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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

HomerJSimpson said:
Been forced to move my office again as we are now up to 3 Covid and it isn't deemed safe for me to be around that side of the unit (where office located). Totally get it and happy to be out but just a pain having to move all the stuff again and trying to plan ahead as to what I may need to take now but not need immediately and finding somewhere to store it
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it just isn't safe to have vulnerable people around you, Homer.
 
Slab said:
Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
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Need a bit of planning to get myself in order, but i'd do a full military lockdown for up to a month If we could guarantee no virus incoming from overseas. So we could have the rest of the year back to normal.

I've also had coronavirus, so there's nothing in it for me, maybe, juries still out if i'm immune
 
Hacker Khan said:
So I'm due to go on holiday to the magnificent Northumbrian coastline in October, 4 people in one house that includes one person from another family. Any idea if this will be now allowed?
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Technically no, unless that single person is part of your bubble. The next question is will anyone be aware? 4 people in a house is not pushing the boundaries so I doubt anyone would question you.

I'm pretty miffed Northumberland has been included in the lockdown. Cases here are low, the coastal areas you will be visiting will have barely any.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Technically no, unless that single person is part of your bubble. The next question is will anyone be aware? 4 people in a house is not pushing the boundaries so I doubt anyone would question you.

I'm pretty miffed Northumberland has been included in the lockdown. Cases here are low, the coastal areas you will be visiting will have barely any.
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Yes, my wife commented that the rate is actually far higher where we live than it is in the area we are going to in Northumberland.
 
Hacker Khan said:
Yes, my wife commented that the rate is actually far higher where we live than it is in the area we are going to in Northumberland.
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Same here in parts of County Durham.
I agree with extra measures being brought in, but it does seem a bit broad brush.
 
Old Skier said:
Nothing I’m not happy with but it appears some have gone political and I wondered if there had been a policy change.
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Not worth the worry mate, give the question to the mods, they’ve admitted they don’t have time to read every post so asking the question via report helps them.??
 
Slab said:
Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
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Depends what essential services means? If I miss out on time off work again you can stuff it! :LOL:
I support martial law and food packages Delivered.
But I’ll still risk gun point and a fine for my dogs to have a poop.
 
Slab said:
Timely comments for a thought that occurred to me earlier. so for curiosity. Open to all to answer;

If it was on offer would you accept a 14 day nationwide total lockdown starting tomorrow (not a political lockdown, a medical lockdown) A full blown quarantine style self-isolation for everyone except essential services. No leaving home except for medical care?
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it will be chaos and political suicide, but if that is needed for medical reasons, i would support it. Its either now or Christmas is going to get lot worse. It will be financially crippling, so not an easy decision
 
We already had a full on lockdown for over 6 weeks but that didnt kill it off so why would another two weeks work? Essential workers only allowed out but thats pretty much what we had. Personally i think the economy couldn't cope with another full lockdown so we're going to have to do our best to get through the winter and hope for a vaccine sooner rather than later. Hopefully with what we've learned about the viru, how it can be treated, and how prepared the country is as a whole comparwd to first time round means this wave will not be as destructive
 
Is there anywhere you can view data on hospitalisation of patients by date? It seems pretty pointless to try to compare current cases against what we saw during the first wave as the total number of tests is far higher so there will be more positive test results. There must have been a lot a asymptomatic people that are being picked up now that weren't picked up earlier in the year. I would be interested in seeing a graph of total numbers in hospital as that would seem to be a far better way to compare what is happening now with what happened previously.
 
ColchesterFC said:
Is there anywhere you can view data on hospitalisation of patients by date? It seems pretty pointless to try to compare current cases against what we saw during the first wave as the total number of tests is far higher so there will be more positive test results. There must have been a lot a asymptomatic people that are being picked up now that weren't picked up earlier in the year. I would be interested in seeing a graph of total numbers in hospital as that would seem to be a far better way to compare what is happening now with what happened previously.
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This might help https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
 
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