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My manager was fuming that people where taking sick days because of “just a cold”. People who work in a school!

To start from the end and to cut a very, very long story short, and as an end result, my manager has taken out a formal complaint against one of my workmates, for 'being rude', after my workmate insisted that my manager (who has been in herself coughing and hacking away - 'a cold' that she decided wasn't worth testing, along with others with 'flu' sypmtoms), needed to urgently check whether my manager was right in saying that one of our two unvaccinated staff should not be sent home after his wife had tested positive with a LFD.

It took hours to resolve and he subsequently tested positive himself and was off beyond the 10 days because he is still ill.
Separately, the second unvaccinated person should have been immediately sent home, too, for being a close contact, and everyone else advised to test.

SLT had absolutely no idea of any of the rules and are rigid in their support of continuing shit management.
I kicked the fuck off, myself, and had a surreal convo with a SLT member about whether LFD's are acceptable to be used when you have symptoms, even if you are vaccinated (no) and what constituted the correct kind of cough, amongst other things, where I had to repeatedly ask him to check what I already knew and with an eventual agreement that people should self isolate and get a PCR with symptoms but that yes, ok, someone coughing ONCE doesn't count.

I work in a school.
 
Germany has put us on the red list if anyone is thinking of travelling. 20/12/21.

Totally pointless, when omicron is already taking off across mainland Europe, adjusted for population, Denmark is reporting higher case numbers than the UK, but they test more, France is not much behind the UK on new cases, and they've carried out less than half the number of tests compared to the UK

I posted this on the holiday thread yesterday.

A French epidemiologist was interviewed on BBC News, talking about how fast omicron was taking off in France, she said they are only a day or two behind the UK. When asked what impact the closing of the border will have, her reply, 'just about zero'.
 
can anyone tell me what explains this? I thought testing +tive means you’re infectious? (Not my message, a confused friend sent it and asked me)
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Blimey how long are tests taking to come back then, that they have messages like that prepared?
 
What's the context? They must know when they got tested and why?
context is the erratic friend from yestertday! The man sent her that screenshot last night. It was a day two test upon return from travel he says, claims he got that text yesterday? also says he'd done 4 Lfs all negative.
 
context is the erratic friend from yestertday! The man sent her that screenshot last night. It was a day two test upon return from travel he says, claims he got that text yesterday? also says he'd done 4 Lfs all negative.
Sorry if Im being thick but I still don't get from your post the time difference between the test in question and the message
 
context is the erratic friend from yestertday! The man sent her that screenshot last night. It was a day two test upon return from travel he says, claims he got that text yesterday? also says he'd done 4 Lfs all negative.

Bimble's friend: The Adventure Continues! Chapter 6: The Mystery Test.


Could be time lag between test and getting the result. Tested positive pre-10 days ago so isolation is over already. Or he's a fucking weirdo chancer?
 
Sorry if Im being thick but I still don't get from your post the time difference between the test in question and the message
i dont get it either. He claims to have received that message yesterday evening. he tells her he took the day 2 PCr test after getting back from france on Thursday (16th). Very odd doesnt add up imo.
 
the only explanation for that instruction then (you tested +tive but your isolation period is over) would be a test taking 10 days or more to come back right? If thats' happening its ridiculous.
 
the only explanation for that instruction then (you tested +tive but your isolation period is over) would be a test taking 10 days or more to come back right? If thats' happening its ridiculous.

I think also if, when you filled in the form that goes with (some?) tests/test applications, you put a date for the start of your symptoms many days before your test date. I remember thinking ‘hmmm’ about what looked like a loophole when I saw that question on a test I applied for.

Memory is a bit hazy on the details though.
 
Date of test and date of test result received are the important things. Sounds like it was a test for travel so he didn't have symptoms? And he's trying to convince her that he's fine it sounds like bimble?
 

Hmm. That seems really alienating, to me. The MP asked a good question, in that, it's one lots of people have, and if you ask a question, there's an opportunity for it to be answered.

Whitty did answer it comprehensively, but should have lost everything before "The reality is..." The contempt he displayed initially is only going to drive people further into their corner.

(In case it's not clear, the question asked isn't one I have, and I agree completely with what Whitty said, but what I mutter to myself doesn't have the same impact.)
 
Date of test and date of test result received are the important things. Sounds like it was a test for travel so he didn't have symptoms? And he's trying to convince her that he's fine it sounds like bimble?
i think its what prunus said, he must have told them of his recent infection (says he had it recently). Whatever it is i'm going to leave her to get on with it, its too late now anyway - if she's caught it from him she'll find out soon enough.
 
i think its what prunus said, he must have told them of his recent infection (says he had it recently). Whatever it is i'm going to leave her to get on with it, its too late now anyway - if she's caught it from him she'll find out soon enough.
Hmm, if it's true that companies are giving the OK to come out of isolation based on the time the client states he thinks he noticed symptoms as oppossed to test date then that is very wrong and needs to be be sorted, I suspect its just that the guy is lying though and the screenshot is fabricated
 
Hmm, if it's true that companies are giving the OK to come out of isolation based on the time the client states he thinks he noticed symptoms as oppossed to test date then that is very wrong and needs to be be sorted, I suspect its just that the guy is lying though and the screenshot is fabricated
why would he bother to do that?
 
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