Horse wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:48 pm
Given that LF tests are unavailable
I keep hearing this, yet for the past 12+ months we've had a box drop through the letter box regular as clockwork, ordered weekly on the NHS website to arrive 2 days later
Daughter goes back to Uni next week, so ordered herself a box, and has been received
Horse wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:48 pm
Given that LF tests are unavailable
I keep hearing this, yet for the past 12+ months we've had a box drop through the letter box regular as clockwork, ordered weekly on the NHS website to arrive 2 days later, there are 3 boxes sitting in the bathroom right this very minute.
Daughter goes back to Uni next week, so ordered herself a box, and has been received, Uni also inform her that they have ample supplies for students to collect when they go back in.
From my perspective then it's just another politician talking out of his arse.
I was sceptical, because of the 'news' and on here, I though my the company my wife works for had bulk bought and was sending them out to their 'engineers', but nope she's been ordering them herself straight from the NHS and has never not been able to get a supply.
Don't bother me none, I think I've only done 2 LF's and 1 PCR since this mess began
I keep hearing this, yet for the past 12+ months we've had a box drop through the letter box regular as clockwork, ordered weekly on the NHS website to arrive 2 days later
Daughter goes back to Uni next week, so ordered herself a box, and has been received
Several attempts for online orders, 'no deliveries available'. Three nearest chemists all out of stock.
FWIW the online system now asks whether you are an NHS employee.
And the wife hasn't had a problem once getting kits.
She tests 2 or 3 times a week as she's a service 'engineer' going to clients sites day in day out and they require negative results.
I keep hearing this, yet for the past 12+ months we've had a box drop through the letter box regular as clockwork, ordered weekly on the NHS website to arrive 2 days later
Daughter goes back to Uni next week, so ordered herself a box, and has been received
The UK has seen record numbers of daily cases over the festive period
Given that LF tests are unavailable and PCRs are apparently almost all, if not fully, booked, you have to wonder what the number of infections actually is.
I thought the quoted figures are based on statistical samples
I was presuming (never assume) that the daily reported lab confirmed figures are better than any estimate.
eg: local news site
"The number of lab-confirmed coronavirus cases in West Berkshire is now 26,218 – an increase of 577 in the last 24 hours.
"West Berkshire's seven-day rolling rate per 100,000 population is 1,087.9, with 1,724 cases in the seven days to December 27."
Several attempts for online orders, 'no deliveries available'. Three nearest chemists all out of stock.
FWIW the online system now asks whether you are an NHS employee.
And the wife hasn't had a problem once getting kits.
She tests 2 or 3 times a week as she's a service 'engineer' going to clients sites day in day out and they require negative results.
Postcode lottery mayhaps, who knows?
I was trying to get hold of some before Christmas. Four pharmacies in Hertford where I was starting all had a notice on the door, "no lateral flow kits, no delivery date". Widening the search a bit to neighbouring towns and the story was the same. As you say, probably a postcode lottery.
Given that LF tests are unavailable and PCRs are apparently almost all, if not fully, booked, you have to wonder what the number of infections actually is.
I thought the quoted figures are based on statistical samples
I was presuming (never assume) that the daily reported lab confirmed figures are better than any estimate.
Prolly. But the ONS survey has about 150,000 participants in their sample and the methodology is, as you'd expect, pretty solid. Either way, as they say, there's a lot of it about. ie 1 in 25 people may be infected at the current time.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Count Steer wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 5:23 pm the ONS survey has about 150,000 participants in their sample and the methodology is, as you'd expect, pretty solid.
Daily new cases
in England
Reported on 1 Jan 2022 162,572
Lutin wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:49 pm
It's almost as if Bozo has hit on the idea of the longer that he can keep covid rife in the community, and the subsequent disruption to the economy, the longer he can kid the country that the economic woes are due to covid and not the utter disaster that is brexit.
Maybe he's not quite as stupid as I thought he was.
But - he still has to work out a way out of the utter shambles he's created.
Nah, Covid is nuffink, the economic woes are all down to Brexit. As they are also in the USA, Germany, France, the list goes on.
Fuck me, even China is succumbing to the Brexits!
Powerful stuff indeed.
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:11 pm
Is it wrong that I give 25 wanker points to anyone who uses Bozo when describing Boris. It's fucking pathetic
It's amost as annoying as people insisting on calling Johnson by his stage name of 'Boris' when his family and friends actually call him by his first name - 'Alex'.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:11 pm
Is it wrong that I give 25 wanker points to anyone who uses Bozo when describing Boris. It's fucking pathetic
It's amost as annoying as people insisting on calling Johnson by his stage name of 'Boris' when his family and friends actually call him by his first name - 'Alex'.
The same one who's called Boris in every single political speech, newspaper, article and even uses that himself ?
weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:11 pm
Is it wrong that I give 25 wanker points to anyone who uses Bozo when describing Boris. It's fucking pathetic
It's amost as annoying as people insisting on calling Johnson by his stage name of 'Boris' when his family and friends actually call him by his first name - 'Alex'.
The same one who's called Boris in every single political speech, newspaper, article and even uses that himself ?
Yup. Really irritating innit? Most public figures are referred to by their surname and he's a total Johnson.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:11 pm
Is it wrong that I give 25 wanker points to anyone who uses Bozo when describing Boris. It's fucking pathetic
It's amost as annoying as people insisting on calling Johnson by his stage name of 'Boris' when his family and friends actually call him by his first name - 'Alex'.
Actually 'Alexander'. His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
[Edit: according to Wikipedia, he's known as 'Al']
But being 'known' by different names isn't unusual. Friends, and some colleagues (by invitation), use slightly different names for me.
And, of course, most of us aren't known by either our given or chosen names.
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weeksy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 8:11 pm
Is it wrong that I give 25 wanker points to anyone who uses Bozo when describing Boris. It's fucking pathetic
It's amost as annoying as people insisting on calling Johnson by his stage name of 'Boris' when his family and friends actually call him by his first name - 'Alex'.
Actually 'Alexander'. His full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
But being 'known' by different names isn't unusual. Friends, and some colleagues (by invitation), use slightly different names for me.
And, of course, most of us aren't known by either our given or chosen names.
Very true Hoss.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Lutin wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 2:49 pm
It's almost as if Bozo has hit on the idea of the longer that he can keep covid rife in the community, and the subsequent disruption to the economy, the longer he can kid the country that the economic woes are due to covid and not the utter disaster that is brexit.
Maybe he's not quite as stupid as I thought he was.
But - he still has to work out a way out of the utter shambles he's created.
What do you think boris should do to ‘solve’ covid? If you’ve got a great suggestion I’m sure he’d like to hear it.
