15000 people hospitalised in the last 7 days according to ONS figures. Only a relatively small number may die but your friend in an accident or relative suffering from cancer will.
I work in Adult Social care and we still have to abide by restrictions regarding wearing PPE and having to legally isolate if we test positive.
This week has been horrendous, every one of our carers who tests positive still has to isolate for a minimum of 5 days and have to prove a negative test before they can come back.
They are dropping like flies. Yet I had a conversation with a service user who was Covid positive but still wanted to ignore advice to go out. I told them, legally, the Carer would have to wear full PPE if they supported them in the community.
It seems the people catching it now are people who haven’t caught it before. Before I remember it being parents of schoolchildren and NHS workers being put through the wringer.
I’m not going to cancel any social events, since I’ve just arrived back from Vienna and haven’t seen most of my friends in two years, but I’ll continue to wear my FFP2 masks in indoor public spaces, and mutual testing for any friends where we forego masks. It was standard in Vienna (where more testing was done than the entirety of Germany), so this isn’t a big deal.
Currently, number of people testing positive is above where it was in early Feb, but has just started to trend down. Number of people dying and those in hospital, above where it was before xmas. BUT number of test conducted, lowest it has ever been so if we were testing at the same rate the infection rate MIGHT be higher. Source Gov official stats.
So what do we do? It feels like by removing testing the gov is deliberately removing he ability of the public to stay genuinely informed. Or to hold the gov feet to the fire. Im just going to remain cautious. But our employers are guided by the official stats. “half the office” has covid right now but the guidance is “come into the office and btw please wipe down the phones after use….”
i very much doubt more than a couple million people are even doing testing any more; i call bullshit on these figures
And yet many companies are still advocating for a return to the office.
WFH should be mandatory for office workers. Both for a Covid response as well as an environmental to get less cars on the road.
On location work should only be used if absolutely necessary for key workers, ideally compensated with adequate hazard pay / commuting pay.
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We were discussing this at work. What about people who got the virus and were totally asymptomatic? What about people who thought they got that really bad cold around Christmas, testing negative, but it actually was Covid? (After all, we know sometimes the tests don’t work 100%)
I’m not really saying anything important here but just thinking about how far the virus must have spread and how the figures we’re seeing must be so much higher in reality.
Gee, who’d have thought that removing restrictions to draw attention away from the government’s corruption would lead to a rise in people getting Covid.
I would never have seen that coming
I don’t understand why. Every place else in the world infections from Omicron surged then fell. Not in Great Britain. It just keeps going up and up.
My whole family tested positive today after some mothers day “colds”. Wouldnt have taken a test, even though i had cold symptoms, because I only have 3 and I have wedding later in the month and was saving them for then.
Guidance is crap. I havent had a fever so in theory I should be going about my day. I only now know I have Covid because my mum tested routinely because of work and it showed up.
I feel bad because I have been leaving the house with symptoms, but again they were only mild cold symptoms. Its my first time having it and I am fine.
Meanwhile I cant even catch it once.
Nobody in my family has had it either so I’m stuck working while my co workers take a week off every month because “oh my girlfriend has it oh my mom has it oh my nan has it”
Luckily it’s a mild varient in majority cases. Had it last week myself, not pleasant, but not crippling either.
Good to know I’ve done finally become a record breaker!
Avoided it for the duration and within 3 weeks of being back in the office I caught it. It proper knocked me for 6 for 4 days. 0/10, would not recommend!
Sorry but how is 4.9mil even possible?
Based on short term natural immunity, herd immunity, general infection rates and previous peaks followed by declines I just cannot see how this figure is meaningful in anyway.
If it is factual, it is a good thing if anything as it shows how less severe and asymptomatic Covid is now.
Yep.
THIS is why they’re ending free testing.
Those lying scumbag cunts in government are proudly crowing about having “beaten” the virus. Their lies go unchallenged by the compliant stooges in the media. Instead, they’ve just allowed it to run riot through the population.
“World-leading”.
Is this just people with positive PCR results? I know a lot of people (myself included) that have had covid and just gone off the LFT results
One of Boris’ distractions from Partygate going well, I see.
You can lockdown all you want now. WFH basically full time. Don’t give a shit 😚
It’s not over yet. Wouldn’t think so with the dismissive attitudes walking around.
And here’s me, one of very few people who have not had time off work because I haven’t had it. Plus I’m the immunosuppressed one. I swear some have ‘had’ it just for the week off.
Property prices will drop with all these empty homes from all these deaths
So the plague is back again ! Hands , face , flamethrower # !
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15000 people hospitalised in the last 7 days according to ONS figures. Only a relatively small number may die but your friend in an accident or relative suffering from cancer will.
I work in Adult Social care and we still have to abide by restrictions regarding wearing PPE and having to legally isolate if we test positive.
This week has been horrendous, every one of our carers who tests positive still has to isolate for a minimum of 5 days and have to prove a negative test before they can come back.
They are dropping like flies. Yet I had a conversation with a service user who was Covid positive but still wanted to ignore advice to go out. I told them, legally, the Carer would have to wear full PPE if they supported them in the community.
It seems the people catching it now are people who haven’t caught it before. Before I remember it being parents of schoolchildren and NHS workers being put through the wringer.
I’m not going to cancel any social events, since I’ve just arrived back from Vienna and haven’t seen most of my friends in two years, but I’ll continue to wear my FFP2 masks in indoor public spaces, and mutual testing for any friends where we forego masks. It was standard in Vienna (where more testing was done than the entirety of Germany), so this isn’t a big deal.
Currently, number of people testing positive is above where it was in early Feb, but has just started to trend down. Number of people dying and those in hospital, above where it was before xmas. BUT number of test conducted, lowest it has ever been so if we were testing at the same rate the infection rate MIGHT be higher. Source Gov official stats.
So what do we do? It feels like by removing testing the gov is deliberately removing he ability of the public to stay genuinely informed. Or to hold the gov feet to the fire. Im just going to remain cautious. But our employers are guided by the official stats. “half the office” has covid right now but the guidance is “come into the office and btw please wipe down the phones after use….”
i very much doubt more than a couple million people are even doing testing any more; i call bullshit on these figures
And yet many companies are still advocating for a return to the office.
WFH should be mandatory for office workers. Both for a Covid response as well as an environmental to get less cars on the road.
On location work should only be used if absolutely necessary for key workers, ideally compensated with adequate hazard pay / commuting pay.
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We were discussing this at work. What about people who got the virus and were totally asymptomatic? What about people who thought they got that really bad cold around Christmas, testing negative, but it actually was Covid? (After all, we know sometimes the tests don’t work 100%)
I’m not really saying anything important here but just thinking about how far the virus must have spread and how the figures we’re seeing must be so much higher in reality.
Gee, who’d have thought that removing restrictions to draw attention away from the government’s corruption would lead to a rise in people getting Covid.
I would never have seen that coming
I don’t understand why. Every place else in the world infections from Omicron surged then fell. Not in Great Britain. It just keeps going up and up.
My whole family tested positive today after some mothers day “colds”. Wouldnt have taken a test, even though i had cold symptoms, because I only have 3 and I have wedding later in the month and was saving them for then.
Guidance is crap. I havent had a fever so in theory I should be going about my day. I only now know I have Covid because my mum tested routinely because of work and it showed up.
I feel bad because I have been leaving the house with symptoms, but again they were only mild cold symptoms. Its my first time having it and I am fine.
Meanwhile I cant even catch it once.
Nobody in my family has had it either so I’m stuck working while my co workers take a week off every month because “oh my girlfriend has it oh my mom has it oh my nan has it”
Luckily it’s a mild varient in majority cases. Had it last week myself, not pleasant, but not crippling either.
Good to know I’ve done finally become a record breaker!
Avoided it for the duration and within 3 weeks of being back in the office I caught it. It proper knocked me for 6 for 4 days. 0/10, would not recommend!
Sorry but how is 4.9mil even possible?
Based on short term natural immunity, herd immunity, general infection rates and previous peaks followed by declines I just cannot see how this figure is meaningful in anyway.
If it is factual, it is a good thing if anything as it shows how less severe and asymptomatic Covid is now.
Yep.
THIS is why they’re ending free testing.
Those lying scumbag cunts in government are proudly crowing about having “beaten” the virus. Their lies go unchallenged by the compliant stooges in the media. Instead, they’ve just allowed it to run riot through the population.
“World-leading”.
Is this just people with positive PCR results? I know a lot of people (myself included) that have had covid and just gone off the LFT results
One of Boris’ distractions from Partygate going well, I see.
You can lockdown all you want now. WFH basically full time. Don’t give a shit 😚
It’s not over yet. Wouldn’t think so with the dismissive attitudes walking around.
And here’s me, one of very few people who have not had time off work because I haven’t had it. Plus I’m the immunosuppressed one. I swear some have ‘had’ it just for the week off.
Property prices will drop with all these empty homes from all these deaths
So the plague is back again ! Hands , face , flamethrower # !