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Longshanks wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:16 pm

Raggs wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:11 pm

Longshanks wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:08 pm
I did sign up.
But just wasn't reading it enough to justify so cancelled. Im sure another news source will have this soon enough

Cancelled? Why? You don't have to pay anything for the 1 free article (hence the free).

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Aficionado wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:14 pmWhat a long-winded pile of shite for a Cummings shoehorn. Desperate "look at me" tosser...

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:54 pm 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?

Biffer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:29 pm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:54 pm 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.

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:30 pm Dunno why he didn’t get his wife to drive him to a testing centre? Maybe worried about shitting himself in the Beemer.

mat the expat wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 9:05 am More cases in NSW....looks like truckers from interstate at the Casula Hotel

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 11:12 am 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

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:28 am and one for the swarm

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Jul 11, 2020 4:54 pm 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?

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:12 am 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.

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:12 am 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.

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:32 am 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?

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:11 am 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.

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:32 am 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?

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:59 am 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. wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:00 am

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:32 am 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 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:28 am

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:59 am 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.

Kiwias wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:11 am 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.

Biffer wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:41 am

-RB. wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:00 am

Line6 HXFX wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:32 am 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.

Hong Kong wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:14 pm