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Post by adri2008 on Mar 8, 2021 9:12:10 GMT
Very happy parents and children this morning on the school run. We've had our children in school the whole time but the past 2 months must have been an absolute horror story for anyone trying to home school and work.
A frenzy of activity too so a likely increase in cases but little impact on hospitalisations if the vaccine is doing the job it appears to be doing
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Post by stokeuk474 on Mar 8, 2021 10:19:12 GMT
My lad has gone back to school this morning, and he is buzzing. He was going on about it all last night, and was up at 6:30(!) this morning, so nice to see children excited about going back to school. They never should have been closed imho.
My Mrs was probably happier than he was though! It has been really difficult doing the home schooling. He has tried his best, but it's not a natural environment for a primary school education, and there's been tantrums, arguments, screaming and shouting. Hopefully back to some kind of normal now for good.
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Mar 8, 2021 10:27:08 GMT
MASSAGE OF THE ANUS?? 🤠The three people who stood behind the rather violent demonstrations at the end of last week in Stockholm were a rather young guy who insists Covid-19 can be stopped by positive thinking, a young lady who says the vaccine is a death trap since she's clairvoyant and a rather old doctor most famous for his anus massage who says c-vitamine, d-vitamine, zink and malaria profylax is all we need to cure Covid-19, it's dead easy. To be fair if there's a way of administering the vaccine during an anal massage it might improve the take up rate. Cue outraged response about every Englishman's inalienable right to be anally probed by an aging Swedish doctor without having to contribute to the public health effort to reduce covid transmission.
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Post by thisisouryear on Mar 8, 2021 10:57:26 GMT
Risk is with schools tomorrow in 3 weeks time there number start to turn the other way that’s why this time they are being very cautious understandably so they can read the impact of each step properly It might have a steady increase for a few weeks in places but personally think cases will plummet as the weather picks up. If there are any significant increases then they will come in September.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 11:06:00 GMT
My lad has gone back to school this morning, and he is buzzing. He was going on about it all last night, and was up at 6:30(!) this morning, so nice to see children excited about going back to school. They never should have been closed imho. My Mrs was probably happier than he was though! It has been really difficult doing the home schooling. He has tried his best, but it's not a natural environment for a primary school education, and there's been tantrums, arguments, screaming and shouting. Hopefully back to some kind of normal now for good. That's enough about you how's your lad been?
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 8, 2021 11:22:04 GMT
Saw Massage of The Anus supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 11:27:00 GMT
Saw Massage of The Anus supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band. My second favourite band behind Swollen Scrotal Sac........
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Post by Gary Hackett on Mar 8, 2021 11:39:25 GMT
Saw Massage of The Anus supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band. I saw them during their 'pull your finger out' tour around the time nobody was arsed about them anymore, I remember they did a cover version of shake the disease from the 80s.
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Post by terryconroysmagic on Mar 8, 2021 12:13:55 GMT
Sat WFH today and watching the parents walking past with their kids up to the primary school, not sure who looks the happier the mums or the kids, apart from the 1 little girl who is quite often screaming ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/800541/images/kwfoKwtHI0jglJZ4qZf6.gif) the older kids wandering off to get the bus with no expressions as normal ... 3 weeks time will be a good indicator, cases will probably rise but hospital admissions will be the key to seeing the affect of the vaccine rollout You just know the media are going to feed on the rising cases and completely ignore the main objective which is hospitalisations. The r rate will make a reappearance too after disappearing behind the couch!
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Post by musik on Mar 8, 2021 12:24:40 GMT
Saw Massage of The Anus supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band. Maybe he was the band leader back then or their manager, since the article doesn't say why he was famous for Massage of the Anus.
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Post by musik on Mar 8, 2021 12:30:40 GMT
MASSAGE OF THE ANUS?? 🤠The three people who stood behind the rather violent demonstrations at the end of last week in Stockholm were a rather young guy who insists Covid-19 can be stopped by positive thinking, a young lady who says the vaccine is a death trap since she's clairvoyant and a rather old doctor most famous for his anus massage who says c-vitamine, d-vitamine, zink and malaria profylax is all we need to cure Covid-19, it's dead easy. To be fair if there's a way of administering the vaccine during an anal massage it might improve the take up rate. Cue outraged response about every Englishman's inalienable right to be anally probed by an aging Swedish doctor without having to contribute to the public health effort to reduce covid transmission. I'm more of a believer in the nasal spray from Finland for sale this autumn hopefully! Regarding the anus massage the article doesn't say he actually proposed it to treat Covid-19 but in his early days he used it to treat a couple of other severe diseases in that way, so he was reported to the IVO authority to cancel his right to still be a doctor in practice. We have had political nutters candidating to be a part of our government before. Some are still there now ... It reminds me of an early episode of Blackadder actually! I must go through the records to find it.
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Post by stokeuk474 on Mar 8, 2021 12:52:27 GMT
Just read that, secondary school children who receive a positive from a Lateral Flow Test done in school, will still have to self isolate even if they subsequently test negative from a PCR test. They are basically suggesting that the false positive rate from these tests is very low.
However, I've heard previously from various sources, that they actually have a very high false positive rate. Doesn't seem fair at all on the children. I understand that the school might not want them back in for 10 days to mitigate any potential spread or transmission, but to then still have to self isolate at home after a negative PCR test is very unfair. Any other member of society would be able to come out of isolation at that point, so why should school children be any different?
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Post by Northy on Mar 8, 2021 13:19:40 GMT
Just read that, secondary school children who receive a positive from a Lateral Flow Test done in school, will still have to self isolate even if they subsequently test negative from a PCR test. They are basically suggesting that the false positive rate from these tests is very low. However, I've heard previously from various sources, that they actually have a very high false positive rate. Doesn't seem fair at all on the children. I understand that the school might not want them back in for 10 days to mitigate any potential spread or transmission, but to then still have to self isolate at home after a negative PCR test is very unfair. Any other member of society would be able to come out of isolation at that point, so why should school children be any different? I thought it was about 1 in 1000 that were false, but who knows, there's that much info out there. A couple of weeks ago my next door neighbour had to have a negative test before flying back from Belgium, but still has to isolate for 10 days, last Monday she had the negative test from her first test here, still had to stay isolated, and still had to have a second one sent off on Saturday, she's not been let out of isolation, and a lot of others aren't either.
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Post by lancashirelad on Mar 8, 2021 13:48:30 GMT
Have they changed the distance and bubble recommendation as at a local supermarket this morning the grammar school kids were going in individually then formed into bubbles of 10 within a 2 meter square area some wearing masks. The weekly shop previous weeks had been a joy with space and quiet and no dodging round groups.
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Post by stokeuk474 on Mar 8, 2021 14:08:10 GMT
Nonsense www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56321537University of Bath mathematical biologist Dr Kit Yates warned that the government's stance could undermine confidence in the testing policy. "Not confirming less accurate lateral flow positives with more accurate PCR tests will put people off testing their kids. It's as simple as that."
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Mar 8, 2021 14:17:58 GMT
Saw Massage of The Anus supporting World of Twist in the early 90s. Great band. The dedication to this is staggering.
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Mar 8, 2021 14:24:31 GMT
To be fair if there's a way of administering the vaccine during an anal massage it might improve the take up rate. Cue outraged response about every Englishman's inalienable right to be anally probed by an aging Swedish doctor without having to contribute to the public health effort to reduce covid transmission. I'm more of a believer in the nasal spray from Finland for sale this autumn hopefully! Regarding the anus massage the article doesn't say he actually proposed it to treat Covid-19 but in his early days he used it to treat a couple of other severe diseases in that way, so he was reported to the IVO authority to cancel his right to still be a doctor in practice. We have had political nutters candidating to be a part of our government before. Some are still there now ... It reminds me of an early episode of Blackadder actually! I must go through the records to find it. To be fair Trump was advocating drinking bleach so I suppose in the grand scheme of things having a pervy ex-doctor as your Head of State curing covid via a rectal examination would be a bit be a result. Although the queuing would be a problem assuming he's the only one with the magic touch.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 8, 2021 16:04:01 GMT
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Post by stokeuk474 on Mar 8, 2021 16:08:14 GMT
Fantastic stats again. Everything is going in the right direction. I've never felt more confident, that we should see the end of this Pandemic later on this year, as it's very clear that the vaccines are having a dramatic effect on hospitalisation, and it appears, transmission too. With the current vaccines, this looks like a very manageable disease. Can't wait to get back to some live sport this summer with a pint in hand
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Post by superjw on Mar 8, 2021 16:13:18 GMT
Wow, amazing considering where we have come from, hope and pray this continues. Cases will no doubt rise with easing of restrictions but as long as vaccines do the trick all is good. Can the government realistically continue to dig their feet in the ground with not bringing forward easing of restrictions if these numbers continue or get even better come middle of April? I imagine pressure will start to grow very quickly. It's a bit of a downer to think that we won't see full normality until end of June with numbers like this at the start of march.
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Post by Gods on Mar 8, 2021 16:20:02 GMT
Wow, amazing considering where we have come from, hope and pray this continues. Cases will no doubt rise with easing of restrictions but as long as vaccines do the trick all is good. Can the government realistically continue to dig their feet in the ground with not bringing forward easing of restrictions if these numbers continue or get even better come middle of April? I imagine pressure will start to grow very quickly. It's a bit of a downer to think that we won't see full normality until end of June with numbers like this at the start of march. Its great news but still the Sunday number reported on a Monday, so we'll likely see a few more deaths later in the week. I guess the real point is we have vaccinated nearly all the groups who were doing the dying and many who were clogging up hospital beds. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Mar 8, 2021 16:20:10 GMT
Wow, amazing considering where we have come from, hope and pray this continues. Cases will no doubt rise with easing of restrictions but as long as vaccines do the trick all is good. Can the government realistically continue to dig their feet in the ground with not bringing forward easing of restrictions if these numbers continue or get even better come middle of April? I imagine pressure will start to grow very quickly. It's a bit of a downer to think that we won't see full normality until end of June with numbers like this at the start of march. Yes it’s very good news and regarding restrictions it sounds like those dates will be the earliest judging by his response just
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 16:21:45 GMT
Keep the faith folks and let's not get silly now, we'll be back to normality on the 21st June before you know it......
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Post by Davef on Mar 8, 2021 16:30:13 GMT
We're now at mid-September levels of cases and mid-October levels of admissions and deaths, both a time when non-essential shops were open, you could go for a pint and a round of golf and not a single dose of vaccine had been administered.
Unlike then, the trend is very much on a downward trajectory.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 16:34:23 GMT
We're now at mid-September levels of cases and mid-October levels of admissions and deaths, both a time when non-essential shops were open, you could go for a pint and a round of golf and not a single dose of vaccine had been administered. Unlike then, the trend is very much on a downward trajectory. And last time the cases went back up and we went back to square one. So for the sake of another 15 weeks we can grit our teeth and come out of this completely back to normal (10 weeks in fact to May 17th when we're already almost there).......
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Post by Davef on Mar 8, 2021 16:35:11 GMT
We're now at mid-September levels of cases and mid-October levels of admissions and deaths, both a time when non-essential shops were open, you could go for a pint and a round of golf and not a single dose of vaccine had been administered. Unlike then, the trend is very much on a downward trajectory. And last time the cases went back up and we went back to square one. So for the sake of another 15 weeks we can grit our teeth and come out of this completely back to normal...... That's not going to happen is it?
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 16:37:42 GMT
And last time the cases went back up and we went back to square one. So for the sake of another 15 weeks we can grit our teeth and come out of this completely back to normal...... That's not going to happen is it? What isn't sorry?
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Post by Northy on Mar 8, 2021 16:38:21 GMT
And last time the cases went back up and we went back to square one. So for the sake of another 15 weeks we can grit our teeth and come out of this completely back to normal...... That's not going to happen is it? I doubt it, but let's not give them any excuse to extend it. Things will open up slowly, let's do that, be patient, be sensible and not give them a reason for extending on another week of any part of the lockdown easing
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Post by Davef on Mar 8, 2021 16:39:19 GMT
That's not going to happen is it? What isn't sorry? Cases going back up (and the subsequent admissions and deaths) at the rate we saw in autumn and winter.
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Post by prestwichpotter on Mar 8, 2021 16:39:58 GMT
That's not going to happen is it? I doubt it, but let's not give them any excuse to extend it. Things will open up slowly, let's do that, be patient, be sensible and not give them a reason for extending on another week of any part of the lockdown easing Correct. Until everyone is vaccinated and schools are back in full swing why take any risk, we're almost there......
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