beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
This would be my thought too. I had an emergency extraction last weekend and have felt a bit odd all week.
Pandemic personal consequences
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blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Just found out an old friend i lost contact with has died of Covid.
Not seen or spoke to him in years, but over time other mates have mentioned how hes been getting on (facebook and the like, which i'm not on) so reading articles and looking at pictures of him on bbc and guardian website now, feeling really sad. He was only 40, left a wife and two children. ffs.
Not seen or spoke to him in years, but over time other mates have mentioned how hes been getting on (facebook and the like, which i'm not on) so reading articles and looking at pictures of him on bbc and guardian website now, feeling really sad. He was only 40, left a wife and two children. ffs.
Wow that’s sad for you, and really fucking scary for the rest of us
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Innit. He was fit and healthy. Mate in Canada who told me the news had it and he is not in good physical health but got over it... :/Wow that’s sad for you, and really fucking scary for the rest of us
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
No underlying health conditions at all? Christ
blairsh
pale knuckle grip on this steering wheel
Not that i know of. He got ill, went into hospital and died.No underlying health conditions at all? Christ
I really hate this underlying health conditions thing. When I was proper poorly with covid I kept thinking ‘if I cark it, just cos I’ve got rheumatoid arthritis they’ll go ‘underlying health condition’ and treat it like a sad inevitability somehow not a ‘proper death’, even tho I’m super fit and walk 12 miles and swim every week!’No underlying health conditions at all? Christ
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
I miss being able to browse. I find browsing online very hard, especially with present buying. But even if I’m not intending to buy, I miss just going for a mooch, fantasising about what nice furniture I would have in my dream home, having a coffee and watching the world go by....
This. I hate this too. I mean people with well-controlled stuff that typically wouldn't kill you (like asthma or diabetes or RA) suddenly seems to be 'oh well, only to be expectedI really hate this underlying health conditions thing. When I was proper poorly with covid I kept thinking ‘if I cark it, just cos I’ve got rheumatoid arthritis they’ll go ‘underlying health condition’ and treat it like a sad inevitability somehow not a ‘proper death’, even tho I’m super fit and walk 12 miles and swim every week!’
'. Whereas no, no it's not.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Life is an underlying health condition
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
Johnson is an underlying health condition, for the whole country.
elbows
Well-Known Member
And only his underlings may show health contrition.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Not that it isn’t a “proper death” at all, more that it really drives home this thing can get anyone, in spite of the prevailing narrative.I really hate this underlying health conditions thing. When I was proper poorly with covid I kept thinking ‘if I cark it, just cos I’ve got rheumatoid arthritis they’ll go ‘underlying health condition’ and treat it like a sad inevitability somehow not a ‘proper death’, even tho I’m super fit and walk 12 miles and swim every week!’
Further to this, advice is to go and stay with family or friends if you're shielding and your housemate gets it, so she's come here.
Missed your previous post. Really bloody hope she doesn’t get it (if that wasn’t it). Glad she’s coming to you tho xxFurther to this, advice is to go and stay with family or friends if you're shielding and your housemate gets it, so she's come here.
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
Why is she going to refuse the jab? And, what type of job is she in?
extra dry
Happy to be here
She is a custodian for accomodation/uni halls of res.
The reasons are a mix of fear, whatever david icke has been saying reasently and she is fairly stubborn and single minded.
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
Is she totally lost down the rabbit hole, or would she be open to reading these articles?
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FridgeMagnet
Administrator
oh just FUCK OFF
I'm doing all I fucking can, like basically everyone statistically speaking, and I don't need this bullshit broadcast at me while I'm out trying to take a FUCKING ENTIRELY DISTANCED SUPER SAFE WALK to get out of my tiny flat for maybe an hour a day, just to tell me that it's MY FAULT rather than the shitballs running this fucking country
so, I would like to reiterate, FUCK OFF
Cloo
Banana for scale
The trouble with trying that kind of appeal is that the people who don't give a shit, don't give a shit. You can't reach them that way. Plus the main problem with compliance isn't people being selfish, it's poverty and employers who will fire you if you take time off work when you are barely surviving on the wage they pay you.
Attended gsv's nephew's bar mitzvah over the last two days, which was all online and it was nice but I was hoping it would reassure me that my daughter's bat mitzvah this summer, which will basically have to all be online as well, would still be a really great meaningful event, but while lovely it left me feeling sad this is all we'll get. If the synagogue can open as last summer we may get an actually in-synagogue service as well for immediate family, albeit a shortened, less participative one - we'll have to do an online version as well in order to include wider family and friends. Clearly we'll be lucky if we can have even one other family over for a celebration at anyone's house, although I am inclined, if both our parents have had their second vaccination by then, to have a Shabbat dinner with both sets of grandparents whatever the fucking rules say. In theory they should have that 2 months before, but I am convinced now the government will felch it and there won't be a 2nd dose in time for them and millions of others.
Attended gsv's nephew's bar mitzvah over the last two days, which was all online and it was nice but I was hoping it would reassure me that my daughter's bat mitzvah this summer, which will basically have to all be online as well, would still be a really great meaningful event, but while lovely it left me feeling sad this is all we'll get. If the synagogue can open as last summer we may get an actually in-synagogue service as well for immediate family, albeit a shortened, less participative one - we'll have to do an online version as well in order to include wider family and friends. Clearly we'll be lucky if we can have even one other family over for a celebration at anyone's house, although I am inclined, if both our parents have had their second vaccination by then, to have a Shabbat dinner with both sets of grandparents whatever the fucking rules say. In theory they should have that 2 months before, but I am convinced now the government will felch it and there won't be a 2nd dose in time for them and millions of others.
Agree with all that. I've also been taking the ubiquitous dictat radio messages a bit too personly and frequently tell it to fuck off.
Another one that really grates is the smug gym bunny personal trainer sounding types that keep telling you to get out get some exercise, mental health is important, yeah?, "and don't forget to breathe." TO a backing of generic bland gym-techno dross.
Shutthefuckup!
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Yeh see your point, but I tend to look at things like that and decide they're aimed at the covid deniers. Not aimed at me so doesn't bother me because I'd never say to anyone that the risk isn't real.
Will catch up with this thread properly soon 
-- but I do hope that everyone is dealing with their personal consequences as well as they can
Latest and astonishing thing for me!!
My CS Employer very recently (and ultra-suddenly -- late-ish on Wednesday) compelled ALL employees to fill in a self-assessement questionnaire for their current health -- deadline was Friday (22nd)!
You were given points for each Covid-related negative health indicator to which you answered 'Yes' ...
A bit surprisingly, given that I'm over 50 and also technically in a (non-extreme) vulnerable category, I scored a mere three points!
If you scored seven or more points, you'd have been sent home from this coming Monday (25th) either to work at home, or if such not possible
, to be put back on CS Special Leave.
Relieved really that I scored so low ... but I'm still unconvinced.
Rules at our workplace are actually pretty safe and distancing focussed, BUT!
Apparantly the requirement to re-do the test (I last answered a very simiilar questionnaire immediately prior to me returning to work in August), was due to tightened rules about work for vulnerable-ish people issued by the Welsh Government (and also, see next post, by the UK Government).
-- but I do hope that everyone is dealing with their personal consequences as well as they can Latest and astonishing thing for me!!
My CS Employer very recently (and ultra-suddenly -- late-ish on Wednesday) compelled ALL employees to fill in a self-assessement questionnaire for their current health -- deadline was Friday (22nd)!
You were given points for each Covid-related negative health indicator to which you answered 'Yes' ...
A bit surprisingly, given that I'm over 50 and also technically in a (non-extreme) vulnerable category, I scored a mere three points!
If you scored seven or more points, you'd have been sent home from this coming Monday (25th) either to work at home, or if such not possible
, to be put back on CS Special Leave.Relieved really that I scored so low ... but I'm still unconvinced.
Rules at our workplace are actually pretty safe and distancing focussed, BUT!
Apparantly the requirement to re-do the test (I last answered a very simiilar questionnaire immediately prior to me returning to work in August), was due to tightened rules about work for vulnerable-ish people issued by the Welsh Government (and also, see next post, by the UK Government).
One boss at my Employer said:
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Mark Serwotka said:
Voley
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Fucking hell mate. If that's right, they've treated you abysmally.
Fucking hell mate. If that's right, they've treated you abysmally.
Voley
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