Coronavirus (2021) thread

[kevin horlocks wand]

better off deleting it nowadays

my in laws volunteer at Mac hospital and have gone back to helping out again and have been told to turn it off.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

My test and trace app has told me I need to self isolate for 8 days. I literally haven’t been out of the house for weeks apart from Saturday and my missus who is out all the time, and was also with me the last time I did leave the house, hasn’t had the message on her app.

I live opposite a petrol station, the closest house to it, this has to be the GPS thinking I’ve been in contact with someone who has been in there surely?

Has this happened to anyone else?

It’s only “advisory” if you get pinged by the app. It’s compulsory if they actually ring you.

I just deleted it a week ago tbh.

 

[Rammy Blue]

I got pinged by the app this morning, 3 days late considering I’ve been isolating since Sunday….

 

[worsleyweb]

Tim - the guardian?

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Tim - the guardian?

Yes I do despise their “coverage” of City but this seems a fair point. If your Country has handled the pandemic very well, it’s not a case of having to live with the virus (at least for now). After all, part of the reason the Government is abandoning mask wearing in supermarkets and public transport is because of the breakdown in public confidence after the “Shagger” Hancock revelations. That’s up to Hancock IMHO and I just hope hospitals aren’t overwhelmed.

Our Country is in a different situation and we have to gamble to avoid doing very lasting damage to Sectors of the economy.

 

[feelymcfeel]

My test and trace app has told me I need to self isolate for 8 days. I literally haven’t been out of the house for weeks apart from Saturday and my missus who is out all the time, and was also with me the last time I did leave the house, hasn’t had the message on her app.

I live opposite a petrol station, the closest house to it, this has to be the GPS thinking I’ve been in contact with someone who has been in there surely?

Has this happened to anyone else?

Yup. Flagged me as being somewhere where id been in contact with someone when i live alone and hadnt been out for a few days.

Iive in an apartment block so mustve caught a bluetooth through a wall.

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Tim - the guardian?

And New Zealand. A sparsely populated group of islands thousands of miles from anywhere.

Laughable.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

17 year old son just tested positive. Very mild symptoms (slight headache and sniffle). Rest of us are negative, but still isolating for next 10 days. Me and wife double jabbed.

Kids now missing a combination of school, 3 day sailing trip, DofE weekend expedition, School Dance production that’s been worked on for months, Trip to Thorpe park, 7 Cricket games. When we come out of isolation it could happen again a few days later I guess.

This until mid August...and who knows maybe longer.

Kids are distraught, especially 13 year old daughter who’s being invited to watch her mates having fun on the end of a FaceTime.

Fuck off...just fuck off.

 

[west didsblue]

And New Zealand. A sparsely populated group of islands thousands of miles from anywhere.

Laughable.

Yep. Probably better to compare us with other densely populated island groups.
UK - 1879 deaths per million
Philippines - 228 deaths per million
Indonesia - 224 deaths per million
Japan - 118 deaths per million
Taiwan - 30 deaths per million
Most places can learn a lot from the UK - about how not to manage a pandemic on an island nation. We've got the worst figures by far for an island nation, with Ireland in second place which coincidentally shares a land border with the UK.

 

[Paladin]

My test and trace app has told me I need to self isolate for 8 days. I literally haven’t been out of the house for weeks apart from Saturday and my missus who is out all the time, and was also with me the last time I did leave the house, hasn’t had the message on her app.

I live opposite a petrol station, the closest house to it, this has to be the GPS thinking I’ve been in contact with someone who has been in there surely?

Has this happened to anyone else?

Yeah. Last Tuesday, my wife and I received a notification to self-isolate for six days. We weren't allowed out of the house to exercise or even to walk the dog. We were on a short break at the time, the day before were were due to return home anyway.

Four days before, we were in a pub in Worsley, so assume this is where our phone came into contact with the phone of someone who tested positive. Our son was with us though. He has the Covid app, a modern phone, but wasn't asked to self-isolate. Strange. In fact our son goes out quite a lot compared to me and the wife and I'm surprised he hadn't been asked to SI yet.

We're due to go away on 24 July. We'll either stay home before then or else be very careful where we go, in order to not have to cancel this holiday.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Yeah. Last Tuesday, my wife and I received a notification to self-isolate for six days. We weren't allowed out of the house to exercise or even to walk the dog. We were on a short break at the time, the day before were were due to return home anyway.

Four days before, we were in a pub in Worsley, so assume this is where our phone came into contact with the phone of someone who tested positive. Our son was with us though. He has the Covid app, a modern phone, but wasn't asked to self-isolate. Strange. In fact our son goes out quite a lot compared to me and the wife and I'm surprised he hadn't been asked to SI yet.

We're due to go away on 24 July. We'll either stay home before then or else be very careful where we go, in order to not have to cancel this holiday.

Did you check in on the NHS app through your phone and your son didn’t? Happened to me on Sunday and my wife didn’t get a notification, I’ve noticed as well if you look at the times it has you placed in at a venue it doesn’t record it accurately, it had me checked in at two places with times overlapping that were more than a mile apart.

 

[worsleyweb]

17 year old son just tested positive. Very mild symptoms (slight headache and sniffle). Rest of us are negative, but still isolating for next 10 days. Me and wife double jabbed.

Kids now missing a combination of school, 3 day sailing trip, DofE weekend expedition, School Dance production that’s been worked on for months, Trip to Thorpe park, 7 Cricket games. When we come out of isolation it could happen again a few days later I guess.

This until mid August...and who knows maybe longer.

Kids are distraught, especially 13 year old daughter who’s being invited to watch her mates having fun on the end of a FaceTime.

Fuck off...just fuck off.

So shit mate - my lad is isoloating as well and similar missed a 2 day bike ride, sports day etc! Keep smiling somehow

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

And New Zealand. A sparsely populated group of islands thousands of miles from anywhere.

Laughable.

no doubt we could and should have done better but you cant compare us with NZ, which is the least connected developed country in the world.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

So shit mate - my lad is isoloating as well and similar missed a 2 day bike ride, sports day etc! Keep smiling somehow

We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.

She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.

I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.

 

[artfuldodger]

We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.

She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.

I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.

I know the feeling. Mine have lost so much. And that’s without any of us testing positive at any point.

 

[wattle]

We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.

She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.

I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.

Oh mate that's terrible. I had similar situations last year and it's heartbreaking for the kids. My way out of it was to promise amazing things when things open up again - looking at next summer now - 3 holidays instead of 1, all the festivals, football matches they can fit in etc, etc. and just spend all the money saved from doing fuck all for 2/3 years. Give them the best year of their lives. At least that's something.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Did you check in on the NHS app through your phone and your son didn’t? Happened to me on Sunday and my wife didn’t get a notification, I’ve noticed as well if you look at the times it has you placed in at a venue it doesn’t record it accurately, it had me checked in at two places with times overlapping that were more than a mile apart.

There was an expert on the App on breakfast news yesterday who said the check in doesn’t affect the automated track and trace. It’s a bit of a gimmick in that regard.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Oh mate that's terrible. I had similar situations last year and it's heartbreaking for the kids. My way out of it was to promise amazing things when things open up again - looking at next summer now - 3 holidays instead of 1, all the festivals, football matches they can fit in etc, etc. and just spend all the money saved from doing fuck all for 2/3 years. Give them the best year of their lives. At least that's something.

I did that (promised lots of amazing things...you know...the kids had to have patience and understanding so we could be good citizens and get the vulnerable vaccinated!?!?)

A few of them are already cancelled, even though the vulnerable are long since vaccinated...with no end/uncertainty in sight.

Careful what you promise mate.

 

[SWP's back]

Cow is only saying that because NZ have failed in their vaccine roll out.

So they’re just going to cut themselves off from the rest of the world for the rest of time?

 

[west didsblue]

We’re trying mate. It’s hard though when your bright eyed/fun loving 13 year old daughter keeps breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.

She’s 13...and in 18 months has missed ~6 months of schooling, had 4 cancelled holidays, dance shows, sports events, birthdays etc...and I can’t answer why we’re doing it now that the vulnerable (and then some) are either vaccinated or refusing.

I don’t know what the long term repercussions of this are, but we’re fucking with our kids minds here to protect a very small percentage of the population. We’ve done everything we realistically can with vaccinating them. Let’s just get on with life.

It's shit isn't it.
I can't understand why double jabbed people need to isolate now but not in 4 weeks. That makes no sense to me. If they know now that double jabbed people are at very low risk of spreading it further why wait?
My 21 year old son caught it a month after his first jab, then again 3 weeks later so he's spent much of the last 5 weeks isolating as have we. It finishes today so he's off to the pub to watch the football. Hopefully he's got enough antibodies to not catch it again!