Coronavirus - how is it/has it affected you?

[theoneandonly]

The weekend is still quite some time away, if you're really concerned just take an LFT on Friday and Saturday to reassure yourself. Even if you were unwittingly positive, you're outside! Just avoid kissing or hugging anyone you might come across and enjoy your round.

That's it's, do an lft and carry on. The guys I play with are in the same boat.

 

[Foxholer]

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[AmandaJR]

It hasn't been forgotten. A positive LFT is very likely to be a true positive, and a true negative is very likely to get a negative test. That leaves a group in between, the true positives that get a negative test (false negatives). There are very few false positives.

All tests have to balance the false negatives and positives, you can't have both at a very high level. so LFTs are really designed to confirm negativity where the great majority are expected to be negative (i.e. low population prevalence) because the actual number of false negatives will then be pretty low.

It doesn't work so well when LFTs are used in different risk populations, such as symptomatic patients in whom the risk of being positive is much higher because the number of false negatives is also higher.

Apart from at Anfield

 

[ColchesterFC]

But presumably if you test positive you'd need to show your vaccination status to get full sick pay?

There's a quote in the story that says that unvaccinated co-workers that test positive will get full company sick pay. Looks like it's only the unvaccinated that have to isolate as a close contact that it will affect.

 

[Tashyboy]

I've been generally cautious, but I'd have no issues playing golf with someone in your position. You just wouldn't be taking a slug of rum from my hip flask on the 10th tee or getting a handshake.

I play in a medweek fuddle and a couple of lads offer there hip flaks for a slurp ?

 

[Tashyboy]

Apart from at Anfield

What I don’t understand is if a player has a positive LFT, why do they not have PCR straight away as per the rest of us. I don’t just mean the Liverpool lads who had a dodgy batch. ?

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

I play in a medweek fuddle and a couple of lads offer there hip flaks for a slurp ?

Looking at that sentence I think you've had a few slurps already!

 

[Ethan]

I admire your sense of caution but, given everything you have said, I’d say get out for a few holes. You are not doing anyone any harm and, if you are exercising caution in other aspects of your normal routine, the fresh air and exercise will do you good.

You are only a contact, and you have tested negative? The risk of transmission for you through an outdoors activity is minimal. I think you should play golf if you fancy a game.

 

[ColchesterFC]

What I don’t understand is if a player has a positive LFT, why do they not have PCR straight away as per the rest of us. I don’t just mean the Liverpool lads who had a dodgy batch. ?

Completely agree. And it's not as if they have to go to an NHS walk through centre and then wait 2 days for the result. With the amount of money in the PL they can surely get the rapid turnaround tests. I flew to Aberdeen for a job just before Xmas and had to get a PCR test close to the airport. I then got a taxi from the test centre into Aberdeen and checked into my hotel. As I was setting up my laptop in my room I had the text saying they'd sent me the result. 55 minutes between taking the test and receiving the result.

 

[Tashyboy]

Completely agree. And it's not as if they have to go to an NHS walk through centre and then wait 2 days for the result. With the amount of money in the PL they can surely get the rapid turnaround tests. I flew to Aberdeen for a job just before Xmas and had to get a PCR test close to the airport. I then got a taxi from the test centre into Aberdeen and checked into my hotel. As I was setting up my laptop in my room I had the text saying they'd sent me the result. 55 minutes between taking the test and receiving the result.

This was my way of thinking. Don’t get me wrong, I think the rules are that if you are now positive with a LFT you don’t need confirmation with a PCR. But as you say with the money in football. That said, when did they actually have a PCR to see when they were COVID free.

 

[Deleted member 25172]

Completely agree. And it's not as if they have to go to an NHS walk through centre and then wait 2 days for the result. With the amount of money in the PL they can surely get the rapid turnaround tests. I flew to Aberdeen for a job just before Xmas and had to get a PCR test close to the airport. I then got a taxi from the test centre into Aberdeen and checked into my hotel. As I was setting up my laptop in my room I had the text saying they'd sent me the result. 55 minutes between taking the test and receiving the result.

Is it confirmed that the Liverpool players didn’t have a follow up PCR-test?

Just before Christmas I had covid, according to no less than 6 positive LFT tests and the fact that I was quite ill for a week, but 2 PCR tests came back negative during the same time.

 

[Tashyboy]

Is it confirmed that the Liverpool players didn’t have a follow up PCR-test?

Just before Christmas I had covid, according to no less than 6 positive LFT tests and the fact that I was quite ill for a week, but 2 PCR tests came back negative during the same time.

As an individual that’s always a possibility, I think the problem here was there was a group ( of players) who all tested positive but were in fact negative. And the odds on that are?

 

[PNWokingham]

Spain (PM Pedro Sanchez) has come out as the first major Euopean nation to explicitly suggest the prospect of living with covid and evaluate the move from pandemic to endemic and assess the disease on different parameters than those used so far

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

It's getting really depressing here. People who've had all three jabs are getting it.
That, in turn, is encouraging the anti vaxxer / anti masking miscreants to act up.

It's been a real mess.

 

[GB72]

Intersting one. One of my friends who was at the NYE party tested positive a few days later. Her husband tested negative every day and on a PCR test (he works on an RAF base and needed the PCR test after contact to be allowed on base) until this morning, 11 days after the event. Now has the dreaded second line on hsi LFT. Goes to show the importance of keeping testing.

 

[garyinderry]

Had my booster at 9.45am yesterday. Felt fine all day. Started getting cold about 11pm. Spent all night shivering again and got little sleep. Head like a busted sofa this morning.

Starting to come round a bit now.

 

[Billysboots]

It's getting really depressing here. People who've had all three jabs are getting it.
That, in turn, is encouraging the anti vaxxer / anti masking miscreants to act up.

It's been a real mess.

Whilst I understand what you are saying, nobody ever said vaccines would stop us getting Covid, merely that they would lessen the symptoms.

Overnight at the moment I have a throat like razor blades but otherwise feel fine. I’m not sure how this second brush with Covid would pan out for me if I hadn’t had all three jabs - I’m just pleased I haven’t had to find out.

I have had far worse colds.

 

[Old Skier]

I understand that. Can they force employees to show them? Health workers and care workers I understand for patient reasons but this is about whether someone is entitled to sick pay or not. They must have run this past their employment specialists but even so I am surprised that they can ask for this info from their employees.

Everyone gets sick pay, they just won’t give enhanced sick pay topped up by the company.

 

[adam6177]

It's getting really depressing here. People who've had all three jabs are getting it.
That, in turn, is encouraging the anti vaxxer / anti masking miscreants to act up.

It's been a real mess.

To be honest I can understand where they're coming from.... All along we've been told to trust the science and get our multiple jabs in a timely manner, keep away from people, wear masks etc etc

Then we're at the stage now where we're told that using alcohol rubs on our hands was pointless as it was an air borne thing. Then we're told that most of the masks people were wearing were little more than face fashion and offered no protection.

But I understand it from both sides, it's been an unprecedented thing, people have done what they perceive to be the best thing to do, yet it wasn't enough or the right thing to do. Now we're at the stage where it appears to be coming to and end and so much of what we thought was true is being discredited.

Talk about confusion.

 

[patricks148]

Tested negative today so after 7 days I can think of coming out of isolation tomorrow if a get another clear then. Wife is still negative even being around me the whole time I've had it. Both triple jabed.