I agree it's a positive thing particularly for people living alone. Communities are far too insular and this is one way even for five minutes or so they feel connected. It isn't doing any harm and if people don't want to do it they can stay indoors. It reminds me of the Poznan a few years ago. It looked great, was a laugh and got the atmosphere going. Then some miserable sods decided it wasn't cool anymore and it died out.
Its 100% a community thing for us now. This and the VE Day socially distanced front “garden” picnic have done more for our neighbourhood than anything else, Covid or no Covid. We’re already planning a post Covid party.
It’s one major positive form this period that should be ongoing for us.
Hopefully people are a bit nicer and more community minded from now, though I fear it will fade away.
Yeah, you’re probably right, although we have learnt each other’s names at least, so there might be some empathy displayed down the line.
It's a start. I just realised I don't know the name of any of the people I speak to at the match every other week, lol!
Me too! The guy next but one being a semi pro golfer in his sixties is going to be either dead or frustrated he isn’t swinging his clubs.
It wasn't me, it was my next door neighbour and I only found out about it after the event. She's 78 herself and presumably didn't want to waste precious resources - I don't know really. But yes I would have phone for an ambulance.Baffles me more that you didn’t just phone an ambulance.
Unless it’s an antibody test I don’t see the point, you go down without symptoms and the test comes back negative in 3 days but in that time period you could get it! Or the test comes back positive and you should’ve been isolating in that time but haven’t so possibly passed it on!Off for a test at the Etihad this morning, been near my auntie (regular exercise with someone outside the household as per the new rules, kept our distance) and she's tested positive got the results back last night.
I'm almost certain I've had it back in March but need to be sure for my work.
Good luck hope your clear, I had a test last Saturday got the results Sunday impressed with the turn round time, did the track and tracers get you or was it something you sorted yourself?Off for a test at the Etihad this morning, been near my auntie (regular exercise with someone outside the household as per the new rules, kept our distance) and she's tested positive got the results back last night.
I'm almost certain I've had it back in March but need to be sure for my work.
Something we sorted ourselves. Yeah she got tested Thursday and found out last night, so the turnaround is really good.Good luck hope your clear, I had a test last Saturday got the results Sunday impressed with the turn round time, did the track and tracers get you or was it something you sorted yourself?
Unless it’s an antibody test I don’t see the point, you go down without symptoms and the test comes back negative in 3 days but in that time period you could get it! Or the test comes back positive and you should’ve been isolating in that time but haven’t so possibly passed it on!
Centre I went too was one of the army pop up ones drive thru but test self administeredSomething we sorted ourselves. Yeah she got tested Thursday and found out last night, so the turnaround is really good.
My original message missed out that my auntie was walking with a family member in the same household (I was tired this morning). So my contact has been indirect but it makes sense to know we're safe.
Test was very uncomfortable but the staff there were great.
It's a start. I just realised I don't know the name of any of the people I speak to at the match every other week, lol!
Frighteningly so.watched this. uncanny.
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Yes there is a huge mismatch between fatality rates and antibody results. Either the virus is magically selective in who it infects or there is a missing factor somewhere. I'm beginning to doubt the sensitivity of the tests.I think that there's a problem in how immunity has been discussed.
We are assuming that if you have beaten off nCov you have produced antibodies to it, but what if you had it asymptomatically, or had a mild version? Perhaps the body's innate non-specific system is strong enough in many cases to resist infection. If that is the cases then these measurements of antibodies are actually massively understating the infection rate and they understate the population immunity.
In the UK the maximum levels of antibody prevalence are in London but they are at 17% according to the serological surveys. That's a long way from herd immunity but what if many other Londoners beat it off and never produced antibodies in doing so?
If you look at some of the case studies of hot-spots e.g. Germany, they derive infection fatality rates of around 0.25% (Heinsberg study derived 0.37% but authors believe it's overstated) which means you can derive a prevalence of the illness from a country's excess mortality. If you do that, you get a massive mis-match between antibody measurements and cases which makes me think that innate immunity plays a big part.
Obviously there is more to it than just immunity. R0 is also impacted by lockdowns, and seasonality.
Take this as a football fans comments on immunology and Covid19, but everybody must have an opinion on this matter as it influences so much of our lives.
One explanation is that the virus is quite mild and is fought off by healthy young individuals using existing immunity, these individuals are the asymptomatic cases and can’t be detected by the antibody test because they don’t need to develop antibodies to fight the virus off. This is why it has killed the frail and elderly who have compromised immune systems and left the young and healthy largely unaffected.Yes there is a huge mismatch between fatality rates and antibody results. Either the virus is magically selective in who it infects or there is a missing factor somewhere. I'm beginning to doubt the sensitivity of the tests.