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

About a third of my Saino's home delivery was unavailable. Pretty much everything chilled or frozen missing plus a few other random things (Hula hoops - Oh the humanity!)

Guess that's a staff issue rather than supply chain.

https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1473399694651006976

It appears that my employer intends to contravene Welsh legislation by getting back in to the office 4+ days a week next year risking a £10k fine and £60 for each employee, unless they can somehow argue that somehow 40 people can't operate computers from home.

Haven't decided how to handle this one yet. My last grievance about a lack of ventilation was met with a slightly passive aggressive chat with a director accompanied by a scramble to update their risk assessment.

Luckily they didn’t ask me to open the box of Christmas crackers I smuggled into the country…

Move in boys we have a confession!!

Quarantine reduced from 10 days to 7 as long as 2 negative LFTs on day 6 and 7.

Not sure if this is from first positive test or symptoms

It also applies to anyone currently in isolation, so people who tested positive or first showed symptoms on Friday last week could end their isolation in time for Christmas Day if they meet the conditions.

From the BBC.

Seems sensible based on the graph a few pages back.

Doesn't sound like they are that confident about it -

if you end your self-isolation period before 10 full days you are strongly advised:

to limit close contact with other people outside your household, especially in crowded, enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces
to work from home if you are able to
in addition to venues where it is a legal requirement, to wear a face covering in crowded, enclosed or poorly ventilated spaces and where you are in close contact with other people
to limit contact with anyone who is at higher risk of severe illness if infected with COVID-19

Sounds more like they are trying to let as many people with omicron spread it as much as possible over Christmas.

Isn’t that just repetition of current guidance?
There is the upside that it might mean more people are likely to isolate.

Tested positive. Wonderful. Thanks, nursery settling in. Probably nothing else it could have been, 10 month old had a fever two days ago and is the only person who has “seen” anyone (I.e. crawling over others and licking filthy toys

Could be - haven't been looking at that. But there doesn't seem to be any reason (other than Christmas) or new data to suddenly change the guidance.

Here’s the graph from a few pages back, given 7 days equates to at least 9 on the below. Coupled with testing for release seems ok?

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I've been using disposable FFP2 masks for months. You can use them a lot more than the official usage life as @Stonehedge says but you have to bin them eventually.

I tried lots of pharmacies at the time, no joy, so ordered from Amazon. Honestly at the moment if you go around multiple shops trying to find them with a standard face covering which offers zero protection from contracting the virus you're probably undermining a lot of the benefit of FFP2/3 masks with those interactions! I would be avoiding shops where possible pre-Christmas.

I was talking about the 'explosives' in the crackers.
Pretty importing them is controlled?

https://twitter.com/Dr_D_Robertson/status/1473621041771651083

Fair, yeah disposables seem like the way to go. I haven't gone out shopping! The online shop posted upthread looks good. No Amazon pls.

I thought they were changing it to help deal with staff shortages in key workers, basically get people back too work sooner

Whilst allowing folks to self-cert for 28days instead of 7...

Isn’t that because getting a doctors note or GP appointment is practically impossible?

I can see people pulling a fake sickie, doing a test to extend the time off sick, and finding that they test positive and have to be off longer than expected.

Yeh but that has been changed to remove pressures from GP's
People who aren't sick and want the time off will find ways to, might as well let them without wasting GP time

I can vouch for rs-online, they are a huge seller of manufacturing industry equipment, electrical components, and such. My last purchase from them (some uncommon video cables) I picked up from their branch in Bermondsey. They may even have masks in store there, I don't remember. It was more of a showroom than a shop.

& @Acliff yes, understood. Be interesting to see which is utilised more, opportunity to return to work 3 days earlier or opportunity to have 18 days more off.

I expect that depends a lot on individual circumstances. If you are on a zero hours contract with no sick pay you are more likely to want to get back to work. Perhaps keen enough to submit an LFT result after swabbing your nose a little less than someone else might.

Website is awful though, slow with poor search and filter functions. But next day delivery!

classic example of something built by engineers for engineers, haha