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To think we soon won’t be isolating even when we have covid.

535 replies

Grida · 16/12/2021 17:58

If covid is spreading as rapidly as it seems to be, surely people who have tested positive but who don’t have symptoms/aren’t feeling ill will have to carry on working. The country will stop functioning otherwise.

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Lovemusic33 · 20/12/2021 20:11

I agree op, things will come to a stand still if this continues, omicron spreads fast, many nurses and doctors are already unable to work due to having to isolate, care workers, bus drivers, shop worker, teacher…with out them things will come to a stand still, schools would have to close, NHS will be even more stretched.

Most people are vaccinated, we can’t continue to isolate so many people when many will only have mild symptoms.

TeacupDrama · 20/12/2021 20:12

sorry for typos

HugeAckmansWife · 20/12/2021 20:13

It's not just about having Christmas or a social life back, it's the whole infrastructure of absolutely everything. 'not going to the pub' isn't in itself a big deal, but that means the pub shuts, 10 people are out of work. Multiply that by X for the suppliers, drivers, brewers etc then multiply that by all the hospitality businesses. And so on. That is simply not sustainable.

Pedalpushers · 20/12/2021 20:13

'The flu doesn't kill as many people as covid' well guess what, once upon a time it did, and a whole lot more. 100 million people died of Spanish flu in a few years, h1n1 is still around today yet far fewer people die of it because we have been gradually exposed to it and similar viruses.

DeepaBeesKit · 20/12/2021 20:13

somewhere is raking in a whole load of ££££ from LFD testing. A shit load

The tests sitting in my bathroom have come straight from..... china....

PoloMintHum · 20/12/2021 20:13

Yanbu. This is no life for anyone, constant testing, employees isolating, public services falling apart, businesses failing. It'll only get worse until this nonsense of isolating people stops.

HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 20/12/2021 20:17

The people who at the beginning were identified as CEV and CV are in the main part vaccinated and boostered, for some that is less effective but for most it does offer reduced severity of illness.

The people we are trying to protect now are the unvaccinated, they make up a disproportionate number of hospitalisations (classed as people admitted for at least 1 night) and an even bigger percentage of the ICU and ventilator beds.

So any decision to halt self isolation is basically disregard the risk to all:

  • CEV/CV people who have been unable to get vaccinations or for whom the vaccination does not work, and
  • all voluntarily unvaccinated people
Dozer · 20/12/2021 20:18

Much depends on the proportion and total number of hospitalisations, ICU cases and deaths, and whether health services can fulfil basic functions.

x2boys · 20/12/2021 20:23

@DeepaBeesKit

somewhere is raking in a whole load of ££££ from LFD testing. A shit load

The tests sitting in my bathroom have come straight from..... china....

Mine too ,my son's school sent them but I am impressed that all the little parts are in the same package!
Toddlerteaplease · 20/12/2021 20:24

@LethargicActress

I’m looking forward to the days when we can treat covid the same as we do a cold.
This.
Bolshybun · 20/12/2021 20:25

@HailAdrian

And of those of you who are so deeply concerned about 'the vulnerable,' have you always been vigilant about not spreading illnesses or is it OK to give them flu, just not covid?
Absolutely this. A scientist on sky didn’t quote half of the scaremongering in the media today.
LittleRoundRobin · 20/12/2021 20:26

God Bless That Day!

IrrelevantNameChange · 20/12/2021 20:30

God I hope so

AffIt · 20/12/2021 20:35

The norovirus thing has always confused me.

I have the resilience of a rhinoceros (I am one of those irritating people who is never ill), but the one time in my life that I have thought I MIGHT actually die was the time I had norovirus, when I was literally exploding at both ends for hours (apologies for TMI).

I was genuinely mentally planning my own funeral while violently expulsing.

Surely, if NV can have that effect on somebody like me (I've never knowingly had Covid, either), then it must be a near-death experience for the vulnerable, yet it's not notifiable?

Tamrastarr · 20/12/2021 20:37

I have been really ill for the past 10 days and I am a normally fit heathy person, but it's not covid. Negative LFT and PCR. So, I'm assuming it's the flu and now a nice chest infection. I know a few people who have tested positive for covid and none of them are that bad and some have no symptoms at all.

getsanta · 20/12/2021 20:38

But aren't we really isolating because of overwhelmed hospitals? How do we stop that?

DorothyCotton · 20/12/2021 20:39

I'll put a fiver on them cutting it to 5 days or whilst having symptoms first.....until things really stop working then I reckon isolation will be scrapped for those jabbed and boosted. Get your papers ready folks.

madmomma · 20/12/2021 20:39

Oh please God let it happen soon! Currently isolating with no symptoms whatsoever. Feeling so low.

Awalkintime · 20/12/2021 20:40

i'm 50 every winter as far back as I can remeber we have an annual bed shortage due tpo respiratory infections from december to february every single year some years it is worse than others
Because Labour cut excess beds and made wards run at 95% capacity so there was no give at pressure points.

aliceca · 20/12/2021 20:40

I am vaccinated and boosted and ecv. I have had covid and now it wont kill me. But it did take a long time to get over.

SwanShaped · 20/12/2021 20:40

I can’t wait for this.

Lovemusic33 · 20/12/2021 20:41

@AffIt

The norovirus thing has always confused me.

I have the resilience of a rhinoceros (I am one of those irritating people who is never ill), but the one time in my life that I have thought I MIGHT actually die was the time I had norovirus, when I was literally exploding at both ends for hours (apologies for TMI).

I was genuinely mentally planning my own funeral while violently expulsing.

Surely, if NV can have that effect on somebody like me (I've never knowingly had Covid, either), then it must be a near-death experience for the vulnerable, yet it's not notifiable?

I fear norovirus far more than covid (I have had both) but I’m a emetophobe so it’s my idea of pure hell 😬. Luckily I had no symptoms with covid but I was lucky. I wish they would find a vaccine against norovirus.
aliceca · 20/12/2021 20:41

@Awalkintime

i'm 50 every winter as far back as I can remeber we have an annual bed shortage due tpo respiratory infections from december to february every single year some years it is worse than others Because Labour cut excess beds and made wards run at 95% capacity so there was no give at pressure points.
Not true. This is what the conservatives did. If you repeat a lie often enough some people believe it.
madmomma · 20/12/2021 20:42

And fuck showing papers. Free country, free citizens, whatever vaccinations people choose.

bluetongue · 20/12/2021 20:42

At last, some common sense!

I’m in South Australia and borders have recently been opened and Covid has started spreading. It’s like the beginning of the pandemic here again with people jumping out of the way if they think you’re too close. I was in the line to get a booster yesterday and a woman yelled ‘space’ at me even though we already had space between us. It’s exhausting.