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Bonny lasses assemble for the North East support thread 2!

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PennyDreadfuI · 22/09/2020 15:19

Shiny new thread for all your north east needs.

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Plussizejumpsuit · 02/10/2020 20:12

God the stuff re Northumbria uni is shocking. I imagine they were tested after the outbreak started. Many unis have their own testing or kits to send away exactly because of this sort of thing!

I'm in fairly central Gateshead. I'm thinking about the several tower blocks of uni halls above trinity Square tesco on Central Gateshead. I'll be avoiding the store. But feel like there's potential for the spread to get out in the wider community this way.

Plussizejumpsuit · 02/10/2020 20:17

mobile.twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1312059413608493056?s=09

This twitter post about it shoes it's a big story as its a news night reporter. But also comments and replies are interesting. A lot of people seemingly not feeling its a significant concern or threat. Some local some not.

alseb · 02/10/2020 20:20

The news re students really doesn’t surprise me after watching them in Jesmond during the last few weeks. It’s so grim. I’m off to the Christmas thread to take my mind off the situation.

clareykb · 02/10/2020 20:22

Question of the day..should I take my 7 year olds to their swimming lesson at Northumbria uni tomorrow...the swim school are hot on hygiene but I'm still slightly freaked out,

Plussizejumpsuit · 02/10/2020 20:31

@clareykb

Question of the day..should I take my 7 year olds to their swimming lesson at Northumbria uni tomorrow...the swim school are hot on hygiene but I'm still slightly freaked out,
I doubt many of the students will have been swimming and chlorine is good at killing germs so it's probably fine. But it depends how comfortable you are. I don't think it would be ott not to take them.
alseb · 02/10/2020 20:33

Clareykb
I wouldn’t. That building is used by lots of people, multiple surfaces, doors, handles. I’d wait a while.

juneybean · 02/10/2020 20:51

On the subject of charity shops, I used to love Low Fell high street when I worked that way.

PickAChew · 02/10/2020 20:53

They have a lot more now than when I lived there, @juneybean. That was way back, though, when the coop was kwik save!

clareykb · 02/10/2020 21:18

On the risk assessment you literally go straight through the fire exit to poolside swim and then dry off and go...I'm normally not over cautious although we do follow all guidelines. Just a bit unsure still contemplating!

Shitfuckoh · 02/10/2020 21:36

So thankful it's the weekend, although not really sure why. We can't exactly see anyone or go anywhere!
I guess it's because I don't need to rush sorting out breakfast & lunch box, getting all 3 sorted for Nursery/School, then having to do the school run in either the rain or cold!

NeurotrashWarrior · 02/10/2020 21:37

Oh I forgot about the student blocks on top of Tesco!!

NeurotrashWarrior · 02/10/2020 21:39

Hmmm I'd be wary Clare. Though chlorine kills it. You may find they close in response?

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 02/10/2020 21:41

I'm in fairly central Gateshead

Ooh me too!

BikeTyson · 02/10/2020 21:46

Question of the day..should I take my 7 year olds to their swimming lesson at Northumbria uni tomorrow...the swim school are hot on hygiene but I'm still slightly freaked out

Personally I would, but can appreciate I may be a bit more blasé about this than some. Most things I’ve read recently have downgraded the role of surface transmission compared to what we were told at the beginning.

BikeTyson · 02/10/2020 21:48

I read a post on a local Facebook group yesterday asking for help delivering food to 400 student households that were isolating and couldn’t get delivery slots so I’m not surprised some big figures have come out today! It does also go some way to explaining the large numbers of cases Newcastle has been getting the past couple of weeks. We’re a small city to have 2 universities really.

Plussizejumpsuit · 02/10/2020 22:28

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

I'm in fairly central Gateshead

Ooh me too!

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clareykb · 02/10/2020 22:46

Were in Gateshead too not central though. I'm a key worker and have been at work throughout and kids have been at school when I've been at work which I think makes us a bit relaxed tbh ..we are going out for tea tomorrow but I'd not have a party if that makes sense. I think I'll take them of its not cancelled and if I don't feel safe we'll not go back. Will report back on the campus!

NeurotrashWarrior · 03/10/2020 05:58

Yes actually I do think surface is not so much the issue now.

There's a good article actually, I'll try to find it.

I had to clarify some stuff for work and asked a Gp mate who's also done microbiology; it can't survive outside the human body and slowly starts to close in/ denature. The article said 6 hours half life. But also that tests had used large amounts of the virus. So after 24 hours it's "degraded" x4. (48 hours paper, 72 plastics technically under rules.)

I would imagine a pool is spaced out enough, airy enough and masked up to reduce air borne spread considerably.

BessieSurtees · 03/10/2020 08:31

Morning everybody I’ve had such a busy week, just catching up here. I will have a look at book recommendations, thank you, I’m going away for a few days soon and plan to walk by the sea and read by the fire.

@NeurotrashWarrior 48 hours paper & 72 hours plastics I think that means that almost everything we touch in a supermarket is likely to have been touched by someone with the virus in that time frame and could still transfer?

Can you remember in the beginning shops had signs saying don’t touch if you’re not buying.

Yesterday I was in Newcastle City Centre, no social distancing but inside Eldon square it seemed almost 100% mask compliance. Although I was there for work I had a wander around Fenwicks and John Lewis Xmas decorations to cheer me up, then into Waitrose and those don’t touch rules don’t exist anymore.

I really wanted to have a good old browse around the City but the mask makes me feel hot after a while and people were closer than I felt comfortable with even though interaction was brief. My very best friend has been struggling with this local lockdown and I feel safer spending a hour or so going for a walk with her than I did yesterday.

I think it’s a disgrace that students were brought to uni’s and locked down. They have been sacrificed for the economy right? They have rental agreements, so that is a lot of landlords who will benefit from rent. They will use pubs and takeaways. They can’t go home without the risk of spreading the virus so are effectively trapped.

BikeTyson · 03/10/2020 10:20

This is a US article but has applicability here: about the over emphasis on surfaces as a mode of transmission. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hygiene-theater/614599/

This and other things I’ve read seem to suggest that the tests that showed survival of the virus on surfaces for long periods were using massively unrealistic doses to start with so didn’t reflect real world conditions.

Dowser · 03/10/2020 13:41

Cor it’s grim in N Yorks
Rain, rain and more rain
Yuck

NeurotrashWarrior · 03/10/2020 13:46

48 hours paper & 72 hours plastics I think that means that almost everything we touch in a supermarket is likely to have been touched by someone with the virus in that time frame and could still transfer?

Only if they've coughed into their hands and then touched relatively immediately. Hence the asking and santisining hands all the time and wearing a mask.

With masks and sanitizer there should be near no risk.

Those rules are being used in school where one group of children without masks on, coughing everywhere as they have a cold (but could have Covid) use some equipment that a second bubble might use the same day or week.

We either wash with soap, or wipe with viral wipes or quarantine. Or spray with some special stuff.

NeurotrashWarrior · 03/10/2020 13:48

That's what I veer towards bike. My pupils are a licky snotty bunch so we do wipe and quarantine but shopping should be fine.

PickAChew · 03/10/2020 14:29

The rain is pretty dire. Ds2 insisted on dh taking him for his walk to count the minibuses this morning, though :o

I've cleaned out a couple of kitchen cupboards. I have a mountain of ironing but don't fancy it when the air is so damp. I might just tackle another cupboard.

Dowser · 03/10/2020 16:58

We are at MacArthur glen

Had enough now
Quick cuppa and then back to our field.
Will try to find the second series of Derry girls and my friend has asked me to dowse her bungalow where things are literally going bump in the night.
Her partners away and she said she was quite scared last night