General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat
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wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
Just ordered some for me and a friend today no problem, only a couple of hours before your post.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
i've just ordered some now
l'Otters
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The last few times I've done a lateral flow test I had a bit of blood from swabbing my nose.
The results have been red line on the C and nothing on the T, so negative, not void.
So I've still got a clear result, but is the blood going to be interfering with the test?
(I'm not that worried about the blood, it's only a tiny bit)
The results have been red line on the C and nothing on the T, so negative, not void.
So I've still got a clear result, but is the blood going to be interfering with the test?
(I'm not that worried about the blood, it's only a tiny bit)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Best get them from your local authority through pharmacies, hubs, libraries etc
Hurry up though, you’ve only got a couple of weeks before you’ll have to buy them
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
IIRC it says not to use if there is blood as could create a potential false negative.
Noticed last month that you can only order a pack every 3 days now whereas they were giving them in pair of packs at pharmacies a few month back.
Hoping that they have some nose only quick turnaround in stock again, but not holding my breath.
prunus
Tick tock.
Yes absolutely.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Yeah the rules about which test to use were mostly to do with supply & demand and not overloading capacity, combined with some issues to do with accuracy of test/chance of false negatives.
The failure of UK authorities to expand the list of official Covid symptoms was also about testing capacity, workforce availability, probability of actually having covid vs another disease (eg using educated guesses to somewhat make up for lack of capacity).
The failure of UK authorities to expand the list of official Covid symptoms was also about testing capacity, workforce availability, probability of actually having covid vs another disease (eg using educated guesses to somewhat make up for lack of capacity).
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
tbf I did a few with nose blood on and never got a false positive, so only redo if you get a positive when blood was there.
l'Otters
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With the last 3 LFT’s it was negative result & there was blood on the swab.
Not had a positive result yet. Or a void.
I’ll try again tomorrow morning, may as well.
( I don’t actually know if I can get a swab from my nose without blood on it at the mo…)
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
As far as I could see, I was the only person in Aldi last night wearing a mask
Numbers
an ting!
Same for me in Morrison's y/day and it was very busy.
Also had to get a bus home and not one person was wearing a mask.
_Russ_
Never not Knowingly Misunderstood
China reporting first deaths in a year or so, made me wonder if their reports of amazingly low numbers of infections throughout that have been widely taken as hard to believe or downright ridiculous despite the severe lockdowns might actually be true or near true figures.
I mean 2 years in and with social meeja an all, if the figures really were such a load of bollox then it would have been exposed by now
I mean 2 years in and with social meeja an all, if the figures really were such a load of bollox then it would have been exposed by now
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I'm back in the office for only the second time since March 2020. Felt a little less anxious about the train ride, now that mixing with strangers has become more normalised, and the office is virtually empty (5 people in a room with 30 desks). It's nice to be in a different environment for a change, and socialise a little bit (we're going out for some lunch together) but overall most people are feeling that it's really rather pointless to come in unless there's a specific reason to.
I miss being able to listen to my music on speakers though.
I miss being able to listen to my music on speakers though.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Got the train to Paris and then the south of France last week for first holiday overseas since this started, and have got a few local trains while here.
Everyone here wears a mask, and it's enforced with no visible complaints or kickback. In shops it's slightly lower, but not by much and I'd say about 90% of people wear one. Really stark difference with England.
Everyone here wears a mask, and it's enforced with no visible complaints or kickback. In shops it's slightly lower, but not by much and I'd say about 90% of people wear one. Really stark difference with England.
Numbers
an ting!
I found the same when in Ireland recently. I was taken aback compared to East London.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
It's still pretty much like that in Edinburgh.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Interesting short piece on the science around covid, and some scientists' entrenched positions. At the end I was thinking 'yes but what's your view?' but she does say in the last paragraph and it looks sensible.
www.theguardian.com
This bit is revealing:
I also liked the 'test to treat' approach in America - you go to a pharmacy to get tested and if positive get free antivirals (although from the name I'd initially assumed you'd get tea and a cake
).
Why can’t some scientists just admit they were wrong about Covid? | Devi Sridhar
Our understanding of the virus has changed so much. Yet some doggedly cling to theories they proposed two years ago, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
This bit is revealing:
I also liked the 'test to treat' approach in America - you go to a pharmacy to get tested and if positive get free antivirals (although from the name I'd initially assumed you'd get tea and a cake
).
elbows
Well-Known Member
Also see
www.theguardian.com
and
www.theguardian.com
The claim that the NHS 'coped' with Covid is not true - it's drowning and damaged | Rachel Clarke
Two years on, so much rewriting of history has happened, it is easy to forget just how anarchic and desperate conditions were, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke
and
False narratives about Covid left us with millions of deaths – will we challenge them now? | Debora MacKenzie
To stop another, more severe, pandemic, those misleading stories like thinking the virus would burn itself out can’t be forgotten, says science journalist Debora MacKenzie
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
I didn’t, I only reported my first positive LFT on the government site.
I reported some of the follow ups on my work system but that’s evidently just turned out to be pointless bureaucracy, given how nothing was triggered automatically by my first LFT.
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Scientists are people and as subject to cognitive dissonance as anyone else I guess.Interesting short piece on the science around covid, and some scientists' entrenched positions. At the end I was thinking 'yes but what's your view?' but she does say in the last paragraph and it looks sensible.
Why can’t some scientists just admit they were wrong about Covid? | Devi Sridhar
Our understanding of the virus has changed so much. Yet some doggedly cling to theories they proposed two years ago, says public health expert Devi Sridhar
This bit is revealing:
I also liked the 'test to treat' approach in America - you go to a pharmacy to get tested and if positive get free antivirals (although from the name I'd initially assumed you'd get tea and a cake
If anyone disagrees I shall argue the point for the next 146 pages
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
But you'd hope that following scientific method would be some sort of inoculation against that.Scientists are people and as subject to cognitive dissonance as anyone else I guess.
If anyone disagrees I shall argue the point for the next 146 pages
Around 145.03 pages to go
prunus
Tick tock.
I think you are supposed to report every result. I don’t think most people do though.
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