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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Swinglowandslow said:
Not sure that's right. As I understand it from what I've heard on the briefings, there are two types of test.
The antibody test( about which things have gone quiet!) tells you if you have had it , and recovered. And it generally believed that you are immune for about a year, and that you are not infectious. If that is the case, and it is believed to be highly likely, then you can return to normal living.
And that means if they are NHS staff , it is vital.
That's why I want to hear how near we are to this test for NHS, then other front liners, then us.
As to the other test , to see if you have the disease, that is not as useful except in the case of those who prove positive, who if they recover, then become able to return to normal, e.g Matt Hancock.
If you test negative however, there's limited benefit because you may be positive two days later,.
Mind you, for front line staff, it's better than no test, means if you get some symptoms of something, the test will check whether you can carry on. The symptoms you have may be some other thing, I.e cold.
As for contact tracing, I think that is totally unrealistic , unless there's something I don't know about the method.
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I can still, pass on the virus through touch.
I could pick it up from a door handle, supermarket trolley, or anything else and pass it on from that.
I might be immune and not directly infectious but I still have to obey the restrictions
 
JustOne said:
There's a huge arguement about testing.....

WHY do we need testing right now?
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Ethan said:
Two answers.
Antigen testing is needed for selected cases, particularly front line staff. Only a minority of those who self isolate with symptoms have coronavirus. If we can ID cases more accurately a lot of unnecessary self-isolation can be avoided.

Antibody testing is needed to better understand the prevalence in the community and identify those who missed antigen testing who had the virus. It could be that a sizeable fraction of the population has been exposed and that will affect the suppression strategy.
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Of your two answers...

You test your front line nurse, he/she does not have it... and then he/she goes to work and comes home with a sore throat...???

or gets it and potentially spreads it around a bit.

I understand the antigen testing in terms of developing a better/quicker/cheaper/possibly more efficient test but surely you'd need to test the entire country? and isn't it too early to be worrying about that right now?
 
bluewolf said:
Sorry bud, but it’s incredibly irresponsible. She’s normalised additional travel. Let her finish what she’s been tasked with then allow her to resign.
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Just seen where the pics come from, not surprised, really should've known better.

Stitched up.
 
maxfli65 said:
Travelling to a second home an hour away was risky, wandering about on the golf course getting her picture taken was plain daft.
Odd really, could she not envisage something like this happening? Seems not.

From her accent it's pretty clear she's from Northern Ireland, does that change the view of the SNP/Sturgeon/Devolution/Holyrood/Scots haters any? People saying they dont care what happens up here then get all over this matter like a rash.
I dont think the CMO role is even party political, they're a senior civil servant, an advisor to Govt's. The media furore seems purely political - Ruth Davidson tweeting looking for a head just to point score. This lockdown is messing with people's heads.

Lady did wrong and will pay a price for it.

Moving on is anyone making a point of watching what HM Queen has to say? I really can't see it being influential, times have moved on, perhaps a comfort of sorts to some hopefully.
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Shes hardly posing for the camera. It looks like shes been papped by that abhorrent organisation.

Yes, she's ignored government advice, hardly worth losing a job over.
 
Blue in Munich said:
Can anyone remind me how much grief the Prince of Wales got on here for driving to his second home? :unsure:

And he only did it once...
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Dont remember anyone calling for him to lose his job etc...

She deserves the criticism that comes her way, but losing her job is over the top
 
Imurg said:
Because "this matter" stopped being a Scottish matter the moment it went on national news.
Everyone will have heard about it by now and it gives an excuse to anyone who wants to flaunt the rules and travel unnecessarily.
I dont care whether she's the best for the job or what her politics are...she's potentially caused the police a massive headache just at the time we need to keep people inside.
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Or. We could look at the story from the point of view that she’s been rightly reprimanded by the Police in the same way as many other people are being reprimanded daily. Should all those other people reprimanded immediately resign from their jobs too? Of course not.

People make mistakes, this modern clamour for resignation over any mistake is a political manipulation overriding common sense.

Besides which, everyone is missing the real story in all of this; that Priti Patel somehow pulled off a global pandemic to avoid getting the sack. One hell of a dead cat. ;)
 
Stuart_C said:
Shes hardly posing for the camera. It looks like shes been papped by that abhorrent organisation.

Yes, she's ignored government advice, hardly worth losing a job over.
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She’s the one telling everyone else to stay at home but this was her second 2nd trip to her second home but it’s all the suns fault ????
 
Imurg said:
Because "this matter" stopped being a Scottish matter the moment it went on national news.
Everyone will have heard about it by now and it gives an excuse to anyone who wants to flaunt the rules and travel unnecessarily.
I dont care whether she's the best for the job or what her politics are...she's potentially caused the police a massive headache just at the time we need to keep people inside.
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She hasn't potentially caused the police a massive headache - SHE HAS.

That said it doesn't detract from the fact that she can still do her job.
 
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