Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #23

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Spinidge said:
I don't think anyone is complaining about the control measures @hnoz, not on this thread anyway. There have been a lot of questions raised about the government's actions and inactions on both sides, some, myself included, querying the Imperial College simulation which prompted the restrictions and some querying if we should have had a stricter lockdown. I know many parents who went against the government advice, to pull their children out of school quite early on. Some of us even dare to query the mighty WHO. All of which are essential if we are to maintain a democracy and not haplessly fall into a technocracy or worse. Yes many people are struggling with this situation and many are frustrated but it doesn't mean they are not following the government's guidelines. Nobody wants to see the death rates go up. As we are still thankfully living in a democracy, we all still have the right to express our opinions, and ask questions, without blindly following everything we are told.
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I moan and still adhere to the rules. Just like I go to work and moan sometimes, doesn’t mean I don’t do my job to the best of my ability :) I understand why I’m doing it. Doesn’t mean it’s not crappy being locked up 24/7.
 
Bitofthebubbly said:
That’s disgusting I hope your cousin will be ok.

Can we stop pretending Boris Johnson is a saint now? Not anyone here but the general public.
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I saw this doing the rounds and have put it up before but made me think like someone said was his hospital admission a PR stunt or was it just fate..
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Boredindoors said:
Can anyone give some advice on what I’m meant to do ... the house next door is an Airbnb and has just had a family come down from London to stay in it for a week. We have a shared access gate that I have been leaving open so that the postman doesn’t have to touch it and they are insisting on closing it so that their child can run up and down (their rented house has its own garden and then they have right of way through ours to get to the road) I don’t even think they should have been able to come down at this time and now they are interfering with our day to day life. I understand they don’t want their child to run into the road but surely they can supervise her enough?
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I hate to be “that person”, but couldn’t you report this to the police? It sounds as though they have travelled unnecessarily and that would be something that the police could speak to them about.
 
prinnygrace said:
My cousin is an ambulance driver (working for a company, not blue lights) and last week transported a really poorly patient to hospital who later tested positive. No PPE has been provided for them. She now has a temperature and is feeling very ill herself. Appalling that our key workers still aren’t protected properly. Our government has really done badly with the response :(
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There's a man on our street that nobody likes who is a general ambulance driver( not blue lights) as far as I can tell he's not been at work during this. Is that normal? I don't think he's got underlying health issues unless being an asshole is one. I thought all fit and healthy frontline staff had to work.
 
Lanie said:
There's a man on our street that nobody likes who is a general ambulance driver( not blue lights) as far as I can tell he's not been at work during this. Is that normal? I don't think he's got underlying health issues unless being an asshole is one. I thought all fit and healthy frontline staff had to work.
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My cousin has been working and they even asked her to go in when she said she was feeling unwell and she had to argue that she wasn’t going to do that after transporting someone to hospital who has tested positive. I assume the person on your street must have a reason to not be working ??
 
Just need to vent here. I know NHS are absolutely priority when it comes to testing but if key workers are being made to work (by their companies) then surely they should be tested too.
Husband started coughing on Sunday, had a temperature during the night but nothing since. Just a dry cough. He’s now having to isolate for at least a week (me for 2) and if he’s symptom free he can go back to work. My concern is a dry cough is a symptom but it’s a symptom of many other things too. He works in a shop and I’ve very much conceded to the fact it’s a case of when, not if he gets it. If he isn’t covid-19 + and he ends up with symptoms again in a couple of weeks, his employer may think he’s been lying. It’s super frustrating. He absolutely has to self isolate but it’s so frustrating now knowing.
 
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