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miss direct said:
Mum is up and down -still having symptoms and feeling pretty rotten. She says her isolation ends on Saturday night and is planning to go to choir on Sunday - does she not need to completely recover and have a negative test first?
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She doesn’t need a negative test becsuse she could continue to test positive for a while after. What symptoms does she have? If she still has a fever she shouldn’t go anywhere but most importantly she needs to be aware that she could feel rotten for a while and needs to let her body recover.
 
Edie said:
Why do you now have to book a slot at the dump a week in advance because of ‘covid’ :confused: Had to stop cutting my hedge cos I can’t get rid of the bits. This is a trivial pandemic consequence I grant you.
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Leeds council seem to make it as hard as possible to take stuff to the tip! If it's hedge/garden stuff you can book them to collect it though. Then just fly tip it in your front garden until they come Edie? Or alternatively come and dump anything for the tip in the streets around me in Harehills, that's what everyone else seems to do!
 
Brother in laws tested positive for covid, everyone but kids double jabbed so hopefully ok.

Mostly concerned for my ma, she’s over there looking after kids a lot and it’s fucked all her plans up for a fortnight including the first face to face scrabble club for like 18 months.
 
Last thursday - family funeral with wake. Today my mum has tested positve on lateral flow. Her symptoms started yesterday.

I’m off home to isolate with her for the next 10 days or whatever it is that’s required. Fingers crossed I can avoid catching it from her this week while she’s infectious. I’m a bit nervous tbh.
 
Helpfully enough, after my having a nervous breakdown, my psychotherapist then got the covid and has been in hospital after the first week and is still there :hmm: I am fairly convinced these are unconnected events and she isn't trying to avoid me. (I am actually really concerned about her, but I'm not going to pretend it isn't really awkward for me as well.)
 
Work is making noises about people coming back to the office. So far they haven't suggested I go back.

I go in as and when necessary, which is normally once a week. As long as my hours and billing stay good, I can't see that they'd want me to go back.

My direct manager does have an inflexible attitude and is the type to insist I go back because everyone must go back, whether or not it would help my work. Fortunately she's scared of me and never speaks to me
 
Oh FFS. I’ve now been told to isolate for 8 days by the covid app.

Anyone know what the range of days are for when this unknown contact actually happened? This is a separate contact to the one I was already isolating for!!!
 
Supine said:
Oh FFS. I’ve now been told to isolate for 8 days by the covid app.

Anyone know what the range of days are for when this unknown contact actually happened? This is a separate contact to the one I was already isolating for!!!
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Go to settings and it will tell you the date of contact.
 
miss direct said:
Mum is up and down -still having symptoms and feeling pretty rotten. She says her isolation ends on Saturday night and is planning to go to choir on Sunday - does she not need to completely recover and have a negative test first?
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You probably know this already but the official line following a postive PCR test is:

When to stop self-isolating​

You can stop self-isolating after the 10 days if either:

  • you do not have any symptoms
  • you just have a cough or changes to your sense of smell or taste – these can last for weeks after the infection has gone

When to keep self-isolating​

Keep self-isolating if you have any of these symptoms after the 10 days:

  • a high temperature or feeling hot and shivery
  • a runny nose or sneezing
  • feeling or being sick
  • diarrhoea
Only stop self-isolating when these symptoms have gone.

If you have diarrhoea or you're being sick, stay at home until 48 hours after they've stopped.
 
Had a haircut today for the first time since last February. The barber put on a mask and sat me on the chair nearest the (open) door, which encourages me to go back there.

Some barbers round here are just virus dens tbh - loads of people sitting in a small space chatting, no masks no ventilation. ETA: generally they were like that before it was legal.
 
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FridgeMagnet said:
Had a haircut today for the first time since last February. The barber put on a mask and sat me on the chair nearest the (open) door, which encourages me to go back there.

Some barbers round here are just virus dens tbh - loads of people sitting in a small space chatting, no masks no ventilation. ETA: generally they were like that before it was legal.
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Mainly why I’ve not gone, they behaved themselves a wee bit in August last year so I risked it but I just haven’t trusted them this year.

It’s fine, now I’ve a ponytail again - just wasn’t expecting to after mid-30s.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Had a haircut today for the first time since last February. The barber put on a mask and sat me on the chair nearest the (open) door, which encourages me to go back there.

Some barbers round here are just virus dens tbh - loads of people sitting in a small space chatting, no masks no ventilation. ETA: generally they were like that before it was legal.
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I also had my haircut yesterday. for the first time since rules were relaxed.

It's only a one man operation and I also sat near to the open door. One customer leaving as I arrived and another who came in midway through my haircut.

My barber has now reverted to not wearing a mask after wearing one while it was mandated - that felt a little weird at first, but I soon got used to it.

I suspect I'm a bit more used to being around small groups of unmasked people than you through work, but glad you're encouraged to go back again.
 
Spare a thought for my neighbour. He took last week off work to help prepare for our village festival. He's not one of the organisers - he just wanted to help out. Thursday night, just before the festival started, his wife got an ambiguous lateral flow, that could have been positive if you squinted at it.

So he missed the whole festival. Her PCR came back negative late on Saturday night just as the festival was in its final hours.

He was on site on Sunday morning to help with the clear up
 
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Youngest Q started learning to drive on her 17th birthday back in 2019 and has had to pause it for months at a time due to CoVID. Her instructor told her to book her practical test yesterday and that it could be up to a month rather than the usual two weeks pre-pandemic. Clearly his information is somewhat out of date. There are no test dates available at all at any of the nearby driving centres and it looks like it could be 17-18 weeks before she can get a test.
She goes off to Uni in about half that so she either has to book a test here and hope she can come back for it (a 3 hour train ride) or see if she can book a test somewhere completely unfamiliar plus some lessons so she can get a car to take it in.
My baby girl is not a happy bunny at the moment.
 
MickiQ said:
Youngest Q started learning to drive on her 17th birthday back in 2019 and has had to pause it for months at a time due to CoVID. Her instructor told her to book her practical test yesterday and that it could be up to a month rather than the usual two weeks pre-pandemic. Clearly his information is somewhat out of date. There are no test dates available at all at any of the nearby driving centres and it looks like it could be 17-18 weeks before she can get a test.
She goes off to Uni in about half that so she either has to book a test here and hope she can come back for it (a 3 hour train ride) or see if she can book a test somewhere completely unfamiliar plus some lessons so she can get a car to take it in.
My baby girl is not a happy bunny at the moment.
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My lad was in same position last year in Leeds (and bloody desperate to drive as him and his mates are boy racers). The local test centre released new dates every so often and if you were on it first thing you could grab one at short notice. Might be worth asking for your lass?

in addition he needed to drive for his apprenticeship starting next month
 
Edie said:
My lad was in same position last year in Leeds (and bloody desperate to drive as him and his mates are boy racers). The local test centre released new dates every so often and if you were on it first thing you could grab one at short notice. Might be worth asking for your lass?

in addition he needed to drive for his apprenticeship starting next month
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Cheers Edie, I will tell her, she will probably be on it crack of dawn everyday from now on.
 
rubbershoes said:
Spare a thought for my neighbour. He took last week off work to help prepare for our village festival. He's not one of the organisers - he just wanted to help out. Thursday night, just before the festival started, his wife got an ambiguous lateral flow, that could have been positive if you squinted at it.

So he missed the whole festival. Her PCR came back negative late on Saturday night just as the festival was in it's final hours.

He was on site on Sunday morning to help with the clear up
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What a very decent chap!
 
I'm wondering if I'm being a bit too cautious and could go out more - I'm holding back a bit as I'd really like to make our holiday a just over a fortnight, but I'm seeing other mates off at shows and pubs all the time and my parents have been at concerts and opera. Son is biggest risk vector right now due to summer camp though.

We were going to an outdoor cinema showing tomorrow but it's been cancelled so I was a bit disappointed, but might just go to a pub as we haven't just been for a drink for a while. Shame most of our mates live so far away, it would be nice to meet up with someone as well.
 
Had our second round of Covid 2021 Study tests this afternoon, following letters for all four of us with last week's results (all negative). Vouchers should be coming in a couple of weeks. I can't remember how long Mrs SI said this goes on for but I think it's quite a while. Two different ladies have come to the door to do it, both very organised and lovely
 
I am really very cross indeed.

I'm self-isolating because a housemate has symptoms and two positive antigen tests. That can't be helped.

But their partner, who also lives here, just returned home from a test centre with several bags of shopping. They went for a PCR test and then immediately went grocery shopping, in person, and were surprised at the idea that they should have come straight home and ordered whatever online.

We are doomed.
 
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