The End is CerTEIRnly in Sight ...

[dancemom]

New thread, possibly the last?

ssd I'm so sorry for advising you to get out and about more I can't remember why, but I was sure you 're working from home.

I wouldn't be happy having to get a bus twice a day at the moment either. Even though I know the chance-of getting covid from a bus trip is very small. Most cases seem to occur in schools, workplaces where people work closely together for long periods of time and in homes though.

Glasgow city centre doesn't have a lot of cases at the moment.

For me the differing needs of the population is one of the hardest things about this situation. Business owners have different priorities from at risk people for example. Young people are suffering to protect older people.

My attitude has changed as time has gone on. I'm at the there comes a point when we have to get on and accept that there will probably be a tiny risk of getting covid from now on.

Anyone heard if we will be reducing 2nd doses for over 50s to 8 weeks? This seems to be JCVI advise which England have taken. Scotland has always followed JCVI to the letter.
DH just over 6 weeks at moment, but we're Lothian so 🤷🏼‍♀️

So DH just checked for us online and turns out we have appointments next week. No letters as yet. I'm 39 in East Dunbartonshire... Post has been crap lately so I assume there will have been many appointments missed!

Anyone know if it's tolerated to bring young DC (strapped in a pushchair) as DH can't exactly rearrange his diary at 3 days' notice but could have done with a week or so.

TLDR, check if you have an appointment, if you're at or around 40 you probably do!

Glasgow to stay in tier 3 for another week. I honestly thought she would have realised that these regional restrictions DO NOT work. After basically not being able to see my family since last September just because we happen to live in a populated area. Honestly I could cry.

@randomsabreuse where do you check online please?

The phrase containing a stable door, a horse and 'bolted' comes to mind.

The virus and variants get everywhere, so there’s no point in all this travel outrage: it’s in Australia 🤷🏻‍♀️

@BilboBercow it’s just cruel now 💐

invitations.vacs.nhs.scot/

Hopefully that works

Thank you!

What I don't understand is that now that case levels are very low, surely track and trace should be a lot more effective at identifying local incidents and putting measures in place, rather than these ongoing blanket moves that are likely to make very little difference to the numbers, especially since they don't seem to have gone out of their way to disperse the football crowds.

I was just talking to a friend who had COVID in November. She's still struggling to walk upstairs, has severe chest pains, and her husband is having such bad headaches still that he's having a CT scan next week to check if he has blood clots.

I fee desperately bad for those who are still working with large numbers of people and travelling to get there, and are as yet unvaccinated. I don't think it's helpful to patronise with talk of 'your terror'. People don't want their life and health derailed by this shit.

@rookiemere

What I don't understand is that now that case levels are very low, surely track and trace should be a lot more effective at identifying local incidents and putting measures in place, rather than these ongoing blanket moves that are likely to make very little difference to the numbers, especially since they don't seem to have gone out of their way to disperse the football crowds.

They don't do full backward tracing just 3 days and only identify close contacts. It's the way the govt has set it up.

The govts that do well with controlling outbreaks do full tracing.
Lockdowns should only be put in place til proper track and trace set up is established. Unfortunately we have a half hearted effort and use lockdowns as primary measure.

@randomsabreuse I have an appointment for 26th! More than four weeks past my positive test too! So I can go.

🙏🏻 thank you

Just to add some of the people DH identified as close 3 day contacts weren’t even contacted.

@WouldBeGood

The virus and variants get everywhere, so there’s no point in all this travel outrage: it’s in Australia 🤷🏻‍♀️

@BilboBercow it’s just cruel now 💐

In the quarantine hotels.

Australia recorded one new case today. Life is back to normal. Their strategy of quarantine for all works.

No @StarryEyeSurprise in a suburb of Sydney

More than 400 cases today.

Feels very 'here we go again' 😬

@WouldBeGood

No *@StarryEyeSurprise* in a suburb of Sydney

How many cases?

@starryeyesuprise it's currently unknown - registered just 2 cases but sewage testing is showing traces which indicates more and they think there is a missing link as the person who tested positive had no links or high risk case.
The person also had a high viral load (aka a super spreader)

• 413 new cases of COVID-19 reported
• 27,866 new tests for COVID-19 that reported results – 1.6% of these were positive
• 0 new reported death(s) of people who have tested positive
• 3,003,339 people have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination and 1,599,519 have received their second dose

• Please note following a data issue affecting the flow of UK Government tests from 8pm on 13/05/2021 until 9am on 14/05/2021 the numbers reported yesterday were lower than expected. This has now resolved and the missing data has been included in today’s COVID-19 test figures above

[quote Scottishskifun]@starryeyesuprise it's currently unknown - registered just 2 cases but sewage testing is showing traces which indicates more and they think there is a missing link as the person who tested positive had no links or high risk case.
The person also had a high viral load (aka a super spreader)[/quote]
Thanks, I'm quite sure I read the same article and it's linked to one of the hotels. There's no comparison really, is there? Between the UK and Australian number of cases. I long for the day when 2 cases results in a write up in the national press.

@StarryEyeSurprise the joys of being geographically isolated, large land area with enough agriculture and supplies coming in by air freight or shipping container only.
It's just not possible in the UK due to trade and food coming in from Europe via lorry mostly!
It is never going to be possible to replicate the likes of Oz, NZ etc when we are so close to Europe and that's where we get a large majority of food/raw ingredients from

I'm at 6 weeks too @latissimusdorsi and in Lothian.
Is this to reduce transmission or does it improve effectiveness? Just wondering what the benefit is in switching from 12 to 8.

A question that urgently needs to be answered is - did the government delay putting India on the red list because it wanted to prioritise negotiating a trade deal? The PM himself was over for a visit not long ago.

@Scottishskifun I'm not referring to lorry drivers.

@randomsabreuse

invitations.vacs.nhs.scot/

Hopefully that works

Thanks so much! I'd not seen that before. Just filled it in and got a text and email response in about 5 mins saying I've got an appointment on the 27th, so at least I haven't missed it!