@Dovefromabove how selfish of people to go to be tested on Christmas Day. No thought for those who have to work. If you suspected you had the virus just self isolate and go after Christmas. Such a shame for your son hope he can get his Christmas dinner and it’s not too late.
@debs64 😊 I doubt that anyone is ‘choosing’ to visit a testing centre on Christmas Day … it wouldn’t be my idea of fun.
It’s not just folk who suspect they have the virus … many folk have to do Lateral Flow tests for their jobs. If they get a positive test they need a PCR test ASAP in order to be able to go to work, and they need to be tested asap …. particularly if they’re working in the NHS or are a carer or in the police or fire service or one of other key professions.
As for my son … he accepts that it’s part of the job … he comes from a farming background and has known that there are folk who have always had to work on Christmas Day … you can’t feed the cows and pigs double on the day before and then ignore them for 24 hours … calves and piglets get born on Christmas Day … I can remember Father Christmas being late one year because Pa had been up all night helping a sow whose babies were in danger during a difficult birth. If he’d needed to call the vet he’d have come out on Christmas Day too.
Previously my son worked in the live music/entertainment industry. At this time of year he used to be involved with providing the sound tech for Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park … not a lot of time off from that job at Christmas time either.
Life has to go on, even on Christmas Day …
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As one who is married to an airline pilot, has several family members working in the NHS and transport plus friends in the farming industry and the police force, fire service and military etc - I know as many people who regularly work Christmas Day as don't.
The Covid teams are now very much part of our frontline work force and I very much appreciate that they will work through Christmas this year. It looks as though we really need them to. I've just signed up as a volunteer (still waiting to hear back though) and if I can do some good on the 25th I'm quite happy to have my Xmas dinner a bit late or on the 26th. We've done it many times before when OH's work got in the way. My latest Xmas dinner was on the 29th but several friends in the military have waited a few weeks.
Hope your son makes it to you on the day Dove🙂
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Thank you @Topbird (for the support and for 'signing up') ... I for one am very proud of the work my son and his colleagues are doing ... all part of the Covid Hero Taskforce. He was told yesterday that, fingers crossed, they may be able to finish testing at around 2 ... so, depending on where he is that day (he covers an area including North Essex, part of Cambs, Suffolk and south Norfolk) be may be able to be with us around 4
Twice in my father's later years he was rushed to hospital by ambulance on Christmas Day ... the paramedics and hospital staff are my heroes ... I left the dinner table, leapt into the car and drove there to meet them so he had a familiar face with him. Strangely enough my brother always seemed to have had a drink or two so he couldn't drive there, although he was nearer ... funny how that happens eh? Just as well I abstained, just in case 😇 Mind you, I made sure he was there every day for the next few days
Perhaps some folk aren't aware of the huge number of people who regularly work or at least are 'on call' over the Christmas period including the day itself? I used to work for Children's Social Services ... and although I was never part of the Emergency Duty Team some of my colleagues were ... manning the phone lines, making emergency home visits and/or attending police stations where there may be children in need of help.
Child abuse doesn't stop for Christmas ... after all, it may be that an abuser has been looking forward all year to that Christmas visit loaded with toys and treats. 😠
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I have a friend who is part of the 'on call' rota for one of the nuclear power stations. There are people either working Christmas or having to be ready to work in all sorts of jobs you just don't think about. And then there are other reasons to be out on Christmas Day - for a few years, my brother used to play in a small brass band - our Christmas lunch was always late because he'd spend Christmas morning playing carols round the local care homes. He enjoyed it, so not work, but not the conventional way for the day to go
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
My son was born on 22nd December, and in those days we stayed in hospital for ten days ... so I woke up on Christmas morning to a gauze stocking of satsumas, chocolates and little baby-type gifts at the foot of my bed ... and the happy news that Ward Sister had decided that I needed an enema Happy Christmas Dove!
My husband spent the entire holiday (builders had a fortnight off over Christmas and the New Year) wetting the baby's head at various parties he was invided to ... I went home in the New Year. 🙄
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The Covid teams are now very much part of our frontline work force and I very much appreciate that they will work through Christmas this year. It looks as though we really need them to.
I've just signed up as a volunteer (still waiting to hear back though) and if I can do some good on the 25th I'm quite happy to have my Xmas dinner a bit late or on the 26th. We've done it many times before when OH's work got in the way. My latest Xmas dinner was on the 29th but several friends in the military have waited a few weeks.
Hope your son makes it to you on the day Dove🙂
Twice in my father's later years he was rushed to hospital by ambulance on Christmas Day ... the paramedics and hospital staff are my heroes ... I left the dinner table, leapt into the car and drove there to meet them so he had a familiar face with him. Strangely enough my brother always seemed to have had a drink or two so he couldn't drive there, although he was nearer ... funny how that happens eh? Just as well I abstained, just in case 😇 Mind you, I made sure he was there every day for the next few days
Perhaps some folk aren't aware of the huge number of people who regularly work or at least are 'on call' over the Christmas period including the day itself? I used to work for Children's Social Services ... and although I was never part of the Emergency Duty Team some of my colleagues were ... manning the phone lines, making emergency home visits and/or attending police stations where there may be children in need of help.
Child abuse doesn't stop for Christmas ... after all, it may be that an abuser has been looking forward all year to that Christmas visit loaded with toys and treats. 😠
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
When you don't even know who's in the team
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My husband spent the entire holiday (builders had a fortnight off over Christmas and the New Year) wetting the baby's head at various parties he was invided to ... I went home in the New Year. 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.