Pandemic personal consequences

[Cloo]

With the bat mitzvah coming up next month I'm basically sticking my fingers in my ears and going 'LALALALA!' at articles about variants and 'worrying' figures

But I guess, on our purely selfish event level, we wouldnt have been able to have it if Monday's changes weren't in the offing, but if their easing causes immediate issues, we're just in the same place as if they hadn't happened. But with less money than if, say, they'd decided to hold off until July.

 

[crossthebreeze]

My girlfriend has to have a pcr test as last week she had a meal at a bar where a member of staff has tested positive for the Indian Covid variant. She - and the friends she'd been with - found out because I follow the local paper on Facebook, not because of the NHS Covid app or Test & Trace, despite her and her friends all signing in on the app and the table booking being made with her name and phone number.

So, a member of staff got a positive result for Covid 19 on May 3rd. The bar has been temporarily closed since then, as all staff considered contacts, and 8 cases have since been identified linked to the bar, including 1 case which has been identified as the Indian variant. The Director of North Tyneside Public Health made the announcement on 12th May that customers who had been to the bar between April 23rd and May 3rd should take a PCR test (but did not have to isolate unless testing positive), and this was covered by local media. My girlfriend had been to the bar on 29th April, and has heard nothing through the NHS app, and has not been contacted by National Test & Trace, or local Public Health. She took a PCR test this morning. It seems like something is very wrong with the test & trace system still.

 

[miss direct]

For the last few days I've periodically had this feeling like my throat has constricted and I struggle to breathe. I use my inhaler and it goes away. But happened a few times today. Is this a covid symptom or just an asthma thing? Should I take a lateral flow test?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Is this a covid symptom or just an asthma thing? Should I take a lateral flow test?

subject to the disclaimer that i have no medical qualifications whatsoever, if you're not coughing / got high temperature or any of the other standard covid symptoms, it sounds more like an asthma thing, but taking a covid test (now they are suggesting that people without obvious symptoms can have them) isn't going to do you any harm...

 

[cupid_stunt]

For the last few days I've periodically had this feeling like my throat has constricted and I struggle to breathe. I use my inhaler and it goes away. But happened a few times today. Is this a covid symptom or just an asthma thing? Should I take a lateral flow test?

Always worth doing a lateral flow test, the kits are free from some local pharmacies - check your local council website for availability, or order online, when I did, they turned up the next day.

I've been using them, because I've been taking a mate to a number of hospital appointments recently, and being in the hospitals have probably been the highest risk I've exposed myself too since the start of all this shit.

Order COVID-19 rapid lateral flow tests

You can no longer order free PCR tests from the NHS.

www.gov.uk

 

[miss direct]

As I already had a pack, I've done a test. Just waiting for result but only one line so far.

 

[quiet guy]

For the last few days I've periodically had this feeling like my throat has constricted and I struggle to breathe. I use my inhaler and it goes away. But happened a few times today. Is this a covid symptom or just an asthma thing? Should I take a lateral flow test?

There a lot of pollen in the air now especially with the Rape seed plants being in full flower around the South Yorkshire/ north Derbyshire area.

 

[miss direct]

I've never been affected by pollen before, but I suppose I also haven't spent a spring in the UK since I was 25...

Test was negative, which was reassuring. Impossible to swab tonsils without touching tongue though.

 

[sideboob]

State of Emergency is broadening across Japan. My prefecture is finally in it`s first SOE starting today, nothing seems to have changed though. So as I watch various areas of the world starting to improve, I sit back and watch the shitshow that is Japans handling of Covid19.

 

[elbows]

State of Emergency is broadening across Japan. My prefecture is finally in it`s first SOE starting today, nothing seems to have changed though. So as I watch various areas of the world starting to improve, I sit back and watch the shitshow that is Japans handling of Covid19.

Its mostly been true to expected form there hasnt it, tragically? The establishment in Japan has its own particular version of bullshit and lip-service and contradictions. I know from trying to follow the Fukushima nuclear disaster that the press there can struggle to get beyond deference towards authorities and leaves giant holes where vital questions should have been asked, but that there were moments where they mananged to venture beyond that narrow comfort zone. Hows that side of things been in the pandemic so far?

 

[sideboob]

I

Its mostly been true to expected form there hasnt it, tragically? The establishment in Japan has its own particular version of bullshit and lip-service and contradictions. I know from trying to follow the Fukushima nuclear disaster that the press there can struggle to get beyond deference towards authorities and leaves giant holes where vital questions should have been asked, but that there were moments where they mananged to venture beyond that narrow comfort zone. Hows that side of things been in the pandemic so far?

I`m glad that you brought up Fukushima, the whole covid situation seems very similar. After Fukushima and the tsunami a lot of information and footage was either censored or just ignored by the mainstream media. It`s the same scenario all over again, trying to (and successfuly) maintaining the peace. After Fukushima they downplayed and restricted journalists access in order to go ahead with the WTC, World Trials Championship for you non-motorcycle geeks. It stinks of the same now, going ahead with the Olympics while Covid cases are at an all time high.
As always, thanks for your contributions elbows

 

[Orang Utan]

Shit day at work with rude people who do not read newspapers thinking that everything is fine now and we can do everything for them like we did before. Got told I was obnoxious for explaining the rules, and reacted badly to it. Still feeling shaky and angry and hating people and it’s only fucking Monday.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I

I`m glad that you brought up Fukushima, the whole covid situation seems very similar. After Fukushima and the tsunami a lot of information and footage was either censored or just ignored by the mainstream media. It`s the same scenario all over again, trying to (and successfuly) maintaining the peace. After Fukushima they downplayed and restricted journalists access in order to go ahead with the WTC, World Trials Championship for you non-motorcycle geeks. It stinks of the same now, going ahead with the Olympics while Covid cases are at an all time high.
As always, thanks for your contributions elbows

This was particularly shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

the press there can struggle to get beyond deference towards authorities and leaves giant holes where vital questions should have been asked

Sounds familiar <hollow laugh>

 

[elbows]

Sounds familiar <hollow laugh>

If you think its bad here, which it is, they take it to another level in Japan

 

[dessiato]

New problem for me.

As I've said elsewhere, on Thursday last week Mother went for a check. She became jaundiced after the second vaccine. Thursday night we were told she had terminal cancer, and only days to live.

Where I live had a massive spike so we were confined to the town.

As a result, I can't get home before next week to see her. Paperwork. Vaccine certificates.

 

[Boudicca]

New problem for me.

As I've said elsewhere, on Thursday last week Mother went for a check. She became jaundiced after the second vaccine. Thursday night we were told she had terminal cancer, and only days to live.

Where I live had a massive spike so we were confined to the town.

As a result, I can't get home before next week to see her. Paperwork. Vaccine certificates.

Sorry to hear this dessi.

Do they make exceptions for circumstances like yours?

 

[Cloo]

Government says they will announce intentions for 21 June on 14 June, 12 days before the bat mitzvah. That should give us reasonable amount of time to let half our guests know if they can come or not.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Government says they will announce intentions for 21 June on 14 June, 12 days before the bat mitzvah. That should give us reasonable amount of time to let half our guests know if they can come or not.

During this unlock, plans have always been announced a week before the due date.

I hope it's good news for you.

 

[Cloo]

During this unlock, plans have always been announced a week before the due date.

I hope it's good news for you.

I was thinking of it as usually having be a fortnight before, but I guess I'm getting confused with the leaks. As long as it's not going backwards, I'm OK with it, in fact I hope they don't unlock everything as I can't believe it's a good idea just yet.

Bro in law, who is head of public health for a London borough, is convinced Johnson will go ahead and open everything up.

 

[Steel Icarus]

One of my students has come into college to tell us his mum is in hospital, on a COVID ward, with breathing difficulty. I have so much sympathy for him but FFS why did he not know so many months into this thing that coming into college is not sensible?

 

[muscovyduck]

One of my students has come into college to tell us his mum is in hospital, on a COVID ward, with breathing difficulty. I have so much sympathy for him but FFS why did he not know so many months into this thing that coming into college is not sensible?

Someone has probably told him it's fine to go in and he's believed them. Saw something similar happen a few months ago.

 

[Orang Utan]

Shit day at work with rude people who do not read newspapers thinking that everything is fine now and we can do everything for them like we did before. Got told I was obnoxious for explaining the rules, and reacted badly to it. Still feeling shaky and angry and hating people and it’s only fucking Monday.

The next day an older disabled customer came in and told us he’d been in self-isolation for fourteen months and had only spoken to delivery drivers in that time. His voice was so loud and exuberant and chattering at length to anyone who’d listen, but he was so chuffed to be out and about that it made my day and made up for the shitty day before

 

[Steel Icarus]

Someone has probably told him it's fine to go in and he's believed them. Saw something similar happen a few months ago.

He's had his first jab as he's vulnerable. I just gave him some lateral flow tests and sent him home. Now sat here trying not to freak out. I just want all this to be over.

 

[Boudicca]

My friend has just flown in from Jamaica and is doing quarantine at my house. He lives on his own in Jamaica in an area with a lower covid numbers than here. He did a test before he left. I'm not saying he is zero risk, he could have caught it on the journey, but given that I and my other lodger are vaccinated, I'm not too concerned.

My anti-vaxxer lodger (aged 57, could be double jabbed by now) has just turned up in the kitchen wearing a facemask.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

My home internet connection wasn't working this morning so I drove into work. When I got there, I found that they'd been doing all kinds of renovations that I didn't have a clue about. One of them was redigging a sewer line in the office next to mine. There's a giant hole in the middle of the floor about six feet deep, six feet wide by 20 ft. long.

Also, my boss said if I wanted to, I could work from home permanently. My elderly mother is needing more and more help. I could go take care of her and still keep my job in the city.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

...

My anti-vaxxer lodger (aged 57, could be double jabbed by now) has just turned up in the kitchen wearing a facemask.

you're shedding vaccines!!!!!!!!!

 

[bellaozzydog]

I am now a qualified pcr tester and pcr mini lab operator

turnaround 15 minutes

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

My anti-vaxxer lodger (aged 57, could be double jabbed by now) has just turned up in the kitchen wearing a facemask.

It’s almost as if anti vax people are stupid

 

[existentialist]

It’s almost as if anti vax people are stupid

They might be, but the glaring inconsistencies in their views are more, I think, about their conviction that a firmly held belief trumps all science.