Best of luck. If you need some meals delivered pm me.So, I have just unwittingly become the case study for Covid amongst Rotorburn.
Partner has received a text today to say she is positive from a test on Thursday. We have 3 kids under 5 (4.5 and 14 month olds twins)
She has been devastated all day.
Was feeling unwell on Wednesday afternoon (Cold symptoms) and decided to get tested Thursday morning. Hasn’t seemed much more serious than any other sniffle we get with kids or her hay fever or asthma flare ups due to changing season/weather. She’s been quite vigilant with getting tested and this is probably her 7th or 8th test over the 18 month Covid journey.
I don’t know if I have it yet and wouldn’t say I am feeling any more ordinary than usual with lack of sleep and kids.
Have to say, we are fairly cautious with our interactions, always wearing masks and don’t currently mingle for work. Both check in everywhere we go (supermarket, petrol and food). I am interested to see how much information we get about where it comes from or dates. It’s a genuine mystery to us.
14 days of isolation is going to be one hell of a challenge with the kids!
2021 has been a bitch of a year.
Edit: We are both double vaxxed, thank fuck!
Hope it all goes well @caad9. asA has been mentioned we'll all end up getting it at some stage no doubt.So, I have just unwittingly become the case study for Covid amongst Rotorburn.
Partner has received a text today to say she is positive from a test on Thursday. We have 3 kids under 5 (4.5 and 14 month olds twins)
She has been devastated all day.
Was feeling unwell on Wednesday afternoon (Cold symptoms) and decided to get tested Thursday morning. Hasn’t seemed much more serious than any other sniffle we get with kids or her hay fever or asthma flare ups due to changing season/weather. She’s been quite vigilant with getting tested and this is probably her 7th or 8th test over the 18 month Covid journey.
I don’t know if I have it yet and wouldn’t say I am feeling any more ordinary than usual with lack of sleep and kids.
Have to say, we are fairly cautious with our interactions, always wearing masks and don’t currently mingle for work. Both check in everywhere we go (supermarket, petrol and food). I am interested to see how much information we get about where it comes from or dates. It’s a genuine mystery to us.
14 days of isolation is going to be one hell of a challenge with the kids!
2021 has been a bitch of a year.
Edit: We are both double vaxxed, thank fuck!
Thats not necessarily true.We are all going to get it eventually, if not tomorrow or next month, it will be in a years time.
The only shaming I've seen is of people doing the wrong thing.so much covid shaming, I am sick of it!
Thanks not necessarily true.
Both Quinn’s besties that she spends all day with are primary contacts at the school….but she isn’t. They catch a bus together that Quinn doesn’t… but still surprises me.Kids finally back at school last week. Positive case at the school. Many primary contacts. Back to remote learning all this week. Sigh.
I mentioned this somewhere earlier in the thread, I did some napkin maths a couple weeks ago and roughly 10% of UKs population has been infected since the outbreak began. So s it stands, at the moment, it's absolutely possible to go through this without catching it. Though all precautions taken and you could still be unlucky.I hate to bet on outcomes with such terrible consequences, but:
No international quarantine requirements
~3% vaccinated in the developing world
It’s inevitable a mutation gets around the first generation of vaccines. Fingers crossed Pfizer et al are working hard to protect their massive profits. Having to hide back under a rock for 6 months waiting for supply to arrive would suck.
to be fair the mum of the baby took that risk. This is what i mean by being vigilant. If your risk appetite is low, dont expose yourself to unnecesary risk. We've chosen to give it a month before doing anything social in groups to see where we land.Halloween drinks across the road last night, half way through a neighbor gets a text message, while she has been cuddling another neighbor's baby, and finds a work colleague at the child care she works at is positive.
Can't say the baby's mum was rapt. But it will keep happening.
In 43 years I’ve only caught the actual flu* maybe 2 or 3 times and that’s with no precautions taken other than the occasional flu jab because they were giving away free lollipops with them at work, so I’m inclined to agree that it’s not inevitable.I mentioned this somewhere earlier in the thread, I did some napkin maths a couple weeks ago and roughly 10% of UKs population has been infected since the outbreak began. So s it stands, at the moment, it's absolutely possible to go through this without catching it. Though all precautions taken and you could still be unlucky.
IMO "we're all going to get it" is a pretty dangerous view to promote. It signals to others that a level of complacency or fatigue in trying to avoid it is ok.
Most of the developing world hasn't been waiting ro jump on a plane, let alone to Australia. Most of them are busy trying to survive.
Mutations work both ways - it could be worse or it could be milder. We could end up with a dominant strain that does not do much (that's the dream).
This isn't over by a longshot. And we can expect the near future to be pretty grim. Which is exactly why we should continue to be vigilant.
This is the first 18-24 months I've not had a flu like virus in my life. But i am a public transport user when we are working in the office - PT is 100% the vector for me, which is one of the reasons I am not looking fwd going back to the office while this thing is going aroundIn 43 years I’ve only caught the actual flu maybe 2 or 3 times and that’s with no precautions taken other than the occasional flu jab
So when will it be eliminated ?Thats not necessarily true.
Maybe not 1/2, but anecdotally, mates in the UK seem to pretty much all had it or believe they had it at some stage.My brother reckons probably more than half the UK have had it and put it down to a cold.
My elderly parents and my aunt are about the only ones I know who haven't had it... and they are prisoners in their own homes.Maybe not 1/2, but anecdotally, mates in the UK seem to pretty much all had it or believe they had it at some stage.
I do agree with this. I'd hate to have a trip planned and end up positive too close to departure to be able to make it. The return journey I am not as concerned about.The biggest fear I’ve got is catching it and having the positive PCR test results fuck up my flights