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Thread 16 - Corona Cohort Year 12, 2021 Zooming through Summer Term

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orangecinnamon · 09/05/2021 15:51

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Zandathepanda · 12/06/2021 18:39

Dd just shouted to me that he’s stabilised in hospital - I told her I was very glad but annoyed as I told her not to look at her phone! She’s ok now, just worn out.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 12/06/2021 19:06

[quote Monkey2001]@JustHereWithMyPopcorn I think I read somewhere that they release the next week of slots at 8:00 on Monday morning, so that is the time to be ready. You get any slit you can and then keep an eye out for cancellations/additional slots or pay £20 for an app to look for you.

Congratulations on passing theory.[/quote]
Thank you, I’ll be up and ready!

Zandathepanda · 12/06/2021 19:06

Apologies again for my rant. So glad the footballer seems much better. Uni Dd has been in contact with friends of friends who are covid positive. We were trying to work out how many degrees of separation were acceptable for her to come home when the football match was on, so it’s been a very stressful day when I was trying to keep it calm! It does sound like this new variant is spreading rapidly. Uni Dd hasn’t been buzzed by the app yet. And I still think Year 12 Dd is more likely to come into contact as there’s >1000 mixing unmasked at school. I can cope as long as Mondays assessment is out the way!

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 12/06/2021 19:08

I wasn’t watching the football but I hear the filming was completely unacceptable and carried on way too long. That poor young man and his family. I hear also that he is stable and hope he recovers quickly.

Zandathepanda · 12/06/2021 19:14

Justhere thankyou for confirming about the footage. Dh feels awful for not turning if off quicker (I may have had a go at him).

Piggywaspushed · 12/06/2021 19:30

DS quite shaken up too. Glad to hear Eriksen seems OK. He is one of DS's favourite players.

He is about to have a shower after a run and put his Eriksen shirt on.

Zandathepanda · 12/06/2021 19:41

Piggy it does sound like it was terrible to watch. Dd hardly ever watches football so wasn’t ‘invested’ but it’s the medical stuff that she’s been through that made it tough for her. Hope your Ds had a good run. That is very lovely putting his shirt on. Dh said they are replaying the match tonight so it sounds like the players are ok. Dh has gone for a long walk. I think it got to him too.

icanbewhatiwant · 12/06/2021 20:29

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn you are on the correct government site for tests? I could see all available tests when we looked (of which there was one this year looking at 3 different test centres!) there's another site where a company finds you a test...My oldest went on that site by accident when trying to book his test.

Our 6th form usually have AS levels. Obviously not this year. Apparently there will still be mock exams this term, Ds is getting annoyed because the school have yet to tell them when they will be, these will be the predicted grades for university applications. Ds says it's unfair as they all want to watch the euros not revise. I'm not a football fan at all.

icanbewhatiwant · 12/06/2021 20:48

Yes Ds was watching the football. The rest of us don't watch it. He said the camera should have switched off.

Shimy · 12/06/2021 20:51

what's going on Shock

EversoDelighted · 12/06/2021 23:03

We weren't watching, we were all out at the time but are big football fans and did pick up the news. DS was at a friend's house and saw the news on his phone, he said it had been worrying (I picked him up an hour or so ago when it was clear he had stabilised). I was talking to someone last week who works for a Premier League club, he was telling me their players get the best medical care money can buy and that I would be amazed at the medical facilities at the training ground, which makes it all the more shocking when something like this happens, sometimes no amount of screening and monitoring will pick up a potential problem. Sorry to hear that the coverage was so inappropriate and upsetting.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/06/2021 06:48

@icanbewhatiwant I was on the gov one, pretty sure it was the right one? I tried it for Yorkshire where granny lives and it gave me one date in October and four in November but said none were available beyond that. My friends son here booked his about three weeks ago and was given 2nd November so I think that the ones here are just all booked? We are near a sizeable town (where the test centre is) and all the other ones ‘near’ that (20- 30 mins drive away) had no spaces either.

estherfrewen · 13/06/2021 06:57

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn - am in Yorkshire and got 5 cancellations through on Testi app yesterday for June/July.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/06/2021 07:24

Hi Esther I’m just outside London which might be why it’s so busy? I thought I’d do a check at granny’s house to see if it was me being stupid or whether it was just busy.
I just want to get a date booked and then I can look for cancellations. I don’t want him to do it up there as he’d need to use his own car (much rather he did it in the instructors car) but also he is not familiar with the roads.

estherfrewen · 13/06/2021 09:00

@JustHereWithMyPopcorn - typed long response and lost it! DS instructor said more dates being released this week and they are extending testing day by one test so things will hopefully slowly improve. There is a shortage in south east from what she said. Once you get a date I would use Testi app - it can go quiet sometimes but we have had a lot of cancellations through on it but they go very quickly. Our instructor also has local arrangement with others by which they can swap drivers with booked tests if some are ready and others have an earlier date but aren’t ready.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/06/2021 09:38

Thanks Esther, I'm praying that we can get one booked this week, it's madness!

Monkey2001 · 13/06/2021 11:14

I'm dreading what might happen with tests as covid gets worse. The most infected group of people are the ones getting the Delta variant, so there could be a lot of cancellations as people have to isolate or they might suspend tests again. With both DSs currently isolating, I think we might isolate DS1 for the 10 days before his test so that he does not get told to isolate and lose his slot - that would be a nightmare as he would be back at university before he could get another date. Was supposed to pass last year in gap year.......

Monkey2001 · 13/06/2021 11:16

I meant to say that 17-30 must be biggest group of test takers and biggest group of people with covid.

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 13/06/2021 12:30

Monkey, I hadn't even thought of that! Sad

estherfrewen · 13/06/2021 12:54

Me neither...!

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orangecinnamon · 13/06/2021 13:09

I don't know why Dd was given the vac. She has asthma, but nothing she has been hospitalised for over the last five years. She may have declared herself mixed ethnicity as I am mixed race, there area is predominantly 'white British' so I wonder if that was anything to do with it, there seemed to be different priorities in different areas at the time. She has anxiety too, I had heard that people with mental health issues were moved up the list at one point
..it could not be true though.
I guess that is a long way round of saying it may be sooner rather than later that DC get the jab according to govt priority at the time.
I'm fairly certain my high BMI contributed to.me getting jabbed so early (so ashamed Sad)

I suppose I shouldn't feel that way...we are all vaccinated as a family now after all inc MIL who is in our bubble.

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KingscoteStaff · 13/06/2021 13:21

DS (19) got jabbed quite early due to a period of regular blue light trips to hospital when he was about 7. Now ridiculously healthy...

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orangecinnamon · 13/06/2021 13:38

@KingscoteStaff

DS (19) got jabbed quite early due to a period of regular blue light trips to hospital when he was about 7. Now ridiculously healthy...
It could have been related to the time just before she started secondary when she was formally diagnosed with asthma...for years before that they called it 'viral wheeze'. She was hospitalised and it was an awful time...fine now though!
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Monkey2001 · 13/06/2021 16:11

All sorts of historic flags trigger a move up the list. However, the problem with the Delta variant is that vaccine does not always protect you. DS1 isolating because he saw friends who tested positive. He is almost out of isolation, but the mum of one of the friends who recently had her second jab (AZ) tested positive and is very poorly. She went into hospital this morning after fainting several times. Don't want to be overly gloomy, but we are not out of the woods yet.

EversoDelighted · 13/06/2021 17:08

No, definitely not out of the woods, it is all rather worrying. My DS got the jab as he was on the learning difficulties register with the GP which put him in group 6 and me as well as his carer, but I would have got it on age grounds within a couple of weeks of that anyway and was concerned about my weight Blush. I'm two weeks post 2nd jab now and DS gets his 2nd this week, DD is too young at 15 and no conditions.

DS has embraced the idea of going to uni now, after being very unsure for ages. We have done a couple of online open days this week, got a few more booked in plus a couple of real ones. The main issue is deciding his study area, he is split between two very different areas and writing a personal statement that covers both is going to be tricky. He has also managed to organise some volunteering at a local museum (one of his subject choices is history).