[Boiler]

These ‘merican anti vaxxers! Looking at a lot of them, seem to be “I’m a real man because I go to the gym everyday” types…wonder how much steroids they’ve pumped into themselves

Trying to remember if it was here or elsewhere I saw a picture - which admittedly may well have been faked - of an American 'truck' with a sticker in the window saying "No airbags - we die like men." in it.

Must've been fake.

Surely...?

[Samanfur]

A quick look at Google offers plenty of versions, but I have to xall Poe on how serious some of them are.

[Boiler]

Some interesting logic going on here, from a poster elsewhere with a "no masks" avatar:

I am cognisant of others' concerns regarding personal space and make a point of keeping some distance from those wearing masks, as I view them as being the threat to my health and wellbeing, since I DON'T have Coronavirus, but those wearing a mask think they have it and don't want to spread it. Or have I got this wrong.........?

It garnered a two word response:

"You're wrong."

Later responses were longer and less diplomatic.

[mattomac]

To be honest if you wear a mask, use hand gel and so on, I would assume you also test relatively regularly.

If you don’t do that I assume you haven’t taken a test ever, case in point I went in a shop and it was me and an elderly woman who were the only two masked, I’m protecting her and she is protecting others but if I’m totally honest we probably aren’t the ones who are going have it.

[Boiler]

To be honest if you wear a mask, use hand gel and so on, I would assume you also test relatively regularly.

Actually, I don't - I found it very uncomfortable the first time, the second time the test didn't work.

By contrast, whenever my brother visits his family or his friends, he does a test prior to going.

[Boiler]

I expect this will provoke outrage amongst the Selfish Squad;

Vaccine passports to start in England this month

[Cyclist]

Typical of our reactive "government". This is something that should have been in place *before* they told the booze and festival industries they could reopen.

There's nothing like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. Still, that's what our rulers are good at - implementing decent measures in a half-arsed way. Too little too late.

[mattomac]

To be honest if you wear a mask, use hand gel and so on, I would assume you also test relatively regularly.

Actually, I don't - I found it very uncomfortable the first time, the second time the test didn't work.

By contrast, whenever my brother visits his family or his friends, he does a test prior to going. We still don't know how he never got infected with the original virus (in March 2020) when he was living normally and sleeping with his wife - and she did have it. It was just dismissed as "it's a flare-up of your asthma" by her GP and they thought no more of it.

I assume you wear a mask and sanitise though? Otherwise ….

[Boiler]

I assume you wear a mask and sanitise though? Otherwise ….

*Always* - depending upon the environment the mask will be either a IIR (if everyone else is wearing one) or a valveless FFP2. I keep sanitiser in the car and a small squeezy bottle in my coat pocket.

[Cyclist]

Nobody could possibly have anticipated this*...

Nearly a third of people arriving in England and Northern Ireland as the coronavirus Delta variant took off may have broken quarantine rules.

More than 300,000 cases were passed to investigators between March and May, according to figures seen by the BBC.

The government was not able to say how many of these were found to have broken the rules or could not be traced.

The Home Office has said it aims to pay home visits to all travellers suspected of not following the rules.

But Labour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the figures obtained by the BBC "confirm our worst fears" about the government's "lax border policy".

And he accused the Home Office of "gross negligence"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58517123

One or two "bad boys", maybe, but a third of a million?




* except for everybody and their dog who said this would happen, obviously.

[Boiler]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Come away from a forum like this and find one more right wing/less intelligent in its tendencies and you'll get plenty of "I'll do what I like and the government can fuck off" - or you could be like those who will say things like "I can wear a mask and I can keep my distance from others, so I will not be subjected to house arrest by these clowns" whilst looking for every tiny loophole to exploit.

[Boiler]

Long Covid less common than feared - ONS study

Comments are as you'd expect.

[The All New KevS]

Rumours abounding on that there Twitter that Peter Bone has the lurgy.

That'll be the same Peter Bone who crammed in next to a couple of hundred of his maskless colleagues earlier this week, will it?

Interesting.

[The All New KevS]

Or not...

[Boiler]

Sitting here desperately trying not to panic about my asthmatic forty year old nephew, who's contracted Covid - we suspect from a student at school. Was told he had a very bad night last night with blood sats below 90%; he rang 111 but didn't get a reply until six and a half hours later. Luckily he was able to talk to his brother in law, who's a paramedic.

I am hoping and yes, praying that he recovers from this.

[Bones McCoy]

In all, Covid has been a stark reminder of "why we can't have nice things".

[mattomac]

The two benchers told you everything you need to know, one side mostly with masks, the other mostly not.

Considering masks protect others it said a lot.

[Boiler]

It would appear that HMG has published its winter strategy for dealing with Covid.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... n-2021.pdf

(links to PDF file)

BBC Explainer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-52530518

Basically, "Plan A" assumes manageable cases, "Plan B" assumes it all goes wrong in which case masks will become compulsory in some settings and WFH would return, along with the introduction of vaccine passports.

Plan A includes Covid booster jabs for the vulnerable; I've read of a few people who've been and had theirs; I'll have to enquire of my older relatives if they'd had one yet.

[Nigredo]

My 71 year old dad is yet to hear anything about getting his booster. I presume they're doing it on a similar time frame to the original rollout which mean he gets invited around about the start of November.

I've got my seasonal flu jab next Tuesday. Every little helps I suppose.

[Boiler]

In theory, the boosters are meant to be six months after the last dose so in my case, it'll be mid-November. Speaking to m-i-l tonight (she's 85) she had hers a couple of weeks ago: she was one of those who had the original three week gap between injections.