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Sorry to hear that mate. Join the club. Hope symptoms are minimal at worst.

That is the reason though, it’s just the way the article is written. People need to step back from how things are presented by the media. I read last week it’s something like 98% of transmission is in first five days. It’s needed changing for a while and we will hopefully see more compliance on...

Hopefully a bit of better, and I believe sensible, news

Yeah, but it’s tricky with the change of symptoms now. Do people go straight for pcr with a runny nose for example ? From personal experience in the summer the LF showed positive just as symptoms were coming on. This was on the Tuesday and I reckon I’d caught it on the Friday. I don’t think they...

Get a pcr done if you want peace of mind if you’re going to be around higher risk family/friends over Xmas (and don’t mind fucking up Xmas plans !). LFs weren’t picking up mine before or after positive pcr. Your call though ultimately

They didn’t though. A lot did but not most. After first lockdown adherence dropped and there was far more residential mixing in future lockdowns. During Mid Feb ‘21 onwards mixing was even above baseline even though we were still in lockdown until early March...

Yeah, in additional saw Powis saying over the weekend they were planning on treating/monitoring 15% of usual hospital patients at home as well as being able to treat 1.3m high risk patients with the anti virals. I thought that they didn’t have that much of antivirals but that’s what was...

I’ve read there’s been a softening of the stance by Johnson and government around ECJ involvement which may have also annoyed Frost. If that’s the case they’ll come to an agreement in new year. Most people don’t give a fuck about the ECJ, it’s the unnecessary amount of checks that’s caused the...

People are turning on restrictions full stop though Fernando. Especially if there isn’t the data to back them up and they feel they’ve done their bit by getting double or triple jabbed. Look at the reduction in movements in the past few days though, without bringing in formal restrictions and...

I’m aware of nurses, doctors, teachers and various other people that were breaching the rules to varying extents. I know I also did over Xmas. I agree that there should rightly be anger at the rule makers breaching rules but as I’ve mentioned above/before there are varying levels, some far...

That did make me laugh to be fair

I agree with you, Tony and Ian on this. First time for everything 😉 It’s a bit of a non issue. People who are working together having a catch up outside (where it’s safer to do so). I wonder if certain papers are overplaying their hand on this issue. The public will look at this one and think...

I agree Dave. That’s been part of the issue for me. I’ve not read the Telegraph article as I can’t access it but each scenario should be very clear with assumptions and probability. The media should then include this when reporting. Unfortunately these worst case scenarios have also been used...

I haven’t missed the point at all. I was saying Scotland was 50/50 before brexit and still is and Ireland was potentially heading that way anyway. So I’m saying, brexit or not and whether I like it or not, the break up of the union was probably on its way to happening anyway at some point...

[ Agreed, they were before brexit and are after ?! I don’t think anyone’s blasé but we live in a democracy. They’re 50/50 and I might be wrong but hasn’t there always been a view that Ireland might reunify when demographic gradually changed over time ?! As you know I voted for Brexit (after a...

Yeah, loads of guesswork around this. Is natural immunity from previous wave (of maybe a closer variant) better than more vaccine immunity that we’ve got as a country ?! As we keep saying, only time will tell. I think we are underestimating how much natural immunity we have in the country in...

Weepy wank as it’s known...usually over the ex that got away

I agree. It just feels/looks a bit weird at the football. Think they should be venting their anger at their team and manager after recent performances. Arsenal could’ve had a shedload yesterday

Ive just reread the article and while it mentions that Northamptonshire was one of the first areas where there was a spike/spread in omicron it’s not clear when this started so agree it’s probably a bit early but fingers crossed

Could be very good news. Let’s just hope this is repeated across the country. My main concern about the article is that it mentions Northampton has above average vaccination/booster rates which may well have contributed to reduced hospitalisations. Will some of the major cities with poor...