Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

looking forward to johnson's next hospital visit PR photo op. i hope they fucking lynch the cunt.

Nadine Dorries said she was “pleasantly surprised”.

I will declare an interest as I'm under the same pay deal as nurses and the vast majority of NHS, but I obviously haven't experienced anything like they have.

Greedy mother fucker.

Seriously though, everyone in the NHS (and to be fair, lots of industries) have been fucked over with below inflation pay increases for so long that, ignoring the pandemic, shit needs to change.

While he's starting a charity to pay for £200k of unnecessary renovations to his flat, after the NHS saved his life!

I'd wish a horrible accident on him but he'd just end up taking up more NHS time.

He seems to be styling himself on the Presidential / White House model of redecorations.

Not that that is any excuse. Austerity should limit it to maintenance and absolutely necessary repairs, but it doesn't apply to them, austerity only applies to the common people.

£200k of unnecessary renovations to his flat

is he on here?

“FFS they got clapping, isn’t that reward enough?”

Is probably what every Tory voter thought when they heard about paying the people who have been in the frontline of covid-19 risk a salary increase and thought it was undeserved.

Sunak will still be known as the man who is reversing the austerity, whatever he is adding will be seen as 'something that was impossible to do but he made it possible'.

He is our next PM.

Shows how we are manipulated by the media.

Some good news if confirmed: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-variant-exc-idUSKBN2AX1NS

Watching a clip of him from Marr last Sunday he’s got that robotic learned lines on repeat thing going on, same answer whatever the question, he also comes across as a bit dim

But very very rich.

I can’t understand why someone as rich as Rishi would want to be a politician anyway.

His personal promotional videos are clunky but they are going to get good and nobody else in the Tory party is marketing themselves like he is.

Power

He is our next PM

Getting these vibes strongly here too. Distressing.

It’s all about the power.

Ha!

From next week parents with kids at school can access lateral flow testing for asymptomatic COVID twice a week. Mine are in primary so relatively low risk, but I guess from a public good perspective I should probably be doing this? Or is the sensitivity of LFT low enough that it's just health theatre?

The LFT and PCR tests are different tests for different things. Neither is perfect, but essentially the LFT test highlights when people are infectious, and the PCR test detects presence of the virus (Even long after it is still active).

I've posted this Tom Chivers Article before, but it's well worth reading if you haven't seen it.

In a survey sample of one school, that did not follow the unison guidelines for teacher distancing and didn't follow guidelines for bubble closure when teachers tested positive. Teachers will have to do the lateral flow test twice a week. But if they have tested positive for covid in the last 90 days, then no test is needed for the next 90 days.

Any other teachers confirm that there school are doing the same? As this is the source of my covid infection rather not risk.

Children will have to do their own tests, the same kids that can't staple stuff to a page will do the test. The greater concern is not the tests accuracy but the people ability to swab themselves correctly.

A colleagues primary school have told all parents that they must test themselves twice a week for their child to be allowed to return, not sure if they have misunderstood the provision of testing or school is being belt and braces but can't see it standing up to challenge

I hadn't read that article, thanks, but I was aware of the dispute at the heart of it, which was behind my question: is there any more data on the real-world efficacy of LFTs in catching asymptomatic cases and driving down infection rates?

My son (secondary Y7) is getting LFTs 3 times next week - once before he's allowed back to school then twice in school. TBH I can see it causing some issues