Tested positive today.
just in time for Santa ffs
I wouldn't worry, Santa himself will be swimming in Omicron by the weekend.
Tested positive today.
just in time for Santa ffs
Thanks @subotai - I'm glad we're doing something useful in here. Cheers for passing the message on @Pexbo@Pogue Mahone
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A nice message from a newbie. I particularly like how they appended my name to the bottom of the list before they asked me to pass it on.Nice words all the same which I’m pleased to pass on.
Good Twitter thread on omicron in SA. Makes a point I don’t think I’ve seen on here. The huge number of excess deaths they’ve already experienced. If you live in South Africa and you’re someone who is likely to be put in intensive care by covid, chances are you’re already dead
So the issue might not be about immunity, so much as survivorship bias. The most vulnerable have already been taken out by previous waves.
Seasons greetings to you too Pogue
Just hasBoris has to make decisions today re Sporting events and post Christmas action if 28th is a certain date for restrictions.
Chancellor to announce some support measures today perhaps also?
Just has
The continual way this virus kicks us in the balls just as we’ve cracked it would be impressive if it wasn’t so fecking tragic.
I simply started that some level of support has been announced.One off grants of 6k to eligible businesses
How Is that going to help them survive exactly?
Shit, that's horrible. Sorry to hear it, mate.My mum got turned away from the hospital for her last chemotherapy session because she has a temperature of 38 and a slight cough. She had a PCR test yesterday but the results haven't got back to the hospital yet (FFS). Her treatment has been put on hold until at least next week. I understood that the main symptoms of delta and Omicron for fully vaxxed (and boosted) weren't a temperature or a slight cough. If she's got it it's going to be a fecking disaster. feck sake. We are now arranging for us all to have a PCR and I did a lateral flow test earlier today which came back negative.
That sucks, very similar experience here with my dad and a hospital admission. They wouldn't treat him til a PCR test came back despite the pain he was in - the PCR test took over 24 hours - him on a bed in the hallway overnight, at 82 years old. Just ridiculous. Really need to revisit some of those policies to weigh the patient health imo.My mum got turned away from the hospital for her last chemotherapy session because she has a temperature of 38 and a slight cough. She had a PCR test yesterday but the results haven't got back to the hospital yet (FFS). Her treatment has been put on hold until at least next week. I understood that the main symptoms of delta and Omicron for fully vaxxed (and boosted) weren't a temperature or a slight cough. If she's got it it's going to be a fecking disaster. feck sake. We are now arranging for us all to have a PCR and I did a lateral flow test earlier today which came back negative.
I simply started that some level of support has been announced.
Thanks mate.Shit, that's horrible. Sorry to hear it, mate.
That sounds awful for your Dad. Hope he is on the mend.That sucks, very similar experience here with my dad and a hospital admission. They wouldn't treat him til a PCR test came back despite the pain he was in - the PCR test took over 24 hours - him on a bed in the hallway overnight, at 82 years old. Just ridiculous. Really need to revisit some of those policies to weigh the patient health imo.
My mum got turned away from the hospital for her last chemotherapy session because she has a temperature of 38 and a slight cough. She had a PCR test yesterday but the results haven't got back to the hospital yet (FFS). Her treatment has been put on hold until at least next week. I understood that the main symptoms of delta and Omicron for fully vaxxed (and boosted) weren't a temperature or a slight cough. If she's got it it's going to be a fecking disaster. feck sake. We are now arranging for us all to have a PCR and I did a lateral flow test earlier today which came back negative.
My thoughts are with you mate, my wife has just come out of hospital after surgery and thankfully is on the mend now but having a family member needing hospital care at the moment is a terrible worry . I hope everything turns out ok for you.Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Hope all goes well mate.Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Thoughts are with you and the family buddy.Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
I wish you all the very best.Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Sorry to hear that, wishing her luck in her treatment and a full recovery. Chin up mateFollowing on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Really sorry to read that. Really hope it all comes back negative and she can get her treatment asap.My mum got turned away from the hospital for her last chemotherapy session because she has a temperature of 38 and a slight cough. She had a PCR test yesterday but the results haven't got back to the hospital yet (FFS). Her treatment has been put on hold until at least next week. I understood that the main symptoms of delta and Omicron for fully vaxxed (and boosted) weren't a temperature or a slight cough. If she's got it it's going to be a fecking disaster. feck sake. We are now arranging for us all to have a PCR and I did a lateral flow test earlier today which came back negative.
Any best wishes I have, your mums got them! Hope it all turns out ok.Following on from this:
My Mum got a call from the hospital and they said her CT scans she had on Saturday have shown that she has a blood clot in her lung. This would explain the coughing but she also has a fever. I hope to God we aren't dealing with covid and this blood clot at the same time.
Thanks much, tis getting thereThanks mate.
That sounds awful for your Dad. Hope he is on the mend.
It’s still to early to say but it’s looking promising. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being cautious though considering the fact that being blasé about it and being wrong could have cost tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives.Getting harder and harder to argue against it being less severe be it due to immunity or just the virus itself.
The doomsday models are looking just as stupid as the originals not that will stop the media hounding down peoples throats everyday.
Its simply become a problem that society's have a far too small buffer in hospital beds at all times in the year especially winter.
Getting harder and harder to argue against it being less severe be it due to immunity or just the virus itself.
The doomsday models are looking just as stupid as the originals not that will stop the media hounding down peoples throats everyday.
Its simply become a problem that society's have a far too small buffer in hospital beds at all times in the year especially winter.
Not even close to being that trivial right now. Thinks could still go very badly wrong. As it stands, we’re basically relying on all these signals about potential lower severity holding true in Europe and the wave peaking lower than you’d expect based on the unbelievably rapid early spread.
I’m optimistic both these things will happen but there’s still a hell of a lot of doubt about each of them individually, never mind both as a pair. If one or other turns out not to be the case then the hospitals will be screwed in a way that is not remotely comparable to any prior winter in the last 100 years.
At what point would you suggest we will know how many weeks in are we now in the UK coming up to 4? (not sure myself)
Personally from all the data gathered so far be it from Denmark, London, UK or South Africa how this suddenly deviates to an absolute disaster looks improbable with the current variant anyway.
I'm optimistic this is the way out of this whole thing.