We’re shut down this afternoon until we all pass a PCR. I can’t wait to dig the heels in on going back if there’s no result from the Polish conspiracy theorist novid twat :drool:
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We’re shut down this afternoon until we all pass a PCR. I can’t wait to dig the heels in on going back if there’s no result from the Polish conspiracy theorist novid twat :drool:
We are still technically working from home, but all the barriers to working normally have been removed so in reality I'm only at home a day or 2 a week now. :(
How many Covid tests have you lot taken?
My IRL friends were appalled when they found out I’d never done a covid test. I’ve had both jabs, but never done a test.
Apparently the government here have been recommending 2 a week, but given i only watch SSN, sky sports and Netflix I wasn’t aware of that request.
It must be quite common right?
I think ive had 4 Lateral flow tests, all when working in care homes. I've been working like normal since May 2020. Never had symptoms or any need to test otherwise.
I’ve done 2 antigen tests (are they the same as what you call lateral flow?) and about 5 proper teats, all for work.
One lateral flow test after I was at the epicentre of an outbreak traced to the pub I watched the Euro final in, but was clean and serene.
I've probably done about 15 or so. Mostly due to work but also post euro final where I did actually catch it.
Yeah, that’s what I assumed. I’ve not had any symptoms at any point so never felt a need to take one.
Apparently I should be doing 2 a week just because. Fuck that.
14, mostly all work or care home related. I've only taken one speculatively due to symptoms but they've all come back negative.
1 PCR when I had it.
We're about to go full heads have gone here again. 92% over 18s vaccinated (missing 2 percent of 1 dosers presumed dead as that stat has been like that for months), 80% 16 and 17 year old done, 50% 12 to 15s done, 30% boosters done, 2 people in hospital due to covid (not intensive care), mask mandate inbound.
Vaccination was sold as the way out, but, like I said, slowly but surely the nutters end up in the right. Latent authoritarianism and the slippery slope are real it would seem. I guess this is how dictatorships actually function. It's a fascinating case study but probably time to join the rebellion (which involves printing out a self-cert mask exemption card :happycry:/:face:). I doubt I'll bother but I'll only be masking if specifically challenged to do so.
Had what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magic
I still haven't taken one. I lied about taking one in the summer when some melt demanded I take one in order for me to give him a lift to Kent, and then there's a PCR sitting here which I should have taken after coming back from Spain, but haven't.
I do have a load of lateral flows here just in case I ever get a symptom again, which is getting on for two years and counting.
One test to go away this weekend. Turns out I needn’t have bothered as no one has looked at the result. Maybe they will when I try and get back in the country.
They won't. The form you fill in for coming back in requires a booking confirmation for a paid PCR test but that's all. You can put any old bollocks in the form as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yevrah
I'm not convinced the lateral flow efforts work.
They picked up my daughter when she had it. Was feint two lines one day, then fully double line the next [tested again whilst awaiting a PCR]. I think they can miss 'low viral loads' but then, you would probably be unlikely to be using them if you had that [as that would presumably run alongside having no actual symptoms]. It would probably be best for all concerned if they flat out just didn't work though.
I was told this about the way out too though, but I completed that pos without uploading anything. Putting any old bollocks on it as the questions became increasingly more confusing.Quote:
Originally Posted by -james-
It showed me I was positive before the PCR confirmed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc
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Originally Posted by Kikó
They seem to be a bit of a toss up really.
They are not that reliable but it's all in one direction - i.e. there are many false negatives but almost no false positives.
Biggest waste of money in our lifetime.
Worst thing about them is all the people complaining about how much they hurt. Just made me realise I have a fucking massive nose.
Seeing as you do them yourself anyone experiencing pain with a lateral flow must have something seriously wrong with them. I don't know why the brain probe mandate went out early doors. Not sure there was a bigger turn off for testing and so completely unneeded.
They can be sketchy on the borderline cases. With the aforementioned vague positive we did two more tests, one came out negative and one was [even more] feint positive. No false negatives save for England Rugby players it would seem.
1-1 so far in work.
I still haven’t got my result. Only about 6 hours off the 48 now too.
Now that's a headline.
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Maori tribe tells anti-vaccine protesters to stop using haka
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/maori-tr...CcqLeUW2MixFGE
Interesting, 'leaked' document about the UK's exit strategy from Covid. Not quite sure you can exit a pandemic, but I get the point.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...m-april-report
Bottom Ireland has brought in a midnight curfew for businesses? That would be brutal if it lasts into December and I am all for it just to see the wave of discontent amd ensuing carnage.
For pubs and nightclubs, not all businesses. There won't be much hassle about it outside the usual can't work/won't work gobshites as we're still a more community based people for the most part. More civil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
"A more community based people" :D
The lower classes usually are.
True, especially when you see what you could have ended up as.
'Travellers'?
Probably preferable to being closer to the English.
Working from home has made you particularly prickly today Giggers. Or is that kebab still weighing you down?
Nah the last one was just being ready for the usual suspect dragging his knuckles in. Could set the watch by it.
So I’ve just been messaged by NHS tracing to say I’ve been in close contact with a Covid spreader and need to isolate for 10 days unless I’m exempt.
I’ve been double jabbed so I’m exempt, right? I’m which case, why are they bothering me?
They send the messages anyway.
And for me when my niece caught it it changed depending on how recently you'd been jabbed, etc. Of course all that might have changed and/or be different between Scotland and England anyway.
Sounds like all the records aren't aligned so the contract tracing end of things isn't verifying against the vaccination end of things.
It's because it's now widely accepted that the vaccination is pointless IIRC.
:lol: you fucking imbecile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
:D
Our chief minister has gone down with it which is pretty lol as he was standing maskless next to Jacob Rees-Mogg (undoubtedly good mates) and many others at the cenotaph the other day, after just having told everyone they should be wearing masks at every possible opportunity.
Having a nostalgic covid conspiracy argument on Facebook with a couple of friends (well one is). Properly thick people.
Mark Noble.
Are Scotland still pretty hardcore on covid rules? Supposed to be going up to Edinburgh next weekend but not sure I can be arsed if it is total covid up there, no-one seems to give a fuck round here anymore.
Get 5 days off here now if you share a house with someone that tests positive.
Wearing a mask indoors is like the only rule as far as I’m aware and even then nobody will say anything to youQuote:
Originally Posted by Lofty
Did you see the video of our first minister Drakeford dancing the night away with a load of unmasked youngsters? Twattish move tbh. Not that he wasn't wearing one but that he's been giving it the big 'un and enforcing so much on the rest of Wales. Angers me the whole Covid thing now which is some turn around from how I felt when it first hit. Not saying it's bullshit but the way we continue to deal with it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
It's lost all power. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Manc