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Bit of a curveball at this stage (of general low incidence and having had my vaccination one week ago, so I did feel a bit like being on the home straight), my flatmate announced yesterday that she was running a fever when I came back from the pub...
I'd be really surprised if she had caught covid at this point, given that she is working from home, and is working so ridiculously hard that she only ever pops out for the occasional food shop.
We have had a lateral flow home test this morning and have tested negative, and I must admit quarantining almost seems like overkill now, especially given that in my understanding the lateral flow tests are very good at showing pretty conclusively when it's not covid when a symptomatic person uses them.
Have ordered PCR home tests as well though (due to the enhanced testing in Lambeth I could get one, too), and I will quarantine until her negative result is in all likelihood PCR confirmed.
 
zora said:
Bit of a curveball at this stage (of general low incidence and having had my vaccination one week ago, so I did feel a bit like being on the home straight), my flatmate announced yesterday that she was running a fever when I came back from the pub...
I'd be really surprised if she had caught covid at this point, given that she is working from home, and is working so ridiculously hard that she only ever pops out for the occasional food shop.
We have had a lateral flow home test this morning and have tested negative, and I must admit quarantining almost seems like overkill now, especially given that in my understanding the lateral flow tests are very good at showing pretty conclusively when it's not covid when a symptomatic person uses them.
Have ordered PCR home tests as well though (due to the enhanced testing in Lambeth I could get one, too), and I will quarantine until her negative result is in all likelihood PCR confirmed.
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good luck :thumbs:
 
I went to a pub at lunchtime today - got in at around quarter to one, when there were only a few people there, and sat outside having a beer in my lunch hour which I've not done for a very long time. I had a pint and a half and then thought I'd best go back to work, i.e. the bloody chair in my bloody flat where I sit all bloody week.

It was nice when I was there, sitting in the admittedly chilly air smoking and having a beer and talking to actual people for a bit, but when I got back it just made me realise how very very tired I was. It's not a new thing - at least a few days a week I have a morning or an afternoon where I can basically do nothing, sometimes a whole day, no matter how much I tell myself I need to concentrate and knuckle down and get things done. But a brief respite (and some beer to knock the edge off the emotional restraint which usually keeps me moving) meant I got home and just lay on the bed.

I was going to just go to sleep except a friend of mine who was in the area popped round; I helped her do some stuff, then we talked bollocks for a while, and that was good, but now I'm left with the same feeling of "this will all go back to the same bullshit routine as before". It's not just lockdown, the lockdown just tips the bullshit routine over the edge from "potentially kind of believable that this might be some sort of a life" into "this is all a horrible joke". If I'm honest, the latter feels like it was the truth all the time, it's just really being double underlined now.
 
God, this isolation bites hard. I've been teaching all weekend, and, just like work days, there's a delicious anticipation of being able to clock off, but when that moment arises, it's....nothing. I don't really want to carry on sitting at the PC, I've been for a walk, and then it usually ends up as booze and going to bed as early as I can afford such that I won't wake up at 2, in pretty much the same situation.

Today was improved by a call from a friend whose PC had decided to fall over, so that entertained me for an hour on the phone, but...yeah, 9.30 isn't too early for bed.
 
glitch hiker said:
Not going to lie, I'm not comfortable/ready for things to go back to normal (or as near as dammit).

That's not to say I like pandemics and death of course.
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I think some things, like going to a club (not that I did that much anymore anyway) or the gym are going to wait until next year when we've got through another winter even if I'm vaccinated, as I should be, by late summer. I'm still not worried about catching it in terms of my own health, but I don't fancy going anywhere that's a vector of infection (unventilated, lots of heavy breathing and moving about, and tbh a main demographic that is likely to be among the least cautious about anything) in terms of the possibility of me giving it to someone more vulnerable than my household.
 
souljacker said:
Due to the rules meaning that a hotel resident can still eat inside, I'm currently in a pub.

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Christ. At this point I might even sacrifice seeing people I love to be inside a pub, drinking and listening to Bowie :oops:

Not actually sacrifice them, to be clear, lest you think me a monster. Not unless the pub was going to play all of Low :hmm:
 
Cloo said:
I think some things, like going to a club (not that I did that much anymore anyway) or the gym are going to wait until next year when we've got through another winter even if I'm vaccinated, as I should be, by late summer. I'm still not worried about catching it in terms of my own health, but I don't fancy going anywhere that's a vector of infection (unventilated, lots of heavy breathing and moving about, and tbh a main demographic that is likely to be among the least cautious about anything) in terms of the possibility of me giving it to someone more vulnerable than my household.
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It's ok to be worried about catching it, in terms of your own health, though. Long covid doesn't sound pretty and can affect anyone, however mild the initial infection seems.

(I'm sure you know this. Just belt n braces posting.)
 
A small happy thing, just found out that by chance my first dose of vaccine, next week, is going to be the day after my parents (not in UK) get their first doses. The whole time i've felt that it'd feel crap if I'm done before them, them being in their mid-seventies and all, and am glad of this little coincidence.
 
Very unusally, I had some great news at work today! :thumbs: :cool:

Insanely belatedly, I've officially just been granted all my requested leave for the so-called 'Festival Season' 2021 :cool: :)

The only dates I was denied/refused were for Bearded Theory over the weekend surrounding Saturday 11th September.

Which would have been a total disaster to be disallowed, had not Bearded very recently been put back to late May Bank Holiday weekend, 2022!
</ :( + :) at same time!>

How the fuck I was given various July and August leave requests yet failed on my main September one, confused me big-style, given when school holidays do and don't fall! :eek:

All we1I have to hope now, is that some of the smaller, other festivals we added to our lists, are allowed to go ahead! :)

(I'll be retaining the relevant leave dates around those wekeends anyway! :D )
 
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Getting very pissed off about the fact I'm in a school all day every day with 1200 enthusiastic disease vectors and I'm not even going to be able to book a vaccination any time in the forseeable future. Particularly as the number of people who have decided that we're at 'herd immunity' already and they can do what the fuck they like seems to be rising on a daily basis.
 
Just phoned in sick cos I feel too anxious to do my job - it’s not anxiety about Covid but about being asked to do something not related to my usual job that involves spending all day answering the phone as if I work in a call centre - it is related to the Covid situation though
 
SpookyFrank said:
Getting very pissed off about the fact I'm in a school all day every day with 1200 enthusiastic disease vectors and I'm not even going to be able to book a vaccination any time in the forseeable future.
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Check out if there is a standby list for your area & what the criteria for joining it are. Here in Hackney, there's one for voluntary sector staff, a few people I know got one when there was an unexpected Pfizer delivery at Easter. Other areas have wider criteria & include food workers etc.
 
I am so over everyone being angry and stressed out all the time. Angry drivers close passing me on the bike or aggressively revving behind me. Angry customers at the shop who don't understand why they can't leave their bike with us (because the rest of Edinburgh already has...). Mr W had an angry email exchange with the equally angry letting agent today. Everyone needs a fucking holiday and there isn't one coming anytime soon. The whole situation gives me a headache.
 
Is anyone else kind of feeling they want to go to places and meet people but they just don't know who to ask first or where to go because everywhere seems booked up and you have to sort everything too much in advance and aaaargh....?
 
Cloo said:
Is anyone else kind of feeling they want to go to places and meet people but they just don't know who to ask first or where to go because everywhere seems booked up and you have to sort everything too much in advance and aaaargh....?
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I’m definitely ready to get out there but I’m not putting myself under any pressure.
We’ve booked gardens in a restaurant and a pub for a birthday mid-May that I’m really excited about.
Before that, I’m up for last minute stuff if it’s sunny. I figure we’ll always be able to book somewhere for a drink. If not, there are always beaches and parks.
 
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