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Petrol station?

Not if your phone is on silent.

Off by one error working out which day the contact was?

Signed consent forms for my daughters to have Covid jabs next week.

Petrol station?

Possible. I had a drive thru Big Mac on the way home, eaten in the McDonald's car park.

Off by one error working out which day the contact was?

I suppose that was a possibility but I had even less contact with others on Saturday. I hung out with my parents, neither of whom have the app, and spent the day on a deserted beach. I don't think I was within 5 meters of somebody else all day, let alone within 2 meters for 15 or so minutes.

I think McDonalds car park is most likely at this point. I only remembered this just now.

On the subject of vaccines, I thought I'd share an anecdote I just heard on a call with a client.

Major international company. 100k+ employees. (Self reported) vaccination uptake in European staff? 83%. Vaccine uptake in US staff? 45%.

I am really surprised at the difference. My immediate response was "surely not!".

Maybe the forest wasn't as deserted as it seemed...

I wouldn't be surprised if Predator had the app. Seems like a responsible Alien.

Mask — check
Keeps distance — mostly check
Tries to avoid gratuitously harming strangers — ….

Still 2/3 better than many covid deniers I’ve come across.

Comment from a family member (somewhere in Surrey):-

"
At the local primary 26 out of the 60 in yr4 have tested positive. The school sent the whole year home but the DofE ordered all those who are negative to return the next day.
"

For "negative" read "not yet positive".

Our office has started to encourage staff to all come in on a specific day of the week to try and get the office buzz back again and let people have internal meetings IRL - it hasn't officially started yet but this Tuesday it seemed like 80% of people were in. It was slightly overwhelming but nice to see people and socialise for the first time in ages.

Lo and behold I got an email from someone I sat adjacent to at lunchtime saying he's tested positive. Being double jabbed I don't need to isolate and I'm wfh the rest of the week anyway, and I'll do a PCR test tomorrow to be sure, but it's still kind of annoying to now feel paranoid about whether I'm starting to feel ill or not.

Can't decide if it means that it's still too early to be doing this kind of thing or if we just have to deal with it. I imagine the majority of the office is double jabbed, so the risk is lower than unvaxxed kids, but clearly there's a lot of covid still around.

People seem to be overlooking long covid. Sure if you're double jabbed you will likely not get seriously ill, but you might get long covid.

I wonder when a company that mandates return to work will be sued by an employee that gets long covid.

As someone who enjoyes my lungs being 100% long covid is my nightmare.

I was on a family holiday last week - plenty of coughs and colds around the resort. On return sister tested positive for Covid, I came down with nasty cold and lost sense of smell etc but tested negative on PCR, similar situation with other members of family. I’m currently isolating as wasn’t double jabbed long enough before exposure.

Just seeing how quickly everyone came down with this cold that’s doing the rounds made me realise how susceptible we still are to Covid, with schools going back, uni’s, return to work etc, no mask mandates etc get a feeling we’re in for a messy autumn/ winter. It’s certainly gonna make be more cautious over the next few months about what I do with regards to indoor socialising / public transport etc

So Randox tests have to be dropped at a drop box. LOL who knew?!

I would have gladly paid a tenner more for courier collection for some other company if they were upfront about this.

It’s in the ts and cs. You get what you pay for (I went randox). Am assuming in London the drop boxes are all over the place. My closest one was at a Little Chef at a motorway service station, but add in the proceeding to the next junction to turn around to get home it was going to be a long round trip. Thankfully I had to go to Cheltenham (the next closest drop box)anyway so managed to kill two birds with one stone with a much shorter round trip.

Am assuming in London the drop boxes are all over the place.

They kind of are but the 3 nearest for me are 7 miles away lol
Sidcup (FUCK THAT)
Poplar (greenwich lifts are closed and I want to ride ebike)
Finsbury square; will get Prufrock

also whats the rule for dropbox? Obviously the person who is being tested cant go to dropboxes?!

Why? You don’t need to quarantine if you’re returning from an amber/ green list country

Actually it might be in the rules... you are apparently allowed to travel to a test-centre for a PCR while under quarantine.
(A friend who needed a PCR test before a flight didn't want a postal screw-up to delay the result, so found out it was allowed to walk to a test-centre and back).

wut? really? I genuinely did not know that, is it just day 2 and day 8 test now?

Struggling to keep on top of the rules.

Parents are double jabbed but in India (AZ) which wasnt recognised vaccine program till yesterday, now it is but not reflected in any rules yet.

If it's an amber or green country, it's only a day 2 test...

ffs I wasted 80 odd quid then, confused by this mainly:

They are vaccinated but not 'recognised' vaccine program. by UK till yesterday. So I assumed the non-vaccinated rules apply.

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No idea. I guess if they're recognised now then you don't need the day 8 test immediately but if you've already ordered them...

Is it any wonder loads of people break the rules? I bet half of them don't even know.

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Is it any wonder loads of people break the rules? I bet half of them don't even know.

And who is checking up?