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Thanks , since march and this covid crap i have had a six week course and this is my second five day course , fourth lot of antibiotics , i am so over this
Hang in their Karen; there's mounting evidence that the effects of Long Covid do dissipate over time with those recovery times pendant upon how bad you got it and unfortunately it seems to be more prevalent in women between 50-60 but at least the data is showing recoveries - there was a good piece on it on News night I believe last night

Be lucky!
 
Regional scotreboard is better news today for North West

London 1718 - up slightly from 1646

Midlands 2180 - up more significantly from 1694.

North East 1393 - down quite a bit from 1888

Yorkshire 2745 - down slightly from 2861



North West (now on a staggering 176, 185 cases by the way - far ahead of anywhere else - only Yorkshire has just crept over 100K)

Fell to 3950 from 4531.

This was the first sub 4000 number in a week. Three days of which were over 5000.
 
Unfortunately Greater Manchester still ended up with its highest % of the NW in a while at 48%.

Whilst its number fell by nearly 200 to be 1898 - the first sub 2000 total in 5 days - it still increased the proportion as Merseyside seems to be heading in the right direction and had further to drop.

GM also still (just) had 4 boroughs at 200 and above although nearly everywhere fell day to day. Bury came good with lowest number in GM in a few days but it was still well over 100.
 
The chief scientist advising the French government has said this second wave is spreading faster than the first around Europe. Have we just let down our guard? Is it because our restrictions now are less severe than in the early days? Is the virus more infective but less deadly perhaps? Or all three.
A bit of everything mate.

Governments can’t keep their economies halted so feel they have to relax or have less severe restrictions in place, people need to be in work and earning money, businesses need to be turning over money, school pupils and university students need teaching, people are selfish and will not abide by rules if they think they can get away with not doing or know they’re impossible to police, people also get into lazy habits and stop washing hands/don’t wear masks when they should...

There’s no winning situation in this. We can limit death numbers by hammering the restrictions again but ruin/collapse the economy; or we can get the economy going but suffer more deaths.

The balance between the two things is impossible to get right.
 
Other news today:

Birmingham rose again to 507 - it is the biggest riser over the past week so West Midlands may yet change tiers.

This was the most today. Manchester - despite falling - was above Liverpool again which has fallen steadily in the past few days and was under 300 for first time since I have been tracking it daily.

Bradford at 307 - though itself well down - was higher than Liverpool today.

Knowsley also continued its better numbers - though only dropping from 107 to 106. And at 3625 it is still top of the Pops(cores).

Blackburn though - which has been running high all week - is in the 3400s at 3427 and could take that lead sooner or later.

Nottingham was down for the fifth straight day to 203 but looks likely to pass into the 3000 club tomorrow.

Burnley and Rossendale were both up too and Bacup (a ward in Rossendale) is in the top 50 worst in the country on the recent data numbers I saw in a list today. Aliong with multiple GM wards.

Will keep my eye on here and Warringtom now it is in tier 3. It has 4792 cases - less cases than any town in GM, And a Pop Score of 2282 - which is lower than everyone in GM but Trafford and Stockport. It had 79 cases today. and its Pop score went up 38 - lower than any place in GM has done for some time in one day.
 
Will post the full GM scoreboard later. Nothing dramatic really in there today. Though Rochdale had a better day.
 
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A bit of everything mate.

Governments can’t keep their economies halted so feel they have to relax or have less severe restrictions in place, people need to be in work and earning money, businesses need to be turning over money, school pupils and university students need teaching, people are selfish and will not abide by rules if they think they can get away with not doing or know they’re impossible to police, people also get into lazy habits and stop washing hands/don’t wear masks when they should...

There’s no winning situation in this. We can limit death numbers by hammering the restrictions again but ruin/collapse the economy; or we can get the economy going but suffer more deaths.

The balance between the two things is impossible to get right.
The numbers were looking good in June/July... trickling down to 1-2 deaths a day and 250 cases (clearly more cases existed though)... it was within the UK’s grasp to become similar to NZ (absolutely no restrictions or covid in country, no visitors from abroad, 14 day hotel enforced quarantine for NZ returnees), but ‘we’ didn’t.

‘we’ didn’t, lock our borders to anything but commerce.
‘We’ didn’t, enforce 14 day quarantine for returnees.
‘We’ decided the weather was nice and it was party/beach/social time and everything was fine because the numbers were low...what could possibly go wrong.

the 1st 2 exacerbated the 3rd.

And here we are, a divided nation, with ‘some’ partying, ‘some’ believing we’re turning into a fascist state, ‘some’ disbelieving that people are partying... and essentially ‘we’ are fucked - mentally, economically and healthwise.


marvellous. :-(
 
A bit of everything mate.

Governments can’t keep their economies halted so feel they have to relax or have less severe restrictions in place, people need to be in work and earning money, businesses need to be turning over money, school pupils and university students need teaching, people are selfish and will not abide by rules if they think they can get away with not doing or know they’re impossible to police, people also get into lazy habits and stop washing hands/don’t wear masks when they should...

There’s no winning situation in this. We can limit death numbers by hammering the restrictions again but ruin/collapse the economy; or we can get the economy going but suffer more deaths.

The balance between the two things is impossible to get right.
Pretty much sums it up. Whilst I have no problem in slating the Govt for their errors people need to bear in mind the tightrope the Govt are treading. Really are dammed if they do or dammed if they don't
 
GM scoreboard:

Manchester 312 - down from 342. 17, 075 cases. 2737 in week. Pop score up 54 to 3086. Weekly Pop 492.

Wigan 278 - down from 326. 8195 cases. 1906 in week. By miles a record here. Pop score up 84 to 2493. Weekly Pop 579.

Oldham 232 - UP from 180. 7638 cases. 1414 in week. Pop score up 98 to enter 3200 club at 3221. Worst in GM,. Weekly Pop 596.

Bolton 200 - well down from 276. 8559 cases. 1566 in week. Pop score up 70 to 2977. 3000 club awaits tomorrow.
Weekly Pop 545,

Salford 177 - down from 186. 6854 cases. 1463 in week. Pop score up 68 to enter 2600 club at 2648. Weekly Pop 565.

Tameside 156 - up from 144. 5682 cases. 1028 in week. Pop score up 69 to enter 2500 club at 2509. Weekly Pop 454.

Stockport 144 - down from 145. 5631 cases. 1058 in week. Pop score up 49 to enter 1900 club at 1919. Lowest rise in GM today. But there will be no GM boroughs not in the 2000 or 3000 clubs this weekend it seems. Weekly Pop 361. Lowest in GM but rising.

Trafford 140 - up from 128. 5059 cases. 939 in week. Best in GM. Pop score up 59 to enter 2100 club at 2131 meaning it is now 212 behind Stockport and less and less likely to overtake it any time soon. Weekly Pop 395. Rising like Stockport and looks likely to be above 400 any day now.

Rochdale 135 - down from 198. No I did not miss it out! Big surprise. 6766 cases. 1334 in week. Pop score up 61 to un such a good day for the town become the third in GM into the 3000s. Though Bolton will make it 4 tomorrow it seems. Weekly Pop 600 - cruel luck to cross that threshold as worst in GM and first in here lately on same day.

Bury 124 - well down from 165 and under control by modern GM standards. 5231 cases. 978 in week. Pop score up 65 to enter 2700 club at 2739. Weekly Pop 512

Weekly GM Pop Scores (Lowest is best) The top 10 worst in UK was posted by me earlier today if you want tio compare. Everywhere in GM is in watch. Anywhere over 450 can usually make the top 10. Though there is more competition these days so that number is heading to 500.

Rochdale 600, Oldham 596, Wigan 579, Salford 565, Bolton 545, Bury 512, Manchester 492, Tameside 454, Trafford 395, Stockport 361
 
Hang in their Karen; there's mounting evidence that the effects of Long Covid do dissipate over time with those recovery times pendant upon how bad you got it and unfortunately it seems to be more prevalent in women between 50-60 but at least the data is showing recoveries - there was a good piece on it on News night I believe last night

Be lucky!
Thanks lovely
 
From your posts you're over the road?

I've worked in many CS buildings over the years has had my wife, for example there was a time a few years ago where 4 staff all had blood cancer in Phoenix at the same time, just on the DWP floors.
Yeah. I've only worked there since I moved to Oldham April 19. Prior to that I was at the Bury and Prestwich offices and spent a bit of time at ACAS and Fountain St offices in Manchester too.
I'm possibly moving to Phoenix House in the next few weeks.
I'll raise what you say with the Union.....thanks very much for the info
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How do the scores add up ?
I was tested in Trafford but my wife in Swinton. Would they both register Trafford after track and trace as that’s where we live or one each depending on where the test was taken ?
Just interested .
 
Yeah. I've only worked there since I moved to Oldham April 19. Prior to that I was at the Bury and Prestwich offices and spent a bit of time at ACAS and Fountain St offices in Manchester too.
I'm possibly moving to Phoenix House in the next few weeks.
I'll raise what you say with the Union.....thanks very much for the info
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I was around the 4 Oldham offices, only 2 left, Aytoun St, Newton Heath, Tameside & Stockport for 30 odd years until I snapped up a package at 51 with a full pension, thank God for Government pilots having to work which gave me an opening to get out of fraud.

The cancers were all blood related....which is rarer in younger & early middle aged people. It did make me wonder about the water as there was an open tank on the roof allegedly.

Take care.
 
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