Coronavirus (2022) thread

[hammocity]

I clicked the link. Brings you to a website to order a test kit. The NHS sign is in the top left corner but when I click it, it's only an image and not a hyperlink. Also, I filled out the form with fake details until it took me to asking for my card details

£1.34 delivery fee?

 

[Bluesince1979]

Mask wearing has collapsed in the last couple of weeks. For example, me and my wife were at a large garden centre last Sunday and there was barely a mask to be seen indoors and in the restaurant. As the demographic was mainly older adults with no teens / 20s you’d expect to see more of them. Same with supermarkets and so on.

Good

 

[FantasyIreland]

The doom merchants are apoplectic.....some of them might even have to stop working from home!!!


Fucking get on with it.

 

[Champions Again Ole Ole]

£1.34 delivery fee?

That's the one

 

[hammocity]

That's the one

Did the same as you out of curiosity, clicked on short menu at the bottom and it didn’t navigate anywhere.

Off topic did you read The Coup book?

 

[grim up north]

This is a sincere question - are there any studies showing the effectiveness of masks with Omicron? I have no doubts whatsoever that back with the original variant they were useful, but this virus is absolutely ridiculously more transmissible than that first version. Genuinely curious as to whether they even do anything anymore given how well adapted it is to transmission now. They sorta feel useless, unless you're wearing a proper filtered mask, but maybe I'm wrong.

Some of the face coverings people wear is like the equivalent or hitting a golf ball into a football net hoping it will stop it going through

 

[roubaixtuesday]

This is a sincere question - are there any studies showing the effectiveness of masks with Omicron? I have no doubts whatsoever that back with the original variant they were useful, but this virus is absolutely ridiculously more transmissible than that first version. Genuinely curious as to whether they even do anything anymore given how well adapted it is to transmission now. They sorta feel useless, unless you're wearing a proper filtered mask, but maybe I'm wrong.

Doubt anyone has studied omicron specifically, but I'd guess that you'd expect the same proportion of infections to be prevented?

So if 20% of infections are prevented by mask wearing for delta, the same for omicron?

(The 20% figure is totally made up - but I don't think anyone believes masks as implemented by Joe public make a drastic difference)

 

[frothy]

Two old dears got on the bus I was on this morning, one of them started coughing and pulled her mask down until she had finished?

 

[BLUEYESTU]

I got Covid apx 6 weeks ago and it’s left me with a violent dry cough, pain in my shoulders hands and feet and the lung capacity of an asthmatic old man. Just walking to the shops and carrying a few bags back is really hard going.
I had to go into town for a chest X-ray yesterday and had a coughing fit on the bus, but because I was wearing my mask I couldn’t get the oxygen in so had to pull it down. The looks I got were ones of pure fear mixed with disgust. In the end I had to announce to them that I was now testing negative and it was just lasting symptoms.
I work in the NHS and really need to get back to work but they’re not sure how they can allow me back - the wrist pain is so bad I can’t slice cheese never mind do basic life support and I need gloves to try and keep the hand/wrist pain down.
There’s so much we still don’t know about Covid, especially the long term effects, but either more people are going to be claiming benefits or employers are going to have to try and make some big allowances for people like me so we can work.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Two old dears got on the bus I was on this morning, one of them started coughing and pulled her mask down until she had finished?

Smelly bastard.