If you get invited to do a test based on the ZOE app, but don't otherwise have any of the main symptoms, do you still need to self-isolate? I had a very bad sore throat last night, but I've had a sore throat pretty much on and off for six months, which my GP suggested was silent reflux.
Yep;
UK will struggle to deal with Brexit alongside Covid, says thinktank
Councils and port health authorities risk being overwhelmed, Institute for Government sayswww.theguardian.com
You forget though, it doesn't matter, some people are getting richer out of it as planned. See that Dorris tweet, they couldn't give less of a fuck what happens to anyone.
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I thought we might be quiet at least at first but we're getting loads of people happily calling up to views houses this weekend, even more than last weekend in fact.. I don't care what precautions are in place, you can't safely show someone around a house, and they're travelling all over the country
First poll to cover the Labour hoo-ha and Lockdown U-Turn and, urhm, yeah, whatevs.
Drawing parity with other pollsters if anything.
Drawing parity with other pollsters if anything.
Received a parentmail email from the kids' school today, saying that local council have warned parents will be fined (at the very least) if kids don't attend during lockdown. They can fuck themselves.
Govt should have made moves so that those that can teach from home have an easier ride of it. Online teaching, work packs, maybe even pay some parents to help them teach from home. This would also reduce class sizes for those that need to continue to attend.
What did they do instead? Nothing. They simply didnt do anything. And now every day my kids come home I worry that this is the day they've brought the infection back.
Yeah, to make things even worse, my mrs has been given new medication, and one of the potential side effects is being prone to developing viral infections, and the leaflet mentions pneumonia specifically. Fair enough, I can't remember if it's 1 in 10 or 1 in 100, but with everything going on, she's really anxious, as am I.
Went out to the high street in Wales for the first time since the new lockdown. It was fucking RAMMED.
Nothing at all like the first lockdown, no wonder it's barely having an effect.
Nothing at all like the first lockdown, no wonder it's barely having an effect.
Huh? How? All non-essential retail is closed, there should be barely anything open.
That just seems like tons of place have circumvented the rules.
Hmmm. 2 points.
1 - we have no idea of the effects until a week or so after it's over.
2 - todays Welsh numbers were really interesting (in a good way) - Tuesday is usually a spike day, due to the weekend lag, but they were a fair way down.
Not entirely true, we should see have started seeing the effects about 10 days after lockdown. That covers incubation and testing delay.
...and I didn't say it's not coming down, it's just not coming down as fast as it should be.
That's only 100 cases down on last week (1207). Less than 10% drop.
I don't believe for a second that either Wales' circuit breaker or England's 4 week "lockdown" will be anywhere close to enough
Given that there is a 10-14 day period of infection, it is not surprising that a week isnt enough. I'm surprised there is such a good drop.
Figures coming out. Just over 20k infections, 397 deaths.
Hospital admissions steaming past 1500 now as well :(
Reading the figures, nearly 10% of people in hospital are in ventilator beds as well.
Hospital admissions steaming past 1500 now as well :(
Reading the figures, nearly 10% of people in hospital are in ventilator beds as well.
The average is 5 days. It can take 14, but that's definitely not the norm.
I didn't, before or after the negative result, I was confident mine was the usual sore sinus problem I have in Autumn. in the results email it says this, which is the same as the react one I did a couple of weeks ago:
That's what I thought - it's pretty frustrating because you feel "punished" in a sense for being honest with your symptoms. I was prepared to head out climbing but in the end decided to rest anyway. It would have been good to get one final session in pre-lockdown, but I'll make the exercise up with running I think!
that the UK is locking down, I think canada is at the point where we should do the same
So now our school, as of Thursdaywill have no option to close a bubble when a teacher is ill and can't come in for any reason. LA have banned supply teachers and if the teacher goes down in any class for any reason (migraine, cold etc) there won't be an adult to cover the class so the bubble goes down.
Last year from November onwards every single member of staff (excluding me) had at least one day off for illness purposes.
This is going to be a fun ride.
The guilt a teacher will feel will be astronomical and not fair.
Last year from November onwards every single member of staff (excluding me) had at least one day off for illness purposes.
This is going to be a fun ride.
The guilt a teacher will feel will be astronomical and not fair.
I've heard of teachers being told they're breaking protocol if they self isolate because if a kid gives them COVID they clearly weren't distancing properly.
Teachers shouldn't feel guilty for LA and Gov fuckups.
Teachers feel guilty about everything all the time ever
Trust me
I'm not surprised.
It's impossible to socially distance in a primary school setting. Even though I teach year six and my class understand and are on top of things, the younger children just don't get it.
I was walking down the corridor to the photocopier today on the left hand side, clearly to the left of the partition and a smaller child on the other side ran across and hugged me from behind.
Yuuuup my mums in primary and it's the exact same thing. You cannot socially distanced in these settings.
So, one of my kids goes to Beavers and since September they've been meeting every other week in order to socially distance instead of every week.
Just got a message saying the following:
So, the lockdown is allowing Cubs/Beavers to continue with less social distancing than before?
Just got a message saying the following:
So, the lockdown is allowing Cubs/Beavers to continue with less social distancing than before?
Ah i'm dumb - i feel for ya if the politicians in canada are as slow to act as they are in the UK (england specifically)
Surely they wouldn't be allowed to meet at all?!
Or is this one of the weird exemptions for clubs.
Why are pubs prevented from selling takeaway alcohol during the lockdown?
(But allowed to sell anything else)
Seems pretty shitty considering that a lot of places will have excess stock that is going to go off during the next month.
And yes, people will just go to supermarkets but they're significantly cheaper and already undercut hospitality venues significantly.
(But allowed to sell anything else)
Seems pretty shitty considering that a lot of places will have excess stock that is going to go off during the next month.
And yes, people will just go to supermarkets but they're significantly cheaper and already undercut hospitality venues significantly.
Takeaway alcohol pubs tended to cause a whole bunch of people crowding round with no masks or social distancing, just outside instead of inside a pub.
The problem is you get loads of people hanging around in groups right outside
i guess - maybe I'm viewing it a bit differently living in a small town, but yeah, I can imagine it drawing crowds in larger cities
That was the problem when they did it last time, at least around here in London. Yeah some people would take their drinks and head to the park or somewhere reasonably open, but lots would just mill around.
