I get locked down. Tiers go up again.

[Cismyfatarse]

New Fred.

Seems fair @Groovee/ it looks great.

That looks fab @Groovee
I hate going in the playhouses at work, partly cos I’m too big really and partly cos of the spiders!

That’s great news @shouldistop

That's NI schools closed for longer now. More pressure on NS and JS to do the same (or make it even longer, knowing them)

DH is mad that he isn't eligible for funding support as his self employed business is not his main income. It helps us a lot to have this side business as DH was made redundant a few years ago and it makes up the loss in savings that we had to use. Now we can just about get by but with me not working til new job starts, we could really do with this scottish government grant. Yet you can only get it if 50% of your income comes from it. Not 45% but 50%.

Does anyone know whether regular routine testing of staff that do personal care in people's homes was ever implemented? I found something from November that said they were looking at how to implement this but I can't see anything about what's happening. Friend of a friend lost a vulnerable bed bound parent when both parents caught covid from a carer, not blaming the carer obviously but just wondered if they get their routine testing. NHS DH only been doing this for a few weeks.

@WaxOnFeckOff my cleaner (who obviously isn't coming just now) is also a home carer in Glasgow and she hasn't been getting routine testing. She actually had Covid before Christmas which was picked up by a normal test as she was symptomatic. Who knows how many elderly people she'd had close contact with before symptoms started

It's really not good enough. There is thousands of spare testing capacity and it doesn't seem like this is happening properly, it's care homes all over again. Plus people are being sent home with covid so carers will be coming in and then into other houses.

Apparently we have a capacity to test 60K+ per day lucky if we get 23K on average. Why are we only testing symptomatic people? Why are we not testing a symptomatic people routinely given we have capacity.
Almost Trump like, no testing no cases - simples.
@shouldistop good news day.

Thanks for that Iwill
I've just checked it out and checked Wales out, Welsh Secretary is suggesting a unified approach to schools reopening.

I think my best bet is to sound my company out, let them know what I'm thinking. Get them to confirm my options pending Scotland's announcement.

@shouldistop

Baby's ds appointment went totally fine, nothing wrong

Yay 🎉🎉🎉 fab news x

@runningpink

That looks fab *@Groovee* I hate going in the playhouses at work, partly cos I’m too big really and partly cos of the spiders!

That’s great news @shouldistop

We have a blocks shed in the garden at work and one of my colleagues bolted so fast one day. I think the spider may have got the biggest fright 😂

@shouldistop So pleased!!

A friend of mine works in a care home and they are tested weekly. This is in NL - picked up her asymptomatic case of Covid!

I think they're pretty much all vaccinated now though. So that's good.

Spiders are good luck apparently! If that makes anyone warm to the hairy wee loves!

NS was asked today why we weren't doing more community asymptotic testing, no real answer just some waffle about how we were doing better than England. I'm not sure that's something to boast about given their horrendous figures tbh.

Both kids asleep and dh has run me a nice bubble bath bed for me after that.

I have a black cat, so my luck cup is full...:o

I know care home staff are tested, it's the community care staff that I was asking about and it doesn't seem like that is happening properly?

DH tests every few days at home, he missed doing Monday as he was tested at hospital but he did get chased up about it today when he was due to test again anyway.

I don’t want asymptomatic testing - we will never be let out!

Vaccinate the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

rereading, that sounds stroppy - wasn't meant to :)

And good news for you all round @shouldistop, hope you get a nice chill out and sleep - maybe kiss a wee spider for luck

Apologies! Didn't read it properly.

Thankfully you don't need to kiss them - that's a step too far even for me! 🕷

@WouldBeGood

I don’t want asymptomatic testing - we will never be let out!

Vaccinate the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

Unfortunately covid is a bit of Russian roulette to how serious it is not just the vulnerable and long covid is affecting young people horrifically. My friend is fit and healthy 30 year old who used to run marathons and hasn't been able to work in 6 months because of covid.

@WouldBeGood

I don’t want asymptomatic testing - we will never be let out!

Vaccinate the vulnerable. Free everyone else.

I agree, but we are allowing carers to be in and out vulnerable people's homes multiple times every day doing personal care and they should really be treated exactly the same as care home and frontline NHS staff.

As much as anything, it's not fair on the carers worrying that they might be carrying virus all over the place, never mind the people that might catch it. Hopefully vaccination will cover off both the carers and cared for shortly and it wont be an issue, but I'm annoyed that we are under such restrictions and we have the testing capacity but it's not been targeted properly - unless someone knows different? That's what I would have spent my £700k leaflet money on.

That's nothing @Groovee, one of our staff went out to the bin one day and found a massive rat sitting on top 🐀. The scream could have been heard from Glasgow!

I do think we should have regular testing of carers, but given known false positive issues an asymptomatic positive should trigger an automatic retest.

@StatisticallyChallenged

I do think we should have regular testing of carers, but given known false positive issues an asymptomatic positive should trigger an automatic retest.

Yes also agree and normally I'm not really on board with the efficacy of the PCR testing but at the same time this seems like a big omission?

Care home workers are vaccinated now though.

And @Scottishskifun the only reason for restrictions is to save the NHS so even if people are unwell for a while there shouldn’t be continued lockdown once the people who fill the hospitals are vaccinated. And they are overwhelmingly the over 70s

I don't mind rodents fortunately but I think you'd still get a fright.