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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

larmen said:
Comedian Simon Brodkin (Lee Nelson) generated a character without any talent but ticking all the boxes, nearly made it onto the live shows for BGT but somebody recognised him at the very last hurdle.

One would have thought that with thousands of contestants they could find 20 talented ones a d make the shows good, but that’s obviously not the target. They make more money out of us being angry that Jetward, Wagner, ... are still in there.


In other corona news, I did my 1st ever test last week. That must be the most disgusting thing I have ever done. They were close to get a food sample on top of what they needed.
I am part of some study where I have to fill out a form every week for a year now, and last week came with a test kit for the antibody test.
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You notice that the popularity of shows like X-Factor has plummeted since they stopped the practice of focusing on the poor entries in the fist few weeks and playing them for laughs (the bringing them back for another dig in the final). Even Simon Cowell was quoted as saying that the problem with X-Factor is that the best shows are at the beginning. Hence they would bring through a joke act to keep that cringe factor going for as long as possible before it turned into a fairly bland, boring karaoake contest.
 
Worrying number of rugby matches being postponed due to covid. Not sure whether that is due to fans being allowed, overall relaxations or what but it has been a number of weeks since one has been canceled and now we have Ulster, Saracens and Gloucester matches postponed and Edinburgh suspending training.
 
Ethan said:
Public perception of risk is sometimes very unbalanced. People sometimes overvalue unfamiliar risks and massively undervalue familiar ones. I haven't seen this particular Covidiot, but based on your description she need the vax more than most, because if she gets Covid, she will do a lot worse than someone of a healthy weight. She should be pushing her way through the queue like they are running out of sausage rolls at Greggs.
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Update from me. Son has NHS as pp and has been told to isolate. Son's wife works in care, told not to come in and isolate. Youngest grandsons half term shot to pieces. We're still ok as we've not been in direct contact. Would suit me to stay off actually. Sick of the Muppets at work.
 
2nd jag - as first - virtually painless as the first was - and there was me thinking beforehand that I had a needle phobia and always put that up as reason for not getting flu jag - as I still never have. But I no longer have any qualms about having it.

I don’t really know where my ‘phobia’ it came from, maybe from many years ago when I had a load of injections in my gums when having some quite significant dental surgery...I could see the needles before they went into the gum...?

But to anyone not having the vaccination due to needle phobia I can provide reassurance...it’s literally hardly even a pin prick. And I have had no side effects whatsoever, very slight ache in arm where vaccination provided - nothing more than that.
 
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Probably a question for Ethan here. I have my second jab due in a couple of weeks. There are appointments to bring it forward if I want. Bearing in mind I am currently living a pretty low risk existance (going to a small office in a market town, heading home to a small village and not really going anywhere else) am I going to get a potentially greater benefit from holding on for the full 12 weeks and being careful rather than getting my second jab after 10 weeks.
 
GB72 said:
Probably a question for Ethan here. I have my second jab due in a couple of weeks. There are appointments to bring it forward if I want. Bearing in mind I am currently living a pretty low risk existance (going to a small office in a market town, heading home to a small village and not really going anywhere else) am I going to get a potentially greater benefit from holding on for the full 12 weeks and being careful rather than getting my second jab after 10 weeks.
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There is a modest benefit from delaying from 3 to 12, but it isn't a whole lot, and it has been a bit overplayed to justify a logistical benefit to the overall programme. The difference between 10 and 12 weeks is probably tiny, and if it was me, I would go ahead and get my second asap. I think I got a text message for my second just before 10 weeks after the first and booked it right away for the soonest possible date.
 
GB72 said:
Probably a question for Ethan here. I have my second jab due in a couple of weeks. There are appointments to bring it forward if I want. Bearing in mind I am currently living a pretty low risk existance (going to a small office in a market town, heading home to a small village and not really going anywhere else) am I going to get a potentially greater benefit from holding on for the full 12 weeks and being careful rather than getting my second jab after 10 weeks.
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Whilst waiting for Ethan to reply: initial advice was about 8 weeks from memory. We stretched to 12 weeks to get as many jabbed as possible as quickly as possible. Some protection better than no protection. The rest of Europe is jabbing around the 8 week mark based on chats with my customers so that doesn't suggest waiting is better. Get your second jab sooner rather than later.

Edit: he beat me to it :D
 
Ethan said:
There is a modest benefit from delaying from 3 to 12, but it isn't a whole lot, and it has been a bit overplayed to justify a logistical benefit to the overall programme. The difference between 10 and 12 weeks is probably tiny, and if it was me, I would go ahead and get my second asap. I think I got a text message for my second just before 10 weeks after the first and booked it right away for the soonest possible date.
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I was given my second jab appointment when I went for my first one but now have the option to book as early as this weekend so I will get booking.
 
I had my first real world test at the weekend.

Up to visit my son and his family. Family morning out at the ten pin bowling alley.

Not great social distancing and it was only pointed out to us that we should only be using the plain balls (patterned ones for the other lane) after the people in the next lane had gone. Bit difficult really with lots of young children around. Also the bowl chute for the children was shared between the two lanes. Place was totally rammed and it looked like all the arcade machines had no means of cleaning them with different players using them.
 
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