Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion

[kabbes]

They should give them normal names tbf - would make it more relatable.

Eris: 2073rd most popular girl’s name in 2022. 13 births
Also 2125th most popular boy’ name. 10 births

Are you calling those 23 babies abnormal?

 

[Storm Fox]

Still more popular than Nigel with just 8 Nigel | Name for Boys | UK Baby Names

 

[gentlegreen]

I've pretty well switched off from all this - starting to trust friends and family enough to be in vehicles and indoors with them - I even went in a Costa with two of them the other week ...

I'm fairly certain the NHS will have to have finally acknowledged that I'm no longer "diabetic" so it looks like there will be no autumn booster for me - which is a little concerning as I suspect my antibodies will have given up waiting by now...
On balance I'm the healthiest I've been in 20 years and I used to take annual flu in my stride when I was younger and much heavier .. quite fit, but quite likely also borderline pre-diabetic...

So perhaps I need to expose myself to infection and hope it's a small dose ?

 

[Voley]

There should be a Nigel variant, definitely. And an Eric.

 

[prunus]

I've pretty well switched off from all this - starting to trust friends and family enough to be in vehicles and indoors with them - I even went in a Costa with two of them the other week ...

I'm fairly certain the NHS will have to have finally acknowledged that I'm no longer "diabetic" so it looks like there will be no autumn booster for me - which is a little concerning as I suspect my antibodies will have given up waiting by now...
On balance I'm the healthiest I've been in 20 years and I used to take annual flu in my stride when I was younger and much heavier .. quite fit, but quite likely also borderline pre-diabetic...

So perhaps I need to expose myself to infection and hope it's a small dose ?

I don’t think that’s a good idea. Not least because there's not really any way to ensure a 'small' dose - and no certainty that even if you get a small dose it won't lead to a major infection.

 

[cupid_stunt]

There should be a Nigel variant, definitely.

Don't give Farage ideas.

 

[gentlegreen]

I don’t think that’s a good idea. Not least because there's not really any way to ensure a 'small' dose - and no certainty that even if you get a small dose it won't lead to a major infection.

But clearly there will be no vaccinations and they're assuming that everyone will start routinely catching the damn thing and it's been a year since I was last vaccinated so better sooner than later...

 

[CH1]

I've just had a scare. Very hoarse throat yesterday morning, plus an odd lower urinary tract situation - peeing too frequently and not proper control.
Looked up this symptom on Google, and sure enough Lower Urinary tract anomalies figure highly - the highest of all being an appeal for experimental volunteers to assist in researching this type of thing

The Effect of Covid-19 Severity on Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Manifestations - PMC

The dominant symptoms in the patient with COVID-19 are symptoms of the respiratory organ system such as cough, rhinorrhea, dan shortness of breathing. Nonetheless, some reports found involvement of another organ system, including the ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

As it happens I had a regular appointment with the GP practice health worker - so I asked her to do a covid test on me
"We don't do that now" she said

I skipped the Prom yesterday - simply didn't feel up to it, and didn't want to infect the Royal Albert Hall. Got my lodger to do a lateral flow test on me this morning - which is clear.

So - assuming I didn't have covid - can we say that viruses which give you are sore throat can also cause urinary incontinence? I think we should be told!
PS throat still sore, but urine getting back to normal. Not sure about tonight's Prom.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Don't give Farage ideas.

The man is an infectious pustule, tbf, so giving a covid variant his name wouldn't be too far fetched.

 

[weepiper]

Edinburgh is new Covid 'hotspot' as active cases double during Festival Fringe

As the second week of the Fringe is underway, a new wave of Covid infections has followed as cases have doubled in the last seven days with several contributing factors to blame such as the weather

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

 

[quimcunx]

Oh goody. I'll be sharing a train with people going from Edinburgh to London tomorrow. Hurrah.

 

[weepiper]

Oh goody. I'll be sharing a train with people going from Edinburgh to London tomorrow. Hurrah.

Recommend a facemask. Elderly friend's wife has just got it for the third time.

 

[quimcunx]

I've changed my booking to a cabin on the sleeper. That was my original plan anyway but there was no availability. Now suddenly there is....

 

[xenon]

I've just had a scare. Very hoarse throat yesterday morning, plus an odd lower urinary tract situation - peeing too frequently and not proper control.
Looked up this symptom on Google, and sure enough Lower Urinary tract anomalies figure highly - the highest of all being an appeal for experimental volunteers to assist in researching this type of thing

The Effect of Covid-19 Severity on Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Manifestations - PMC

The dominant symptoms in the patient with COVID-19 are symptoms of the respiratory organ system such as cough, rhinorrhea, dan shortness of breathing. Nonetheless, some reports found involvement of another organ system, including the ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

As it happens I had a regular appointment with the GP practice health worker - so I asked her to do a covid test on me
"We don't do that now" she said

I skipped the Prom yesterday - simply didn't feel up to it, and didn't want to infect the Royal Albert Hall. Got my lodger to do a lateral flow test on me this morning - which is clear.

So - assuming I didn't have covid - can we say that viruses which give you are sore throat can also cause urinary incontinence? I think we should be told!
PS throat still sore, but urine getting back to normal. Not sure about tonight's Prom.

You got your lodger to do the test?

 

[xenon]

WTF.

 

[CH1]

You got your lodger to do the test?

I would say this is linguistic obfuscation unusual for this group, which is clearly supposed to be about fear of public transport, pubs and the like.

 

[Wilf]

I would say this is linguistic obfuscation unusual for this group, which is clearly supposed to be about fear of public transport, pubs and the like.

Did you mean you got your lodger to perform the test on you?

 

[xenon]

I would say this is linguistic obfuscation unusual for this group, which is clearly supposed to be about fear of public transport, pubs and the like.

No. You wrote that you’ve got your lodger to do the test on you. Which is frankly, out of order. If you didn’t mean that you could’ve been clearer.

 

[CH1]

No. You wrote that you’ve got your lodger to do the test on you. Which is frankly, out of order. If you didn’t mean that you could’ve been clearer.

I'm not sure how to react to this. Should I have evicted him in 2020 in the interests of mutual biosecurity?

 

[Steel Icarus]

This is all very weird.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Also weird was my boss both being at work while testing positive AND inviting staff to pop and see her.

 

[cesare]

Also weird was my boss both being at work while testing positive AND inviting staff to pop and see her.

That's not weird, it's out of order.

 

[two sheds]

It's not good to ask someone to do it for you if say you're not confident about reaching your tonsils with the spatula thing without touching your tongue or deep enough inside your nose?

 

[kabbes]

Also weird was my boss both being at work while testing positive AND inviting staff to pop and see her.

Maybe your boss was like me. Last week, I told them all the barefaced lie that I’d tested positive at the weekend, purely as an excuse not to have to go in on Monday to Wednesday. But then I did have to go in on Thursday and probably had a bunch of people cursing me for returning to the office too soon.

On the plus side, I had the entertainment value of a one-to-one with the CEO in which he positioned me on the opposite side of his massive office because he didn’t want to catch the disease that I’d lied about having.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Maybe your boss was like me. Last week, I told them all the barefaced lie that I’d tested positive at the weekend, purely as an excuse not to have to go in on Monday to Wednesday. But then I did have to go in on Thursday and probably had a bunch of people cursing me for returning to the office too soon.

On the plus side, I had the entertainment value of a one-to-one with the CEO in which he positioned me on the opposite side of his massive office because he didn’t want to catch the disease that I’d lied about having.

Was it a Putin like table?

 

[kabbes]

Was it a Putin like table?

He actually made that very joke.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Also weird was my boss both being at work while testing positive AND inviting staff to pop and see her.

i think in the circumstances, it would have been justified to nail battens across her office door (while she was in it) and paint a cross on the door or something like that...

 

[xenon]

I'm not sure how to react to this. Should I have evicted him in 2020 in the interests of mutual biosecurity?

TBH I’m not sure how to react to your above post you’ve got your lodger to do your lateral flow test… I mean that is weird. And out of order. not sure why you find that a confusing response. I can’t really be asked to continue this though.

 

[xenon]

It's not good to ask someone to do it for you if say you're not confident about reaching your tonsils with the spatula thing without touching your tongue or deep enough inside your nose?

Er no. Parents do them on children. If someone is physically through disability incapable of doing their own test. Maybe get a medical professional to help them not someone that pays to live in the same house as you.

 

[two sheds]

Er no. Parents do them on children. If someone is physically through disability incapable of doing their own test. Maybe get a medical professional to help them not someone that pays to live in the same house as you.

Ah ok. So 'got someone else to do my test for me' actually meant 'got someone else to do my test for me'