Pandemic personal consequences

[muscovyduck]

What's the deal with grassing people up for breaking the rules at the moment? The mini grim reaper I work with is doing my nut in.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Are they even pretending to trace contacts any more? I don't even know tbh. I kind of assume Harding nips into the office once a month to collect her cheque and that's the extent of the whole operation.

Trace systems only work when you've not got several thousand cases a day.

The chance to solve this by tracing contacts is long past

 

[Johnny Doe]

My cousin is in ICU with COVID and chest pains. Not sure if it's a 'personal consequence' given he's an absolute scumbag I have nothing to do with.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mrs SI is shivery and has a sore throat and headache. No cough, no temperature. Just ate several jalapenos out the jar and couldn't taste them.

Shitting it now tbh. She's looking to see where she can get a test

 

[Steel Icarus]

Well, she's been tested already. Now we wait.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Well, she's been tested already. Now we wait.

Blimey, that was quick!

Fingers crossed for a negative result.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Blimey, that was quick!

Fingers crossed for a negative result.

Yeah, forty mins from putting symptoms into the app to back home all done

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Sounds like you ought to be isolating to me - would your employer be difficult about it?

So I'm concluding we'll be doing our Passover seder without any of our family for a second year. It's last weekend of March - they might be able to start thinking about when limited household mixing might be possible by then but I can't see anything indoors will be an option at that point.

It seems horribly ironic to have to celebrate being spared the plagues and brought to safety while sheltering in isolation from one another duirng a global pandemic.

I was thinking about all that a lot during Passover last year. It felt somehow really momentous to me. Out of sync, out of joint.

A friend of mine is a C of E vicar, born of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Strange mixture, amazing woman. Does peace work in Palestine and Isreal with local Imams and Rabbis. She was telling me that last year Passover felt more resonant for her than Easter did.

 

[frogwoman]

Yeah the whole 10 plague thing felt quite grim and weird for me last year too.

 

[andysays]

My employer, an inner London council, have just introduced regular asymptomatic testing for all employees who can't work from home.

They're going to be providing us with lateral flow testing, available every three days.

Me and a colleague booked ourselves in for the first tests of the day at 10AM and it seemed to go OK,

Spoiler: possibly too much information for those who aren't aware what exactly is involved

in as much as having to stick something down your throat until you gag and then up your nose can ever be described as "OK"

Still waiting for the results now...

 

[cupid_stunt]

These lateral flow tests seem so inaccurate as to be next to bloody pointless.

 

[nagapie]

These lateral flow tests seem so inaccurate as to be next to bloody pointless.

Two people diagnosed at my school on Monday. But yeah, not massively reliable and you can see why when you do the test.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Two people diagnosed at my school on Monday. But yeah, not massively reliable and you can see why when you do the test.

And, no doubt others have it, but got negative results, which is a real danger.

 

[LDC]

My employer, an inner London council, have just introduced regular asymptomatic testing for all employees who can't work from home.

They're going to be providing us with lateral flow testing, available every three days.

Me and a colleague booked ourselves in for the first tests of the day at 10AM and it seemed to go OK,

Spoiler: possibly too much information for those who aren't aware what exactly is involved

in as much as having to stick something down your throat until you gag and then up your nose can ever be described as "OK"

Still waiting for the results now...

Thought the lateral flow test swabs were just swabs of the nose (both nostrils)? The PCR is nose and throat.

 

[andysays]

Thought the lateral flow test swabs were just swabs of the nose (both nostrils)? The PCR is nose and throat.

The original info we were given pre-test said it was a lateral flow test (it also said if we tested positive, we had to isolate immediately, but also get a confirmation test through the government website, presumably to address the accuracy issue cupid_stunt mentions).

But the test involved swabs from the tonsils (both sides) then one nostril.

And the registration card I was given says lateral flow test too.

 

[prunus]

Thought the lateral flow test swabs were just swabs of the nose (both nostrils)? The PCR is nose and throat.

The ones being done in Brockwell Park are throat then nose the same as the PCR ones, fwiw.

Negative yesterday. 40 mins test to result, not bad.

 

[andysays]

Just checked my work phone (thought I'd given them my personal one) and they sent me a text to say I'm negative at 10.30 this morning.

Mildly disappointed for some reason. Will have another go later...

 

[LDC]

The ones being done in Brockwell Park are throat then nose the same as the PCR ones, fwiw.

Negative yesterday. 40 mins test to result, not bad.

All the lateral flow ones we have through work are just nose. Oh well, fuck knows.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Mrs SI got a negative result back. 9 hours! That's so quick. App has told her she doesn't need to self isolate unless she has a temperature - she doesn't. Cautious relief here.

 

[Badgers]

These lateral flow tests seem so inaccurate as to be next to bloody pointless.

There are still inaccuracies in this but nothing like the 50/50 early tests. The Lateral Flow test centres are only for those with no symptoms. Idea being that those with Covid-19 but no symptoms don't go out spreading before they realise they have it.

If you test positive at the Lateral Flow Centre you then isolate and get another test. Not ideal but better than nothing.

 

[Badgers]

The ones being done in Brockwell Park are throat then nose the same as the PCR ones, fwiw.

Negative yesterday. 40 mins test to result, not bad.

That is the standard Lateral Flow test.

 

[Badgers]

Thought the lateral flow test swabs were just swabs of the nose (both nostrils)? The PCR is nose and throat.

All Lateral Flow tests are throat and nose.

 

[Roadkill]

Update: sister in law's father was moved into intensive care on Friday night, after a period when they couldn't transfer him there for lack of capacity. As of yesterday afternoon he was stable and in surprisingly good spirits, and I assume he wouldn't have been admitted to ICU if they didn't think he had a fighting chance, so there's hope yet. Hang in there John.

Further update: he's still in intensive care, but showing signs of improvement; 'baby steps in the right direction,' as the doctor apparently put it.

 

[LDC]

All Lateral Flow tests are throat and nose.

All the ones given out for work here come with instructions to do a nose swab only and that's how people have been doing them.

 

[TopCat]

All the ones given out for work here come with instructions to do a nose swab only and that's how people have been doing them.

Yeah my nurse partner does these tests at home several times a week and they are a nose swab no throat.

 

[spanglechick]

The ones in our school are nose and throat.

 

[Supine]

There are different test kits available. Follow the instructions not some bloke off the internet

 

[Mrs Miggins]

We're doing lateral flow tests from work as well and they are nose only. Twice a week.

 

[LDC]

For sure follow instructions given, am just surprised there's different lateral flow test standards, that's all.

 

[platinumsage]

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