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[WouldBeGood]

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@WouldBeGood

I saw a thing on Twitter describing it as like watching televised PE- sums up my feelings on it 😂

😂 I enjoy watching the variety of sports was watching skateboarding the other day! Not the biggest fan of the althetics.

I definitely prefer the paralympics though especially the team sports which has to have mixed ability it's brilliant!

why does it matter who has written it when it's correct?

I normally love the Olympics, just a bit scunnered with everything at the moment, no idea why...

Favourites tend to be the athletics and some of the gymnastics and swimming and diving. Not so fussed about the team sports/golf/tennis and that type of shite that gets plenty of airing normally anyway.

@ElephantOfRisk

why does it matter who has written it when it's correct?

I'm not meaning to be rude but my P6s would quite easily identify that it's someone's opinion not fact!

I'm the same, have tried to be positive as possible, but the last few weeks I've been the most down I've been through the whole sh*tshow

@ElephantOfRisk

I normally love the Olympics, just a bit scunnered with everything at the moment, no idea why...

Favourites tend to be the athletics and some of the gymnastics and swimming and diving. Not so fussed about the team sports/golf/tennis and that type of shite that gets plenty of airing normally anyway.

Well the GB women's gymnastic team just clinched the bronze medal! Italy were in third all the way around til the last piece of equipment! Well done to that team!

@starryeyesuprise pretty sure that would be fully against the editors code of conduct with the first element being accuracy of it was factually incorrect!
Yes it's an opinion piece but that doesn't change the fact it has to be accurate with facts and they do get pulled up for factually incorrect articles just look at how many apologies/reactions the daily fail produces!

I'm not meaning to be rude but my P6s would quite easily identify that it's someone's opinion not fact!

Honestly you are really some cookie. I'd be more embarrassed at being one of the people that actually voted for this shitshow. Of course it's an opinion but it an opinion that is in the main based on facts that all the squirrel seeing folk seem to be able to identify.

Well the GB women's gymnastic team just clinched the bronze medal! Italy were in third all the way around til the last piece of equipment!
Well done to that team!

That's good to hear. I didn't mean I was scunnered with our fabulous athletes, just scunnered with things in general. I really should make an effort to watch.

@Tomorrowisanewday

I'm the same, have tried to be positive as possible, but the last few weeks I've been the most down I've been through the whole sh*tshow

Sorry to hear that. I've been off work for months now. Was getting to the point of being able to return but my boss seems to think it'll be okay for me to pick up the work I was doing when I went off so now feeling shit again.

@elephantofrisk I find it great escapism to watch even with zero spectators at it I just get absorbed into the sport!
😂 Now watching dressage with fascination! I'm not a horsey person at all but memorised by a dancing horse!

Yes, the dressage is good too, that plinky plonky walk they do.

Second doses in the 40-49 age group up 0.7% on yesterday. I suppose it'll just keep creeping up. Not far off 80% - four fifths of that age group protected is surely enough. At that rate it'll be 82/83% by next Tuesday when the decision is to be announced.

What channel is she on?

Prefer dancing horses to dancing dogs though both are good.

elephant that's especially dim witted of your boss...hope they come up with a better plan than that.

@Tomorrowisanewday

I'm the same, have tried to be positive as possible, but the last few weeks I've been the most down I've been through the whole sh*tshow

@Tomorrowisanewday I hear you! It’s soul destroying. And I’m sick of bravely trying to Make the Best of Things, when everything is shit, with stupid rules and masks and arcane instructions

And it’s been shown that in England over half the “Covid cases” in hospital were acquired there snd are not the reason for admission

@riverrunning

Prefer dancing horses to dancing dogs though both are good.

elephant that's especially dim witted of your boss...hope they come up with a better plan than that.

Yeah me too, he just casually threw that into the convo and then I had a shit weekend with anxiety and panic attacks and i'll now be back later than I thought I might. He's supposed to be arranging a review with occ health so I think that's something I can discuss with them. He's not exactly pushing things on though and I reckon I'll end up running out of paid sick leave both because of his actions and his lack of actions.

It just feels like it's never ending now. The vaccine was going to be our way out, and now it's not. Don't get me wrong, I've had both of mine, and am very grateful for that, but I just want some sort of life back now.

That's rubbish ElephantofRisk - surely there has to be an acceptance that we've all had a rubbish 18 months, people have worries about different aspects of life going forward, and those need to be taken into account?

@Tomorrowisanewday

That's rubbish ElephantofRisk - surely there has to be an acceptance that we've all had a rubbish 18 months, people have worries about different aspects of life going forward, and those need to be taken into account?

It's just the fact that I am off with work stress and there doesn't seem to be any thought taken place that maybe the work I was doing contributed/caused that and it might not be appropriate to allocate it to me again. I just can't fathom that to be honest. Or the fact that it's now months out of date anyway.

I'm trying to not think about it or worry about it too much. Apart from the masks thing, I don't have any particular issues, i'm not scared of getting covid etc but I'm still reluctant to be out and about but that now just general anxiety and not really covid. I agree though that it will take a long time for people to reset themselves again.

Just a quick update from the zoe app webinar (as DS is now home from nursery so only managed half)

Long covid in children is about 1.5% at 8 weeks and drops off
Double vaccination reduces chances of long covid ten fold of you do catch covid
Asthmatics are more at risk of long covid (this is me I had mild asthma before)
Women are greater risk (also previously known)

One thing I've been wondering about - looks like vaccines offer excellent individual protection from serious harm, but you can still transmit covid whilst double jabbed?

Why then is the emphasis on vaccinating under 40s, students etc?

Is it to reduce mutation risk? I could've missed something, do we see vaccinations reducing the amount of covid being transmitted?

Interesting re asthmatics and long covid scottishski

@riverrunning

One thing I've been wondering about - looks like vaccines offer excellent individual protection from serious harm, but you can still transmit covid whilst double jabbed?

Why then is the emphasis on vaccinating under 40s, students etc?

Is it to reduce mutation risk? I could've missed something, do we see vaccinations reducing the amount of covid being transmitted?

Interesting re asthmatics and long covid scottishski

Vaccinations also reduce the likelihood of getting covid for the delta variant it's 66% protection if you had AZ and 88% for Pfizer I think. As the vaccination also reduces symptoms people are more likely to be asystomatic who have been shown to transmit it less then someone with a active cough for example.

Emphasis on under 40s getting jabs to reduce transmission in the community and ultimately yes less chance of a variant of concern mutation (it does mutate a lot way more then people realise)

I think there is about half the chance of a vaccinated person transmitting it. There was a twitter thread yesterday about it And that study had mainly single vaccinated people, so it may be more pronounced for double. Plus the reduced risk of severe disease (yes, v rare in younger people but not unheard of) and long covid as scottishskifun notes. Though it seems that the benefits are as much for the individual rather than a particular benefit to society to create population immunity etc - given the variants etc, and that it doesn't entirely stop transmission.