Is covid growing rampant again

[Prizlime]

I read an article online and it says it is growing. Another article says that a newer symptom for starting off is a sore throat.

I am in work and my colleague and boss both have sore throats.

I'm supposed to be going away on holidays. I feel fine to be honest but the idea of getting sick right now or withing the next week doesn't appeal to me.

Lots of people I know have it. This week I know of 8 people plus my DH and myself who have tested positive. We're isolating but the DC are still going to school. Feels like flu and we'd do the same if it was flu.

Don’t worry, they gave me a 7 day course but randomly gave me enough tablets for 10 so don’t worry, but thank you anyway

im not sure what else we can do except live with it, maybe as the boosters e olive it might one day be like flu season and the flu jab but at the moment I honestly have never felt so poorly in my life

Thing is, people aren't testing, so how can they know wether they have covid or not? Not everyone can afford tests, particularly at the moment. And unfortunately, people have no choice but to go out and about with covid. As I said upthread many workplaces don't automatically allow time off and the ones that do often say you have to be back at work five days after a positive test, symptomatic/still positive or not. People can't afford to lose pay, so they're going to struggle in even if they still feel lousy (much as we all did prior to 2020).

Yes. Two of my supported living services are back in (pretty much self imposed) self isolation due to all the service users and to date half the staff being positive. Self imposed because no one in any authority either needs or wants to know anymore.
Which is odd because people are the same level of poorly with it as they were before so it does make me wonder what all the first lock downs were about tbh.

It won't help as we can no longer pay staff when they are off with covid (the funding went in Spring) so the sick ones come into work and pass it to the healthy ones and so it goes around.

we can no longer pay staff when they are off with covid (the funding went in Spring) so the sick ones come into work and pass it to the healthy ones and so it goes around

This is what I'm talking about, @Prizlime. People have to go out and about, they have no choice. It's not like they're recklessly out partying and licking strangers' faces while covid positive for the lols.

There's a simple solution to this and that is for people to simply stop going out and about and mixing with others while being sick.

If I don't work I don't get paid, which means I can't pay the bills this week and it may push my bank account into the red. If I don't have the money in the bank my rent doesn't get paid. If I don't pay the rent I lose my home.
Your "simple solution" isn't quite that simple.

Why can't people see this?!

Blaming people for having no choice but to go into work, rather than blaming employers who don't offer paid sickness leave, or the government for allowing zero hour contract employers to take the piss.

But no, you're just a selfish feckless murderer 🙄

People can't see it because it's inconvenient for them to do so.

Yep, I work with schools.
One small school with half (5) of their staff off ill.

Another with 20 ill children.

Children off too ( or in and coughing all over everyone)

So your answer is to simply pass on your dose so more people experience it

So your answer is to simply pass on your dose so more people experience it

Was that you volunteering to pay her wages then, @Prizlime ? Thought not.

So your answer is to simply pass on your dose so more people experience it

Is yours for her bills not to get paid, or will you be putting your money where your mouth is?

What do you expect people to do when the alternative is to lose wages, their home and/or their job?

TimBoothseyes
There's a simple solution to this and that is for people to simply stop going out and about and mixing with others while being sick.

If I don't work I don't get paid, which means I can't pay the bills this week and it may push my bank account into the red. If I don't have the money in the bank my rent doesn't get paid. If I don't pay the rent I lose my home.
Your "simple solution" isn't quite that simple.

So your answer is to simply pass on your dose so more people experience it

What's the alternative? People will always prioritise their own families and ensuring they can keep a roof over their head will outweigh staying at home if they won't be paid.

Not everyone gets sick pay above ssp. Not everyone can work at home. Not everyone can afford the test in the first place.

And given the cost of living rises I expect more and more will have to choose work before sick leave.

"Why can't people see this?!

Blaming people for having no choice but to go into work, rather than blaming employers who don't offer paid sickness leave, or the government for allowing zero hour contract employers to take the piss.

But no, you're just a selfish feckless murderer 🙄"

I agree. My partner only gets ssp so he used holidays when he had covid so we wouldn't lose money. But it has meant he has had little time off with the kids this year.

Good Christ it's like autumn 2020, not autumn 2022.

Covid bingo is back, folks! So far today we've had a mask thread ✔️ people being called selfish for not wearing masks ✔️ posters being told to stay home and not earn money if they're ill ✔️ 'ripping through' ✔️ BRING BACK RESTRICTIONS!!!! ✔️

All we need now is predictions of 100,000 cases a day by the 1st 19th 4239nd and mention of the 'bodies piling high crew' and we'll have a full house! Oh and perhaps a graph or five.

Yep! First week of term at my uni this week and we (staff) are coming down with it one after another 😩 Initially just thought we were run down from the long-days/no days off of Welcome and then it clicked!

Like Australia we maybe blindsided by the flu this winter rather than covid which just trudges along now

But if its that or become homeless what would YOU do?

It's wonderfully vitreous to say yes you go without pay for 11 days until your negative. Dh works in a school. Had a positive test on day 2 of term. Boss demanded him in. Into school. So next time he gets it why should anyone give a shit if it was OK to go to work in a school knowing he was positive? Tbh for me I thought the whole thing became pointless when we could mix knowing we had a positive case at home, again dh HAD to go back into school when ds was positive. It's become a nonsense.

I work in a hospital. Our numbers of inpatients with covid have tripled in the last week or two and staff sickness levels are beginning to rocket.

Actually, the numbers are more than quadrupled. From below 10 to in the 50s’.

Difficult. Had a colleague come into work last week with ‘just a cough’, but he’d tested negative so that was ok… Guess what? Now loads of the office have it! In the meantime, a few colleagues were in earlier this week, sniffles but nothing more, also tested negative, thought they’d done the right thing - and have since tested positively and presumably spread it across a number of our work locations.

Testing must get better. Everyone I’ve heard of seems to have some minor symptoms, tests negative, goes about their life, then tests positive once they’re nearly at the end of it, having spread it all over in the meantime. Negative LFT results are not a free pass!

@VampiresWife I thought I'd time travelled.

Hospital admissions increasing sharply. Looking at an autumn wave. People are still becoming very unwell - not everyone but more than a few.

Local hospital already cancelling routine ops.