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Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

PNWokingham said:
UK now has the second highest booster rollout in the world behind Chile with 45.2% of the population tripple jabbed :)
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A fantastic effort but the local variations are telling. I have family in Leicestershire and they tell me the vaccine take up in Leicester itself is shameful, one of the lowest rates in the U.K.

No surprise, really, that the city faced longer in lockdown than most, which the residents were furious about, blaming the government, the mayor, China - you name it, it was everything and everybody’s fault but their own.

Perhaps they want to start looking in the mirror at their own behaviour.
 
Billysboots said:
A fantastic effort but the local variations are telling. I have family in Leicestershire and they tell me the vaccine take up in Leicester itself is shameful, one of the lowest rates in the U.K.

No surprise, really, that the city faced longer in lockdown than most, which the residents were furious about, blaming the government, the mayor, China - you name it, it was everything and everybody’s fault but their own.

Perhaps they want to start looking in the mirror at their own behaviour.
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Nah, it’s easier to blame someone else ☹️
 
Billysboots said:
A fantastic effort but the local variations are telling. I have family in Leicestershire and they tell me the vaccine take up in Leicester itself is shameful, one of the lowest rates in the U.K.

No surprise, really, that the city faced longer in lockdown than most, which the residents were furious about, blaming the government, the mayor, China - you name it, it was everything and everybody’s fault but their own.

Perhaps they want to start looking in the mirror at their own behaviour.
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Same around here

The take up on vaccines in the Luton/Bedford area I believe is below 30%
 
Fade and Die said:
Similar in Newham and Tower Hamlets, I guess the Asian communities never got over their initial distrust of it?
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? and yet these are the stats so why would they have a distrust.
  • During the first wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (24 January 2020 to 11 September 2020), people from all ethnic minority groups (except for women in the Chinese or "White Other" ethnic groups) had higher rates of death involving the coronavirus compared with the White British population.
  • The rate of death involving COVID-19 was highest for the Black African group (3.7 times greater than for the White British group for males, and 2.6 greater for females), followed by the Bangladeshi (3.0 for males, 1.9 for females), Black Caribbean (2.7 for males, 1.8 for females) and Pakistani (2.2 for males, 2.0 for females) ethnic groups.
  • In the second wave of the pandemic (from 12 September 2020 onwards), the differences in COVID-19 mortality compared with the White British population increased for people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani ethnic backgrounds; the Bangladeshi group had the highest rates, 5.0 and 4.1 times greater than for White British males and females respectively.
 
A week on and I’m still testing positive with my 4th lateral flow test this morning. Still don’t understand how or why my PCR test came back negative yesterday.

Christmas ruined, and guess my flight back to the UK will have to be cancelled.

Happy days!
 
backwoodsman said:
You did say the other day that the Guardia were strict - goes to show a difference in enforcement where in one country the police authorities are actively involved, and in another they are not.. Out of interest only, which bar?
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Marcello’s, in the little plaza where Scotty‘s used to be.
 
Fade and Die said:
Is it still policy that the Police collect the fine on the spot? Also do they keep a percentage of the fines issued?
They Spanish police do seem extremely zealous but I suppose they were a dictatorship until 1975 so maybe people expect it?
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You can pay on the spot or pay at the police station. The police only keep a percentage of certain fines. What you have to be very careful about is arguing on the spot. If you’ve got the wrong policeman he can increase the fine to €3001 - why the extra one, who knows. But you are permitted to contest the fine at the police station.
 
Captainron said:
Putting restrictions in place for the Omicron variant is ridiculous.
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While there's definite hope that the effects are 'milder', I don't believe it's yet the time to ease back on (or reconsider additional) restrictions.
Omicron does seem to be particularly prevalent in London. The graphs and numbers in this article show surprising increases in numbers in hospital in London area and certainly an overall increase in hospitalisation.

So not, yet, time to relax imo. But there MAY be hope - certainly less despair than if the numbers were for Delta cases.

Hoping all stay safe over Christmas!
 
Ethan said:
I agree. The current restrictions are very minor and only people who want to be riled by them will be. But there are a few such people around, including here.
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That maybe the case. However, there seems to a reluctance to recognise that these restrictions, whilst minor to some, are impactful to others.
If you have to self isolate I suspect you would get more than the £95 per week statutory sick pay?
It’s fine bemoaning lack of compliance in some areas, but you’ll have to recognise the impact of the restrictions isn’t shared equitably.
If you can’t work from home, are a symptomatic & can’t pay your mortgage on £95 per week, what do you suggest?
edit - my mistake it’s £96.35 per week
 
Leftitshort said:
That maybe the case. However, there seems to a reluctance to recognise that these restrictions, whilst minor to some, are impactful to others.
If you have to self isolate I suspect you would get more than the £95 per week statutory sick pay?
It’s fine bemoaning lack of compliance in some areas, but you’ll have to recognise the impact of the restrictions isn’t shared equitably.
If you can’t work from home, are a symptomatic & can’t pay your mortgage on £95 per week, what do you suggest?
edit - my mistake it’s £96.35 per week
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I absolutely agree that people required to self-isolate should be properly compensated, but the need to self-isolate has reduced quite a bit for the vaxxed.
 
SAGE minutes 23/12/21

Some interesting comments.

They note that Omicron has lower intrinsic severity (i.e. in a head to head versus delta, it is less severe) and that the effect is further blunted by community immunity through vax or prior infection (realised severiity), but that Omicron will infect people that would not be infected by Delta.
 
Ethan said:
I absolutely agree that people required to self-isolate should be properly compensated, but the need to self-isolate has reduced quite a bit for the vaxxed.
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Another issue is the Victorian employment policies some companies still have. I’ve been ‘lucky’. Isolated twice but can work from home. Some of my more ‘customer’ facing colleagues have had to isolate on govt statutory. For a multi million pound t/o company, it poor IMO.
Seems to be industry wide however, I suspect people will consider the small print on the their next contract.
 
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