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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

Seeing as I reach the big 50 this week, I checked online and was able to book my 1st jab for Sunday just gone.
The setup (Bucks Uni building) was excellent - plenty of staff to advise and direct you - in and out in the space of 10 minutes.
What really surprised me was that I was the only "patient" there at the time - I was expecting it to be very busy.
 
larmen said:
A Pfizer pill? What will it really do and what colour is it? ;-)

A pill if effective would be the best thing. Nobody goes to a vaccination centre or a GP for a para Tamil, do they? And they are much easier produced and distributed compared to vials. And usually more stable as well.
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The pill is a treatment for those who have Covid-19, not a vaccination.
 
Kellfire said:
The pill is a treatment for those who have Covid-19, not a vaccination.
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This ^^^

Which means it would reduced the consequences, but not the transmission of the virus. ie people might not get seriously ill, but they'd still catch it & pass it on. Meaning the virus stays in circulation. Which presumably isnt good.
 
backwoodsman said:
This ^^^

Which means it would reduced the consequences, but not the transmission of the virus. ie people might not get seriously ill, but they'd still catch it & pass it on. Meaning the virus stays in circulation. Which presumably isnt good.
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Yes, but of course, what is good is to have both available within the population.
Vaccination and treatment.
Seems it will need very good publicity to make clear it is not an alternative to vaccination.
As will the need to emphasise the difference between it being a treatment and not necessarily a cure.
 
A couple of possibly silly questions...

If a person has long Covid are they infectious?

If, after 29th you can meet up to 6 people from another household, outside does that mean a group of 7 is OK?
 
drdel said:
A couple of possibly silly questions...

If a person has long Covid are they infectious?

If, after 29th you can meet up to 6 people from another household, outside does that mean a group of 7 is OK?
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No idea on the first point but the second one is that you can meet in a group of 6 total with as many households as you like or you can meet as 2 households (allowing a household of 4 to meet with another household of 4).
 
drdel said:
A couple of possibly silly questions...

If a person has long Covid are they infectious?

If, after 29th you can meet up to 6 people from another household, outside does that mean a group of 7 is OK?
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No

and "gatherings of 6" not "meet 6". So again, no.

<Edit>forgot about the 2 households, so, it depends</Edit>
 
Kellfire said:
The pill is a treatment for those who have Covid-19, not a vaccination.
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I get that, but even the vaccine is ‘just’ stopping me becoming serious ill and symptomatic. But if we can treat people that reduces massive stress from elsewhere on the NHS.

I don’t want to lose the respect for covid, but the fear,
 
drdel said:
A couple of possibly silly questions...

If a person has long Covid are they infectious?

If, after 29th you can meet up to 6 people from another household, outside does that mean a group of 7 is OK?
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No idea on long covid

But rule of six is rule of 6 or 2 households now

So 7 8 9 etc fine providing it's 2 households
 
road2ruin said:
They were just talking about JL on the radio and interestingly their sales in the stores hadn't actually fallen, it's was the rent and rates that has meant the cost of keeping the stores open is not feasible. By 2025 they expect 70% of their sales to be via JohnLewis.com
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I doubt it. The JL experience is all about going into a store and being suckered into a purchase. God the stuff does look quality. Online they will have to price match and it's just NOT the same as seeing to quality of their products.
 
Crazyface said:
I doubt it. The JL experience is all about going into a store and being suckered into a purchase. God the stuff does look quality. Online they will have to price match and it's just NOT the same as seeing to quality of their products.
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Given their store closures the JL experience doesn't seem to be all that, even they aren't immune to the issues with thousands of high streets across the country. They themselves have suggested that they will be 70% online so not sure why you find that so hard to believe.
 
Crazyface said:
oooo, I've got a question on this. Excuse my ignorance, but how can the NHS workers in Scotland get a pay rise from the Scottish government. I thought the NHS was British and all one? This really is just not on.
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Simples. Devolution. Its no longer a UK-wide central service. NHS Scotland is paid for by the Scottish government. Although the staff deserve it, the interesting question is how the heck are they going to afford it.
 
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