the booster doses wearing off now, everyone seems to be getting it [not me yet] but as far as I can tell the sky hasn't fallen as a consequence as some feared.

[Giggles]

It never stopped people getting it though, it stopped people getting it from getting sicker than they needed to.

[Shindig]

I think the main problem John has is he sees the numbers and goes, "SCANDALOUS. WE SHOULD HAVE THIS DATA TO PROVIDE PERSONALISED CARE. HOW DO THEY CALL THIS SAFE." When the US numbers equate to a 0.04% incidence rate. If you've got a vaccine that's 99.96% successful, you consider it safe enough. As for the personalised care argument, the list of complications are so scattershot there's no real pattern to them in February 2021.

[Giggles]

Next booster must be due fairly soon actually. Or are they canning it because of the newest one?

[Shindig]

I figured they'd be out in the Autumn for the oldies.

[Ben]

A fourth dose rolling out next month for the fossils.

[Shindig]

Unless it's an Omicron specific jab, we're in the land of diminishing returns.

[Giggles]

Unless it's an Omicron specific jab, we're in the land of diminishing returns.

It’s not exactly a massive chore to get though.

[niko_cee]

It never stopped people getting it though, it stopped people getting it from getting sicker than they needed to.

I don't think that's quite right. There was obviously a sliding scale of efficacy [or whatever the word is] in terms of preventing severe disease [high], symptomatic infection [medium/high], all infection [medium - less discernible obviously] and then transmission [medium/low] but they absolutely did stop people getting it to a decent extent and the idea that there was a rapid drop off after 10-12 weeks would, from a layman's perspective, appear to be what we are now seeing/experiencing.

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/10/how-well-do-vaccines-protect-against-omicron-what-the-data-shows/#:~:text=Since%20Omicron%20emerged%2C%20we%20have, those%20aged%2018%20and%20over.

[Magic]

Vindication marching ever closer.

[Giggles]

I don't think that's quite right. There was obviously a sliding scale of efficacy [or whatever the word is] in terms of preventing severe disease [high], symptomatic infection [medium/high], all infection [medium - less discernible obviously] and then transmission [medium/low] but they absolutely did stop people getting it to a decent extent and the idea that there was a rapid drop off after 10-12 weeks would, from a layman's perspective, appear to be what we are now seeing/experiencing.

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2022/02/10/how-well-do-vaccines-protect-against-omicron-what-the-data-shows/#:~:text=Since%20Omicron%20emerged%2C%20we%20have, those%20aged%2018%20and%20over.

I'd expect what we're seeing is the fact that everyday life has 100% returned to normal and everyone is in close quarters to each other again.

[Magic]

Desperate.

[Spikey M]

Just let the thread die you mongs.

[Giggles]

Where else will magic jump up and down for attention then?

[Spikey M]

On his MongsNet forum.

[Shindig]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60708330


"We strongly believe that this is a really bad mistake. Zoe could have been the tool that protects the UK from the next pandemic and saves the NHS millions as we try to find ways to prevent major diseases."

Quick question, Tim. How? I know you provide localised data but so does the fucking government.

[Ben]

Self-preservation.

[Baz]

Had a PCR test today cos I’ve had a cold for like 4 weeks. Can still taste and smell though so presume it’ll be negative.

Means I can speak to the doctor and not be fobbed off, hopefully.

[Don]

The numbers in my circles coming down with it are pretty high currently. There's been a couple at work who have seemingly been hit with it pretty bad even though they're young. I can't see it with the summer sun on the way but there's glimmers of hope...

[Lofty]

There are loads off at my spot, where everyone gets full pay to isolate. My wife's spot, there are zero cases due to the management saying you take it as holiday or unpaid. Funny that.

[Kikó]

Yeah, people choosing to work if they can't eat. What a shitty company your wife works for.

[Lofty]

They're all driving 71 plate cars and no-one gives a shit about Covid now :sorry: meanwhile train drivers want to work from home :D

[Giggles]

It’s all over the news that hospital cases have gone from around 600 to 1100 in a few days. Then they just casually gloss over at the end that 500-odd of those are in with something else and just tested positive while they were there.

[Spikey M]

It's been that way the whole way through. The most effective Covid strategy would have been shutting the hospitals. :D

[Luke Emia]

To see this rip through China now after all their lies and attempts at zero Covid will be a lovely bit of karma. Especially with just how shite their vaccines are by all accounts.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Sturgeon delaying again. :happycry:

The 'It's just for another 2 weeks crowd' can fuck off.

[niko_cee]

Meanwhile, in free England, masks are being done away with in airports/on planes.

:drool:

And now, the end is near, and so the face, mask rules are curtains.

[Spikey M]

I heard the NEW VARIANT KLAXON on the radio this morning. As infectious as Measles apparently. I might need to start a new twitter account just to see how Deepti is taking this.

[niko_cee]

We're already being told that WE HAVEN'T BEEN CAREFUL ENOUGH and that some MANDATORY RESTRICTIONS may need to be brought back.

Just fuck off. This thing is done.

[Yevrah]

I don't know where this new variant is coming from and I've reached the point where I'm not even going to look, but as with South Africa, 5 minutes looking at what their scientists are saying should be enough to tell you whether it's a worry or not.


It won't be.

[Spikey M]

I don't think they could walk this back even if there was a legitimate variant worth worrying about now. Nobody gives a fuck any more. Can't remember the last time I saw a mask. The distance markers in shops are just faded peeling relics.

[Giggles]

I muted the word variant on Twitter around the time of omicron so I won't worry about it until if/when it's panic stations.

[Don]

230k daily cases, hospitalisations creeping up, vaccine rollouts unlikely, I better be back in WFH after summer.

[Ben]

230k is for three days and fourth doses start next Monday but whatever.

[Waffdon]

Exactly 2 years to the day we were sent home and never been back. Glorious :drool:

[Giggles]

Are your “hospitalisations” the same as ours where everyone in for anything at all gets tested and then their broken arm or hernia goes down as one.

[Ben]

Yep.

[Giggles]

About half here according to this just now.


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[Don]

Had a funny feeling throat last couple of days and tested a faint positive today. Triple crown :cool:

[niko_cee]

I'm supposed to be going to Paris in 3 weeks, and they've only just done away with all of their 'health pass' shit, so if this 'new wave' of shitheads testing themselves to skive off work could kindly fuck off it would be appreciated. Obvious exception for Mellin and his important work.

[Shindig]

A sworn statement (déclaration sur l’honneur) self-certifying you’re not suffering from COVID-19 symptoms and haven’t been in contact with confirmed cases in the 14 days prior to travel.

Ah, you can probably fiddle that. I've just done a test because this week's cold was still hanging around. According to the almighty control line, it was just a cold. So there's two negative tests I can file away to get me into the office. :moop: And I guess my conscience is clear having wandered around a hotel full of guests and went to places full of people. Bastards.

[niko_cee]

Yeah, I'm not worried about that. What sort of madness is that anyway? Pretty sure it is impossible to actually make that statement anywhere in the world.

Just as long as they don't make me go to a pharmacy to get my QR accreditation thing frenchified, as was the case, or worse.

[Shindig]

Yeah, the US requirements at least made a bit more sense. Proof of vaccination, proof of negative test and a form to say you have provided both to an airline official.

Come to think of it, I've had some airport bollocks this week.

1. The lad at Newcastle check-out couldn't produce the boarding pass for the third leg of my trip over there. No bother, I'll just check-in at Seattle and get it there.
2. I kept placing my boarding pass and passport on my case. "I'd better keep an eye on this so I don't lose this.", I thought to myself. Seconds later, lost this in Heathrow. Luckily some legend picked it up and took it to the gate. Crisis averted.
3. The CDC don't like valve masks. Luckily they were handing disposables at the gate. Still at Heathrow.
4. Third leg of the trip over was a flight to SFO with Alaska Airlines. I had a four hour wait for the flight and thought I was being smart by going to the BA desk as they sold me the ticket. At very least I'd get an Alaska flight number. Nope. They directed me to American Airlines as they couldn't find it on their system. American Airlines finds me the flight number and off I go to the Alaska Airline desks. They're packed, all families. Most of them with car seats they're desperate to check in. Once I get there, I finally get my boarding pass but it takes a supervisor overlooking a trainee to find me. :D
5. On to security at Seattle. The lass working the x-ray doesn't like my canvas bag and wants me to empty it. She suggests its full of needles. It is not. I don't even empty it. I just zip it up and send it back through. Back off, Courtney Love.
6. Customs is empty. I stroll on through within minutes. This leaves me with 3 hours of nothing but listening to service announcements featuring the bloke from Modest Mouse.
7. Good news! The flight is full. I decide to draw the short straw and get my cabin bag checked. Crucially, they tell everyone how many bags they're looking for and they get the magic number at the first time of asking.
8. Heathrow, nearly home. Passport control is packed and they've turned off all but one of the terminals. The remaining terminal is broke and is maybe letting every 5th person through. Backlogged to fuck, they open the other terminals and I manage to get through on one of them. The downside is I've now been funnelled landside and need to pass through security the long way round. This is why I hate random airport staff waving you through places you don't quite need to be in.
9. Good news! The flight to Newcastle is full! This time the gate attendant is all polite about it and nobody takes up the offer to check cabin bags. So boarding commences and they just grab randoms out of the first few boarding groups. Our flight is now late departing by ten minutes. Boydy would be seething.

[phonics]

I went through France recently and the only thing you had to do was pinky swear you didn't have COVID.

[niko_cee]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60928806

:harold:

[Yevrah]

I saw someone riding a bike with a facemask on today.

Just gonna leave that there.

[Giggles]

Getting to the stage that they need to be phased back in, so Scotland are probably correct.

[Yevrah]

Was it you on the bike Giggles?

[Giggles]

I’d think the simplest explanation for the cyclist (and many masked motorists I see on their own in a car) is that when you’re not militant about it you actually forget you’re wearing one. They’re the easiest measure of all but many just can’t handle being told they should do something, which is a real pity.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It was noticeable going to Portugal last weekend that they are still big time on the masks everywhere, and then I realised it's Catholicism, isn't it. Deep-seated reverence of pointless symbols to keep the population under control, rather than allowing each to worship as he will.

[Boydy]

Was the cyclist on the road? I've seen cyclists pre-pandemic wearing masks presumably to avoid inhaling exhaust fumes.

[Boydy]

It was noticeable going to Portugal last weekend that they are still big time on the masks everywhere, and then I realised it's Catholicism, isn't it. Deep-seated reverence of pointless symbols to keep the population under control, rather than allowing each to worship as he will.

Do you ever hear yourself?

[Giggles]

It was noticeable going to Portugal last weekend that they are still big time on the masks everywhere, and then I realised it's Catholicism, isn't it. Deep-seated reverence of pointless symbols to keep the population under control, rather than allowing each to worship as he will.

Could have near word for worded that.

[Yevrah]

They’re the easiest measure of all but many just can’t handle being told they should do something, which is a real pity.

At this point they are a complete waste of time, proven by Scotland's current stance on them coupled with their horrific infection rates, which are worse than England's (which are also higher than they've ever been).

One of the major frustrations during the pandemic was the almost complete inability for people to keep up with where the situation currently was and tailor the response accordingly. Seems old habits die hard.

[Yevrah]

Was the cyclist on the road? I've seen cyclists pre-pandemic wearing masks presumably to avoid inhaling exhaust fumes.

He was abusing pavements, like the entitled shitbags most of them are.

[niko_cee]

:D

I saw a masked cyclist the other day. They also had about 10 layers of clothes too many on and were having to push their bike up a moderate incline whilst looking on the brink of death. I often do wonder about the pollution thing, but then that leads you down dangerous rabbitholes.

Unless we're going all out against all respiratory viruses forever then keeping 'restrictions' in place for something which is almost literally a mild cold at this point [Omicron BA.2 or whatever it is called] seems a bit authoritarian.

Thankfully they're going to stop doling out the free tests soon, so once we work through the inevitable stockpiles that the lunatic daily testers will have no doubt amassed it should be plain sailing in terms of case numbers. We gave up reporting them daily ages ago and it was a fairly genius move.

[Don]

I've noticed some irregular heart behaviour. I don't think it's anything that probably wasn't there during/immediately after first couple of bouts but it'd be pretty sweet if this thing has a cumulative effect on the heart that will have everyone flopping dead in the coming years.

[Yevrah]

Would explain why China seem desperate to keep this thing at zero.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Do you ever hear yourself?

Once you realise that pretty much everything in life is either directly caused by, or is a hangover from, various forms of organised religion, you can't unrealise it.

[Pepe]

I saw someone riding a bike with a facemask on today.

Just gonna leave that there.

Still a common sight among professors around here. :harold:

[Pepe]

No one gave a shit about masks in Mexico and we still have pictures of John Paul II everywhere.

[Ben]

Once you realise that pretty much everything in life is either directly caused by, or is a hangover from, various forms of organised religion, you can't unrealise it.

Quite.

[Lewis]

'If you cannae do unmasking you're a Tim!'

[Boydy]

Once you realise that pretty much everything in life is either directly caused by, or is a hangover from, various forms of organised religion, you can't unrealise it.

Don't talk to me about religion. Go and finish your Reformation properly.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Jimmy Krankie strikes again.

The year is 2025- 'It's just another 2 weeks'

[phonics]

Yeah just absolute nonsense. Jimmy is confirmation bias the personality.

[Lewis]

Don't talk to me about religion. Go and finish your Reformation properly.

Closet case jokes. :nono:

[Foe]

What’s everyone’s LFT and PCR count so far then?

I’m on four LFTs and no PCRs.

Heading offshore at the end of the month and concerned that’ll send my numbers rocketing up, but for now - I think I’ve held back nicely.

Fucking annoying to still have to wear a mask in the supermarket or office though. I’ve abandoned it in the gym, as have about 80% of people.

[Yevrah]

No LFT's up to now and 2 PCR's.

Although I think I finally have it now (it's either that or heart disease), so I'll be doing my first LFT tomorrow.

[Andy]

What’s everyone’s LFT and PCR count so far then?

I’m on four LFTs and no PCRs.

Heading offshore at the end of the month and concerned that’ll send my numbers rocketing up, but for now - I think I’ve held back nicely.

Fucking annoying to still have to wear a mask in the supermarket or office though. I’ve abandoned it in the gym, as have about 80% of people.

Probably 100+ LFTs all negative and a PCR which was negative when my wife went into labour.

[Baz]

Maybe 6 PCRs and probably 3 LFTs.

[Giggles]

I did my first antigens when I got the positive PCR just to see when I’d show up on the former. I’ve only done one since, a couple of weeks ago so I could visit the wife in hospital.

[Ben]

A couple of PCRs to get home from Germany.

[Shindig]

I'd wager I'm probably past the 20 mark on LFTs. Mostly for work, travel or seeing the old folks. I've done a couple for symptoms which just felt pointless.

Also, I can trump Yevrah's cyclist by a mile. Last week I saw someone with a masked dog. U.S. Fucking A.

[phonics]

Can we get a pools bet on how many months it takes for Shindig to stop telling us that he went on holiday once?

[Spikey M]

Maybe 6 PCRs and probably 3 LFTs.

A day?

[Shindig]

Can we get a pools bet on how many months it takes for Shindig to stop telling us that he went on holiday once?

Twice. :dc:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

2 PCR's and about 5 LFT's.

[Mike]

I do a LFT a week for work, and I’ve had I think 3 PCR’s.
Woke up feeling crappy so did a LFT…. I’ve got it for the second time. Mostly annoyed cos it’s my friends sons christening at the weekend and I was excited to see all ‘the lads’ and won’t get to now.

[Kikó]

I don't think I've done an abnormally high number of tests over the past few years (less than 30 lfts) but I've definitely had what feels like the most variations. From it being stuck up to the back of your nose to just spitting in an envelope, seems to be no consistency on what is required to get a sample.

[Baz]

A day?Another myth that I don’t know the source.

[Spikey M]

Another myth that I don’t know the source.

Probably from the daily testing you were doing

[Lofty]

In Specsavers they are still wearing masks and asking people to put any specs they try on in a box for cleaning before they return to the shelves.

[Ben]

Opticians are usually full of fossils so makes sense they'd be the last remnants of COVID really.

[Shindig]

To be fair, they are right in your face like a dentist for at least 30 minutes.

[Lofty]

But trying on glasses for a few seconds? I thought catching it from touching surfaces was debunked years ago?

[Spikey M]

There's an old tabloid saying "being first is more important than being right". It's true too, because it really does stick. It's how conspiracy theories work.

[Shindig]

DEFRA's just stuck a letter through my door about avian flu cases in the area. :D

[Baz]

Probably from the daily testing you were doingThis never happened. It was just that I posted about going for tests before the majority of people on here had done one, so was seen as me being overly precautious and testing on the hour every hour.

[Shindig]

Our office protocols are all going south tomorrow. Glorious.

[Pepe]

I was mandated to take weekly PCRs for a while early in the pandemic. I probably did it four or five times before sacking it off. My wife would get emails telling her she was out of compliance but I didn't. :harold: I also never sent them proof of vaccination (vaccines were also mandatory as soon as they were available) and never got shit for it. So much for mandatory stuff.

After that, just the two to fly to and from France. Never had any of those lateral flow ones.

[Baz]

Found Magic.

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[Lofty]

Technically we are all losing our youth day by day.

[niko_cee]

Most of us have probably lost it already.

[Magic]

The lunatics suggesting the vaccine improves your health. :D

[Yevrah]

Which lunatics are doing that Magic?

I haven't looked at Deepti for weeks.

[Magic]

In the comments.

[phonics]

My Dads really, really not doing well with it. He says its like he's just got a cold but he's not waking up early and has gone back to bed in the middle of the day. Bit worried tbh.

[Giggles]

VIRUS MAKES ELDERLY MAN TIRED.

I can’t see the Daily Mail running with it to be honest.

[Shindig]

I dunno, they ran with QUEEN MISSES MORE ENGAGEMENTS.

[Lewis]

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/indiesage

:happycry:

[Shindig]

I hope they didn't use their own modelling on the crowdfunding target.

[Yevrah]

:D

An audience of 20,000 people a week for a body that's been given the Oxygen they have is utterly tragic. My Shitcom would have reached more.

[Kikó]

The Chinese chucking themselves of buildings during their latest lockdown.

https://twitter.com/DonnaWongHK/status/1512472328478752773?t=R27TP0eccWy9gfNmYYMeVQ&s=19

[Pepe]

I thought that no one was supposed to be outside.

[Yevrah]

That seems a tad disproportionate.

[Kikó]

They're apparently starving to death which probably explains their desperation.

[Yevrah]

Oh. In which case, as they were.

There's got to be something in this shit the Chinese know about for them to be so steadfastly continuing down this path. They're ok with colds over there, right?

[Lewis]

They're natural retards, which is to say the government has bet its prestige on zero covid, and their vaccine is useless. lol at them.

[Magic]

Oh. In which case, as they were.

There's got to be something in this shit the Chinese know about for them to be so steadfastly continuing down this path. They're ok with colds over there, right?

Depopulation. Undermining Hong Kong. They can't be seen to be victims of their own virus. So many.

[Lewis]

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Bagic

[wullie]

I tested positive for covid on Friday morning, seems to be wearing off now. Closest thing it's felt like is having a three day hangover, which is how long an actual hangover would probably last for me now anyway.

[Lewis]

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I will lol at these freaks for the rest of time.

[Alex]

"Omicron Classic". :D

Like it's an established brand or something.

[Andrew]

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I will lol at these freaks for the rest of time.

How did these people get through the day before covid came along...

The last post where he mentions she was getting better before she tested positive. Lol

[Yevrah]

The rest of that thread reads like a carefully crafted satire.

[Alex]

The rest of that thread reads like a carefully crafted satire.

The little hand drawn map of the layout of his apartment. :D

All rationale thought screams out to me that he's on the wind-up, but I don't think he is.

[Giggles]

Jesus even I’m lolling at that freak.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Few of the replies are good, too:


When a plumber came into my apartment to do a repair, I required him to wear a brand-new 3M N95 respirator, which I gladly provided. No problem. Afterwards, I wore a 3M N100 and ventless goggles, opened windows, and used a box fan to ventilate. After several hours, it was okay.

My instinct is that it's clever marketing for the many specific brands of item mentioned.

[Yevrah]

That is a great shout. You see these masks (with their full names) listed all over the place. Who writes like that?

[Lofty]

Sturgeon reported for not wearing a mask :D

[Don]

Long overdue update: I can smell the fuel at petrol stations and blooming flowers and cut grass again. Not 100% but enough to tell your wives I will be cutting back on the world class cunnilingus now that I can sense their foul odours :rave:

[Don]

No idea what I was actually expecting but this negative test travel certificate business is £11 to some conman who's dishing out 1 LFT and an app that produces a QR code upon submission. Why/how on Earth is this any more credible than just accepting the free NHS app's record of a negative test? It's almost like it's been designed and kept in place purely because someone is making big money from it.

[Yevrah]

No idea what I was actually expecting but this negative test travel certificate business is £11 to some conman who's dishing out 1 LFT and an app that produces a QR code upon submission. Why/how on Earth is this any more credible than just accepting the free NHS app's record of a negative test? It's almost like it's been designed and kept in place purely because someone is making big money from it.

Stop it Don, nothing connected with science would ever do that.

[Ben]

It's almost like it's been designed and kept in place purely because someone is making big money from it.

Welcome to Tory Britain.

[Yevrah]

I see Denmark have suspended their vaccination programme. Sense beginning to prevail.

[Giggles]

You really are a crackpot :D

[Don]

Missus has to get the travel certificate now too for Belgium as her vaccine is over 270 days old. The corruption :D

[niko_cee]

Seems that's a somewhat selective interpretation. They're still recommending (presumably) 4th jabs for vulnerable groups, and plan to restart in the autumn on a wider scale if necessary, which seems sensible. My kids have been offered jabs but it seems (even more) pointless for them to have them going into the summer so will probably hold off until later in the year.

[Yevrah]

I think suspended vaccination programme is a fairly apt description. It's not a programme, or at least not like it was, if you're only giving it to a select few.

That we're still trying to jab kids here is absolute lunacy.

[Yevrah]

You really are a crackpot :D

Unless you're in a proper risk group, it's over. So no need for a vaccination programme.

Edit: At least not in the summer.

[Spikey M]

I see no benefit to mine having the jab, so they won't be. Kids are basically at no risk and it doesn't stop them spreading it anyway. So why bother? Make a jab that actually stops transmission to a decent degree - and doesn't need boosting every hour on the hour - and we'll talk.

[Alex]

I never had, and don't want to get, my booster. For no other reason than I can't be arsed. Well, I actually had it booked at one point but cancelled as I caught it about two days before I was due to go for it.

But I'm going to Spain towards the end of June and unless they change their stance I'll have to have it at some point before I go. It seems if your regular second dose was over a certain amount of time ago they require it for entry. I might leave it last minute and hope they scrap the whole thing. But that's the only reason I'll be indulging any of this any further. I'm not "anti-vax" or anything I'm just very much past it and don't care anymore.

As I imagine the vast majority are.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why it's being used for travel at all I have no idea, I think governments just enjoy paperwork.

[niko_cee]

I see no benefit to mine having the jab, so they won't be. Kids are basically at no risk and it doesn't stop them spreading it anyway. So why bother? Make a jab that actually stops transmission to a decent degree - and doesn't need boosting every hour on the hour - and we'll talk.

Will only do it if it becomes a travel related ballache, but it seems most countries aren't going down that route anymore.

[Kikó]

The amount of faff over getting a vaccine to lower the chance of you becoming seriously ill. Bizarre to say the least.

[Waffdon]

I never had, and don't want to get, my booster. For no other reason than I can't be arsed. Well, I actually had it booked at one point but cancelled as I caught it about two days before I was due to go for it.

But I'm going to Spain towards the end of June and unless they change their stance I'll have to have it at some point before I go. It seems if your regular second dose was over a certain amount of time ago they require it for entry. I might leave it last minute and hope they scrap the whole thing. But that's the only reason I'll be indulging any of this any further. I'm not "anti-vax" or anything I'm just very much past it and don't care anymore.

As I imagine the vast majority are.

Spain scrapped the passenger locator when I was there a few weeks ago so idk if you’ll need to get it. I was also not checked once for any proof of vaccinations by anyone. No idea if it’s just random checks or what

[Raoul Duke]

The Dutch have sacked off everything, as far as I can tell

[Spikey M]

Spain scrapped the passenger locator when I was there a few weeks ago so idk if you’ll need to get it. I was also not checked once for any proof of vaccinations by anyone. No idea if it’s just random checks or what

The airport staff are probably meant to be doing it, but can't be arsed. Especially if there's no real record keeping of it.

[randomlegend]

We didn't get any of our stuff checked when we flew into/out of Biarritz.

[Don]

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Mr M Hussain
European Health Technology Ltd - UKAS Reference Number 22776,
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London,
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Trust an M Husain to be at the heart of this Randox con.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12990629

Just look at the bitches appointments.

Some fucking hasidic cunt in amongst it too. Quick google of his dodgy name show a sterling review of their work under their former company name:

https://news.mc/2021/05/13/uk-coronavirus-testing-scandals-exposed/

:rasta:

[-james-]

I finally caught it.

Girlfriend did a test after coming down with a sore throat (as she has done every time this has happened for the past 18 months), and it came back with the faintest red line. I've had a bit of nausea, tiredness and a sore throat so far, possibly past the worst of it. Doubt I'd have known if she hasn't tested.

[Lewis]

https://news.sky.com/story/storing-covid-related-ppe-costing-taxpayer-estimated-3-3m-a-week-government-says-as-households-feel-cost-of-living-crisis-squeeze-12603472

Remember all them mongs outraged that we didn't have mountains of it ready to go two years ago?

[phonics]

156 million a year. I'm sure nothing in Lewis world of the MOD is costing us anywhere near that much.. Ah wait it appears to be 71 billion quid.

[Lewis]

What?

[phonics]

There's waste absolutely everywhere. It's not a bad thing, it's called preparedness. I can't think of a more wasteful part than the MoD. Or should we just cut their budget because we can't even stop Russia starting a war in Europe.

[Lewis]

I'm not complaining about the storage costs. I'm saying people now moaning about them (and that we ended up buying too much) are the same people who were moaning that we didn't have a massive stockpile, which we didn't have largely because of these sort of costs which people would have moaned about.

[phonics]

Are they the same people or have you just conflated them to give you an easy imaginary person to get angry about?

edit: my bad I misread the question. Rayners a knob.

[niko_cee]

A new wave of COVID is “kicking off” in England, an expert has warned.

Kit Yates, a Mathematical Biologist at the University of Bath, advised people to use existing infection control techniques due to rising cases.

“There is another wave of covid kicking off," he tweeted.

“The good news is that the same things that previously worked will work against new variants.

“Wear a mask in indoor spaces. Meet outdoors rather than indoors if you can.

“Ventilate indoor spaces. Test. Vaccinate.”

:happycry:

[Yevrah]

I had it last week, these people remain a complete joke.

[Lewis]

There have been a few cases around me over the last couple of weeks. I'm more worried about the gaypox.

[niko_cee]

Is that your pitch for the more inclusive name the WHO is after?

[Spikey M]

It's miles off "Kung Flu". Work to be done.

I propose BonkeyBox Birus.

[Spikey M]

Bonkey Pox works quite well actually.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Faux-king Pox.

[Offshore Toon]

It should be pronounced how Johnny Vegas would say it.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

Other half has finally tested positive tonight. Hopefully I dodge any symptoms, can't be fucked having to work from home for any length.

[Mike]

It should be pronounced how Johnny Vegas would say it.

So correctly?

[Giggles]

I easily know of more people with it now than at any stage of the heights of it.

[Ben]

Is everyone still testing like?

[Lewis]

Everybody I know had a cold before Christmas, and the two people stupid enough to test both tested positive, so we can't be worse than then.

[Shindig]

It'll keep cycling around. Which makes he laugh at John Campbell's insistence the warmer weather would kill this off.

[Boydy]

It's finally got me.

[randomlegend]

Everyone at work who hadn't had it so far has caught it in the last couple of weeks.

I am the last one standing.

[Giggles]

I was hoping for it earlier this week as I’ve two things I don’t want to go to at the weekend, plus work is riddled with it. Clean so far though.

[Luke Emia]

I got it on holiday, just made me a bit short of breath and tired.

[Spikey M]

The Mrs has just sent me this (https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/44630436) as it turns out this weather makes it not a great time to be a Shih Tzu, and it clearly hasn't been updated for a while because it contains this peach:

"At the moment, social distancing rules mean you might not be able to top up their water at a public tap when out and about, so take plenty of fresh water out with you."

What times we lived through. :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

I like to think I was in the vanguard of brave men (and it was all men) who were calling them out as preposterous at the time, but I don't know really.

The park benches being taped up...

[Don]

It's all documented in here so no hiding or aftertiming and what a read it'll be when we do go back over it.

[Boydy]

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He just fucking loves catching covid.

[Shindig]

No more than the rest of us.

[randomlegend]

Still never had it.

[7om]

Me neither, officially. I reckon I might have had an asymptomatic case or something. No way I’ve escaped it all this time being coughed on in the hospital 4 days a week.

[igor_balis]

Finally got it this week, was sat next to my boss at some stupid away day last Thursday and he had it so it's not hard to work it out. I do feel pretty shit but no more so than a flu, though the heat isn't exactly helping with the fever.

[Spikey M]

Covid round 3. :D

What is this fucking bug? Jesus.

[niko_cee]

Is it all that different to the cold at this point?

I still haven't provably had it which I find hard to fathom. Pretty sure I've been ferrying around a kid with it all week (his mum has it and he had 1 positive 1 negative on Monday so we just rolled with it).

[Spikey M]

It's basically a cold yeah. Wouldn't give a shit but my Father in Law has major lung issues so we have to keep away from him when we have it.

[Bam]

Back in lockdown by winter I suppose.

[Spikey M]

No chance.

[Baz]

Hopefully.

[Giggles]

Yep, fingers crossed.

[Manc]

A winter lockdown would send the country under.

[Shindig]

I mean, a wartime existence is a kind of lockdown.

[Baz]

A winter lockdown would send the country under.

What if it coincides with the World Cup?

[Shindig]

That'll be the death of many pubs.

[Manc]

https://news.sky.com/story/hair-loss-and-sexual-dysfunction-join-list-of-long-covid-symptoms-12658879

Unlucky, Don.

[Don]

I may now have only slightly above average body hair coverage and the libido of a fat gammon but I'll still be dining out on the victories of the past 2 years long into the decade.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/26/lockdown-drinking-increase-could-cause-25000-excess-deaths-in-england

:******)

[Yevrah]

As Niko said, "excess deaths" need to die in a fire.

And 25,000 over twenty years, fucking hell, I doubt even the relatives would notice that.

[John Arne]

In a similar vein

"Britain counts cost of historic heatwave as 13 die"

They didn't die because of the heatwave, they died because they went swimming and unfortunately ended up drowning. I'm just not sure attributing these deaths to the heatwave are that useful. If you house spontaneously catches fire - fair enough, blame climate change.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-counts-cost-hottest-day-ever-2022-07-20/

[7om]

The media are dishonest. We all know that.

[niko_cee]

Is an ethnicity breakdown available for the drownings?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was going to say, Asian kids drowning in quarry lakes is an established thing.

[Lewis]

All things being equal the ethnics would be more likely victims owing to being naturally weaker swimmers, but their ancestral fear of open water means that they aren't jumping in rivers and old quarries to begin with, so this will be a majority gammon tragedy.

[Spikey M]

Depends if there were any winkles to be picked.

[John Arne]

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

Not leaked from a Chinese lab, after all.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

[Yevrah]

I'm buggered if I'm reading all that at 2:41 am, but does it tell us anything we didn't already know? In other words, the stuff that was established with SARS and MERS after a matter of months? The TLDR at the top would suggest not.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, that says precisely nothing. One of the research scientists sounld have gone to the market. Superspreader event 1. Bang. Covid. Or - more likely - it was going around for quite some time and they only realised there was a problem when sufficient people had caught it. In this instance at 1 particular place of gathering. The market.

We will never know where it came from, just as we will never really know where HIV, Ebola and Smallpox came from.

[Magic]

Gays, blacks and peasants.

[Spikey M]

Brighton, London and Scotland?

[John Arne]

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

[Yevrah]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62691102

Pleasing to see it reaffirmed that the vaccines were never anything to do with profit...

[Shindig]

I can't think of anything more American.

[Lewis]

They will be blaming each other for inventing it by the time it gets to court.

[Magic]

Who's laughing now. :harold:

[Spikey M]

Your ex-wife.

[Don]

I coughed in a supermarket yesterday and for the first time for 2+ years wasn't autopiloted to subtle feelings of germ-spreading paranoia. Also came back from a festival this weekend feeling like utter death, very similar all-round symptoms to COVID and not a care in the world as to where I go and what I do, even outright lying to the dentist's question of COVID symptoms when arranging an appointment. We have fully healed from the traumas now, I think.

[Yevrah]

You may have done but I’d wager there are millions who haven’t. The staff at your dentist’s will no doubt include some of them.

[randomlegend]

Wife's got it. My streak may finally be about to end.

[Ben]

Doesn’t exist anymore, you’re safe.

[randomlegend]

Oh, cool.

[randomlegend]

Finally got it. RIP.

[Shindig]

If we don't get reports of a 'Queue-based surge' in the next week, we should archive the thread.

[Giggles]

The ads have started on the telly again :uhoh:

[CJay]

A certain type of American seems to still be actively trying to avoid it. This guy on a podcast I listen to was glad he hadn’t been invited to a public event so he wouldn’t have to make the ‘difficult decision as to whether to fly or not while covid is rife’. He also realised later that his booster was due around two weeks after the event so it definitely wouldn’t be a good idea to go without being boosted. 🙄

Surely at this point two and a half years down the line it’s a relatively known quantity and anyone remotely healthy should just stop worrying, but apparently not. 🤷

[Don]

Yeah but the likes of RL can't be so complacent. Keep checking in here, buddy, we're all sending our best wishes for a quick and full recovery.

[randomlegend]

Can't help feeling that Taz post smells a bit insincere.

Not that he'd know :harold:

[Kikó]

There's a guy I follow on Twitter who retweets a lot of people like him who are still paralysed by the fear of COVID. The latest is politicians celebrating Oktoberfest in a COVID rife tent enjoying beer without a MASK.

Wind it in you pleb.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There are lots of heads still gone, don't worry about that.

[niko_cee]

I had a bad head-cold the other day, but we binned all of the tests that were junking up the top of our fridge a week or so ago so I'll never know.

Cleared up in a few days so doubt it was the 'rona.

[Ben]

Cleared up in a few days so doubt it was the 'rona.

Why? It doesn’t affect everyone equally. My brother is asthmatic and he wouldn’t have had a clue he had it if he wasn’t required to take a test before going back to work after Christmas.

[Yevrah]

Yeah, when I got it I felt rough as fuck for two days and was back running by day four.

[Dave.]

When I had COVID a few months back, I was fine until day 5 but had a few symptoms for a couple of days (headache, cold, asthma slightly worse) but was fine after a day or 2.

[Spikey M]

Lads, I beg you, stop it. Talk about the queue or something.

[Shindig]

Mine hung around for a week but that was it.

[Lewis]

A certain type of American seems to still be actively trying to avoid it. This guy on a podcast I listen to was glad he hadn’t been invited to a public event so he wouldn’t have to make the ‘difficult decision as to whether to fly or not while covid is rife’. He also realised later that his booster was due around two weeks after the event so it definitely wouldn’t be a good idea to go without being boosted. ��

Surely at this point two and a half years down the line it’s a relatively known quantity and anyone remotely healthy should just stop worrying, but apparently not. ��

It was mainly absolute freaks doing it as a CULTURE WAR performance, so now Joe Biden has declared the pandemic over they might slowly start to unwind.

[Lofty]

I am due to test today having been positive last week, managed to avoid it all this time. Wife was sniffly last weekend, then by tuesday I started with it but she had been ok. Thursday morning I was wiped out, couldn't look at screens, muscles and joints ached, freezing but sweating buckets and generally knackered with cold and cough to boot. Felt better every day since, just a bit of a cough now. Score one for team flab.

[Pepe]

Someone in my indoor football team still shows up to play wearing a mask. :harold:

There are still many professors requiring their students to wear masks in the classroom. Fucking mentalists. For them, this will never be over. They have found their calling.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's what every academic has always dreamed of, with power and authority being transferred to 'the science', i.e. them as philosopher-kings.

[Pepe]

The CDC has rated Union County’s risk assessment for COVID-19 as high. Effective immediately and until further notice, the University has reinstated indoor mask protocols for all employees, students and campus visitors in all public and academic indoor campus spaces.

Yeah, I'm going home.

[Yevrah]

As I said (not quite at the time, but soon after) we should have stopped listening to those fuckers once the vaccine came along. They'd played their part by that point and should have been an irrelevance from then on in.

How some are still clinging on now (I haven't checked Deepti for ages, but I bet she still is) is a sad indictment of what happens when you give these people that much of a say in things.

[Giggles]

You lot give it far more head space than the ones you accuse of having “heads gone”.

[Yevrah]

Not really, that's what, my 4th post on the matter in months?

[Lofty]

Negative. Good job everything's closed :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think I might have it for the first time.

Test is showing negative but I've got a sore throat, head feels cloudy and I feel a little drained although the last two could just be because I couldn't sleep last night.

[Magic]

RIP fatty.

[Dquincy]

I think I might have it for the first time.

Test is showing negative but I've got a sore throat, head feels cloudy and I feel a little drained although the last two could just be because I couldn't sleep last night.
You sure it's not just a cold?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

You sure it's not just a cold?

Probably is, especially as a nap has left me with just a sore throat.

[Giggles]

RIP fatty.

And you wonder why things like gubbings and being replaced as a father happen to you.

[Spikey M]

I think I might have it for the first time.

Oh no :(


Test is showing negative

Then you don't. Stfu you tart.

[Magic]

And you wonder why things like gubbings and being replaced as a father happen to you.

Because of my sincere observations?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Oh no :(



Then you don't. Stfu you tart.

Because false negatives have never happened.

[Spikey M]

Shame your mums pregnancy test was.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Has your wife found herself a kickboxer?

[Giggles]

Because of my sincere observations?

Because you’ve a bad soul.