The hospital where my partner works finally got rid of masks last week, they brought them back this week after a steep rise in cases.
Who’s testing outside hospitals? ONS still running around the UK with swabs?
It finally got me this week. Feel like absolute shit
I came down with Covid a month ago, after 2 1/2 years of managing to avoid it. The cough it gave me is still hanging around. Covid ain’t gone anywhere.
Yeah, but I don’t want this to be true. Therefore it isn’t.
If you need me I’ll be getting mashed with gandalf.
– great minds of reddit
The headline is *ever-so-slightly* misleading. The ONS survey this week only has data for 3 days for England but a full 7 days for the other countries, so the rise over the whole UK over the whole week (which was two weeks ago) was likely to be greater than 14%.
Edit: one of the actuaries who do these calcs for a living has worked out the actual increase for the week to 17th September as 26% – [https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1575892716801515524](https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1575892716801515524))
This is the season for respiratory viruses, it will last from September to March/April and happens every year. That is not to say we should not be careful but it does not mean people should panic either. Take sensible precautions, test and isolate if necessary, and get any booster offered to you.
Ooh is it time to play pandemic again? Go on then, I could do with some time off work. Still not taking the clot shot though.
How do we know. No one is testing for it and if they do, they are not reporting it
Covid still a thing? Not heard anything in months, let’s just move on.
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The hospital where my partner works finally got rid of masks last week, they brought them back this week after a steep rise in cases.
Who’s testing outside hospitals? ONS still running around the UK with swabs?
It finally got me this week. Feel like absolute shit
I came down with Covid a month ago, after 2 1/2 years of managing to avoid it. The cough it gave me is still hanging around. Covid ain’t gone anywhere.
Yeah, but I don’t want this to be true. Therefore it isn’t.
If you need me I’ll be getting mashed with gandalf.
– great minds of reddit
The headline is *ever-so-slightly* misleading. The ONS survey this week only has data for 3 days for England but a full 7 days for the other countries, so the rise over the whole UK over the whole week (which was two weeks ago) was likely to be greater than 14%.
Edit: one of the actuaries who do these calcs for a living has worked out the actual increase for the week to 17th September as 26% – [https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1575892716801515524](https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1575892716801515524))
This is the season for respiratory viruses, it will last from September to March/April and happens every year. That is not to say we should not be careful but it does not mean people should panic either. Take sensible precautions, test and isolate if necessary, and get any booster offered to you.
Ooh is it time to play pandemic again? Go on then, I could do with some time off work. Still not taking the clot shot though.
How do we know. No one is testing for it and if they do, they are not reporting it
Covid still a thing? Not heard anything in months, let’s just move on.