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Coronavirus (2021) thread
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This is a single early study pointing to a trend and not a conclusive argument. More data needed.
No shit. Still, who wouldn't take some positivity right now? Very well respected scientists seem to be hopeful, and if they are, then I will be too.
RACHACE
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Fair play with regard your honesty.Regards the trots:
For those having breakfast or a nervous disposition please don’t read the following
March 2020, Cheltenham week, I was in Sheffield on a delivery, it was very cold so I had several layers on, farted and followed through.
I stopped the van, climbed in the back to “clean” myself up and the door closed on me, as I was taking my jeans off, the floodgates opened and liquid shit just drained out of me, I couldn’t stop it. I was covered in natures waste. Took my hi viz off, my gilet and jumper to clean myself up. Went to open the door of the van, keys were in the ignition and phone in the cradle and it had locked. Van has a bulk head so no access to the front, I was trapped, shit all over the van ply lined floor.
My only way out was to open the cage on the bulk head and crawl into the front but it was such a small opening I didn’t think I could get through, it was my only option.
As I attempted it the floodgates opened again, nothing I could do. I did make it through, relieved but once again covered in shite. I still had a delivery to make. Got another hi viz and used my notepad to try and clean up. Got the parts out of the van, put them in the customer’s yard, rang the bell and asked them to carry into the factory from about 20 yards away.
Got home, stripped off, full of the brown, it had even run into my work boots which I binned, Mrs H bless her got all my gear and put it in the wash, that was apart from the hi viz involved in the second incident, I discarded that at the side of the road where there was a load of rubbish (I know, fly tipping which I’m ashamed off but not thinking straight). I returned to that company this week and what a surprise the hi viz was still there, picked it up and discarded
Was really ill after that, all the symptoms of Covid but no way of knowing as I couldn’t get in the Docs and the nearest test centre available was Glasgow.
I shudder to think what I would have done if I couldn’t get out of the van, it was an industrial estate on Friday afternoon, worst experience of my life
If I ever found myself in a similar situation I'd probably keep it between me and the wife.
I'm a HGV driver and I've heard stories of having to wrap plastic bags around hard hats to use when things go wrong but jeez....
A fucking notepad hahahahaha
Fair play pal.
tolmie's hairdoo
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Crazy week for us.
Wife took our daughter for a PCR on Monday because she had symptoms, just to be on safe side.
My daughter tested negative but my wife, who is double jabbed and also had the booster, in addition to having Covid this time last year, tested positive.
We were mystified and distraught in equal measure. Then my wife was worried she had mixed up the sample in the drive through, so she went back for another PCR the following day and tested negative.
I also took my daughter again and she again tested negative, as did both myself and son.
We spoke to Track and Trace and said there must surely be a false positive for my wife, but the person on the other end of the phone insisted the first test took precedent and she must self-isolate, which she had been doing inside the home since Monday, away from the rest of us.
She also tested negative on all the lateral flows she had done, including on the day she went for original PCR test and the subsequent days after.
She went for a third PCR test on the Wednesday and this also came back negative (we did this to establish beyond all doubt that Monday's test was clearly wrong) and mainly to make an informed decision as a family that we would not isolate from each other inside the home longer than the two nights we had already done so.
She is a teacher and takes lateral flows three times a week, as do the rest of us. She will continue to isolate at home until December 23 but it sticks in the throat (pardon the pun) that something wasn't right.
I wonder how many other people get a false positive?
Wife took our daughter for a PCR on Monday because she had symptoms, just to be on safe side.
My daughter tested negative but my wife, who is double jabbed and also had the booster, in addition to having Covid this time last year, tested positive.
We were mystified and distraught in equal measure. Then my wife was worried she had mixed up the sample in the drive through, so she went back for another PCR the following day and tested negative.
I also took my daughter again and she again tested negative, as did both myself and son.
We spoke to Track and Trace and said there must surely be a false positive for my wife, but the person on the other end of the phone insisted the first test took precedent and she must self-isolate, which she had been doing inside the home since Monday, away from the rest of us.
She also tested negative on all the lateral flows she had done, including on the day she went for original PCR test and the subsequent days after.
She went for a third PCR test on the Wednesday and this also came back negative (we did this to establish beyond all doubt that Monday's test was clearly wrong) and mainly to make an informed decision as a family that we would not isolate from each other inside the home longer than the two nights we had already done so.
She is a teacher and takes lateral flows three times a week, as do the rest of us. She will continue to isolate at home until December 23 but it sticks in the throat (pardon the pun) that something wasn't right.
I wonder how many other people get a false positive?
BlueHammer85
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No shit. Still, who wouldn't take some positivity right now? Very well respected scientists seem to be hopeful, and if they are, then I will be too.
I agree with you but I am sceptical about date coming out of SA - seems age, immunity, vaccinations, weather conditions and so many other factors make it hard to make a comparison with the UK
I agree with you but I am sceptical about date coming out of SA - seems age, immunity, vaccinations, weather conditions and so many other factors make it hard to make a comparison with the UK
Well, have some faith in the scientists who are buoyed by this study. Even the cautious ones. We are considerably more vaccinated than SA. Remember that.
Brightwell Bros.
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Yes, I have something very funny as well. I've just sent off a proper test. Could just be a nasty cold, which is going around as well, but worth testing proper.been feeling pretty rough that past week, not bed ridden but strange symptoms, bit of a cold, the trots, arching arms for a night weirdly, extreme fatigue and headaches. But tested negative on LFT for five days. I'm triple jabbed so wondered if being so renders your symptoms to be mild so you don't test positive on LFT?. I know a couple of people who have had similar symptoms and have been testing negative one with random positive tests.
A brilliant way of putting the risk over.It's all well and good people quoting 99%+ survival rates from Covid. Rabies has the highest mortality rate on earth with a less than 1% survival rate but hardly any fucker gets it in developed countries and the last recorded case in the UK that originated in the UK was 119 years ago. Contrast with Covid where there have been around 11 million confirmed cases in the UK in less than 2 years and it's likely that it's getting on for twice that many. 99% survival rates are great for viruses that hardly anyone catches but catastrophic when every man and his dog is catching it. If these fuckwits were put in a building with 1000 other people and told that 10 of them wouldn't be getting out alive but no-one knew who those 10 people are going to be, I bet they wouldn't be quite so flippant about it as they are about Covid.
Even the idiotic Tory Back benchers who have turned on Chris Whitty should understand this
No shit. Still, who wouldn't take some positivity right now? Very well respected scientists seem to be hopeful, and if they are, then I will be too.
Well they're hopeful because it is pointing to a trend that is potentially positive. But reality has a way of crushing the optimism of early trends. Just don't want people to get carried away with it. Scientific research is unemotional and rigorous when at its best. It's one study coming out of one institution, let's be patient and see what happens next month when we've got more eyes looking at the whole thing.
Well they're hopeful because it is pointing to a trend that is potentially positive. But reality has a way of crushing the optimism of early trends. Just don't want people to get carried away with it. Scientific research is unemotional and rigorous when at its best. It's one study coming out of one institution, let's be patient and see what happens next month when we've got more eyes looking at the whole thing.
A trend that backs up what the SA doctors and medical officers have been claiming anecdotally too. It's not entirely with merit here as well, with the symptoms people are having being notably different compared to previous waves. More bronchial as opposed to in the lungs. Just take the good news and be cautious IMO. I'd rather be patient and optimistic than patient and depressed tbh. Allow it!
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