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

Once the parent's have mingled and then sent their spawn in with a packed lunch and the rona, they'll pass it on to the other little snot factories though eh

to be clear, i think people should be able to get to the office if they need to and its safe to do so!

my issue is with crappy managers/companies who are cramming full staff levels into open plan offices because they're assholes.

Yes apologies I wasn't sure where you were heading with that and should have asked first.

We had 10 people max in the building at its peak. On a Monday and Friday I had a floor all to myself it was actually really lovely!

Also, are you now based in this lockdown denying bastion of SW London?

I am! Have been since before the start :-)

Where you at?

No no!!! Please dont lynch me!

I am saying people are using coffee as an excuse to gather outside in large herds of covidiots.

Coffee is the elixir of life, the drink of gods.

So COVID ‘deniers’ are even worse after they’ve got it. ‘I’m recovering at home and it’s not too bad, we should just let it run it’s course, I’m fine no point in vaccines’

Wankstains.

I just took the kid out after finding out a couple of parents getting it from their kids (same age; toddlers) !

So this is why my question about the new strain and children as vectors. So its not just me...

Do we have any evidence this is the case? Medical People?

Reveals a lot about people’s various levels of narcissism doesn’t it!

Cunts cunts cunts

It may not have killed them but it is certainly killing others.

Realised this afternoon my sister’s father in law got mentioned on here over a decade ago, was an OG fixie skidder

Did he ever consider cycle training?

Empathetic wink emoji.

I imagine there is speculation, due to the increasing trends in areas that were in tier 4.
Schools and nurseries were open, and could be an explanation as to why the infection rate was increasing despite the distancing restrictions, beyond the percentage of people who were not following guidelines.

Unbelievably selfish.

I'm not personally very worried about me or my kid's health, but more so for my parent's health and those around me.

I was contemplating getting an antibody test, but if it turns out that I had covid, and maybe at the time that I think I did in Jan/Feb, the guilt would be real, as I would have been a super spreader at the time.
If I haven't had covid, then that will probably boost my anxiety up hugely instead.

I hadn't realised you'd moved from SE somewhere.
I'm around Putney now too- we can catch up when safe to do so!

In the big picture of things is your garden really that important?

Seriously though @Acliff the government has said that the 'mingling' in schools has been driving the infection rate. Also, anecdota, but the other half's boss got it and she had been self-isolating for two weeks ahead of a now cancelled Christmas visit. Her kids seem the only way she could of got it.

I'm not personally very worried about me or my kid's health

Isn’t your response to the virus pretty much a genetic lottery at this point in our understanding of it?

I now know two healthy guys in mid-thirties who have been to A&E with the virus and have lasting health implications. One is at 65% lung capacity and we can barely hear him speak on a video call.

I know these responses are edge cases, but it’s caused me to drop the assumption that I would have mild symptoms.

mid-thirty guys aren't going to get vaccinated until 2022 at this rate - hoping that we get it sooner but can see things returning to normal and there being a lottery like you say

A 23 year old friend of a colleague of mine is in ICU.

My uncle barely had symptoms and he's in his late 40s, the postie was in bed for a week his dad got if from him and got 0 symptoms.

5% of people get long covid usually women in their 50s. Men over 40 as a whole get sicker then women though.

It's so unpredictable, sure most younger people and those with no serious health conditions are fine but you just don't know.

Son off school for a month ex and I suspect may easily be two...

Luckily we have flex work, solid internet and spare personal laptops for him while we work.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/04/scottish-mp-margaret-ferrier-arrested-over-alleged-covid-rule-breach

Edited because I wasn’t saying what I wanted to say.

Want I was trying to get at was that you should be doing all the recommended things, social distancing, etc for everyone’s sake, regardless of whether you think you will be fine yourself.

Just a reminder to anyone who's struggling with the mental health nightmare that is the pandemic: probably best to give this thread a swerve.

Good point, on ignore now.

between 26 and 29 September 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/04/scottish-mp-margaret-ferrier-arrested-over-alleged-covid-rule-breach

probably best to give the entire internet a swerve.

BioNTech and Pfizer Statement is a bit of a concern. The one thing we have been doing well and we are about to take a gamble on it!

I guess that might show just how far up the creek we are...?

What statement?