drdel
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It is possible to find the facts on the gov.uk website!!!
Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?
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It is possible to find the facts on the gov.uk website!!!
Tashyboy
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Quote from the BBC
“It also applies to anyone currently in isolation, so people who tested positive or first showed symptoms on Friday last week could end their isolation in time for Christmas Day if they meet the conditions.”
My son showed symptoms over the weekend, LFT tests says negative on Saturday and Sunday. He did one yesterday and it was positive. PCR result has come through this morning and confirmed that. He now thinks that because he showed signs on Saturday he can test tomorrow and Friday and come out of isolation if two LFTs are clear. I think otherwise. If two tests on Saturday and Sunday show negative and you stand by them you never had coronavirus. So it started on Monday/Tuesday. But two tests on Thursday & Friday show the same ( negative) and because they suit one’s agenda. You come out of isolation.
Once more. The guidelines are as clear as mud and some folk will use this to suit there needs.
Personally I would of liked to have seen ” seven days isolation from testing positive”.
Thoughts me dears.
“It also applies to anyone currently in isolation, so people who tested positive or first showed symptoms on Friday last week could end their isolation in time for Christmas Day if they meet the conditions.”
My son showed symptoms over the weekend, LFT tests says negative on Saturday and Sunday. He did one yesterday and it was positive. PCR result has come through this morning and confirmed that. He now thinks that because he showed signs on Saturday he can test tomorrow and Friday and come out of isolation if two LFTs are clear. I think otherwise. If two tests on Saturday and Sunday show negative and you stand by them you never had coronavirus. So it started on Monday/Tuesday. But two tests on Thursday & Friday show the same ( negative) and because they suit one’s agenda. You come out of isolation.
Once more. The guidelines are as clear as mud and some folk will use this to suit there needs.
Personally I would of liked to have seen ” seven days isolation from testing positive”.
Thoughts me dears.
road2ruin
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To be fair if you get your news from the BBC or Guardian etc you would assume that they are reporting the facts correctly especially when it's a pretty important rule!
Also, I've just been on the Government website and, unless I am being slow (which is a possibility), I could not see that it had been updated with this new isolation change.
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Prof Tim Colbourn on Twitter: "* COVID THREAD ON BEST WE CAN DO LONG TERM * Yes we’re in an acute crisis with Omicron and that needs dealing with, but it has actually made me want to think a lot about how this horrible pandemic ends, maybe you too? Let’s go through it… 1/35 (sorry, but this is troubling me)" / Twitter
Well worth reading all 35 points this person makes.
Well worth reading all 35 points this person makes.
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Had our christmas eve and day meal 2-3 weeks ago and New years eve a few days later, as wanted to bank it, after seeing the writing on the wall at the end of November with the new variant. Glad we did, with all the uncertainly around, as I have not really paid any attention to it 
It was a great time and the first time we had all meet indoors since this all started...... we need to take more risk I think in 2022
Hope everyone has a good christmas and Happy New year.
It was a great time and the first time we had all meet indoors since this all started...... we need to take more risk I think in 2022
Hope everyone has a good christmas and Happy New year.
PNWokingham
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Totally agree with these points and they sum up, obviously a lot more intelligently and eloquently, what i have been trying to say over past couple of days!
Old Skier
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sorry but the gov website is a minefield. Im looking right now for the actual wording and im on my 3rd diff page to find out whats going on... and I keep up with things.. some people dont take an interest
so No. I expect the BBC or whoever to do the work and lay it out
tbh gov should make easy to follow screen shots to put on FB and twitter for everyone to pick up quickly. much like the simple politics page does.. simple to the point updates that stick to the facts.
spongebob59
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I'm giving on what to believe now ?
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/22/no-the-nhs-is-not-being-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated/?s=09
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/22/no-the-nhs-is-not-being-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated/?s=09
Foxholer
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FWIW, New guidelines are in this document (updated today) https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-with-possible-coronavirus-covid-19-infection
Foxholer
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Notquite...some spurious text at end of link
Try https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/22/no-the-nhs-is-not-being-overwhelmed-by-the-unvaccinated/
I wouldn't believe much at all in that doc. There's a claim wrt Pirbright Institute that certainly seems false!
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Read through that eventually, very long winded and finally come to the conclusion that it says nothing about vaccine status? Is that right. So makes the bbc report correct and guardian wrong
However the page is long winded, majority of the country don't pay attention tbh .. they look to MSM to sum up for them .. idiot guides if you will
Foxholer
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Gov.UK docs are not renowned for 'clarity'! I've personal experience recently of 'getting it wrong' when using them as reference.
They ARE likely to have everything required. But, with so many variations/sets of circumstances, are likely to be long-winded and it can be difficult to find the truly applicable bits! That's where the news media (TV/Internet News, Papers etc) have a definite role to play - both broadcasting any policy/changes and interpreting them.
spongebob59
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Some good news, possibly
BREAKING New #Omicron study in Scotland and it looks like good news. ‘Early national data suggests that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation when compared to Delta.’ Experts from Edinburgh & Strathclyde Uni.
BREAKING New #Omicron study in Scotland and it looks like good news. ‘Early national data suggests that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation when compared to Delta.’ Experts from Edinburgh & Strathclyde Uni.
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My sister's mother in law has tested positive
They last went their Saturday .. she saw my eldest yesterday and my youngest been at my mum's this afternoon for couple hours
So fingers all crossed it never jumped to my sister although I'm unsure when the postive test was
They last went their Saturday .. she saw my eldest yesterday and my youngest been at my mum's this afternoon for couple hours
So fingers all crossed it never jumped to my sister although I'm unsure when the postive test was
Foxholer
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Paucity of sample (15 Omicron Hospitalisations, so only about 60 Total) makes conclusions pretty unreliable imo. Compare that sample to (UK) total cases today of 106k!
But it continues to suggest less 'dangerous'.
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Foxholer
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Possibly put off by reports of pain etc after booster jab.
No noticeable difference from earlier jabs for me.
Pain v potential for serious illness? Still seems totally lacking in logic.
A very, very small study by all accounts. But seems to support what they have found in South Africa.
Maybe Boris is following the science after all in not announcing post-Christmas restrictions, rather than adopting the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish approach.
Who knows?
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