Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Rammy Blue]

Did he just say you can get a test without symptoms ? I am only half listening

I’m not watching, but using this as an example when people are talking about positivity rates - so suddenly every man and dog, even loads with bugger all symptoms, run out and get a test tomorrow and we have 1 million tests, then we still get the 50,000 or so positive results, we get the 5% rate. But surely that’s still an element of bollocks as it’s just the 50k positives that matter. Hence why when discussing Irish data we say their positivity rate is high because they don’t do as much testing.

Why does the positivity rate matter that much? @Healdplace

 

[M18CTID]

Been to get a test this morning - the bloke who gave me a lift to work all last week started with symptoms on Friday after he got home and confirmed positive this morning. Was feeling a bit ropey myself this morning but not sure whether that was down to the amount of beer I drank last night. I’ll be astonished if I haven’t caught it though.

Another bloke who wasn’t in all last week because he “felt rough” tested positive over the weekend so we can probably guess where it originated from, especially as his wife works at the Tesco on Chester Road which was closed down last week due to an outbreak, yet the **** never bothered to tell us this and we found out through the media instead ffs!

 

[Rammy Blue]

Been to get a test this morning - the bloke who gave me a lift to work all last week started with symptoms on Friday after he got home and confirmed positive this morning.

Another bloke who wasn’t in all last week because he “felt rough” tested positive over the weekend so we can probably guess where it originated from, especially as his wife works at the Tesco on Chester Road which was closed down last week due to an outbreak, yet the **** never bothered to tell us this last week and we found out through the media instead ffs!

Sounds like you’re fucked.

 

[bluemcr]

Some of my neighbours have as well

Yeah and used it as an excuse to have time off work. Wronguns

 

[ell]

Only half listening but I think they were talking about lateral flow rather than PCR

 

[M18CTID]

Sounds like you’re fucked.

Thanks!

 

[Nellies left peg]

Did he just say you can get a test without symptoms ? I am only half listening

WELL FUCKING PAY ATTENTION THEN:-)

 

[Healdplace]

The regional data shows what I think we could have predicted.

The South East and East falling,

London records its lowest numbers in a month and is closing in on the midlands and north west in raw numbers when they were miles ahead.

And every other region beyond the south has gone up day to day.

So the fall in cases today was in no way 'real' north of Watford.

Things do genuinely seem tro be dropping there and just London and the South East really created the decrease today.

Happily the NW only went up by 401 and North East up just 10.

Less than almost everywhere else - including the Midlands that was 1250 up on yesterday.

So in a sense this is good if the lockdown is causing cases to fall fast it would make sense we would see this down south first as they started the rise earlier.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Got me, I was searching for it on the sky guide before I read the whole thing!

Sorry pal; )

 

[kaz7]

WELL FUCKING PAY ATTENTION THEN:-)

Busy lol