I learnt very quickly when I did testing at work that I shouldn't do anything complex immediately afterwards because after about ten minutes my schnozzle would realise something funny had happened to it and emit a series of Krakatoa-esque window-rattling sneezes. Once they were gone, fine, it was just letting the entire building know I'd had something up me hooter.
@Stercus Tauri will be glad to know that Canada has just joined the UK’s green list of countries.
Thanks! Just checked, and it will be next Monday - they've even reduced the test fee to £68. Now to find out how and when we can get there. The number of flights has been reduced drastically and of course the fares are up in proportion. Lots of things to sort out first - the recent death of my Virgin phone account for one, not to mention banking complications due to the Virginisation of the Clydesdale bank.
Well, I went to the card gathering, people wore their masks through the door, then took them off to eat the snacks that were offered. Next, the door was closed because someone was cold. I kept my mask on and stuck it out but I do not plan on returning next month.
Well, I went to the card gathering, people wore their masks through the door, then took them off to eat the snacks that were offered.
That's unfortunate. Why are people so bloody stupid? If you go to a card evening for a couple of hours or so, advertised as "masks will be worn", and spend the whole evening with your mask off occasionally popping crisps in to your mouth, your mask isn't doing anything. This should be completely obvious to every idiot present. If you take your mask of once for a few minutes to eat a biscuit and drink a cup of tea, then your mask is mostly doing some good. This shouldn't be hard for people to grasp.
We're at the highest level of active cases since Jan 2021. With no restrictions of any kind. It's not required to mask or self isolate even if you are sick, have tested positive. We're so screwed. Schools open next week. The gov't is so fail. (Saskatchewan, Canada)
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! One of my students from an in-person class has tested positive for Covid (they were in my class Tuesday), so (after talking with higher-ups) my in-person classes will go online for at least the next week (I honestly hope permanently, but we'll see). I let my friend from my birthday Wednesday know right away, of course. Need to go get tested, of course. (I've had Covid myself, back in January, and have been fully vaccinated since May 1, but I could still spread it to others even if I have got it and have no symptoms, so being tested and isolating as needed is vital.) Prayers welcome.
Hoping you are OK @ChastMastr, that you are not ill enough @KarlLB , hope you continue to improve, and @NOprophet_NØprofit , that is a worry. I hope people keep acting sensibly.
I noticed this week that far fewer people are bothering with masks, even on trains where there are lots of notices about it being strongly advised.
I'm watching the Zoe statistics, because I'm part of the study. Having dropped in the last lockdown, they then started going up again as the lockdown ended, slightly earlier than the official dates, peaked a few weeks ago at the end of the school term, slightly dropped over the school holidays and are now heading back up again, before the schools go back again in England - see this graph (link).
This area has consistently been one of the infection hot spots, it's again showing dark red on the map. And no, people aren't wearing masks in the shops, it's getting less and less over time/ At the tube station on Saturday the announcement kept being made about mask wearing, to be totally ignored by most of the passengers.
Really sorry to hear you're ill with this @KarlLB - we found that 7-9 days in was the worst when my daughter had it before anyone really knew much about it.
Tomorrow she gets her second vaccine, so another three weeks to go after that before she's covered and I can think about theatre tickets or anything really inside.
I'm honestly so fed up with the Scottish government at the moment who have no excuse for messing up devolved issues. They've done nothing (as I've said previously) to make public transport stay safe, they've let the private companies who run it take away or not enforce the measures needed to make it safe and they've done zero, so far as I can see, to enforce proper ventilation standards in schools, shops, offices etc.
We're buying a carbon dioxide monitor to help us make our own safety decisions a bit better (works to show you roughly how much of other people's exhalations you're breathing in using CO2 levels as a proxy for that)
Hope you get well soon KarlLB and stay safe ChastMastr.
Hear, hear. Hope the Family @KarlLB are all OK soon, too.
At Pilates today, I noticed that there were TWO 1-2-1 sessions going on in the Studio when I arrived, the Centre having just taken on two extra Torturers instructors.
The folding screen in the main exercise area allows for this to be done safely, but it shows that business is picking up again, IYSWIM, and (I suppose) that peeps are feeling a bit safer about such things.
I've been nursing a bit of a sore throat since last night, and when I mentioned it at work, my colleagues nearly had apoplectic fits. I was a wee bit worried, but I took my regular twice-weekly LFT this evening and all was well (assuming it wasn't a false negative). I haven't any other symptoms that wouldn't be commensurate with a slight cold, so I'm not going to start worrying yet.
One horrible winter when I was a child all four of us children had a streaming cold. In desperation Mum ripped up an old sheet to use as hankies. It was lovely and soft on our noses.
Well, the Image family is home until Monday PM, as are most of our neighbors we have spoken with. A. 3-day music, wine, food, and brew festival, is getting underway. Thousands arriving in town for the fun, streets blocked, and just the thing you want to have when the city is on water rationing from drought and there is a virus killing people. What were they thinking? Oh of course money. They are saying masks, vaccinations, or a recent clear covid test to get in. A local doctor was just arrested a few weeks ago for giving out fake covid cards, but I trust all who are coming to have real ones. Sure.
If you have a perforated ear drum, much empathy from here. I hope my suspected ditto is healing. Suspected as the GP surgery shelled out antibiotics for the undoubted infection without seeing me, and when I called back as it was still not good said they should see me, but everyone was working from home as they, the staff, had Covid, so I was out of luck there.
They did say an infection was far more likely than a perforated ear drum.
When the North East Loon was small and had a nasty cold, he woke up one morning to find a small bloodstain on his pillow. He became very distressed and I calmed him down by telling him it was not blood, but ear wax.
I then phoned for an appointment with the doctor, and said that I thought he had a burst eardrum, as there was blood on his pillow.
He got antibiotics and made a quick recovery. And that was the end of that - or so I thought.
About three years later, aged nine, he wrote a heart rending essay at school about having heard me on the phone to the doctor saying there was blood on his pillow "and that was the moment I realised that my mother told lies and that I could never trust her again."
Apparently I wasn't a caring mother who had been trying to comfort a distressed child, but a fiend in human form who had cruelly abused a small boy's trust.
That's why I was honest with my children about Father Christmas. Only in my case, my youngest refused to accept that he didn't exist!
I always told my sons that father Christmas was pretend. They wouldn't accept it, and were still expecting a Christmas stocking from him in their late teens, or older if they were at home for Christmas morning.
Not stupid, my boys!
That's why I was honest with my children about Father Christmas. Only in my case, my youngest refused to accept that he didn't exist!
I always told my sons that father Christmas was pretend. They wouldn't accept it, and were still expecting a Christmas stocking from him in their late teens, or older if they were at home for Christmas morning.
Not stupid, my boys!
We told ours the truth but said it was a game people played and would they like us to play the game? They, not surprisingly, said yes.
Nenlet2 had his second Pfizer yesterday so that's all the Nen family and associated partners double-jabbed. He has a friend who caught the virus and was pretty unwell with it, despite being double-jabbed. Makes you wonder what it would have been like had they not been. My understanding is that the immunity you gain from the vaccine is different to what you get from having the virus, so I guess it could be considered a good thing... I'm still scared of catching it, though.
I am becoming (or have become) something of a Hermit, emerging from the Ark only for the purpose of Shopp Ing or collecting a parcel from the Marina office. My good friend Mr E Bay's Magic Online Emporium is doing quite well, thanks to me...
There is a big Funeral Mass at Our Place on Monday morning - a member of the congregation, with lots of friends and family - and I said I would attend. However, if the church appears to me to be too crowded (which is possible, albeit unlikely, as we do have plenty of room), I shall pay my respects and leave, once the Corpse has arrived.
... A local doctor was just arrested a few weeks ago for giving out fake covid cards ...
A doctor?!?
Yes, she was a licensed naturopathic doctor. She was arrested for giving her patients, homeoprophylaxis immunization of some sort and then issuing fake covid cards.
Despite the local region winning the "how many people can we infect?" race, when I went into our local Sainsbury's I noticed that they had removed the plastic screens between tills (still had screens between staff at till and the punters). Masks still being worn, but several people not really bothering with trying to maintain distance even when there's plenty of space.
I can't wait until the government reintroduces a fire-break to do something about this uncontrolled spread of the virus that's got the local hospitals on their knees with the strain it's put on. it will be so much less stressful shopping and stuff if I wasn't so concerned that I might unknowingly be infected and risking the health of others.
I'm also not entirely amused that the university has put my course back to in-person, so rather than Zooming from home I get the delight of an hour and a bit on a bus, two hours in front of a lecture theatre, then the bus back home again. With all those opportunities to spread infection around.
I totally understand your concern, Alan - I've been spending an hour or so a day on public transport since last December, and it is disconcerting when people don't wear masks.
... A local doctor was just arrested a few weeks ago for giving out fake covid cards ...
A doctor?!?
Yes, she was a licensed naturopathic doctor. She was arrested for giving her patients, homeoprophylaxis immunization of some sort and then issuing fake covid cards.
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I do have until midweek next week… but it Might be prudent to have a go earlier…
Thanks! Just checked, and it will be next Monday - they've even reduced the test fee to £68. Now to find out how and when we can get there. The number of flights has been reduced drastically and of course the fares are up in proportion. Lots of things to sort out first - the recent death of my Virgin phone account for one, not to mention banking complications due to the Virginisation of the Clydesdale bank.
That's unfortunate. Why are people so bloody stupid? If you go to a card evening for a couple of hours or so, advertised as "masks will be worn", and spend the whole evening with your mask off occasionally popping crisps in to your mouth, your mask isn't doing anything. This should be completely obvious to every idiot present. If you take your mask of once for a few minutes to eat a biscuit and drink a cup of tea, then your mask is mostly doing some good. This shouldn't be hard for people to grasp.
Thinking of you - there are good treatments now, they will be able to help you.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! One of my students from an in-person class has tested positive for Covid (they were in my class Tuesday), so (after talking with higher-ups) my in-person classes will go online for at least the next week (I honestly hope permanently, but we'll see). I let my friend from my birthday Wednesday know right away, of course. Need to go get tested, of course. (I've had Covid myself, back in January, and have been fully vaccinated since May 1, but I could still spread it to others even if I have got it and have no symptoms, so being tested and isolating as needed is vital.) Prayers welcome.
I noticed this week that far fewer people are bothering with masks, even on trains where there are lots of notices about it being strongly advised.
This area has consistently been one of the infection hot spots, it's again showing dark red on the map. And no, people aren't wearing masks in the shops, it's getting less and less over time/ At the tube station on Saturday the announcement kept being made about mask wearing, to be totally ignored by most of the passengers.
Really sorry to hear you're ill with this @KarlLB - we found that 7-9 days in was the worst when my daughter had it before anyone really knew much about it.
Tomorrow she gets her second vaccine, so another three weeks to go after that before she's covered and I can think about theatre tickets or anything really inside.
We're buying a carbon dioxide monitor to help us make our own safety decisions a bit better (works to show you roughly how much of other people's exhalations you're breathing in using CO2 levels as a proxy for that)
Hope you get well soon KarlLB and stay safe ChastMastr.
Don't like to imagine how it could have been if I'd had no vaccines.
At Pilates today, I noticed that there were TWO 1-2-1 sessions going on in the Studio when I arrived, the Centre having just taken on two extra Torturers instructors.
The folding screen in the main exercise area allows for this to be done safely, but it shows that business is picking up again, IYSWIM, and (I suppose) that peeps are feeling a bit safer about such things.
KLB, still sending up prayers!
I'm guessing the autumn and winter are going to be difficult with other bugs as well, given that we've all been isolating from each other for so long.
1 Kings 17 v16
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah.
And poems being read of sneezles and wheezles and talk of being bundled into our bed.
There's a reason they tell you to stay hydrated...
On the back of my latest cold I seem to have a perforated eardrum and possibly an associated infection.
They did say an infection was far more likely than a perforated ear drum.
I then phoned for an appointment with the doctor, and said that I thought he had a burst eardrum, as there was blood on his pillow.
He got antibiotics and made a quick recovery. And that was the end of that - or so I thought.
About three years later, aged nine, he wrote a heart rending essay at school about having heard me on the phone to the doctor saying there was blood on his pillow "and that was the moment I realised that my mother told lies and that I could never trust her again."
Apparently I wasn't a caring mother who had been trying to comfort a distressed child, but a fiend in human form who had cruelly abused a small boy's trust.
There are almost a million practicing doctors in the US. Odds are there are going to be some stupid ones.
I always told my sons that father Christmas was pretend. They wouldn't accept it, and were still expecting a Christmas stocking from him in their late teens, or older if they were at home for Christmas morning.
Not stupid, my boys!
We told ours the truth but said it was a game people played and would they like us to play the game? They, not surprisingly, said yes.
Nenlet2 had his second Pfizer yesterday so that's all the Nen family and associated partners double-jabbed. He has a friend who caught the virus and was pretty unwell with it, despite being double-jabbed. Makes you wonder what it would have been like had they not been. My understanding is that the immunity you gain from the vaccine is different to what you get from having the virus, so I guess it could be considered a good thing...
I am becoming (or have become) something of a Hermit, emerging from the Ark only for the purpose of Shopp Ing or collecting a parcel from the Marina office. My good friend Mr E Bay's Magic Online Emporium is doing quite well, thanks to me...
There is a big Funeral Mass at Our Place on Monday morning - a member of the congregation, with lots of friends and family - and I said I would attend. However, if the church appears to me to be too crowded (which is possible, albeit unlikely, as we do have plenty of room), I shall pay my respects and leave, once the Corpse has arrived.
Yes, she was a licensed naturopathic doctor. She was arrested for giving her patients, homeoprophylaxis immunization of some sort and then issuing fake covid cards.
I can't wait until the government reintroduces a fire-break to do something about this uncontrolled spread of the virus that's got the local hospitals on their knees with the strain it's put on. it will be so much less stressful shopping and stuff if I wasn't so concerned that I might unknowingly be infected and risking the health of others.
I'm also not entirely amused that the university has put my course back to in-person, so rather than Zooming from home I get the delight of an hour and a bit on a bus, two hours in front of a lecture theatre, then the bus back home again. With all those opportunities to spread infection around.
Not a doctor then. A charlatan.