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.