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Still fit and healthy, 4 days in.
Powerful incentive to stay healthy, OH must love me she got me a sailing trip on Tenacious, roll on June, looking forward to climbing the rigging
 

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Marigold said:
What sort of models? Human or otherwise?
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Wax ones of co-workers, with pins in???

Make the most of your Christmas & new year enforced break, BYM, & have a drink or two, as you won't be driving anywhere. I do hope you stay well.
 
Oh wow Icemaiden hadn't thought of wax models, I have a few contenders for those. I have had a few ciders as it goes. Still feeling ok
 
Ah well. Sixteen cases in Shetland in different areas on the main island. Almost certain to move into Level 4. Hopefully we, as an island, can maintain strict quarantine. I’m not leaving the island at all but no doubt some will.
 
Did you see the report about "hundreds" of tourists who had broken their quarantine in some ski resort? That kind of entitled attitude really makes me cross. I don't really understand why you would insist on going on holiday during a pandemic anyway.

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What about the idiots whose parked cars almost blocked the road leading to Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons? Wales is in the equivalent of Tier 4 lockdown which means no travelling. :x :x :x Just hope none of the emergency services or mountain rescue teams had to be called out.
 
Hen-Gen said:
Ah well. Sixteen cases in Shetland in different areas on the main island. Almost certain to move into Level 4. Hopefully we, as an island, can maintain strict quarantine. I’m not leaving the island at all but no doubt some will.
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Goodness, that a lot. I’ve been keeping an eye on Shetland and the Western Isles and for a long time there were almost no cases. Didn’t Shetland have a ban on non-residents coming over in the ferry earlier in the year? I seem to remember you said that your husband couldn’t come to see you. Take care!

We’re now in Level 4 in Basingstoke and Deane, cases up 60.9% in the past seven days. I’m feeling somewhat weird, presumably with side effects of the vaccine 6 days ago, but I've been filling in reports on my health and OHs since March on the. Zoe Covid-19 app which has now told us to get a test because the somewhat vague symptoms we have could suggest an infection, though I don’t think it’s that. The app is researching effects of the vaccine and needs to separate out those who have a positive test from those who are just getting mild side effects.
 
I think lockdown is pretty close to being at the end of its rope, the longer it went on the less effective it was always going to be. When the government finally realises it can't afford to keep paying peoples wages that will be it, regardless of whether the vaccine program works or doesn't.

I went to the shops for the first time in over a week today and there were so many people out for "daily exercise" on our local high street, not shopping, just walking maskless down narrow pavements. Not like there aren't plenty of places to walk locally where you wouldn't be breathing down someones neck. It reminds me of the George Romero film Dawn of the Dead, the main character reasons why the mall they are hiding in is full of zombies aimlessly wandering around:
"They're after the place, they don't know why, they just remember, remember that they want to be in here"

Rising cases and admission but empty nightingale hospitals, will we ever use them?.

Side effects reported on this vaccine are very common Marigold, much more so than for normal vaccines, so it is most likely to be that and nothing to unduly worry about.
 
I hope it's just a reaction Marigold, you have been so careful.
Well day 7 and I have no symptoms whatsoever. Test came back negative yesterday. But the person who stood next to us telling us his wife had it, but it is was all in her mind as it is a government conspiracy now has it. Plus had a phone call from a colleague to say that one of the female drivers who was in work from Boxing day onwards decided to announce to one and all yesterday, that she had spent Christmas day with her sister who was all alone as she had Covid. So everyone has has talked to her has had to go home.
There are now so many off because they have it, or a family member has it, it's a Sunday service only
 
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/30/major-incident-declared-in-essex-as-covid-threatens-to-overwhelm-health-services

‘Major incident declared in Essex as Covid threatens to overwhelm health services.”
Not hard to see why, is it? Take as much care as you can, BYM, please.

Feeling OK today, so just the vaccine reaction, but did the test anyway. The booklet has contradictory instructions on how to book a courier collection if, like me, you’ve been having stern emails from Matt Hancock about not going out, let alone going to a Designated Post Office to deposit your sample. Apparently there might be a Designated Post Box in the Designated Post Office for samples, for people who cannot get to a test centre, or have been told not to go out. However it also says that ‘under no circumstances should you enter a Post Office.’

I booked our tests in online, no problem as they’ve apparently removed the requirement for checking your credit record before you can book a test, which caused a difficulty last time as I don’t have a credit record, (naughty me, not helping the economy by owing money to anyone.)Tests arrived 24 hours later, we worked through the booklets, packed up the samples, then got to the page about how to book the courier to collect the test. It said the lines were open until 11 p.m, so as it was 10.00 I thought I could get it booked in for collection next day. But then I was told to ring back at 8.00 next morning as the lines to book a courier were closed from 8.00 pm.
So I asked who I was talking to, since I had rung the number in the booklet for booking a collection, and he answered ‘We’re just the helpline, madam.’ !!

At 8.00 this morning I rang the collection service, got through on a fuzzy line to a nice lady with a Scottish accent so pronounced that HenGen would possibly have understood her, but I had problems. She painstakingly took my barcode number, and then slowly typed in all the information about names, addresses, marital status, phone numbers, email addresses etc. that I had already entered online in order to get the test sent in the first place. She also asked if we had a dog, and if so, would it be kept under control when the courier arrived? Finally she pronounced, triumphantly, that it was all booked and should be collected tomorrow, Thursday. I asked if it would still give a true result if not collected within 12 hours of being done, as the first test I had back in April said this was very important. So she said ‘don’t worry - if it’s no good they’ll let you know and you can try again.’ This all took 25 minutes. If I’d been actually ill, or not literate enough to try to understand the booklet and the online booking process, I would have just given up, I think.

Oh, by the way - if you intend going to a test centre, you are forbidden to have more than two people on a motor bike if you are using that as a mode of transport. I would have thought the dangers of having 3 or more on a motor bike was even greater than catching Covid!
 
Buckinghamshire declared one too yesterday. The following from our glorious leader Martin Tett.

"Of greatest concern, this increase is also being seen in our older age groups. Our rate in the over 60s population has gone up by over 60% and this is now putting our health services under very severe pressure, not helped by staff shortages through increasing numbers of positive cases and self-isolation amongst staff. The pressure on the Buckinghamshire NHS is mirrored in surrounding areas.

Taking all of this into account, Buckinghamshire Council, in consultation with NHS partners, has declared a ‘Major Incident’, amid fears the number of COVID-19 cases could overwhelm our local health and social care services. For example, hospitals in Buckinghamshire are already having to postpone or delay non urgent treatment.

I completely understand that most people are continuing to follow the government’s guidance. However, frankly some are not. Also, it would be quite tempting to see the announcement of the new Oxford vaccine as meaning that the pandemic is nearly over and we can relax. It is not over and we certainly cannot relax our behaviours. It’s vital that we all continue to play our part in helping to reduce the transmission of the virus by strictly following the current Tier 4 guidance. I would encourage everyone to stay at home as much as possible and help those who are vulnerable, by offering to collect their shopping and prescriptions etc."

It's an interesting one, young people ignoring restrictions is, to an extent, understandable. The over 60's putting themselves in harms way though........
 
it is quite noticeable on our buses and the TFL ones that come into Lakeside. The amount of over 70's using the buses on a regular basis and meeting up in groups, and not wearing face masks. They are the worst group around here.
I only have two days to go now, still ok touch wood. One of our drivers, his phone packed up and he finally got a new one yesterday, and immediately got a text from track and trace saying they have been trying to contact him for 7 days as he has been in contact with someone who has Covid, please could he now isolate for the 3 remaining days. Hopefully he is ok, or else there will a lot of drivers going off.
 
BYM do you think yourself and fellow bus drivers will be offered the inoculation, being as you are also technically on the front line? I hope you can.
 
We have been arguing that one as we reckon we are key workers, as we take hospital staff to work, and supermarket staff, plus people to food warehouses, and we went to the Nightingale hospitals in first pandemic. But no answer from anyone yet. I think the decisive point will be if TFL (Transport For London) get classed as key workers then we will have to be classed in with them.
Day 10 still all clear so back to work tomorrow. My other work colleague who was exposed is also clear. The idiot who came near us now has it. So much for his " it is all made up, doesn't exist"
For anyone who is wondering why Thurrock where I work is so rampant with it. Police were called to 1331 parties in the area New Years Eve which ranged from a rave in a church which was vandalised for the rave, a warehouse party with 1000 people in and a large house party with 100 people crammed in it.

Mrs BYM is looking quite cheerful at the prospect of getting me out from under her feet
 
bigyetiman said:
For anyone who is wondering why Thurrock where I work is so rampant with it. Police were called to 1331 parties in the area New Years Eve which ranged from a rave in a church which was vandalised for the rave, a warehouse party with 1000 people in and a large house party with 100 people crammed in it.
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You will be seeing this sort of stuff every week from now on, maybe not at the same scale but there will be enough people doing it to make the entertainment lockdown self defeating. It was clearly going on during the November lockdown which is presumably part of the reason why cases were rising in the South East even then. I think it was always going to be a big ask to expect the youngsters to live like monks for months on end. I can just about remember how slowly time seemed to pass when I was young.

I see they have announced plans for a huge entertainments complex just over the river from you BYM, they are calling it the UK's answer to Disneyland, or is that Disnaeland, as in disnae have a chance of being built.
 
How the new rules will affect visiting, working, or living in Europe.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/02/brexit-new-rules-europe-holidays-health-mobile-phones
 
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