ADs are elite athletes and can run very fast

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Another thread in the saga filled up (so no forwards link)

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon

💐 @LivinLaVidaLoki hope he will turn a corner and be able to stay out of hospital

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Hope your DB is ok Livin

I have just been informed by the head of DS's (secondary) school that he cannot continue to attend if he does not take the 'voluntary' tests.

That's not voluntary at all.

This is what I am afraid of with the vaccines.

Exactly. All the documents say it is voluntary but children are encouraged to attend. The government guidance to schools says they should be providing education to certain children. How to marry the two that they will be in breach of their legal responsibility to provide education?

Incoming jackdaws.

Quick q - what are the chances of a false positive on lateral flow tests? Just realised my council have set up walk-in testing centres for people with no symptoms and remembered there was something about false positives but can’t work it out from the articles...

So sorry livin that’s so stressful. Hope your DB is ok.

Acorn I can’t get the tune out of my head now! (Thank goodness, as it has displaced the shite DS was listening to earlier!! )

Speaking of DS, he has come home really stressed as he got told off for not keeping up with the online maths stuff over the past 10 months. Really, is that important right now?!! He can bake a cake on his own, play an instrument pretty well, and knows phenomenal amounts of history and other random info. He’ll catch up on the bloody maths, he’s only year 4!

@LivinLaVidaLoki I am so sorry to hear that your brother has tested positive. I hope that he makes a full and swift recovery xxx

weneedmusicandculture 0. 32% or 0.06% in a laboratory setting, according to Oxford University

Best wishes for your brother, LivinLaVidaLoki

Ah ok. Thank you. Just pondering getting precautionary test if we need to provide care to a relative at any point. Otherwise will avoid tests unless have symptoms.

Sorry, that was to @Weedsnseeds1

Seems to be an outbreak of "you must not travel more than 25cm from your front door" threads, at the moment

@Weedsnseeds1

The issue is the rate of false positives remains the same no matter how many true positives there are
So
You test a 1000 people and you will get (approx) 6 people with a false positive plus however many are actually positive (and x number of false negatives).

If, for example, (a) you get 200 positives then 8 of them being false is much less of an issue than if (b) you only get 10 positive tests. In this case 8 of them are still false and only 2 are really infected.

Random testing of asymptomatic people is much more likely to result in situation like (b) where the false positives far outweigh the genuine ones.

You would still get the 8 positives even if no one was actually infected.

sorry - previous post should have been to @Weneedmusicandtheatre not @Weedsnseeds1

@Weedsnseeds1

Seems to be an outbreak of "you must not travel more than 25cm from your front door" threads, at the moment

Yep, and the "too many people are keyworkers" threads too. Fuckwits everywhere.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

That sounds difficult and so stressful. Best wishes for your DB.

I shall not be venturing Over There again. Waste of time. I’ll stay here where it’s warm and there are starlings.

Great pic @Weedsnseeds1

@Dowser That Derbyshire story is awful. I've no doubt the fucking government has specifically instructed police forces to "make a few examples": the fact that it's reported by the BBC says it all. "People will trust it if it's reported by the BBC."

WE ARE SLEEPWALKING INTO 1984!!!!!!!!!!!

And it's not making me want to cower at home. It's making me want to go out all the more, and DRIVE TO MY EXERCISE, to make a point.

These days i wouldnt trust the BBC as far as i.could throw them
Nothing but scaremongering and larty propaganda from them. Shameful.

@wanderings

And it's not making me want to cower at home. It's making me want to go out all the more, and DRIVE TO MY EXERCISE, to make a point.

I'm driving 7 miles tomorrow with my 2 children to meet my friend and her child for a walk and I'll be crossing a county boundary. We are being such rebels taking our children on our walk, at 5 and 3 they really should be staying at home by themselves with the doors and windows firmly shut for fear of them superspreading the virus to an innocent victim.

Its getting ridiculous people are talking about getting exercise and taking their children out for fresh air and exercising. Not going to a fucking rave . People have lost all sense of perspective.

I take stay home as not mixing and avoiding people. Taking my children for exercise where we see no one closer than around 5 meters plus fits this criteria. I will not cage my children up at home.