So, coronavirus...

[Raggs]

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[Insane_Homer]

What a long-winded pile of shite for a Cummings shoehorn. Desperate "look at me" tosser...

Is that you Bimbo?

Tory Fascist circle jerker now blocked.

[CM11]

Insane, are you UK based? Is that the regular process for tests there?

[Biffer]

So on Thursday, after a day in the office, I get home and don't feel so great . by 9pm , my temp goes to 39.2. Rough night, lots of shivers and lying on cold bathroom tiles. Manage 2-3 hours of sleep, wake up ~6am and my guts let go.

Temp 38.2, but no other COVID symptoms. I can't go back to work until I've done a COVID test, go online and book a home kit test (wasn't really in any good state to drive to a drive-in test center). All very straight forward but some info being asked for seems a bit unnecessary, particularly sharing my details with some 3rd party company to check fraud?

Anyway, rough Friday, slept most of the afternoon in a heavy sweat but temp below 37.5 by late afternoon and feeling better, just a stonker of headache. any water, food still going straight through me. At this point I'm sure it's a bit of dodgy food poisoning, I has something very similar in Feb.

Anyway, wake to an email reminding me to to the test, if I haven't already and return it ASAP - a little difficult since it's not arrived yet.

Morning post arrives, no test. Here we go I think.

Feel much better during the course of the day, now holding down food and no longer spray painting the porcelain Just a bit of stiff neck now, probably from cold floor stints trying to break the fever.

Eventually at 17:30 today the kit arrives courtesy of Amazon.

I open it and get ready to take the test,

Step One: Book your courier by going to Royal mail site.

Go to Site, It's Closed after 16:00, try again at 8am tomorrow - https://collections.royalmail.com/closed

So I have to wait for tomorrow, book courier for Monday now? and then wait for results, in the meantime I can't go back to work and everyone in the house has to isolate until I get the test result back.

Any idea how long after posting the kit you get your results back?

I can't return to work until I've had the test result back, assuming it's negative. If positive does my 14 days start from Thursday (when I first showed symptoms), or can I just use Cummings/Farage common sense and wing it suit myself?

Wow, your governments healthcare provision is shit. I know for a fact that I could get an Test tomorrow in Edinburgh if I needed one. And I get the results within 48 hours.

[Longshanks]

So on Thursday, after a day in the office, I get home and don't feel so great . by 9pm , my temp goes to 39.2. Rough night, lots of shivers and lying on cold bathroom tiles. Manage 2-3 hours of sleep, wake up ~6am and my guts let go.

Temp 38.2, but no other COVID symptoms. I can't go back to work until I've done a COVID test, go online and book a home kit test (wasn't really in any good state to drive to a drive-in test center). All very straight forward but some info being asked for seems a bit unnecessary, particularly sharing my details with some 3rd party company to check fraud?

Anyway, rough Friday, slept most of the afternoon in a heavy sweat but temp below 37.5 by late afternoon and feeling better, just a stonker of headache. any water, food still going straight through me. At this point I'm sure it's a bit of dodgy food poisoning, I has something very similar in Feb.

Anyway, wake to an email reminding me to to the test, if I haven't already and return it ASAP - a little difficult since it's not arrived yet.

Morning post arrives, no test. Here we go I think.

Feel much better during the course of the day, now holding down food and no longer spray painting the porcelain Just a bit of stiff neck now, probably from cold floor stints trying to break the fever.

Eventually at 17:30 today the kit arrives courtesy of Amazon.

I open it and get ready to take the test,

Step One: Book your courier by going to Royal mail site.

Go to Site, It's Closed after 16:00, try again at 8am tomorrow - https://collections.royalmail.com/closed

So I have to wait for tomorrow, book courier for Monday now? and then wait for results, in the meantime I can't go back to work and everyone in the house has to isolate until I get the test result back.

Any idea how long after posting the kit you get your results back?

I can't return to work until I've had the test result back, assuming it's negative. If positive does my 14 days start from Thursday (when I first showed symptoms), or can I just use Cummings/Farage common sense and wing it suit myself?

Wow, your governments healthcare provision is shit. I know for a fact that I could get an Test tomorrow in Edinburgh if I needed one. And I get the results within 48 hours.

In both England and Scotland you have the choice of drive through, walk through and home test kit. There is essentially no difference between the 2 countries.
It might have been better if Insane hadn't opted for home test. Lots of testing stations around London

[Sandstorm]

Dunno why he didn’t get his wife to drive him to a testing centre? Maybe worried about shitting himself in the Beemer.

[Insane_Homer]

Dunno why he didn’t get his wife to drive him to a testing centre? Maybe worried about shitting himself in the Beemer.

yes, this and driving myself with a fever is not a good test to see if it's safe to drive (clue, it's not safe, it's like drink driving - very poor judgement and slow reactions involved)

Courier now all booked for pickup tomorrow.

[Hong Kong]

[Hong Kong]

and one for the swarm

[mat the expat]

More cases in NSW....looks like truckers from interstate at the Casula Hotel

[Insane_Homer]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2. ... 1586367656

UK kill count jumps to 148, particularly since the day of the week usually coincides with the best reporting in the world weekend lull.

Strangely the graph seems be broken on the Daily confirmed cases, not showing large jump to 840 for 11/7/20

[Ellafan]

More cases in NSW....looks like truckers from interstate at the Casula Hotel

I'm guessing we've both done a stop-over down there in the past, at the end of the free way, on the way back to town. And others have been doing it likewise and recently.

Lockdown here we come.

[Raggs]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/?_ga=2. ... 1586367656

UK kill count jumps to 148, particularly since the day of the week usually coincides with the best reporting in the world weekend lull.

Strangely the graph seems be broken on the Daily confirmed cases, not showing large jump to 840 for 11/7/20

That was the numbers from yesterday, todays are the first day of the lull and aren't out yet.

[EnergiseR]

and one for the swarm

A lot of people here haven't understand how the Irish economy works nor how a virus operates. It's made for a heady mix of ignorance and certainty

[fishfoodie]

So Florida has posted another record number of new cases today; >15,000; & more than 40 Hospitals across the State have no more ICU capacity.

But the good news is that Disney re-opened their theme parks in the State today ... what could go wrong ?

[Hong Kong]

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/he ... day-record
Not a great figure

[mat the expat]

Still a few acquaintances in the US claiming this is all Deep State manipulation.....

[Clogs]

So on Thursday, after a day in the office, I get home and don't feel so great . by 9pm , my temp goes to 39.2. Rough night, lots of shivers and lying on cold bathroom tiles. Manage 2-3 hours of sleep, wake up ~6am and my guts let go.

Temp 38.2, but no other COVID symptoms. I can't go back to work until I've done a COVID test, go online and book a home kit test (wasn't really in any good state to drive to a drive-in test center). All very straight forward but some info being asked for seems a bit unnecessary, particularly sharing my details with some 3rd party company to check fraud?

Anyway, rough Friday, slept most of the afternoon in a heavy sweat but temp below 37.5 by late afternoon and feeling better, just a stonker of headache. any water, food still going straight through me. At this point I'm sure it's a bit of dodgy food poisoning, I has something very similar in Feb.

Anyway, wake to an email reminding me to to the test, if I haven't already and return it ASAP - a little difficult since it's not arrived yet.

Morning post arrives, no test. Here we go I think.

Feel much better during the course of the day, now holding down food and no longer spray painting the porcelain Just a bit of stiff neck now, probably from cold floor stints trying to break the fever.

Eventually at 17:30 today the kit arrives courtesy of Amazon.

I open it and get ready to take the test,

Step One: Book your courier by going to Royal mail site.

Go to Site, It's Closed after 16:00, try again at 8am tomorrow - https://collections.royalmail.com/closed

So I have to wait for tomorrow, book courier for Monday now? and then wait for results, in the meantime I can't go back to work and everyone in the house has to isolate until I get the test result back.

Any idea how long after posting the kit you get your results back?

I can't return to work until I've had the test result back, assuming it's negative. If positive does my 14 days start from Thursday (when I first showed symptoms), or can I just use Cummings/Farage common sense and wing it suit myself?

That sounds suspiciously like the symptoms of a disease* we have heard of before.














* The bad kind.

[mat the expat]

Now an outbreak at the Star Casino:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/cov ... l#comments

Possibly people headed from the Casula Hotel to the Casino.... great

[Kiwias]

It has suddenly struck a lot closer to home that I thought it would. My older brother, living in Melbourne, was tested prior to returning to school and came back positive. He is in self-isolation in his home, restricted to three rooms, while his wife and daughter also are in isolation as they are tested. My brother visited a doctor 13 days ago for a small procedure not related to covid 19, naturally he was wearing a mask and keeping his distance from other people in the waiting room but it seems that is the only place he could have contracted it. Apparently 2 days after he visited, they were in the paper for having a case- their cluster is now up to 11 staff.

He is 69 so right in the middle of the high-risk group. Apparently he has no symptoms even now and there is no pain.

[FujiKiwi]

Hoping for the best for your brother, Kiwias, and for all bordies, their families and friends affected by this bloody virus.

[mat the expat]

It has suddenly struck a lot closer to home that I thought it would. My older brother, living in Melbourne, was tested prior to returning to school and came back positive. He is in self-isolation in his home, restricted to three rooms, while his wife and daughter also are in isolation as they are tested. My brother visited a doctor 13 days ago for a small procedure not related to covid 19, naturally he was wearing a mask and keeping his distance from other people in the waiting room but it seems that is the only place he could have contracted it. Apparently 2 days after he visited, they were in the paper for having a case- their cluster is now up to 11 staff.

He is 69 so right in the middle of the high-risk group. Apparently he has no symptoms even now and there is no pain.

Fingers-crossed!

[Kiwias]

Thanks, guys. He is scared shitless that he may have passed it on to his wife and daughter, totally unaware he had it. It is a bitch of a virus.

[Jambanja]

It has suddenly struck a lot closer to home that I thought it would. My older brother, living in Melbourne, was tested prior to returning to school and came back positive. He is in self-isolation in his home, restricted to three rooms, while his wife and daughter also are in isolation as they are tested. My brother visited a doctor 13 days ago for a small procedure not related to covid 19, naturally he was wearing a mask and keeping his distance from other people in the waiting room but it seems that is the only place he could have contracted it. Apparently 2 days after he visited, they were in the paper for having a case- their cluster is now up to 11 staff.

He is 69 so right in the middle of the high-risk group. Apparently he has no symptoms even now and there is no pain.

Fingers crossed, hope wife and daughter are negative

[Line6 HXFX]

So there is no immunity, it can come back in three months to people who have had it (even, I assume after being vaccinated).

Crikey can you imagine getting it twice?

And yet still our goon squad, Brexitist idiot government in the UK will not insist on masks in enclosed public places.

Why? They think we'll buy EU facemasks, with a massive EU flag on them?

[Insane_Homer]

Test done at 6am this morning, simple enough. Not a very pleasant experience

Courier has just collected,

now to wait for the result.

[SaintK]

So there is no immunity, it can come back in three months to people who have had it (even, I assume after being vaccinated).

Crikey can you imagine getting it twice?

And yet still our goon squad, Brexitist idiot government in the UK will not insist on masks in enclosed public places.

Why? They think we'll buy EU facemasks, with a massive EU flag on them?

Johnson Friday "may have to have a stricter code on wearing a mask"
Gove Sunday " the public just have to use their common sense about masks"
Buckland today "we may have to takle further action on wearing masks"
As joined up and clear as just about everything else from this shit shower!!

[Kiwias]

Great news -- my brother has now been 14 days with no symptoms but will have another test tomorrow, while the tests on his wife and daughter both came back negative.

Big sigh of relief here.

[CM11]

Great news -- my brother has now been 14 days with no symptoms but will have another test tomorrow, while the tests on his wife and daughter both came back negative.

Big sigh of relief here.

Good stuff.

[Slick]

Good news Kiwias!

Just some personal experiences from being at my mums in England for the first time in a while.

The woods just up the road used to be full of kids playing, biking etc and lots of families 20-25 years ago but for the last 15 years or so you could go up there and not see another person, certianly no groups of kids on their own. This time it's full again, loads of groups of kids playing, riding around, doing all the things we used to, and so many families, great to see.

Everyone seems to be much kinder to each other than I've noticed here before, just simple things like saying hello, cars stopping at crossings etc. Good to see.

Went to a country pub yesterday for lunch and all very well set up, a couple of cocks, but generally everyone very well behaved.

Bit surprised by the lack of masks everywhere, especially in supermarkets etc

Saw my first bit of COVID rage at the supermarket, bloke drove into the last parent/child parking spot with his teenage boy (at least 16) and immediately started on the staff about the length of queue. A load of people started laughing at him and he got back in his 4x4 and drove off fast. Very amusing.

Some good things coming out of this maybe.

[Margin__Walker]

Off topic a little, but pricks using parent and child spaces in busy supermarket car parks with 12 year olds hopping out the back does my head in.

Probably one for the pet peeves thread

[-RB-]

So there is no immunity, it can come back in three months to people who have had it (even, I assume after being vaccinated).

Crikey can you imagine getting it twice?

And yet still our goon squad, Brexitist idiot government in the UK will not insist on masks in enclosed public places.

Why? They think we'll buy EU facemasks, with a massive EU flag on them?

Says who? Gotta link to this?

From what I've read (which is only really New Scientist tbf) the science on this is still very unclear and may actually depend on the severity of the case and subsequent immune response I.e. asymptomatic cases may not have the same immune memory as cases illiciting a larger immune response.

[CM11]

Off topic a little, but pricks using parent and child spaces in busy supermarket car parks with 12 year olds hopping out the back does my head in.

Probably one for the pet peeves thread

We have five kids and I stopped using them once our youngest was around 3. Completely taking the piss using them with older kids.

[Biffer]

So there is no immunity, it can come back in three months to people who have had it (even, I assume after being vaccinated).

Crikey can you imagine getting it twice?

And yet still our goon squad, Brexitist idiot government in the UK will not insist on masks in enclosed public places.

Why? They think we'll buy EU facemasks, with a massive EU flag on them?

Says who? Gotta link to this?

From what I've read (which is only really New Scientist tbf) the science on this is still very unclear and may actually depend on the severity of the case and subsequent immune response I.e. asymptomatic cases may not have the same immune memory as cases illiciting a larger immune response.

That's my understanding as well. The early research suggests antibodies go out of the system relatively quickly but they don't understand how the combination of antibodies an T cells functions.

And wrt vaccines, they tend to produce an immune system response for a lot longer than a natural antibody reaction.

[Slick]

Off topic a little, but pricks using parent and child spaces in busy supermarket car parks with 12 year olds hopping out the back does my head in.

Probably one for the pet peeves thread

We have five kids and I stopped using them once our youngest was around 3. Completely taking the piss using them with older kids.

It's why I mentioned it, you have a be a special kind of cunt to use them with older kids.

[Hong Kong]

Great news -- my brother has now been 14 days with no symptoms but will have another test tomorrow, while the tests on his wife and daughter both came back negative.

Big sigh of relief here.

Excellent news bro

[Saint]

So there is no immunity, it can come back in three months to people who have had it (even, I assume after being vaccinated).

Crikey can you imagine getting it twice?

And yet still our goon squad, Brexitist idiot government in the UK will not insist on masks in enclosed public places.

Why? They think we'll buy EU facemasks, with a massive EU flag on them?

Says who? Gotta link to this?

From what I've read (which is only really New Scientist tbf) the science on this is still very unclear and may actually depend on the severity of the case and subsequent immune response I.e. asymptomatic cases may not have the same immune memory as cases illiciting a larger immune response.

That's my understanding as well. The early research suggests antibodies go out of the system relatively quickly but they don't understand how the combination of antibodies an T cells functions.

And wrt vaccines, they tend to produce an immune system response for a lot longer than a natural antibody reaction.

I heard this on the radio this morning. Sounds like a very small study, and there doesn't appear to be any understanding of the viral loads of these people when they were infected.

They;re already talking about booster jabs for the first round of vaccines as it stands, and for all this talk of not getting immunity, I still don;t think there's been a case of someone getting it twice that hasn't been traced back to a false positive/false negative during the testing phases

[Hong Kong]

Bugger. We’ve just been told that we are returning to a partial lock down again. All bars, gyms, health clubs etc are to be shut, restaurants must not serve between 1800 and 0500; when they are open, 50% capacity and no more than 4 to a table. Meetings in public must be no larger than 4.

[Hong Kong]

[Sandstorm]

"You can order girls now"