bimble
floofy
Exactly, it’s arguably helped nobody apart from the FreedOm loons who will fight any new measures and who are pissing inside his tent. I’m just so tired of it all.
Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
I feel like I did at the very start, March 20. Like gathering the fam in close and hunkering down for a while.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
So what’s so scary about this new variant then? I’ve not been reading the boring bits.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Speed of transmission and perhaps ease of transmission also. Someone will be able to put it better than me
Supine
Newt Member
In technical terms, there is a fuckton of it floating around
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
You're even more likely to get it than Delta. Significantly more likely it seems.
Almost everyone I know who went 'out' last weekend seems to have covid now.
I think bimble is using “dropped” in its new-fangled sense of “released” rather than its more traditional “let go of”. Like, “why was now judged the right time to tell us this story?”
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
More on this breaking story, doesn't look like there's been an official announcement yet, although the BBC is reporting it as fact, so this article will probably be updated.
ETA - already updated - 'The office of Prime Minister Jean Castex is expected to issue a statement on the new measures in the coming hours.'
France to ban British tourists as Omicron cases surge
New rules will apply to vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers
www.independent.co.uk
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Including, I've just been told, Mrs B's brother and Sister in Law, who were due to be joining us next week for a jolly christmas celebration.
There is a recently deceased friend's memorial event at a nightclub in Manchester this evening I've just cancelled my planned attendance at cause there is zero chance it won't be a superspreader
Numbers
an ting!
We were up in Manchester last weekend. Spent the afternoon in the Midland, had dinner in the Ducie Street Warehouse followed by a cpl of hours in Sinclair's Oyster Bar. 10 of us. I was quite taken aback at the low mask wearing. Thankfully we all continue to test negative via LFT, we're testing daily.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I was asking here for a summary as I can’t read those sciency threads
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Shit, my dad went to a big wedding last weekend. He seems fine though.
I had to attend a kids’ Xmas event that still went ahead this week, had to go in a very cramped Santa’s gazebo and closely supervise little kids making Xmas cards.
Have tested each day since, so think I’ve escaped it, so not too worried. I wish they’d cancelled both events though
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
It's extremely catching and spreads mega-fast. Even if you're double-jabbed you are very likely to pass it on asymptomatically. The unvaccinated are most at risk of illness, which includes children. Booster jabs reduce your chance of getting it badly and your likelihood of passing it on.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I have a band video recording thing tomorrow, and a Grecian themed birthday party on Saturday, in the diary. I'm quite pleased, in one way, to have succumbed to a cold that seems to mirror a lot of the current Covid symptoms, but resolutely tests negative, as it gives me a nice, non-controversial "out" (the chap whose Latin Salsa Band we're supposed to be filming is a denier) to avoid attending either event. Though I shall be sad to not go to the party, as the person who invited me is quite nice 
. Ah well, patience, etc...
ETA: I'm also in the process of cancelling all my face-to-face client appointments.
. Ah well, patience, etc...ETA: I'm also in the process of cancelling all my face-to-face client appointments.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Thank you!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It's not a sciency thread, just a general discussion on the evolving situation.
Basically it's doubling in around just 2 days, how it actually plays out will become clearer as as more information becomes available.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Some tory, technically a junior minister as a pps, attacking Whitty for giving 'socialist' advice. Oh my.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't think there is any way of knowing how risky it is, or even quantifying that risk for practical purposes. But if you have to go, I'd say all the usual precautions: rigorous mask-wearing (ideally FFP2, not the pink/blue jobs), careful hand hygiene, avoiding large crowds, especially in enclosed areas...
elbows
Well-Known Member
American, so not entirely surprising that the crude conflation of socialism with other things was in play there. Also her name, Joy Morrissey, sounds like an oxymoron.
Also I note this from her wikipedia entry:
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Fuck. Remember when we used to look at R rates of 1.2 and hope it could come down to less than 1?
(from UK Covid live: Queen cancels pre-Christmas lunch; Omicron R number estimated to be between 3 and 5)
"Omicron R number estimated to be between 3 and 5"
(from UK Covid live: Queen cancels pre-Christmas lunch; Omicron R number estimated to be between 3 and 5)
elbows
Well-Known Member
Also prepare for the possibility that a range of services in London including transport may be badly disrupted by then, due to issues with the sheer number of staff off sick.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
In June 2021 Morrissey launched a campaign with the British Monarchists Society, to put a portrait of Her Majesty in every home, company, and institution that would like one.
Seems like a thoroughly normal lovely person, not at all a batshit deranged right wing goon.
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