Maybe fat bastards should stop in and isolate as they are badly affected? That would bugger up things for a lot on here.
Again another sweeping bullshit statement you manage your own health if you have an underlying health condition then choose to go to packed pubs n clubs even supermarkets you’re taking that risk No one else is accountable for you
I do have an underlying health condition. Because of that .I have told my better half for the last 18 months I will no longer risk going into crowded national chain supermarkets. So she will have to do the shopping. However I do believe in supporting local businesses. Of which the nearest one happens to be my local pub. How fortunate it is not too packed.
We’ll **** me I’ve got the dreaded lurgy lol Just did a test and came back positive, been feeling a bit rough over the last 2/3 days and a cough and headache with it. I’m a bit prone to colds this time of year so thought it was just that. I can still taste and smell ok so did not think for one second it was covid. A few of my family have also tested positive and all are pretty much like me with the taste and smell. In my opinion this new variant is easily transmitted but seems to be no worse than a cold, in fact I’d say a lot less as when I get a cold it puts me on my back for a week lol and a cough for 3/4 months after. I have had all my jabs and the booster 2 weeks ago so been following all the science. The fact I’ve been fully jabbed is most definitely why this variant is barely effective on me. Wonderful start to 2022, it can only get better from here… I hope lol. Gonna be a big year this for me… watch this ****ing space !!
Any chance she can come and do my shopping for me? No underlying health condition that I'm aware of,I just can't be arsed
It has worked so well I am going to continue with it when all this is finally over just to be on the safe side. Whilst continuing to support my local pub, as I do now, of course as that seems to be a risk free area.
Hope all stays well for you and yours RTR. Stay in and enjoy the upturn in City's fortunes over the next few days.
Sitting by the box watching city on a Saturday is my idea of perfeccccc but usually I have to leave before the final whistle to go to work… not ****ing today though lol… Boom !!! Ps. Thank you Ernie, it’s nice to know someone cares ! I’m getting very teary and choked up …time for a full English
More dire warnings from the gloomsters in the left wing press ... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-...vid-data-shows-boris-johnsons-omicron-gamble/
Irresponsible journalism to create that headline from: Dr Andrew Goddard, the president of the Royal College of Physicians, said staff absence was his biggest concern. "It's workforce, workforce, workforce," he said. "I think omicron is hopefully going to be a relatively short sharp shock… Provided the number of hospital admissions as omicron hits the over-65s isn't too bad, I don't think there's going to be as much of an impact on the services as a year ago."
i do all my supermarket shopping as late as i can. most of them are almost empty in their last half hour. before the ridiculous decision to stop having 24 hour opening (thereby forcing their customers to shop in 16 busier hours than 24 emptier ones) i would regularly shop after midnight, often on my way home from somewhere. i much prefer to edge round some shelf stackers than have to deal with slow-moving idiots with zero traffic skills, zero spacial awareness, and random lurches. not to mention those that have to take along their entire brood of multi-fathered brats and then opt to have a long discussion with a friend, similarly afflicted with what was, in more enlightened days, termed cannon fodder, chatting in the most critical customer flow pinch points in the establishment. "'ere, chardonay, let's stand 'ere where we can inconvenience the maximum number of people." except, obviously, chardonay's mate doesn't do five-syllable words. judgmental, moi?
Will have to tell my wife to go shopping late. Will keep looking out of the pub window to see if she will be home by the time I leave.
My usual comment to University students who milled about aimlessly in peoples way was "how much intelligence does it take to be a door?" Few understood the jibe!
me too. i do feel tired and the last two nights i've been in bed for 13 or 14 hours and still felt tired when i eventually got up. on the plus side, my tonnage has dropped 4lb since my positive test. i've been looking into how the immune system works lately. it's basically powered by vitamin d (d3 rather than d2). most people don't have enough vitamin d in their system and it's unlikely that people get enough from their diet. the rda (recommended daily amount) is plain wrong and entirely inadequate - it's around 5-8 micrograms, based on hundred-year-old studies, and is just about enough to stop folk getting ricketts. better daily amounts should be at least 50 micrograms and perhaps even more. if you've been tested and your levels need upping (supplements take a few days to get into the system), you might be given amounts of 150 or 200 micrograms for a couple of months. ignore any and all scare stories about taking too much. it's just the crappy daily express short of real news again. those of us that are overweight may need to take more, as do those of us with darker skins (it appears that melatonin levels in the skin are directly related to how much vitamin d can be gleaned from sunlight). adequate vitamin d levels should prevent the cytokine storms that were killing c19 sufferers so nastily in 2020. the t cells (second line of defence after antibodies) have two ways to react - if there's not enough vitamin d, it takes the inflammatory route, and that's where the cytokine storm can happen. something like 80% of hospitalised cases are vitamin d deficient. everyone in the uk should be taking vitamin d supplements for the rest of their lives, apart from the handful with a rare disorder that makes them generate excess amounts. and more in the less sunny months. hope that's useful.
your name just reminded me of some "fun" i had negotiating interesting roads in the high peak area. i was commuting from sheffield to cheshire for a few months. i remember sparrowpit. the road signs said something like "sparrowpit in the high peak". eventually found a route i liked via castleton, winnet's pass, chapel-en-le-frith, whaley bridge, and macclesfield. that was when my dislike of french cars was solidified, as it was almost impossible to overtake and they were going too slow. that said, there was one bizarre day when my little ford escort got stuck behind every different model of audi, an occurrence which i still don't quite understand.
Could have written that myself. The 'great British public' seem to irritate me more and more, maybe as there seems to be an increasing percentage of the sorts you describe above (or maybe that plus me becoming more & more a miserable old git). Most of our supermarket shopping is by home delivery. It significantly reduces the time needed to be spent in supermarkets. Post covid, it's highly unlikely we will go back to doing our own shopping - why would you.
