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ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

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BogRollBOGOF · 14/10/2020 19:37

We've polished off our hotel breakfasts, flocked to the beaches and eaten out to help out with Rishi. Now the D-Day style floatilla of Anti-Dementor boats weather the stormy seas of tiers 1, 2 and 3 and support each other through the calls for lockdown.

Hold on tight and get those bouyancy aids on...

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HeIenaDove · 21/10/2020 21:00

@Taswama YY. Im sure that was the same journalist that was on the Covid briefing yesterday.

CruCru · 21/10/2020 21:17

@user1471448866

Just had a text from a friend. Her father turns 90 in a care home next week. Presents are to be dropped off 48 hours in advance to be quarantined. He cannot communicate after a severe stroke. No visits allowed. The care home have said they are seriously worried about him as he has no interest in anything anymore. He previously had visits from family at least 3 times a week. My friend says he now has no one to chat with as staff too busy. They have been told no prospect of even FaceTiming or calling him on Christmas Day as too many residents and staff will be too busy. They have even stopped his paper as too great a risk in Covid times ! How is this living and why are we accepting that this sort of existence (and that is all it is) is a price worth paying ?
That’s insane. So bloody disproportionate.
CruCru · 21/10/2020 21:18

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace

Hi everyone,

I'm the OP from the 'other' thread. A couple of kind posters have signposted me here after reading the exchanges of views. Thank you 🙂

The truth is that I was frustrated this morning with our imminent move to Tier 3 and just needed to vent. It was cathartic and I feel better. I haven't broken any rules to date and have no intention of running amok in the north of England and infecting anyone ☺️ However I completely understand that we all need to do something different to get through this and I certainly won't be offering up moral judgement on anyone.

I just hope to join in and perhaps get a few tips on how to best survive the winter nights.

Thanks again for the invite. I look forward to chatting 😍

Good to see you!
MissEWeatherwax · 21/10/2020 21:28

I can’t sleep, so audio books are really helping and night nurse. Good stuff night nurse. The NE has no chance of not going into tier 3 and we will get fuck all.
Am really enjoying Podcasts, too. I seem to be listening to American homestead ones! Living on the land etc. God I am a very sad person with no life. Blush

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BogRollBOGOF · 21/10/2020 21:28

@user1471448866

Just had a text from a friend. Her father turns 90 in a care home next week. Presents are to be dropped off 48 hours in advance to be quarantined. He cannot communicate after a severe stroke. No visits allowed. The care home have said they are seriously worried about him as he has no interest in anything anymore. He previously had visits from family at least 3 times a week. My friend says he now has no one to chat with as staff too busy. They have been told no prospect of even FaceTiming or calling him on Christmas Day as too many residents and staff will be too busy. They have even stopped his paper as too great a risk in Covid times ! How is this living and why are we accepting that this sort of existence (and that is all it is) is a price worth paying ?
Sad Treating people like that isn't saving lives, it's conserving existence. Zoos haven't done that for decades.

I'm with the 83 year old in the street. When you get to a very advanced stage of life with little reliable certainty left, you need to live with the pleasures that are still left to you, even if it is a newspaper and a familiar face. There may not be a 6m, 12m 18m to wait anyway.

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MagdaS · 21/10/2020 21:32

I am so fucking depressed about Manchester and living in Tier 3 indefinitely. I’ve been told to pull back from the office as well - not entirely (yet) but 10 people in (out of 53!) is too many, apparently. We are Covid secure and socially distanced. When I said it would impact on mental health and service delivery I just got a shrug back. All that matters is fucking Covid.

Whoooootaminute · 21/10/2020 21:37

@Recycledblonde

twitter.com/bbclooknorth/status/1318961247824596994?s=21 Lovely lady showing true Yorkshire spirit and telling it like it is. 🍷🍷🍷to her.
I saw that. Well said Barnsley lady.

I have a friend in that area. I guess I won't be seeing her for a while now.

Whoooootaminute · 21/10/2020 21:40

Well I just saw an advert for Jon Bon Jovi new album.

Lots of mask wearing. How bizarre. Confused

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BogRollBOGOF · 21/10/2020 21:43

@Whoooootaminute

Well I just saw an advert for Jon Bon Jovi new album.

Lots of mask wearing. How bizarre. Confused

Isn't that one called 2020? I did wonder if it was always intended to be called 2020.
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Whoooootaminute · 21/10/2020 21:55

It is called 2020.

I don't think I want a reminder of this year thanks Jon Grin

Whoooootaminute · 21/10/2020 22:00

Bogroll. I was agreeing with you. I meant to emphasise the IS in my first sentence.

justasking111 · 21/10/2020 22:03

I am a celebrity get me out of here. They are working hard on the sets so it will not be cancelled, the WAG said it could continue as well. Some knuckle dragging locals are muttering about an invasion of germ carriers sigh....

Evenstar · 21/10/2020 22:04

After reading your post @user1471448866 I am really beginning to wonder whether we still have any claim to be a civilised society if we can lock up some of the most vulnerable people in society for months on end and deny them even the simple pleasure of a daily paper 😢 There has to be a solution to this and it is not imprisoning old people and denying them visits from their family.

TheOrchidKiller · 21/10/2020 22:14

@user1471448866
Seriously, tell your friend to call social services & make a safeguarding referral. If the staff are that concerned about his well-being something needs to be done.

justasking111 · 21/10/2020 22:18

Just been looking at worldometer. 26k test results in UK. Well not sure I believe that. Comparing it to world testing we appear to be 3rd in the world only beaten by USA and India yesterday. It just does not stack up. Lighthouse the senior exports working there admitted at the weekend that a right shower of amateurs are working there now since the students and other staff went back to their uni. work.

justasking111 · 21/10/2020 22:38

OMG 142 patients in hospital in Wales caught covid on the wards last week. Which proves there is no escaping it. Most of our deaths we have finally been told were caused by hospital stays.

AcornAutumn · 21/10/2020 22:39

@justasking111

OMG 142 patients in hospital in Wales caught covid on the wards last week. Which proves there is no escaping it. Most of our deaths we have finally been told were caused by hospital stays.
Isn’t there a lot of evidence to say it’s nosocomial?
110APiccadilly · 21/10/2020 22:43

@justasking111

OMG 142 patients in hospital in Wales caught covid on the wards last week. Which proves there is no escaping it. Most of our deaths we have finally been told were caused by hospital stays.
So if we want to stop the spread, what we need to close is not in fact gyms, or pubs, but hospitals?

(Only joking, but if there's anywhere where people should be all over hygiene and everything, surely that should be hospitals?)

justasking111 · 21/10/2020 22:52

@AcornAutumn yes it is. Norovirus tears through Wrexham Maelor with depressing regularity throughout the winter every year. So why would covid be any different. However in north wales we only have 10 cases confirmed but that is out of the 25 confirmed so 40% of cases were nosocomial. That is just awful.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54630640

IAintentDead · 21/10/2020 22:53

That is the first time in my life I have come across the word 'nosocomial'. I have just looked it up. Even if I had come across it on a 'Reader's Digest' word list I wouldn't have been able to work out what it meant.

Every day is a school day. I've got to work out how to use it with my 'we're better than you' lovely family now.

MissEWeatherwax · 21/10/2020 22:54

Under normal circumstances, what is happening in care homes would be a national disgrace, but now who cares. Just as long as they don’t have COVID.
In NE almost half the deaths are from care homes, it’s bloody inhuman. Still about a third are still from care homes now. So don’t touch or see family for 8 months and you still catch it!
But on a happier note, Vera was filming in C-L-S today. Exciting. But still people on Facebook going on about face masks!
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AcornAutumn · 21/10/2020 22:58

That’s why I think this is population control rather than infection control

This study talks of the open bays even in ICU.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7443059/

If they can build the Nightingales, they could have created better partitions for existing hospitals to reduce spread there.

The most basic infection control steps aren’t taken.

AcornAutumn · 21/10/2020 23:01

IAint - “ I've got to work out how to use it with my 'we're better than you' lovely family now.”

Oh, are they like that about lockdown? Definitely use some words from that paper to get them to back off a bit Grin

justasking111 · 21/10/2020 23:08

@AcornAutumn . Reading on here or elsewhere one person said office staff in their workplace had mandatory weekly tests even if it is your day off you have to attend. Yet we here so many stories of NHS staff unable to access tests. Why do they not have regular tests to protect their health?

AcornAutumn · 21/10/2020 23:11

[quote justasking111]@AcornAutumn . Reading on here or elsewhere one person said office staff in their workplace had mandatory weekly tests even if it is your day off you have to attend. Yet we here so many stories of NHS staff unable to access tests. Why do they not have regular tests to protect their health?[/quote]
Call me a cynic...I think it’s because with the PCR test having such a high rate of false positives, testing hospital staff frequently would cause even more chaos.