General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat

[2hats]

Made contingency plans for being stuck in Mexico for the next 3-4 months did they?

 

[two sheds]

Could always nip across the wall

 

[Sue]

Made contingency plans for being stuck in Mexico for the next 3-4 months did they?

Who knows. Theoretically if she's got her laptop/decent broadband, she can work from there but... .

 

[SheilaNaGig]

One paper dosen't mean much - especially at the moment, but some suggestion that SARSCV2 may have a sneaky trick up its sleeve.

Science | AAAS

www.sciencemag.org

If true, that should leave the antivaxers conflicted.

More on that in the 20 Dec edition of this podcast

This Week in Virology

A podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick

www.microbe.tv

Which also breaks down the scary stats around the deaths of young people from Covid

 

[Hyperdark]

Thanks for that link Sheila

 

[SheilaNaGig]

I listen to it on frogwoman ‘s recommendations.

 

[frogwoman]

They did a QA on covid last night, listening to it now while I'm at work.

Adam Kucharski is good to follow on Twitter too, he doesn't agree with them on the variant stuff but it's good to get all points of view.

 

[Espresso]

Wiki says that there were 67,100 civilian deaths in this country in the whole of WW2.
Ten months of this - so far - and we're already past that.
Holy shit.

 

[Sunray]

A sliver of good news from my favourite COVID reporter.

Dr John Cambell

I've not got it twice and I live in a bad COVID-19 area.

 

[Wilf]

Not sure if this thread is for random stuff, but I just saw this and it made me sad.
Husband from one of UK's first married Down's syndrome couples dies of Covid | UK news | The Guardian
RIP.

 

[platinumsage]

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[frogwoman]

Anyone finding it really hard to get their head around such massive numbers?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

In the Bradley household, 4 of the 5 of us now have zero reason to leave the house for the duration of lockdown. Unfortunately, #5 has two jobs - in a school, where they're not allowed to wear masks in the classroom , and in a shop where they're not doing anything to discourage casual browsing/non-essential shopping.

 

[Aladdin]

How infectious is someone recovering from covid if they still have a slight cough after 2 weeks?

Asking for a friend.

 

[Aladdin]

In the Bradley household, 4 of the 5 of us now have zero reason to leave the house for the duration of lockdown. Unfortunately, #5 has two jobs - in a school, where they're not allowed to wear masks in the classroom , and in a shop where they're not doing anything to discourage casual browsing/non-essential shopping.

Why are they not allowed wear masks in school?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Why are they not allowed wear masks in school?

No idea - leadership diktat, apparently. They're all in 'bubbles' so presumably the idea is that any outbreak is confined to a small number of staff/pupils, but why they wouldn't permit staff to wear masks is beyond me.

 

[Aladdin]

No idea - leadership diktat, apparently. They're all in 'bubbles' so presumably the idea is that any outbreak is confined to a small number of staff/pupils, but why they wouldn't permit staff to wear masks is beyond me.

All staff and pupils wear masks in the school I work in.
Cant understand why they would actually stop someone.
So what would the school do if your #5 just arrived and wore a mask? What could they actually do?

 

[SpookyFrank]

How infectious is someone recovering from covid if they still have a slight cough after 2 weeks?

Asking for a friend.

Act as though they are infectious, is the only sensible answer here.

 

[Aladdin]

Act as though they are infectious, is the only sensible answer here.

Sorry. What I really want to know is how long is someone infectious for?
3 weeks 5 weeks 2 months?

 

[Pingety Pong]

Sorry. What I really want to know is how long is someone infectious for?
3 weeks 5 weeks 2 months?

Ten days supposedly, isn't it? I had colleagues coming back to school ten days after testing positive even though they still had a slight cough.

 

[Aladdin]

Ten days supposedly, isn't it? I had colleagues coming back to school ten days after testing positive even though they still had a slight cough.

That's what I was thinking..
So the 14 day quarantine is...just extra careful.

 

[zahir]

So the 14 day quarantine is...just extra careful.

I think there's a real but small risk of still being infectious after 14 days and in some cases longer. I couldn't get a doctor to put a time on when I'd definitely no longer be infectious.

 

[AverageJoe]

Fully expecting some backlash from my latest Facebook post.



I mean there's been quite a few. And now there's even more. Its a joke

I'll keep you informed of the hatred I get back

 

[magneze]

If you were trying to cut out your face, you missed a bit.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fully expecting some backlash from my latest Facebook post.

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I mean there's been quite a few. And now there's even more. Its a joke

I'll keep you informed of the hatred I get back

What is your message suggesting?

 

[two sheds]

you may need to clarify - sounds to me like you think they weren't really ill at all, possibly because coronavirus doesn't actually exist

 

[magneze]

I took it to mean that they removed all the evidence of them mixing with other households.

 

[two sheds]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh that makes much more sense, ta

 

[nagapie]

How infectious is someone recovering from covid if they still have a slight cough after 2 weeks?

Asking for a friend.

I think the advice is that they are no longer infectious after two weeks as the cough can linger.

 

[AverageJoe]

I took it to mean that they removed all the evidence of them mixing with other households.

This. All the photos of them travelling to the beach, or going to meet friends and stuff, and then finding out they've got Covid and deleting all their previous "misdemeanours".

Idiots.