Jody wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:11 am
On Friday I went to my mates house for a bath, he wasn't home but his grandmother (Trish) was in the downstairs half of the house.
On entry I could hear 80+ year old Trish coughing and spluttering.
I put on a mask and asked if she was OK. I took a glass of water (from the upstairs kitchen) to her in bed. I was careful not to touch anything and stayed 2m away from her. I washed my hands as soon as I'd left
I rang my mate to give him the update and he reassured me "she often coughs and splutters, it's normal for her"
That evening my mates wife (Sarah) went 'downstairs' to see her and decided a covid test was in order.
Trish was tested, as was her son (Bonny) and my mates wife.
Trish came back as positive yesterday. Bonny's results aren't back and Sarah was negative
I've been self isolating since friday.
I'd like to get a test but according to the Gvt website I'm not eligible, so I guess I just have to keep waiting to see if I get ill !??
You went to your mate's house...for a bath?
You're in a support bubble with them, yes?
Yes. I live alone.
Also....
The house is split in two, flat upstairs and Granny lives downstairs, I went to use the upstairs bathroom and only ventured into "granny's bit" as I could hear her coughing and spluttering.
Also ....
My mate and his wife live in the flat. Both of them had not been in the flat for at least 2 days when I arrived as their work involves overnight stays.
Also....
I'm living in my campervan, i don't have a shower in my van.
... probably should have clarified that on the original post.
I've now ordered a test which should be here tomorrow and I'll get results about 48 hrs after that.
Just learned that my brother was carted off to hospital by ambulance last night with Covid. Currently stable, no other information.
Has been ill for 9 days, GP told him to go to bed it was 'just a virus'. He was twice refused a Covid test because he didn't have the classic cough and altered smell/taste symptoms.
What he did have was aches and pain, particularly in his back, a temperature and bouts of feeling cold and shivering/feeling hot and sweating. Just like flu.
I have a pal from the old VD days, who's completely lost the plot. On Facebook, every day he puts up or links to completely barking conspiracy theories, and there are plenty It's a giggle to visit every day
Yesterday they all agreed that they were the chosen ones to survive. And that EVERY Govt in the world was in on the big plot.
They all backed it up with some maths linked to the dates of 9/11 and some other tosh
Yorick wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:49 pm
I have a pal from the old VD days, who's completely lost the plot. On Facebook, every day he puts up or links to completely barking conspiracy theories, and there are plenty It's a giggle to visit every day
Yesterday they all agreed that they were the chosen ones to survive. And that EVERY Govt in the world was in on the big plot.
They all backed it up with some maths linked to the dates of 9/11 and some other tosh
Hasn't he owned up to banging his head a few too many times?
Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:09 pm
Just learned that my brother was carted off to hospital by ambulance last night with Covid. Currently stable, no other information.
Has been ill for 9 days, GP told him to go to bed it was 'just a virus'. He was twice refused a Covid test because he didn't have the classic cough and altered smell/taste symptoms.
What he did have was aches and pain, particularly in his back, a temperature and bouts of feeling cold and shivering/feeling hot and sweating. Just like flu.
Damn. Hope he's out soon xx
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
A guy I work with was taken to hospital before Christmas and tested positive, he spent the last 3 weeks there. I never met him in person but have been working with him online since lockdown and had a weekly bluejeans meeting with him. Just heard he died yesterday.
Shocking how these reports are coming thick and fast.
Before it was rare if anyone actually knew someone who had died, it's getting close now that everyone actually knows someone who has died, and it will get worse as yet before it gets better.
My mum is back in hospital. On a Covid ward where she is the only non - Covid patient. It’s almost certain she’ll get it- but there are no other choices right now on where to put her because there just is no space.
I’ve been swabbed tonight. ( drive through). I’ve got a mild temperature and this will be the 3rd test I’ve had.
Looks as though I’ll be getting the vaccine next week.
We have a call at 7.30 on Monday mornings in which I indulge my team at my expense with lengthy anecdotes and ask telling questions about their workloads. Also a bit of a Covid update.
There's normally not much to say on the Covid front. X had a test. Y is isolating because someone at their kids' school yadda yadda.
Today: dead people and others in real trouble. It feels like this pandemic has really bitten. Code Brown people, Code Brown, this is not a drill.
To a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothing but bitches and money.
Tis the strangest of things this virus. My Step Mother, who is so frail she cant walk round her bed and sort of struggles to lift a full cup of tea, got the new variant and had no adverse effect at all. My friend has it, so does her Husband and now her 2 (adult) Sons and one of their girlfriends. So 5 people living in the same household with each having different symptoms! My Sons mate has it and has mild loss of taste, but not completely and really achey knee joints but no other symptoms.
@Taipan genuinely glad to hear it. There are many unanswered questions about this virus, it does appear to be somewhat of a lottery. I still think the most dangerous part is the infection rate and its affect on the normal operation of our health system.
After all the "death rate" is "only" circa 1 to 3% which is fine so long as you're not one of the unlucky ones.
Wouldn't want to fall off your bike any time soon though or develop a cancer.
Taipan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:13 pm
Tis the strangest of things this virus. My Step Mother, who is so frail she cant walk round her bed and sort of struggles to lift a full cup of tea, got the new variant and had no adverse effect at all. My friend has it, so does her Husband and now her 2 (adult) Sons and one of their girlfriends. So 5 people living in the same household with each having different symptoms! My Sons mate has it and has mild loss of taste, but not completely and really achey knee joints but no other symptoms.
It's an inflammatory disease so can attack anywhere in the body. Mrs irie recently had a telephone consultation with someone whose partner has Covid but the only symptom is an extremely sore back. Which could be the back or the kidneys, of course,
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
As the missus works in a care home that so far (fingers crossed) has had zero deaths since the start of all this shit we have been very careful. They are tested constantly and she has had a positive in October which turned out to be a false positive.
She is now tested weekly with the normal test and before each shift with a rapid test and is booked in for her vaccine jab on Wednesday.
She pretty much doesnt go near other people and i get to do the shopping trips we need to do as my work all shut down late December. Apart from the supermarket trips we only leave the house to walk the dog, walk a little farther together and my trips out on my MTB every couple of days.
We have our youngest and his g/f now living with us for this lockdown. He is working in the yard for an offshore windfarm company and g/f is also in the same industry but WFH in our spare bedroom where they pretty much live. Give them Broadband, wall mounted big tv and an Xbox and they are happy and she deals with her work on a couple of monitors in that room so we barely see her during the day.
Gedge wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:44 am
My MiL ( 92) has been shielded / isolated since before March lockdown ..just before Xmas she fell and broke her arm and was hospitalised for 10 days .. despite repeated requests they refused to vaccinate her eventhough out patient so over 70 were.. while in a ward the patient next door tested positive but MiL wasn’t tested until just before she was moved to a care home.. A week in she has to go to fracture clinic but NHS refuse to transport as does the care home, so wife and I have to collect her and wife waits with her to be seen by a consultant that didn’t even bother with a mask .... we take her back to care home where she is vaccinated and tested ..this morning test results are back and she is positive ..so now we have to isolate and have both been and had walk in tests ...great start to the year ..
Our test results are back and both negative which is a relief ..We will still have to isolate because of the contact but at least for now we can feel a bit relieved ..
Our friends father in his 70's has just died from COVID. His wife went into hospital for an emergency op, she contracted COVID whilst in hospital and brought it home where he contracted it, went downhill with it and so to hospital and died last night. They'd done everything right and still got it through not fault of their own. Our friend had to tell her Mum and Sister that he'd died over FaceTime.
"Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear Doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."
Wreckless Rat wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:16 am
People say things like covid has a low death rate, case fatality is currently running at about 2.6% in the UK.
If it remained static at that, and it caused no other deaths via overloaded NHS, that’s still a potential 1.7m deaths.
It's not just that, it's the hospitalisation rate that is just as important as the hospitals fill up and then people are at risk of death from other things because they can't get full care.
It's a giggle to visit every day 
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