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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

SwingsitlikeHogan said:
That is factually simply not true. I have no criticisms of Hancock (though he seems worn out), Sunak and Johnson when they are leading the briefings. Raab is getting a better and is doing OK now; and Robert Jenrick does OK - as did Brandon Lewis (I think he did one). Gove and Patel are just themselves, I have no expectations above what we know of them.

So saying I am not enamoured with anyone they put up is simply not true.
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You've just painted them as either worn out, OK, room for improvement or rubbish ?
 
BrianM said:
Day 8 stuck in the hotel room, going crazy today, my mind is playing a lot of games.
Test results in late this afternoon, no surprise I’ve tested positive for COVID 19.
Still no energy and just generally feel like crap.
Will be glad to get back to some normality.
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Hope you start to feel better soon.
 
BrianM said:
Day 8 stuck in the hotel room, going crazy today, my mind is playing a lot of games.
Test results in late this afternoon, no surprise I’ve tested positive for COVID 19.
Still no energy and just generally feel like crap.
Will be glad to get back to some normality.
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Best wishes
 
BrianM said:
Day 8 stuck in the hotel room, going crazy today, my mind is playing a lot of games.
Test results in late this afternoon, no surprise I’ve tested positive for COVID 19.
Still no energy and just generally feel like crap.
Will be glad to get back to some normality.
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Hope you escape soon. Take care.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
That is factually simply not true. I have no criticisms of Hancock (though he seems worn out), Sunak and Johnson when they are leading the briefings. Raab is getting a better and is doing OK now; and Robert Jenrick does OK - as did Brandon Lewis (I think he did one). Gove and Patel are just themselves, I have no expectations above what we know of them.

So saying I am not enamoured with anyone they put up is simply not true.
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Come on. The last words were "not good at all" You weren't commenting on what he said, you were commenting on how he said it, I.e. His performance.
These briefings are not stage acts, for people to clap or boo at.
They are informative. Whether the personality of the chap doing it is to ones liking shouldn't come into it. The subject matter is too important and serious for that.
As for the journos, whose role you readily support, I am so peed off with them. Their motives seem quite clear to me. Trip up the Government if you can, then my Editor will give me some brownie points.
 
Near neighbours have it. He'd been to hospital for something that couldn't wait. Been home a week and took ill. Confirmed tonight by the mayor on the village FB page.
 
Hobbit said:
Near neighbours have it. He'd been to hospital for something that couldn't wait. Been home a week and took ill. Confirmed tonight by the mayor on the village FB page.
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Unfortunatly we hear this time and again, someone goes into hospital for a non covid matter and then catches it in hospital. So sad.
 
Remember the Government has TARGET to get testing capacity to 100k. The number of tests conducted is a function of demand. The aim is to reduce transmission and thus the need to test. So if the number of tests stay below capacity that's a good thing and blaming the Government and its advisors for not reaching 100,000 rather misses the point.

With the assumption that anyone who needs a test has access to it.
 
drdel said:
Remember the Government has TARGET to get testing capacity to 100k. The number of tests conducted is a function of demand. The aim is to reduce transmission and thus the need to test. So if the number of tests stay below capacity that's a good thing and blaming the Government and its advisors for not reaching 100,000 rather misses the point.

With the assumption that anyone who needs a test has access to it.
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Only if you're not contact tracing. Identifying people with mild symptoms or who are asymptomatic and then locating and testing people they've been in contact with and isolating the positives early would easily eat up the 100k capacity.
 
SocketRocket said:
Unfortunatly we hear this time and again, someone goes into hospital for a non covid matter and then catches it in hospital. So sad.
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my neighbour went to hospital with suspected sepsis, got discharged with pneumonia to be treated at home. he found two days later he was positive for covid too. the doctora said he was too week for hospital treatment and died last week. all happened very fast.
 
hovis said:
my neighbour went to hospital with suspected sepsis, got discharged with pneumonia to be treated at home. he found two days later he was positive for covid too. the doctora said he was too week for hospital treatment and died last week. all happened very fast.
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Its the apparent rapid decline that occurs in some patients that is quite frightening to me.
 
NearHull said:
Its the apparent rapid decline that occurs in some patients that is quite frightening to me.
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very frightening. I was talking to him two days before and he was able to stand and easily hold a conversation with me through the window for 10 minutes. when i dropped of his shopping he was able to carry his bags to the kitchen too. he said he'll pay me next week ?
 
BrianM said:
Day 8 stuck in the hotel room, going crazy today, my mind is playing a lot of games.
Test results in late this afternoon, no surprise I’ve tested positive for COVID 19.
Still no energy and just generally feel like crap.
Will be glad to get back to some normality.
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Stay strong Big B.. you will get thru.. atleast you are in a place that won’t infect others. You are playing your part. Having lived in hotels as part of being a road warrior, I know it can be a golden cage.
Think of it as if you are playing behind a set of slow play 4-ballers who won’t let you pass.

(On that note, which forumer would you see in that four ball)
 
Swinglowandslow said:
Come on. The last words were "not good at all" You weren't commenting on what he said, you were commenting on how he said it, I.e. His performance.
These briefings are not stage acts, for people to clap or boo at.
They are informative. Whether the personality of the chap doing it is to ones liking shouldn't come into it. The subject matter is too important and serious for that.
As for the journos, whose role you readily support, I am so peed off with them. Their motives seem quite clear to me. Trip up the Government if you can, then my Editor will give me some brownie points.
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It’s all about building public confidence and understanding. Every minister leading the briefing will know the questions they are likely to be asked and so they should all be able to give a clear consistent answer and not seem to be evasive or indecisive. The journalists keep asking the same questions as they are the key questions, and we should know the answers, and the answers from day to day should be consistent and reflect the plans and actions that the government is taking. We should expect nothing more than that, but we should at least get that for us to be confident that the government is on top of things as well as they can be...

Besides - even main Tory papers are starting to suggest that the cabinet seems unwilling or unable to make any key decision without the boss. That’s not collective cabinet decision making and maybe it is that which produces what often seems to be evasion...

And I will repeat - I have no criticism of Hancock, Sunak or indeed Johnson in the briefings and Jenrick is doing fine.
 
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