Are there any numbers on long covid yet btw? Apart from folks on here, I don’t know anyone who seems to have suffered from it.
I know one personally - normally very fit and healthy 50 yr old, running 5/10K most weekends for years. 12 months unable to even walk 1K without stopping, and has only just made it back to walking about 3k on a typical day - still not running at all, some days so bad doesn't leave the house. One of our other company sites has someone who's been off since contracting covid in Jan, never hospitalised, starting to talk about phased return now, probably won't be back full time this year.
I don't think there's good data though as there's no easy diagnosis. Some data was saying not fully recovered after 5 weeks = long covid, but I think that's probably a bad definition as if 6/7 weeks you are full fighting form that's very different from 12 months not sure if you'll even get back to work.
Even a positive PCR test wouldn’t allow allow her back to school. Utter nonsense.
You'd hope not! I assume you meant a negative PCR test. Thing is she can be pcr neg mon and pcr pos by wed; and the test may be very reliable but the swab/sample is not so test to release is a dangerous strategy. There is a study going on to see if daily testing can be used to allow temporary release from quarantine but its an unknown.
Lol, head scrambled this morning, I meant negative! 😂
Cheers Poly.
Are there any numbers on long covid yet btw? Apart from folks on here, I don’t know anyone who seems to have suffered from it.
I have a friend with it and know of someone at work that got it bad.
In terms of schools, loads of schools round here have had full years isolating
The academy got a massive hit with end of term shenanigans that wiped out most of the P7 as well. Off now so we'll see what the numbers do.
Today has been spent with three teachers and met multiple other teachers and schools while out DofE'ing.
Transpires that Dunblane Primary and Nursery, and High School, and Football club, and.... All have CV19 cases, lots of isolation.
And lots of people saying (to paraphrase) "stuff it, I'm not losing my holiday, we're not going to school/nursery this week...".
And lots of people saying (to paraphrase) “stuff it, I’m not losing my holiday, we’re not going to school/nursery this week…”.
I have a list of names...it is not a short list.😀
Just heard a son of someone I work with has tested pcr positive.
Guess where he was Friday, traveling public transport and is apparently one of the lads not answering T'n'T calls late last week.
Knobby McKnobface.
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I think the king of the North is planning a war north of the wall due to the ice queen banning Mancunians from Scotland, bit rich given the overall infection rate in Scotland.
Well, it's happened.
The day before they break up and the teachers & educators head off for thier booked holidays, a child has tested positive and they all have to isolate for 10 days...in two settings.
Even better in one school the child's family had already been asked to isolate as older sibling had tested positive, but the family decided to continue to go to work and send younger children in....
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Doesn't matter how much you try you'll never escape stupid folk
As the examples of the muppets going to London "cos we are the tartan army." Shows; stupid and selfish remain strong in the gene pool.
A cluster of 13 (so far) up here from someone who's been sooth to the mainland has had one primary shut this last week before the holidays.
We're off down to see family in North Yorkshire the back end or next week, but have out lateral flow tests to take and will be self-isolating if they show positive. My wife and son have been taking them a couple of months now for school and work with all negatives, which is reassuring as we were worried about false positives.
We're now on holiday but I heard that one of the secondary schools had 196 kids and 16 staff isolating.
One of our support staff is spent first 10 days of holiday isolating which I suppose means that given the department she's in that's a few kids and staff too.
Of course if this is your first booked holiday in 18 months, and there won't be any movement on being able to postpone, I wonder how many are going regardless?
Watch for a spike in rural places over the next fortnight?
Absolutely, mind you Matt; we are near Braemar with Bronze/ Silvers next week and Knoydart the week after that so I am wondering if that makes us part of the problem as well.
Very true...
We’re now on holiday but I heard that one of the secondary schools had 196 kids and 16 staff isolating.
One of our support staff is spent first 10 days of holiday isolating which I suppose means that given the department she’s in that’s a few kids and staff too.
Local primary school 'McCrone' teacher tested positive a couple of weeks back, said teacher had worked in almost every class that week, as is the role, pretty much full school isolating.
tbh I wonder when we'll bin isolation, cause we're well on the way to exponential infections anyhow, again. It's crunch time really to see where hospitalisations/deaths go in the week or 3.
Some jump over in infections the last week.
Also seems that glasgow punters can look at edinburgh punters with disapproval for a change! 😆
I'm also wondering if we're almost at a peak due to the football and folk gathering to watch it? Next 3 weeks are going to be interesting.
Looks to me like Scottish infections are levelling out or even beginning to drop.
https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
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Yeah, it does that 🙏🏻
2nd vaccine today up at Castlemilk. Place was absolutely deserted. Zero queues and about 5 other folk in at the same time as me.
Lady who administered mine says hundreds of people every day aren't turning up for their scheduled appointment 🤦♂️
Lady who administered mine says hundreds of people every day aren’t turning up for their scheduled appointment
some of these will be appointment letters that have gone to the wrong place ie people have moved or people who have been jabbed from one system getting appointments from another
i have seen 4 appointment letters here for long gone tenants and I got offered a jab via the usual process when i had already had them via work.
Na, most of them will be tickets that think covid is over.
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2nd vaccine today up at Castlemilk. Place was absolutely deserted. Zero queues and about 5 other folk in at the same time as me.Lady who administered mine says hundreds of people every day aren’t turning up for their scheduled appointment 🤦♂️
I was yesterday up in fernhill for my 2nd, had changed it online from last week, as I couldn't be bothered travelling to the arse end of EK again. But aye, place was deserted.
I do think it was always going to get a bit more difficult getting the younger age groups vaccinated, it's been sold as an old persons problem more than anything else. So many won't be in any great rush.
Reboot!
Great to see that Calmac are going to normal operating capacity as of monday, hopefully get some much needed cash into some of the communities that rely on tourism.
Screw that. Maybe the islanders will be able to go to work, on holiday, visit relatives etc.
Don't forget the hospital appointments as well, there should be no need to contact travel coordinators etc to make sure you can get on the ferry from next week onwards
Hasn't been an issue on my local ferries Gord, always kept back space for such instances, the lack of 2nd ferry has been the worst for them. As SR, on Arran tourism IS the work for the majority.
So, as long as you are doing one of the 3 D's in a nightclub (dancing, dining or drinking) then you don't have to wear a mask:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58114122
In that case would it be okay not to wear a mask in my local supermarket if I danced all th way around it whilst picking up my shopping?
No, that would be silly.
Swinney covered it perfectly yesterday, it's unreasonable to water a mask in those circumstances, in the supermarket, it isn't.
If you don't want to wear a mask, batter in, it really doesn't bothere to wear one.
I mean, you could try but people would probably think you're an eejit. It's also your choice whether you want to go to a club, I'd say I'll be waiting to see what happens but the truth is I'm a sad **** that won't be going out anyway regardless of covid.
Great to see that Calmac are going to normal operating capacity as of monday, hopefully get some much needed cash into some of the communities that rely on tourism.
Might make the 5 ferries this year after all! Can't be any worse than the 3 ferries 😢
Lol, aye, nightclubs way doon the list! What happened to you on the 3F?
If I get a T shirt printed with 'Double vaccinated, Tested and Available' would my chances improve in this club?
What happened to you on the 3F?
The head of Loch Striven. The climb out of there was brutal, wasn't prepared for it, was also a scorcher of a day which didn't help.
Cases appear to be on the rise again
Will need to see if the hospital admissions reflect it
https://www.travellingtabby.com/scotland-coronavirus-tracker/
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Cases appear to be on the rise again
Weather related?
/Big Brother voice
Daaay 2 in the Scottish secondary school, and we have a covid case and letter home to parents....
/Big Brother voice
Middle_oab at work at CV19 testing station is (anecdotally) reporting a rise in customers for testing, slowly and steadily over last two sets of shifts.
So, an autumnal game of whack-a-mole ahead?
Inevitable rise given more mixing. Let’s hope the hospitals are ok.
Well I've just had a positive PCR test result this afternoon. I reckon I've picked it up from Bloodstock festival last week.
I thought I had the normal festival lurgy, runny nose, sore throat and a headache but did a lateral flow test anyway and it showed positive so PCR booked yesterday.
Just had a nice chat with a lassie from NHS Grampian test and trace.
Looking at Traveling Tabby's site it's definitely on the rise.
As per the expert on radio Scotia today (sorry, name escaped me), he's not even looking at cases now, hospital admissions, how long they're in for, and deaths.
Makes sense, it's hard not to pay attention to case numbers though!.
Yeah cases are definitely rising at a fair old rate but as long as hospital admissions stay low it shouldn't be a problem.
Fingers crossed anyway 🤞🏻
I know loads of folk who went to Bloodstock.
Many of them now have covid
Well, we live down near Bloodstock and are now in Edinburgh for the Fringe. Just spent an hour rammed into a pub basement for a stand up show, think you might be getting your revenge.....
Current hospital trends look ok but that'll be for folk that got I'll weeks back.
All schools back this week or next, plus a large return to the office (I know at least a few major Scottish employers have ordered a 100% return as of next week).
Not feeling hugely optimistic, feels like best case it's a winter from hell for the NHS, worst case is a new variant and square one. But everyone seems to be pretending it's 2019.
