Coronavirus

I think that's what fascinates me the most about these people. The thought processes behind reading something online from some rando claiming to be a descendant of king Arthur and thinking "yeah, spot on, everything I thought I knew was a lie"

I guess it helps that your new king then says "you don't need to pay your council tax or any other bills any more"

I wasn’t sure so thought I’d get a pcr to be safe (work will pay). It actually says 72 hours prior to flight departure so I should be ok for Friday afternoon.

You say that, at work we have a driver who takes the lift up one flight as he is knackered after doing the stairs.

Infection rates in my area are now as high as they were at the previous peak. Good job the vaccine has been rolled out or we'd be in a real mess.

It seems most people I know have covid at the moment.

The sheer volume of tests that lab fucked up means it's pretty credible to infer several people would have lost their lives due to it. But yeah it was in the news for a day and there was no expose despite the same lab having a litany of dodgy scandals in the last 12 months. Not least of which why they were commissioned in the first place.

I see pretty packed buses driving past, windows shut and no fuckers wearing a mask. At least supermarkets are relatively spacious, I can't fathom why people wouldn't wear one on a stuffy bus sat next to dozens of strangers for half an hour.

I reckon the bubble system was by far the most effective intervention all said and done. And making siblings of infected kids isolate rather than the current approach of literally insisting they come in to school.

Still getting near 95% mask wearing in my local shops in Glasgow. Schools still wearing them. Still far too much of it kicking about though.

I don't get people who won't wear them. I think very few of the people with "exemptions" do, they are just arseholes.

I don't pay much attention when out and about but it seems on buses and shops in Belfast masks are still being used quite a bit, so much that when I do see someone without one I still get surprised a bit. We seem to have settled on 1000-1500 infections and 5-10 deaths a day as our acceptable rate/loss and it doesn't seem to be going down.

Only places I don't see people wear them is at work as the places I clean (civil service buildings) it's only the cleaners that are expected to wear them full time. The rest are meant to wear them when leaving their desk but I rarely see it happen.

It's such a simple thing to do as well. People are just selfish pricks, there's no other reason.

I went to do an estimate yesterday. As they opened the food I said I had masks if they would prefer that we wore them. Was told the whole family had the virus last year

Which instantly told me to shelve my standard tableau of jokes

Supposed to be flying back to the UK in six days, getting tested (voluntarily) in two, woke up today with a sore throat, sinus pressure, headache and mild fever. Now my anxiety is playing the “cold or Covid?” guessing game. Fuck.

Yeah I've had a cold since about August. But that's mainly due to having a 6 year old. Maybe it's cat flu.

Bloody annoying timing to say the least, I have a cold just now, 1st in 2 years, went to GP the other day and got tested. 1st time I thought "I might actually have Covid". Just a bog standard cold though...

Not just yesterdays, deaths were low all weekend the weekend which means it's always high on Tuesdays.

Cases continue to come down anyway. Wonder how much of it is to do with half term or whether we are reaching some kind of big drop that the models are apparently predicting.