Testing times - Covid in 2022

[Ella77]

Fingers crossed!

I wish they'd let us have more boosters if we want them. I'd be willing to pay (but I don't think access should be limited to those who can pay).

[Duophonic]

We had a big industry conference this week in London. The rules were very strict with regards to covid with the venue specially chosen to minimise risks. My colleague flew in from Toronto (layover in Boston), he's tested positive and can't get home.

He's assuming he caught it on the flight and was asymptomatic for a few days and testing negative and now positive. He's to test again on Monday.

I think you should be ok Chicky, and have ventilation as Ella mentioned. You should be fine.

[Chicky]

I would happily have another one too. Maybe in the autumn they’ll think again?

So many people I know have had it in the last 6 weeks or so. More than at any other time during the pandemic. Inevitable as we get back to “normal” I guess.

[speedy gonzalez]

My Mum's still waiting for her Spring one. She's meant to be getting one at home like she did previously as it's such a faff getting her out. Needs a hoist to get her in and and out of wheelchair and any external appointment would need to fit in with carers who come 3 or 4 times a day.
Tried contacting her gp and they just say they'll get round to her at some point. Bit concerned as I've seen reports of the Spring booster finishing end of June. Think it be Wales but then it might also apply to England.

[Zoomer]

My aunt got Covid three weeks after her second booster. She'd already had Covid, 2 vaccines, 2 boosters and she still got it. Fuxache.

(She's fine...said symptoms were the same as a heavy cold.)

[Ella77]

A guy in my team is off today because his MIL has just died from it, and her husband is hanging in the balance. They were fully vaccinated and boosted too. It's just awful. I feel so bad for everybody involved as they were so incredibly careful and it still got them.

[Little My]

How dreadfully sad, ella.

I expect the government will provide more boosters in the fall, after riding out relatively low numbers during the summer, but who knows.

We have had a couple of very near scrapes in recent weeks, but none of us have tested positive.

[Disco]

Oh my god that’s awful Ella!

[Topcat]

The Standard are reporting that ONS have confirmed a 43% rise in infections in a week.

[Annabella]

I have just seen that TC. I have been WFH for the last two weeks and will continue to do so as about 10 people from the office have tested positive over that period at varying times.

[Zoomer]

That's really sad, Ella. That poor family!

[sally maclennane]

I'm in a similar situation to you, Chicky. I had a meeting yesterday with one of my team, in a small room Of course, they have now tested positive for Covid. I have looked online and can't really see any guidance apart from vague stuff about avoiding people. I have no plans this weekend anyway other than seeing my mum which I'll cancel. I did a LFT this morning as I was going to another school and I feel okay at the moment.

Between that meeting yesterday and finding out today, I have seen about 10 different staff as I was in the office, at another school, and back to the office

[Ella77]

That's really sad, Ella. That poor family!

I know, I’m so sad for them. She had dementia too, and they had been married over 60 years .

I hope you all continue to avoid it. Stay well.

[Pippedydeadeye]

It feels like completely the wrong time for hospitals to be ditching masks, but they are. We were told non-public areas could be mask free, and checked, it didn’t apply to the library (obviously). But then two days later, all bets & masks are off.

Even with all we know now about how to treat it, and the vaccines, people are still dying & it’s awful.

[Ella77]

You can still wear a mask if you want to, though?

[Pippedydeadeye]

Oh absolutely. It just feels really weird.

[Pippedydeadeye]

Both wearing and not wearing!

[Ella77]

Men (as a group) react REALLY badly to women wearing masks nowadays.

[Edith Bacon]

It’s such a counter-intuitive move. I’ve got a lot of cognitive dissonance going on between moves like this (Pip’s hospital) and the news about a 43% increase in cases, new variants and text messages from blood.co.uk urging people to attend appointments ‘despite the current covid situation’. It feels like gaslighting.

[speedy gonzalez]

Our hospital has ditched masks as well for non-clinical areas. There's staff wandering round the main corridors without masks as well. Hardly sets the best impression to the visitors & patients. I'm in a student library and all I can do is put a note on the door saying we appreciate mask wearing. Though to be fair to the students they've been better than some of the qualified staff.