Pandemic personal consequences
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two sheds
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Mate took me for booster on Thursday I realized just before he's not been vaccinated (medical reasons), he turned up with nephew in car neither masked which I found a bit concerning with schools being breeding grounds. I had good mask on and window open all the way so I've been going round sniffing things.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
To proffer an alternative view, I doubt I’d bother doing all that if I was living with someone with Covid. Would assume I was going to get it anyway, through breathing the same air in the house, rather than surfaces, so wouldn’t eat with them or watch tv with them, but nothing more than that. But I have a healthy immune system and am not particularly anxious about it, so wouldn’t want to suggest anyone SHOULD think this way.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Aye, probably pointless but can't hurt being careful until there's no need to be is how I look at it
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Her younger sister has had it a few days apparently so it's more likely to have come from her. But it doesn't matter much does it
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
TBF the younger sister has either has symptoms or was tested before your son tested positive - doesn't mean she actually got it first.
I'm not big in the blame game for communicable diseases where everyone's equally likely to get it and you can't realistically chase the line down, especially when it can be communicated without any symptoms. But refusing a vaccine does change the game a bit.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
It's the unpredictable nature of it that's always scared me. Some don't get it, some get it but don't get ill, some die. I've done everything I could have to be careful. He sure picked a terrible year to discover being sociable
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Sorry if this is picking up on a relatively minor point in all this, but it sounds like the least stressful thing would be for you to have your own towel, and for you to wipe down, etc. Model it. It won't help the feeling that others aren't being considerate, but at least you'd be doing what you can..?
Or didn't have symptoms. We've had it twice in my household, multiple times in my team (small office) and continually in my school and I've never had any symptoms, but I must have had it.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Do this already with towels. He's being very sensible and good-natured about it all to be fair to him, I'm proud of his reaction.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Mrs SI shivery, achy, chesty, heavy, everything tastes metallic.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Weirdly, given how scared of this I've been, I'm chill. I think it's cos Mra SI is clearly worried about The Boy (who has started coughing) abd her own wheeziness so I'm suddenly in the role of Mr Decent-In-A-Crisis, telling her we've done our best throughout and we'll keeping doing our best whatever stage we find ourselves at.
It's like that feeling when you're scared of flying until you're 1000 feet in the air and there's fuck all to be done, you just have to sit back and let shit occur.
It's like that feeling when you're scared of flying until you're 1000 feet in the air and there's fuck all to be done, you just have to sit back and let shit occur.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Negatives all round. Surprised Mrs SI isn't positive, but I guess we've a way to go yet until The Boy is better. Slept badly, just kept checking my phone. And now I have to go to work!
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Who are you quoting?
bimble
floofy
Not really personal because i stopped going to my fervently anti-vax anti-masks next door neighbour's yoga classes early last year but i'm still in his whatsapp and the state of it right now is like this, a lot.
and these are the ones who actually do tests and inform people that they're not well. I do wonder if the rest of them are happy to keep turning up, seems so. 
and these are the ones who actually do tests and inform people that they're not well. I do wonder if the rest of them are happy to keep turning up, seems so.
bimble
floofy
i haven't felt the need to join in with that whatsapp group since the day i posted a link showing that the anti vaxxer he was promoting had sadly been arrested for storming the Capitol for Trump.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Face-to-face staff meeting today. Me and the boss were the only masked people. Everyone else maskless and sitting close to each other. I hung back and sat way away at a sofa despite being invited to sit down at the table.
Employer policy hasn’t changed. Need to raise this as a serious issue.
Employer policy hasn’t changed. Need to raise this as a serious issue.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
You've quoted me out of context and completely changed what I was saying.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Me, but removed from context so he can pretend I was saying something I wasn't. (I was talking very specifically about a boy and his girlfriend and the girlfriend's younger sister, all of whom are equally likely to have been the first ones in the chain to get ill, not claiming that behaviour doesn't affect transmission).
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
He's being an arsehole at the moment. Ignore him.
We did a LTF test which came back negative (after the first PCR test) and as we are feeling OK, we are assuming we don't have Covid and are off to the wood this weekend (although we will be outside the whole time). Daughter and grand-daughter OK too so we are getting into celebratory new grandchild mode (and my knitting needles are on fire). Thank you for asking, Cloo - very kind and thoughtful.
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