Coronavirus & stuff

Radish wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I do wonder though whether the case numbers are being largely inflated by outbreaks in schools, that does seem to be the case in my area at least.

My daughter has been in Ill a few times and it always comes from the school. I have to pull her out of school , get her tested etc before sending her back (illness free), only to repeat cycle again as other parents don't care. I'm not sure how my kids have avoided it so far.

We didn't have any illness during the various lockdowns.

In the last month we've had one bout of norovirus and two colds.

Schools are germ warfare factories.

This is unprecedented, but yet again I agree with Moggy. Schools are the scourge of the world for spreading illness! I used to suffer tonsillitis a lot at school. I left school and for 11 years I didn't have tonsillitis. I had a kid and as soon as he started school, the dirty bugger brought it home and I was contemplating death for 10 days!

Fortunately I have a bit of a life hack. Copious amounts of vitamin D tablets! I started taking the maximum daily allowance when the pandemic hit and I've not had a cold since.

I've had weird severe fatigue though, but I've started taking Vitamin B for that. Doesn't seem to have helped much, so I'm putting it down to being l as active without having to actually attend work. I'm making some lifestyle changes to try and fix it. Probably just turning into a constantly tired old man like Abe Simpson though in reality.

My neighbour, who had two negative PCR tests last week got contacted to do a third one due to the strawberry float up. She was positive.

captain red dog wrote:This is unprecedented, but yet again I agree with Moggy.

Moggy wrote:

captain red dog wrote:This is unprecedented, but yet again I agree with Moggy.

Looking at that gif, i'm now trying to figure out which of you is which.

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

captain red dog wrote:This is unprecedented, but yet again I agree with Moggy.

Looking at that gif, i'm now trying to figure out which of you is which.

I'm Clegg. I talk a good game but I'd sell my soul to Facebook for just a sniff of cash.

twitter.com/imincorrigible/status/1449841703863607304

I guess they were just testing their eyesight.

I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It was supposed to be, but changed to being allowed a single visitor for christmas day but they couldn't stay over.

Most of my street had their entire family round for 4 days on the trot.

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Yeah but you'd hope the PM would know.

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Yeah but you'd hope the PM would know.

Depends if Hancock actually bothered to tell anyone.

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Yeah but you'd hope the PM would know.

Depends if Hancock actually bothered to tell anyone.

Quick, crack a joke or Labour might get in!

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Yeah but you'd hope the PM would know.

In the South East we were not allowed. London and the surrounding counties were in lockdown. We could visit anyone in a support bubble if that was something you did during 2020 but that was it.

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Vermilion wrote:I thought last Christmas was a free for all though (at least for several days anyways).

It wouldn't be a story if that was true.

The rules were supposed to be relaxed for the Christmas period. They were changed just before Christmas to allow people to meet on Christmas Day but nobody could stay over as they brought in a lockdown starting just after midnight.

Ah right, i do remember the rules changing so often and at such short notice that hardly anyone actually knew what the hell was going on.

Yeah but you'd hope the PM would know.

I don’t quite recall what tier london was in on Christmas Day, assuming that’s where the pm was at the time as we still had the tier system in place at Christmas last year.

Tiers 1, 2 and 3 could have a temporary bubble with up to 3 households. 4 couldn’t mix or travel to other areas. This was only brought in about 3 days before Xmas

There were of course lots of other get out clauses by that time if you knew how to play the system with they will probably have an excuse for.

London was under tight rules from what I remember. They weren't really supposed to leave the city, so Boris can't even claim that being at Chequers was OK.

Once again its something that should be a resigning issue, but will no doubt be a waffle issue.

The bubble system was and is an utter load of bollocks designed to allow people to do what they wanted.

I understand it was supposed to be for people who needed care in its various forms. Great, but what you had was people just saying they were in a bubble with their mates, which would technically be correct, so instead of reducing mixing which is the purpose of lockdowns, you have people just meeting the people they'd normally meet anyway, only this time under the false illlusion of security and that they're "in a bubble".

Also don't forget that this government won't have been adhering to a single rule at any point unless it was in front of a camera. None of them will have been distancing, wearing masks, isolating etc, unless a camera could catch them.

I get what you're saying about support bubbles being abused but from a personal view it was a lifeline. Towards the end of that period, just before support bubbles had been bought in, I was in a bad way. Combined anxieties around covid, obsessively reading about it, zero face to face support from counselling/GP/Doctor (which, for the record I totally understand) and being on my own for so long compounded all my various mental health issues. While I wouldn't go as far as to say I was suicidal, I was at my lowest ebb for years, couldn't see the point in anything and came really close to self-harming again. My support bubble, which I adhered to strictly, was a life saver for me.

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/imincorrigible/status/1449841703863607304

I guess they were just testing their eyesight.

Why is that framed as Carrie Johnson breaking lockdown? Surely the bigger story is the PM broke lockdown?

Tomous wrote:

Moggy wrote:

twitter.com/imincorrigible/status/1449841703863607304

I guess they were just testing their eyesight.

Why is that framed as Carrie Johnson breaking lockdown? Surely the bigger story is the PM broke lockdown?

Can't say anything bad about the government.