Stealth Omicron

[Wscad]

Mrs Wscad has been looking on Chinese websites and virology experts there are predicting the virus will burn itself out by spring.

The logic being it has nowhere to go. SARS burnt itself out in 2003.

Fingers crossed let’s hope that happens.

Merry Christmas everyone

[Mussels]

Mrs Wscad has been looking on Chinese websites and virology experts there are predicting the virus will burn itself out by spring.

The logic being it has nowhere to go. SARS burnt itself out in 2003.

Fingers crossed let’s hope that happens.

Merry Christmas everyone

Is that just wishful thinking along party lines as the Chinese have given up on the vaccine model?

[Supermofo]

Ain't played it since the early 90s and struggled to get anyone to play in my family. Waiting for my son to grow up just a tad more and he'll play it with me as he's world war 2 nuts.

Colditz night in Hertfordshire when the weather gets better.

If you escape you'll have to cross the bandit country that is Essex

[Asian Boss]

Wadington's Buccaneer is not bad. I think I paid £50 for mine of t'bay.

[Asian Boss]

We are seeing a definite spike in the acuity (severity) of mental health referrals. The volumes are up generally across the board, with kids’ referrals up 170%- but it’s the volumes of crisis referrals we’re getting. We can’t cope with the pressure because quite frankly we’re so threadbare as a resource, we were struggling before.

Lots and lots of anxiety. Stress. Having to live more with people you have a difficult relationship. Having to live more on your own with no social contact with work colleagues because you have to WFH.

Adult suicides aren’t up ( I don’t want to use death as the barometer here) but there is also a bit of a blurred line between normal reaction to losing job/worrying about pandemic …and mental health.

It will be far reaching- but it’s also massively impacting the physical health world- delays and queues and ops being cancelled. All a big mess right now.

On a personal level- I’ve been asked to cancel my annual leave over Xmas and come in. Ordinarily I would, but it’s been a very tough few months and I will go bang without the pause. Don’t feel great about that decision, but there we are.

Don't feel bad. I remember Cheb saying the coast guard prioritises themselves first, then their crew and the people third. Which sounds harsh but if you don't everything falls over.

[Asian Boss]

Oh and Covid: both my kids have tested positive for it.

Fortunately they're at their mum's house.

Leaving me free to have a proper PAWG'y Crimbo!

[Wscad]

Good question mussels

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Wadington's Buccaneer is not bad. I think I paid £50 for mine of t'bay.

Does it start with carrier based low level tactical nuclear strikes in the 1960s and finish with precision laser guided bombing in the first Gulf War, with a holiday in South Africa in between?

[Horse]

I remember Cheb saying the coast guard prioritises themselves first, then their crew and the people third. Which sounds harsh but if you don't everything falls over.

First rule of first aid is 'look after the first aider'.

[slowsider]

Potter's xmas holiday is like a rescue helicopter and crew ?

[Le_Fromage_Grande]

Our HV people get paid good money, and are regularly getting job offers to go elsewhere.

[slowsider]

Potter's xmas holiday is like a rescue helicopter and crew ?

I was the Chief Engineer for a power station and I was also the only High Voltage Authorised Person, which means I was the only one that could do switching - it's very dangerous and very illegal to do it without the right appointment. If I walked off then they'd have to fly someone in to replace me and there aren't that many people in the world who do stuff like that in places where other people might not want to, so surprisingly there aren't loads of suitably skilled and appointed people sitting on a shelf waiting to fly off to somewhere.

If the power fails and no one puts it back on then the cause and effects are significant, people and babies in hospitals die, infrastructure fails, sewage stops, essential services like telephones stop working, etc.
I'm not making any claims as to who's Xmas holiday is more important, but I know I got paid several times more than a helicopter rescue pilot would - I didn't get hero status or the bragging rights that a rescue helicopter pilot would though

Your public/private argument is a bit meaningless now that you are arguing that the end user would suffer rather than not buy your service.
The reason for protecting the human asset is to ensure continuity of service, which is the same reason that you weren't spared. Why didn't the chief engineer require another HVAP to be trained?

[Asian Boss]

Potter's xmas holiday is like a rescue helicopter and crew ?

I thought he meant more like emergency plumbing. 24 hour call out. Triple bubble on Christmas Day. All the tickets.


Edit: sorrry, no , looks more like sparking.

[slowsider]

Why didn't the chief engineer require another HVAP to be trained?

When people cost a million quid a year they tend to be dished out sparingly.

They usually get xmas off too.

[DefTrap]

I think we've all had roles where we were indispensable and our pathetic monkey actions were written into Disaster Recovery planning.
It just amounts to poor analysis and planning. And often a mug who'll forego Christmas four times on the trot.

[Yambo]

When people cost a million quid a year they tend to be dished out sparingly.

Trust me, if you'd dropped dead from whatever reason, you'd have been replaced. Quite quickly.

You haven't done the importance test, which is a little surprising but understandable.

[Mr. Dazzle]

if all plumbers downed tools there would be people on the streets.

Locksmiths too.

[wheelnut]

You could always start a thread with the title ‘How important are you?’, but the problem is, except to our family and friends, none of us are important at all.

If any of us were to disappear it would be like dropping a stone in a bowl of porridge, it may leave a hole for a split second but it would be instantly covered up with no ripples.

[Yambo]

That's very close to my importance test wheelnut. Put your arm into a bucket of water, take it out and the size of the hole you leave is the size of your importance. Again there may be some ripples but they never last long.

With my test you get a wet arm - you aren't so important that you can use someone else's arm

[Horse]

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