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Post by jellyhead on Sept 21, 2021 12:40:41 GMT
Our place has rolled back their previous thoughts and now seem desperate to get people back in the buildings. From next week we have a mandatory 50% back in the office requirement and now managers are arguing over which days they want their teams to be in for.
Also, with all the students coming in from all over the place and staff returning in numbers and tons of them having kids who are at schools i reckon there's going to be illness galore in a month's time. Some of it will be COVID and a lot of it will be people who have been isolating for the last 18 months just not having the usual exposure to coughs and colds and so their antibodies will be down. It's "Tales from my Ass" of course but i suspect shit's going to run rampant this winter.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 13:04:41 GMT
And now I'm positive too - which is something of a relief tbh, assuming symptoms don't worsen. Has meant the the Headteacher is having to deliver my daughter back home after school, as we have no-one else who can go and get her!
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 21, 2021 13:09:11 GMT
Hopefully, it stays mild for you all.
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 21, 2021 13:12:09 GMT
And now I'm positive too - which is something of a relief tbh, assuming symptoms don't worsen. Has meant the the Headteacher is having to deliver my daughter back home after school, as we have no-one else who can go and get her! Unlucky mate - lets hope you squeak through with no symptoms |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2021 13:13:45 GMT
Yeah godspeed little dougle
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Post by richardiox on Sept 21, 2021 13:15:52 GMT
It's almost at the point where assuming you are double jabbed, catching Covid with mild symptoms is something we should actually be weirdly aspiring for before the Vax protection starts to wane. If it's a case of "we are all going to get Covid at some point" in many ways I just want to get it over with and hope for mild symptoms with no lasting effects. Then you also benefit from further increased protection.
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Post by jimnastics on Sept 21, 2021 13:41:51 GMT
I should get mine free but last year, I was way down the surgery list, so opted to pay for it anyway. I get mine done at Lloyds Pharmacy and they always ask if I'm eligible for a free one (which I am with asthma), I've never had to pay whether it's been Boots or Lloyds. |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 13:42:02 GMT
Tbh, more worried about the mental side of things with my wife. Because she suffers from panic attacks, and had a major one at Christmas combined with an asthma attack, she thinks the same thing is going to happen again. The anxiety then causes her to become tight-chested and the whole cycle starts again. Along with the usual maternal worries. I'm just kicking it's arse again.
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Post by grizzly on Sept 21, 2021 15:23:14 GMT
Tbh, more worried about the mental side of things with my wife. Because she suffers from panic attacks, and had a major one at Christmas combined with an asthma attack, she thinks the same thing is going to happen again. The anxiety then causes her to become tight-chested and the whole cycle starts again. Along with the usual maternal worries. I'm just kicking it's arse again. Oh that's awful. I suffer from the same issue and it's often very painful. Having Oxazepam on hand helps, even when I haven't used it for months, as did my ADHD being diagnosed and getting treated. But I'm sure you already know a whole lot about that sorta thing.
As a small aside, "Alice Isn't Dead" is a podcast and now also book written by Joseph Fink, of "Welcome to Night Vale" fame. It's horror with the protagonist suffering from anxiety disorder, and Joseph Fink himself also has anxiety disorder. Might be interesting? This is him reading out the (since scrapped) foreword. |
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 15:42:20 GMT
Thanks Grizzly! She has some diazepam for emergencies and that's taken the edge off a bit. Half the problem is that she's been fretting about any of us catching it and now it's here, is in something of a tailspin.
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Post by jeepers on Sept 21, 2021 15:55:53 GMT
Hope you and family are ok Dougs. Get well soon.
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Post by RobEG on Sept 21, 2021 16:58:40 GMT
Sorry to hear that dougs. Hope you are all ok.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 17:05:23 GMT
Thanks chaps. We'll all be grand in a few days.
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Post by nexus6 on Sept 21, 2021 17:43:48 GMT
Try telling her, in a firm tone, to just calm down.
Should work.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 17:44:21 GMT
Mental health nursing 101 innit?
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Post by richardiox on Sept 21, 2021 18:37:18 GMT
So for the first time in the pandemic, over 52% of recorded cases in the UK are in the 19 and under cohort. Up from about 30% just two weeks ago as schools went back.
I find that pretty insane.
The previous high for that demo was a 38% share in late May.
I know the company line is that "schools aren't sources of community transmission" and is still trotted out but really, what the fuck is this shit? Map school term dates to case rates and it's a no brainer. Or school terms to % of <19s infected.
I'm baffled as to why my son's primary school has done away with every mitigation (not baffle really, they're just following DfE advice).
Sooner we can Vax the little fuckers the better at this point. Although my usual caveat applies, it's probably a necessary evil to try and get as many kids infected as possible if we ever want a chance of getting through this pandemic.
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Post by Sarfrin on Sept 21, 2021 19:29:32 GMT
I've had 8 cases in my class in the last week and a half (including one adult). Fortunately the official guidelines leap into action by suggesting we continue with exactly the same precautions that haven't prevented it so far but also wear masks in communal areas now.
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Post by richardiox on Sept 21, 2021 19:45:12 GMT
Not sending whole classes home to isolate after one or two positive cases pretty much guarantees that every day for the next week or so they'll be at least one pre-symptomatic kid (child B) sat in class infecting the people that child A missed. And so on and so forth.
It's so emblematic of our governments current approach...
Pingdemic? Do we need to reintroduce measures? nah, just tune down and discredit the app.
Whole classes being sent home disprupting the workforce, kids missing lessons, Gav Williamson getting headaches. Do we need to do more in schools to manage infections? nah, just do away with the bubble policy.
How do we stop forest fires? Just cut down all the trees.
As far as I can gather we're the only country in Europe fully open with no restrictions to speak of? And also have one of the highest infection rates in Europe
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 19:45:39 GMT
Madness innit.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 21, 2021 19:47:58 GMT
Oh, and I offered to keep my daughter off, given the other 3 of us are positive (plus we cannot get her there and back) and the lovely Headteacher is going to pick her up and bring her back. Waaaay beyond the call of duty. And given at some point my daughter It's likely will be positive, Utterly baffling. (but amazing by her nonetheless)
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 21, 2021 21:36:48 GMT
Shit, hope you and the family get through this ok, Dougs.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 22, 2021 6:22:51 GMT
An eventful night, I guess. My wife was sick every 30 mins or so. Can't keep anything down at all. Despite taking antiemetics. Going to call the doc this morning, see if they can advise anything else.
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Post by Danno on Sept 22, 2021 6:50:26 GMT
Oh jeez. Hope she gets better quick Dougster.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 22, 2021 6:57:57 GMT
This is a fairly normal response by her body once she starts throwing up but had hoped the antiemetics would work more quickly (not convinced she's kept them down long enough tbh). Anyway, enough of my woes. Just glad I'm feeling ok so I can sort the kids out. That's the worst!
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Post by Reviewer on Sept 22, 2021 7:03:03 GMT
Although her going in seems a bad decision by the headteacher that’s amazing that they’ll take her in. Is it a small school or has she got her own minibus?
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Post by elstoof on Sept 22, 2021 7:30:15 GMT
Yikes Doug, good luck and all that
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Post by Dougs on Sept 22, 2021 7:46:46 GMT
Although her going in seems a bad decision by the headteacher that’s amazing that they’ll take her in. Is it a small school or has she got her own minibus? Only a one form entry, 5 mins walk from the house so the Head is walking up to get her. It's amazing, but I guess from her perspective, she (or we) will get it in the neck as it's not a valid reason to not attend. Apparently. |
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Post by larrybong on Sept 22, 2021 9:49:47 GMT
Although her going in seems a bad decision by the headteacher that’s amazing that they’ll take her in. Is it a small school or has she got her own minibus? Only a one form entry, 5 mins walk from the house so the Head is walking up to get her. It's amazing, but I guess from her perspective, she (or we) will get it in the neck as it's not a valid reason to not attend. Apparently. Whilst I appreciate the head's problem it really should be a valid reason not to attend. Madness. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 9:54:07 GMT
Went for week 2 of the couch to 5k (its really worth doing and free on app store) and its fucking insane how the parents are just standing out side close to each other (no masks) especially with the rising cases in schools. Been then again, outside my my house, the men just stand in the road talking, had to use the car horn to get them to move last week. A bunch of piers morgans...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 9:56:13 GMT
I'm not sure everyone in the house she lives in being infected with the incredibly infectious disease that has ground the entire world to a halt for the past 18 months is really any grounds for the girl to miss a few days of school. What if they were learning about Geoffrey Chaucer that week, what then?
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