This is a single early study pointing to a trend and not a conclusive argument. More data needed.
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
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
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.
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.