General Coronavirus (COVID-19) chat
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
A substantial reduction in the risk of infection. Not entirely surprisingly.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I think "retard" long ago lost its literal meaning - see also "moron" and "cretin".
And yes I think I noticed a recent thread but tl:dr.
I've become used to it via "creatard" "religitard", "trumptard" and "covitard"...
I suppose there might be people with a congenital brain issue who are also covitards, but "retard" is surely only a medical condition / possible bigotry in the USA ?
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gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I'm struggling to imagine a time now. I won't even use the bathroom at my sister's house and only meet them in the garden.
Covid taught me that catching flu pretty well every year at work had not been a good thing - in my last two years there I got it full-on to the extent that I was off work for weeks ...
I suppose vaccine tech would have to be even more amazing than the covid ones - and super-responsive to all similar new viruses ...
It's a scam. Do not follow the link. Lots of people have been stung this way.
I don't think NHS are sending any texts like this out any more. Certainly when I called track and tracing as I needed help reading the LFT indicator, they were not interested in knowing my contacts and *I wouldnt' have given them anyway.
* I told people myself
wemakeyousoundb
hopefully not gimboid
you've been robbing hospital pharmacies?
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
90 mins in a glasshouse with 2 windows open and a door.
Person A is there a day before their covid symptoms kick in and they are also unvaccinated.
The other person, person B, is fully vaxxed.
What is the likelihood of person B getting covid and how long before symptoms will show?
Person A is there a day before their covid symptoms kick in and they are also unvaccinated.
The other person, person B, is fully vaxxed.
What is the likelihood of person B getting covid and how long before symptoms will show?
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
‘Lean-to’ or ‘even span’ glasshouse?
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
3.7%
Aladdin
Well-Known Member
3.7% chance of catching covid?
Or just random guess...
Kind of worried about my dad. Last thing he needs would be covid now...not after everything he has gone through the past few weeks.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
i think they did think it's possible for covid to be transmitted between cats and humans, but i'd say it's pretty damn unlikely that a cat would have given your details to the 'track and trace' people.
hope that helps
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
Has he got some tests?
l'Otters
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This.
There are a few other scenarios where I’d ditch masks; eg if we had sterilising vaccines and I was offered it.
I didn’t imagine I’d be wearing them this long and this consistently. Somehow although on one level I knew the pandemic might rage on for a number of years that didn’t map across to the types of mitigations / protections I’d need to continue with.
I don’t think I’ll change my approach for public transport, shops, libraries, health care etc. until background infection levels are right down, but for some stuff eg training courses I think it the ventilation was good, the air quality was monitored and displayed, everyone attending was doing regular rapid antigen tests, everyone present who could have one had taken vaccines for covid….that’s a fair old list of provisos but if they were met I might be up for sitting in a room bare faced.
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Aladdin
Well-Known Member
Will test him this am.
Tested negative yesterday...and hoping it stayd that way
This was why I was asking how many days after ose contact can a person turn out to be positive.
8ball
Maximum Facepalm
I was under the impression it was around 5 to about 13 days with it usually being pretty certain after about 8 days, but that may well have changed with the new variant.
Someone here will know.
2hats
Dust.
For omicron lineage 1-15 days though mean incubation period is around 4-5 days (see post #47034 from the UK thread).
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Wow. I'd thought better of you.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Well now you know I'm clearly a fascist bigot.
klang
klang
fantastically helpful.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I aim to please.
Naive.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
People I know personally in Edinburgh who have tested positive since the 21st of August:
My two sons
Their dad
Their grandpa
My eldest brother's girlfriend
A friend of said brother and girlfriend's
A long-term good customer at my work
His daughter
Combination of the schools being back (they went back on the 17th) and the Festival being on properly for the first time since 2019.
My two sons
Their dad
Their grandpa
My eldest brother's girlfriend
A friend of said brother and girlfriend's
A long-term good customer at my work
His daughter
Combination of the schools being back (they went back on the 17th) and the Festival being on properly for the first time since 2019.
l'Otters
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Apparently my brother didn’t take any of the vaccines he was offered for covid. Found out via my mum, I’m not in touch with him. She didn’t want to go there to even find out what his logic was, I think she feels she’s treading on eggshells with him a bit anyway so wants to preserve things being amicable and semi functional at the moment.
All we got to go on was he said it was a choice and he made one, and he’d done his own research about it. Apparently. That’s all my mum knew.
Fuck knows which variety of rabbit hole he went down.
Meh.
All we got to go on was he said it was a choice and he made one, and he’d done his own research about it. Apparently. That’s all my mum knew.
Fuck knows which variety of rabbit hole he went down.
Meh.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Oh god my brother is the same. Except I've unfortunately heard about his rabbit hole in great detail.
David Clapson
Well-Known Member
Very grim news from FT archive.ph
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