I think I put it on 'forkers" yesterday,I met my first Covid denier Walking to get the dailies,there's a cash points outside the shop, bloke early 50s very tall, bending to the machine. Looked like a White cotton mask, hanging out of his pocket The ground was wet and dirty from previous evening's rain. I told him it was falling out,he also had a puppy,that I admired. He replied he it wasn't a mask, he's never worn one. I just said 'oh", carried on to the shop. He called out to me,why would he wear a mask against something that doesn't exist. I asked what he thought all the people were dying of,he said where was my proof people were dying. Kept on,show me the proof,show me the proof. Told me I was insane,so I replied likewise. When I told my husband,he said it served me right for talking to strangers. I talked to "strangers" for a living. It's very difficult to change your nature. We were shopping this week,there was a woman on a mobility scooter, getting off an on, grunting and wheezing, offered to help,she didn't need it. Lots of people recently have firstly said you don't HAVE to wear and mask, then,'anyway' they get hot,have claustrophobia. Hashtag me too,but still wearing masks. Did you see the lab was closed because of the inaccurate test results, secret filming,lab assistants, playing football,(indoors) play fighting, asleep I don't know if these are Trained at all.
Apparently the rates in Bath and Somerset have soared because of negligence/inefficiency at a testing lab. 42,000 people were told they were negative when they were positive so carried on their normal lives, spreading it everywhere. Very alarming.
That could have happened with my daughter and family, negative tests on the Friday night, positive on the Saturday, they could have spread it everywhere if they’d gone out that night.
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I meant to say earlier regarding symptoms. It seems that the delta variant,symptoms are very much more like "the worst cold you ever had" Sore throat, headache, runny or stuffed up nose etc. Fever and continuous cough hardly feature with this variant, so a lot of people are probably not getting tested as they don't think it's C19.
My OH had a cold like that a month or so ago. He did several lateral flow tests over the course of a week or so (both of us did) and all were negative. He tried to book a PCR test just in case it was COVID but the online system wouldn't let him because he didn't have the "classic" COVID symptoms. So maybe it was the new variant COVID, maybe it wasn't but we'll never know for sure.
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I've just recovered from Covid. It was just as described above and the first LFT I did was negative. I only did a repeat LFT when my son developed a fever and that one was positive. Both of us then had positive PCR tests. If my son hadn't been staying with us I would probably not have done the second test and would just have assumed it was a cold.
A friend who I'd seen a couple of weeks before had exactly the same. She did several negative LFTs and only had a PCR test, which was positive, when I told her my experience.
In the olden days, before Covid, there was always the 'hero' who would battle into work despite having a cold and spread it to colleagues who might be less able to cope with the symptoms. Wherever, I hear someone boast that they've worked in a job for X number of years and never had a day off sick, I wonder how many people must have suffered because of their heroism.
I do that too... except my OH has had maybe 4 or 5 days off sick in 25+ years. He doesn't battle into work through illness though, he just doesn't get sick. 3 or 4 of those days were due to doing his back in rather than anything infectious. He's unusual.
The government's refusal to update the symptoms to look out for after so many months is negligent imo, and you can sense the frustration of Tim Spector (from the Zoe COVID study). I think the dodgy PCR lab results are probably responsible for a LOT of extra cases, unfortunately. We'll never know how many.
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Walking to get the dailies,there's a cash points outside the shop, bloke early 50s very tall, bending to the machine. Looked like a White cotton mask, hanging out of his pocket
The ground was wet and dirty from previous evening's rain. I told him it was falling out,he also had a puppy,that I admired. He replied he it wasn't a mask, he's never worn one. I just said 'oh", carried on to the shop. He called out to me,why would he wear a mask against something that doesn't exist. I asked what he thought all the people were dying of,he said where was my proof people were dying. Kept on,show me the proof,show me the proof. Told me I was insane,so I replied likewise. When I told my husband,he said it served me right for talking to strangers. I talked to "strangers" for a living. It's very difficult to change your nature. We were shopping this week,there was a woman on a mobility scooter, getting off an on, grunting and wheezing, offered to help,she didn't need it. Lots of people recently have firstly said you don't HAVE to wear and mask, then,'anyway' they get hot,have claustrophobia. Hashtag me too,but still wearing masks. Did you see the lab was closed because of the inaccurate test results, secret filming,lab assistants, playing football,(indoors) play fighting, asleep
I don't know if these are Trained at all.
Very alarming.
A friend who I'd seen a couple of weeks before had exactly the same. She did several negative LFTs and only had a PCR test, which was positive, when I told her my experience.
Wherever, I hear someone boast that they've worked in a job for X number of years and never had a day off sick, I wonder how many people must have suffered because of their heroism.
The government's refusal to update the symptoms to look out for after so many months is negligent imo, and you can sense the frustration of Tim Spector (from the Zoe COVID study). I think the dodgy PCR lab results are probably responsible for a LOT of extra cases, unfortunately. We'll never know how many.