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Junior Shark has been at Nottingham Trent uni for two weeks and has just tested positive. I've not been up there but my ex has so she is getting a test now.
Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?
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Mate at the club has a daughter up there and she's tested positive. She is looking to move to a university down here where infection rates are much better.
Swinglowandslow
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And where was the optician/tester while this was happening? Was he sat close to you, etc?.
My lad’s girlfriend is in her 2nd year at Sheffield Hallam, living in rented accommodation with 5 friends. All of them have tested positive in the last week. No great surprise as she openly admits to it having been one house party after another since she got back last month.
Her generation just don’t grasp it, I’m afraid.
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When those in power use expressions like
"A stitch in time saves 9" it's no wonder they don't appeal to that generation
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Several positive tests this week in one of the shift teams at my place of work which has spread into another team on the same shift.
Couple of hours sleep this morning after nights then off for a test. Fortunate to have an on site testing facility with a quick turn round so pleased that our whole team are negative.
There have been positve tests site wide but its looks like our building is the worst affected so not sure where we go from here.
Couple of hours sleep this morning after nights then off for a test. Fortunate to have an on site testing facility with a quick turn round so pleased that our whole team are negative.
There have been positve tests site wide but its looks like our building is the worst affected so not sure where we go from here.
Why move? Half the university will have immunity by the end of the month, his daughter has already had it. What if she jumps ship and her next place suddenly sees numbers ramp up?
If she liked Nottingham enough to go there in the first place then stick it out.
garyinderry
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Mates brother had no symptoms till he sat down to eat a Bombay bad boy pot noodle. Took a bite and couldn't taste anything.
At Northumbria last week 770 tested positive. 700 didn't realise, the other 70 as I understand, are okay. If you are a student and hearing 90% of your equivalents don't even know they have it then you aren't going to be worrying too much. I'm not saying I agree but I can see where they are coming from.
I suspect my 20-something self would have probably been the same, so it’s difficult to really lose my temper with them.
I just wish they’d recognise that, whilst they will hopefully come through totally unscathed, the impact their behaviour has on the wider community may be a whole lot more serious, both in terms of lockdowns and serious illness to others.
It’s really interesting to see Spain’s infections levelling off despite them not seeming to take the draconian steps being talked about here.
I’d be interested to hear what Hobbit has to say about events there.
I’d be interested to hear what Hobbit has to say about events there.
The ones isolating in halls, they are the ones catching it rather than those in houses, are kept away from everyone else so oddly enough you are going to have thousands of students shortly who will be able to mingle as safe as you like. The universities are being pretty strict with their isolation so the wider public should be okay. Had they not been.............The testing has been well done in halls and campuses so that is helping to keep the infections internal.
It would be interesting to know details but my money would be on 90% of infections being first years in halls. The ones living in the community in houses will not be mixing and spreading in the same way. I don't have facts to back that up but it is how I see it.
What you see in the cities and large towns in the UK is what we see in Madrid, Barcelona and numerous other cities and large towns. 'Our' draconian measures include roadblocks on towns, suburbs of cities and some regions. Leicester-style lockdowns are happening, and those towns have roadblocks - out here they have the man power. Try to leave = fined. Avoid the roadblock but arrive at a second residence and if a local grasses you up, which they are doing = self-isolation and a fine.
On a more local level we're seeing the odd hotspot flare up. Once identified, the family is quarantined at home. The police visit every day, along with the town's version of social services, who deliver food etc. Masks are mandatory outside your front door. Don't wear one = €100 fine. Caught a second time = €300 fine. Argue the fine with the policeman issuing it = €3000 fine. You pay the fine or else!
Got an email about an hour ago. A member of one of the local bowling clubs has tested positive. Its about 10km from our club. 'We' mix with their members socially, bump into them in town and occasionally we'll visit them for their club comps and them us - we had 2 from there today. We have a comprehensive, old-fashioned, paper track and trace. We're waiting on notification on whether we close for 14 days and self-isolate. If we have to self-isolate we'll get the police visits etc.
Always good to hear a first hand account because, if certain elements of the British press are to be believed, in Spain it’s pretty much “as you were” with few restrictions. Clearly that’s not quite the case, and is doubtless yet another example of our press arguing against the U.K. authorities putting any measures in place at all - a case of Spain can squash this without restrictions, why can’t we?
What you’re experiencing sounds eminently sensible and proportionate to the recent spike. I would love to see the reaction here if we were asked to concede to what the Spanish have in place ?
There's other restrictions too. Travel on public transport; every other seat is taped off. Only 2 passengers in a taxi, both in the back and masked. 10 round a table in a bar but must have 1.5m social distance. Inside bars and restaurants; 65% capacity. Get up from a table in a bar, and you must wear a mask. If the police pass a bar and see someone without a mask, the person is fined and the bar owner gets a big fine and, potentially, a 2 week closure order.
Hacker Khan
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Is there not an argument to say they do grasp that the risk to their physical health is very low but the risk to their mental health is possibly higher if they just sit in their student halls all the time? And also you could argue that they may feel there are plenty of things our generation just don't get as well where they will have to pick up the consequences later on. Not saying that equals things up, but it would be interesting to examine when so many feel how they do. As I think just saying 'they do not get it' is missing a lot of underlying reasons as this kind of thing does not happen in a societal vacuum.
Hacker Khan
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Looking at the maps of where it is the highest in Nottingham it is in the areas where there is a lot of student housing, not just the halls of residence.
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That's interesting. The numbers up here are halls driven. My daughters friends around the north who have it or are isolating are halls based as well. I understand why it rips through halls but for it to go through housing surprises me. That equals a lot of households and individuals ignoring advice on quite a major scale.
The hows and why's of all this, how it affects certain areas more than others, are interesting to see and work out. At the moment for example the campus universities are not spiking, it is the city sites. That may change of course but the difference is there right now.
robinthehood
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I'm suprised how many think its all some kind of hoax or massive international conspiracy.
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Oh and bill gates (one of the nicest men on the planet) is behind it