Coronavirus Pandemic

[F-ZeroOne]

I'm dead. I suggest you check that you weren't given a placebo

Oh. So... whats Satan really like, then?

[tufty]

He looks quite like Steve Jobs.

[F-ZeroOne]

Oh, so the Devil really does have all the best tunes then?

[tufty]

U2. Songs of Innocence. On loop. Need I say more?

It's hell, man. Hell.

[F-ZeroOne]

I didn't say that he had to play you all the best tunes, just that he had them.

[NorthWay]

I'm keeping an eye on domestic numbers and they are ever so _slightly_ up, but not moving fast and not enough to be close to "newsworthy" to put it that way. There are also local in-town numbers but they are more like a single new contagion and then nothing for days so its like it isn't getting any traction.
There has been the odd report about maybe adding in the 45-65 age group to the 4th (booster) dose. There is more worry that the yearly colds will hit hard this winter.

[Cloudane]

It's exploding again in England. ONS week before last were saying 1.1 million with it, or 1 in 50. Last week, 1.5 million or 1 in 35.

XBB subvariant coming to wreak havoc too

It sure is a well oiled machine this virus

[Rhythm]

It's exploding again in England. ONS week before last were saying 1.1 million with it, or 1 in 50. Last week, 1.5 million or 1 in 35.

XBB subvariant coming to wreak havoc too

It sure is a well oiled machine this virus

Yeah, it's rough again. Had to go to a parent evening at school yesterday because they've stopped the video chat consultations. Wore a mask because I didn't fancy being gathered with 300+ flustered parents. I was the only person there wearing one. People are far far too nonchalant about it

[PFVA]

And yesterday I read something fm the US CDC about a BQ something variant increasing in the States. Apparently there is a lot of variants appearing in different areas of the world. I wonder what the cocktail will be with people interacting throat the world with all this variants.

I still wear my mask in public transportation and enclosed spaces with lots of people but there isn't many of us doing it.

[zip accident]

Booster and flu jab yesterday, now feel better than I did earlier.

I only wear my mask over my mouth out of doors, it steams up my glasses when I put it on my nose. I wear it in shops and at the doctors, but a lot of people don't. I wonder whether there's a study yet of the effects of masks.

[Cloudane]

I rarely wear one now, "no one wants to protect me so why should I protect them" sometimes crosses my mind (admittedly a problem that feeds into itself)

May well get an n95 for an event in a few weeks though to protect myself as I'll be flying the week after and realllly don't want to miss this one.

[gilesgoat]

We are still wearing one if we go in crowded enclosed places and we still use the occasional dash of disinfectant.

Maybe not surprisingly the number of people we actually hear turns out got ( recently ) covid seems to be increasing.

So no "Covid is not vanished" at all.

[Foozwah]

Much the same as you, Giles. Masking in indoor public spaces still.

Where it's trickier for me is two kids in school (one primary, one secondary) cos it's like the schools just gave up on any real protective measures. Every day/week its like rolling the dice...

[Foozwah]

Much the same as you, Giles. Masking in indoor public spaces still.

Where it's trickier for me is two kids in school (one primary, one secondary) cos it's like the schools just gave up on any real protective measures. Every day/week its like rolling the dice...

[Rhythm]

Where it's trickier for me is two kids in school (one primary, one secondary) cos it's like the schools just gave up on any real protective measures. Every day/week its like rolling the dice...

I hear you. 4 kids at home, across 3 different schools/colleges. Then 2 at unis who'll be wanting to come home for the winter...