If you’re trying to decide whether to go to a Christmas party

[AchillesLastStand]

Victoria Derbyshire on Twitter has shared that her triple vaccinated brother contracted omicron at a Christmas meal out. Out of 21 one of them 17 have now tested positive.

twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1469354766560026624

Imagine thousands of similar mini super-spreading events up and down the country this week and where that could lead.

But OP, if it's so infectious, then you could catch it in the supermarket... at work... in a shopping centre... in the GP surgery... or in many other places where you might need to go.

You could catch it anywhere - so what's the point in avoiding a party? "I'd rather have Tesco Covid than Slug and Lettuce Covid"?

I wouldn't personally put all your trust in LFTs. Mine was negative throughout being very ill with Covid.

The NHS is not fit for purpose if it really needs 'protecting.' Better to make it not shit

There’s no magic wand. The only realistic way to make it better is to get a few million more people out of public health care thus relieving the burden and waiting times etc. But realistically how many UK families currently using the NHS could afford, say, £2000-3000 a year to go private? We’d need at least a million or two to do so to make any difference.

The NHS is far from perfect, but it’s pretty much the best we can collectively afford.

@supermoonrising not only that but there isn’t even the option to have private care in many areas. I can afford to have private healthcare but stopped paying for insurance and now just pay if I need a quick referral. There simply isn’t the infrastructure for private healthcare to take the weight off the NHS even if everyone who could afford it decided to.

@LemonSwan

Surely the cause of this is someone not bothering to LFT before hand?

I just had a packed weekend of social events and every single one, everyone attending was asked to and did an LFT.

Surely that is the solution rather than cancelling everything?

My LFTs on Friday (comfirmed positive DC at home so expecting to catch covid):

8am - negative - work/nursery requirement to attend as positive case at home (DS also negative).
7pm - negative - DS now has serious snots. I test both of us he's now positive.
10pm - positive -I'm getting hay fever like symptoms so decide to LFT yet again before bed. Positive was confirmed by PCR the next day.

So you could test negative up until the moment you walk out that door and be positive by the time you came back in!

I would go to a Christmas Party or any large gathering, but others can please themselves.

Sorry - should read wouldn't !

@AchillesLastStand

Victoria Derbyshire on Twitter has shared that her triple vaccinated brother contracted omicron at a Christmas meal out. Out of 21 one of them 17 have now tested positive.

twitter.com/vicderbyshire/status/1469354766560026624

Imagine thousands of similar mini super-spreading events up and down the country this week and where that could lead.

Everyone is going to get Covid at some point

Alec,

"Everyone is going to get Covid at some point"

and your qualification in Immunology was gained when ??

@AchillesLastStand

That’s nice. Some lovely selfish posters on here who are more than happy to pass the virus on to anyone they meet, and will directly contribute to the next lockdown and schools closing.

I get a tingle of unadulterated happiness when I read that I’m pissing off people like the OP!

It makes going out even more wonderful

We will be going to our party.
Seven of us have been working in the same office since Aug 2020 apart from wfh Jan-Mar this year. Nobody is taking tests.
If we can catch it in a restaurant we can catch it in the workplace (so far nobody has).
Or can we only catch it if we are enjoying ourselves?
Is that life for you now? Just work and nothing else? Fuck that.

Oh my god, did you hear about the big Christmas party on Friday night where all the people were double vaccinated or double plus booster, and…none of them now have covid, not a single one.

No? Well I guess that doesn’t get as many retweets….

Does Covid only strike at Christmas parties and gatherings?
For gods sake live your lives. We could all catch it anywhere anytime. Paranoia isn’t good for anyone.

This is so depressing. There's no hope of avoiding it unless we sever all social contacts. That's impossible and unbearable.

@RobinPenguins

Oh my god, did you hear about the big Christmas party on Friday night where all the people were double vaccinated or double plus booster, and…none of them now have covid, not a single one.

No? Well I guess that doesn’t get as many retweets….

@deydododatdodontdeydo

We will be going to our party. Seven of us have been working in the same office since Aug 2020 apart from wfh Jan-Mar this year. Nobody is taking tests. If we can catch it in a restaurant we can catch it in the workplace (so far nobody has). Or can we only catch it if we are enjoying ourselves? Is that life for you now? Just work and nothing else? Fuck that.

Exactly! Am sure I remember last and this year(?) People who were advocating for some hospital and other key staff to just move into their work to be available at all times. After all 'it's a calling'... 🤔

If it's legal I'm doing it. I'm past caring now.

Yeah no. I'm still going to mine this Friday. Can't wait! Might see if I can write selfish in the sequins on my dress.

Im really fed up of people calling people selfish for living a normal life within the permitted laws.

I'm volunteering at a vaccine centre this week - about 30 volunteers and staff spending all day together and probably 2000+ people coming through some of whom will need us to sit with them and help quite a bit. Shall we just not bother then as that seems to be what your posts are implying?

Op don’t go out but you don’t need to preach to anyone , people can make their own assessment. I personally decided that when vaccinated then no I’m not going to stay home I’m making up for last year .

It’s amazing that after all this time people think that a combination of covid, catching up with backlogs, having staff absence due to covid and completing the vaccine program can all be completed with a flick of a switch. People who have never managed anything complicated in their lives I expect

@sleepwouldbenice We all know a lot of the NHS is inept and that's not a new thing. The amount of times they've nearly killed or not helped family members and loved ones of mine is eye-watering. Money is sunk into it but it seems to be a black hole of incompetence that swallows money without it touching the sides.

This isn't to say that some bits of it/people are good, but there's a lot of really bad practice.

@AchillesLastStand

That’s nice. Some lovely selfish posters on here who are more than happy to pass the virus on to anyone they meet, and will directly contribute to the next lockdown and schools closing.

Yes OP, you're demanding that everyone cancel their much waited for events in case the tests we've taken are false negatives and we give it to someone who might be vulnerable, yet we're the selfish ones. Many people, even the "vulnerable", just want to get back to normal.

If there is a lockdown and school closing the government will be to blame, not the poor sods going to a Christmas party.

*aren't good

DH went to a Premier League Football match 2 weeks ago, which included 4 different crowded pub visits.

Triple jabbed 2 weeks previous to that.

He hasn't caught Covid.