Coronavirus (2021) thread

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

NHS winter crisis caused by Covid or, could it be something else?



NB. That bed number was smaller in 2020 and is even smaller in 2021, I can’t find a more up to date graph. I will swap in when I do.

Mind you, after 20 months of a pandemic, you’d have thought that the government would have created some more NHS hospital facilities, with more staffing and capacity to avoid further pressure on the NHS. But no, instead, they cut another 5,000 beds, sacked thousands of care home staff with the result that medically fit patients can’t be discharged and have now threatened NHS workers with the sack and let waiting lists reach record levels. And yet, it’s still our fault!!

 

[Rammy Blue]

Which is a scary thought (your last sentence)

Honestly mate, I was genuinely gobsmacked that mine came back positive. If lots of people have the level of symptoms I have then they just won’t bother doing a lateral flow.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Have you reported your LFT?
That being said, this is the first disease in history that we do a test on people who have absolutely no symptoms and then, as a result of that test, tell them they’re I’ll and make them stay at home.
It’s a life insurance companies wet dream!

No, not reported fuck all, why bother. I didn’t report or have a pcr in the summer when I had delta, as long as I know that’s all that matters, and obviously I’m happy to be jabbed so it’s no big deal.

 

[waspish]

Honestly mate, I was genuinely gobsmacked that mine came back positive. If lots of people have the level of symptoms I have then they just won’t bother doing a lateral flow.

If you listen to the radio advert they do say 1 out of 3 could have Covid and don’t know it.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

No, not reported fuck all, why bother. I didn’t report or have a pcr in the summer when I had delta, as long as I know that’s all that matters, and obviously I’m happy to be jabbed so it’s no big deal.

Probably just as well as there will be hundreds of thousands of LFT’s that are negative that never show up anywhere.

 

[mosssideblue]

Honestly mate, I was genuinely gobsmacked that mine came back positive. If lots of people have the level of symptoms I have then they just won’t bother doing a lateral flow.

Not everyone might be as fortunate as yourself.

 

[Healdplace]

The second biggest testing day in history and 60% more than 5 days ago suggests that it’s not down to people not testing, which is good news.

That is very good to hear.

 

[Rammy Blue]

If you listen to the radio advert they do say 1 out of 3 could have Covid and don’t know it.

My “symptoms”, if you can even call them that, now that I know I’m positive, actually started on Weds evening, but never thought to test as they didn’t seem enough to justify bothering. As I said earlier, I suffer from various allergies, like to the Xmas tree and foliage, so I’m always like this this time of the year, nothing any different. If I’d have had any of the other so called omicron symptoms like fatigue or headaches or cough then I’d have probably had a test but as it was just literally a sniffle then I just didn’t think it’d be covid. I’ve been running, playing football, in the gym etc etc and feel 100% fit as a fiddle.

Weird.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Not everyone might be as fortunate as yourself.

Captain Obvious.

 

[mosssideblue]

Captain Obvious.

Which is why I said it is concerning