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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Beezerk said:
So what time is everyone starting to queue outside their local on the 4th? ?
Just a random thought, I wonder if they can open at midnight on the Friday night?
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Reckon I will be in at 12.00. Need to try and get a haircut first. as the barbers open at 7, I am guessing I may be queuing form 6-6.30 to get in on Saturday
 
yandabrown said:
I've just had a test today as I have been coughing the last couple
of days. Basically you need to have the test within 5 days of getting symptoms. More details here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coron...-for-a-test-to-check-if-you-have-coronavirus/
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Delighted to have got results back very quickly (email and text at 3 this morning having had the test at lunchtime yesterday) and more importantly that it was negative ?
Sorry I couldn't help ColchesterFC but good luck with getting paid for drinking brandy and playing games ?
 
ColchesterFC said:
Cheers. We've got plans in place for me to isolate for the full 14 days if needed but was hoping that I could shorten that period with a negative test. Now just got to hope that the client will agree to pay me half day rate to isolate again like the last job so that I can get paid to sit in my caravan on the drive drinking brandy and playing on the PS4.
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You can't shorten the period with a negative test because a negative test cannot show that you are not still incubating the disease but are not yet shedding virus.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Thanks for that, even though it's not what I wanted to hear.
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Sorry about that looking at you original question though, how long are you on the survey boat for and how many are on it and is there any chance for any mixing away from the boat on landings etc?
If there are a limited number of people on it and everyone is away for over fourteen days and no one develops symptoms in those fourteen days you should be reasonably safe.
 
Backache said:
Sorry about that looking at you original question though, how long are you on the survey boat for and how many are on it and is there any chance for any mixing away from the boat on landings etc?
If there are a limited number of people on it and everyone is away for over fourteen days and no one develops symptoms in those fourteen days you should be reasonably safe.
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It's a small boat so only about 6 of us on it but it's 12 hour operations only and staying ashore in the evening. Ill have my own apartment but the others are in a B+B so could be mixing with others.
 
ColchesterFC said:
It's a small boat so only about 6 of us on it but it's 12 hour operations only and staying ashore in the evening. Ill have my own apartment but the others are in a B+B so could be mixing with others.
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If you have someone at home who is high risk you could be a risk to them if you don't quarantine for a fortnight then.
 
Backache said:
If you have someone at home who is high risk you could be a risk to them if you don't quarantine for a fortnight then.
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Yep, Mrs Colch has severe asthma so is high risk. Had to do 2 weeks in the caravan after my last job as we had 5 people on board who had the symptoms and the job ended up getting shut down. I'd been hoping that getting a test would mean I could reduce that but looks like I'll have to do the full two weeks. Just got to hope that weather has cooled down a bit by the time I get back or it could be quite unpleasant in a tin box in high temperatures.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Yep, Mrs Colch has severe asthma so is high risk. Had to do 2 weeks in the caravan after my last job as we had 5 people on board who had the symptoms and the job ended up getting shut down. I'd been hoping that getting a test would mean I could reduce that but looks like I'll have to do the full two weeks. Just got to hope that weather has cooled down a bit by the time I get back or it could be quite unpleasant in a tin box in high temperatures.
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Good luck with it, the absolute level of risk will depend on the local prevalence of Covid but if someone is shielding and quarantine is recommended I'm afraid it's 14 days.
 
Backache said:
Good luck with it, the absolute level of risk will depend on the local prevalence of Covid but if someone is shielding and quarantine is recommended I'm afraid it's 14 days.
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Well aren't you a dark cloud on a sunny day. Or to put it another (Mod friendly) way, you've just urinated all over my chips. :ROFLMAO:

As it seems that there's no way to shorten it then I'll definitely be doing the two weeks quarantine in the caravan on the drive, because no matter how bad that might be it's still going to be far better than potentially taking a virus into the house that could kill Mrs Colch and two weeks of slight discomfort for me has got to be better than the long term guilt of the alternative.
 
Met up with my eldest daughter and granddaughter yesterday for the first time since March:)(y)
Got a BJ themed fathers day card telling me in very confusing words what I can and can't do on fathers day. To late now.
 
Today mark's 100 days since I last gave a driving lesson.......and we're still in the dark as to when we can resume.
I had 3 months off while I was training in 04 as I broke my ankle - couldn't wait to get back.
Now it's getting to the point where I'm not sure I care if I'm able to go back or not.......
It's certainly going to be hard.
 
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