This is indeed a very sad fact of the way multiple governments across the globe have dealt with this pandemic. Having lost my father last year, I know where he's at.
They're both feeling pretty much back to normal now cheers. Both just reported a bit of a cold. Yes, Streatley/Goring is a lovely, very affluent part of the world. The Swan was previously owned by Danny La Rue! We're just a few miles up the road into Oxfordshire.
Sons PCR test results arrived back, positive of course. He’s being told to self isolate - already has been for six days - and feed a number into the NHS Covid app (I don’t think he has it, I certainly don’t) which will then beep all his contacts I presume and alert them that they have been ‘exposed’. Or it won’t beep anyone because he hasn’t been out for a week….. This system has now broken down entirely. If you can’t get a PCR test and results pretty quickly (ie 24 hours) after a first positive LFT it really becomes redundant, unless you only take action based on PCR results. The only use for the PCR test result is to prove to your employer that you haven’t been skiving. You can also download a ‘COVID isolation’ certificate from the NHS, with absolutely no evidence required that you actually have COVID, for some reason. Sticking the info into the Test and Trace app is a complete waste of time. Every single person who has been anything other than a hermit for the last month has been exposed to multiple people with the virus, such is it’s prevalence in the population.
Do you still.have LFTs for him to use? Am I right in assuming he can leave isolation after two negative LGTs? Track & Trace (Protect Scotland as it's known up here) really is a waste of time, I know multiple people who have been pinged who take no notice of it unless thay start showing symptoms - but most of my colleagues are all self employed, so hav no incentive to spend ten days away from work as there is no income. I'm doing LFT every couple of days as Mrs is petrified of getting ill again, especially as one of her colleagues died from Covid earlier this week. We've got plenty of LFTs in the house though - at least there's one perk of having a nurse in the family!
Yeah we have LFTs, but not many for a family of four. In theory the rest of us should be taking daily LFTs, which would have left us on zero after 4 days. Instead we just use when we know we are going to socialise. The boy was positive yesterday, we’ll try again today and tomorrow in the hope that he will be able to go to work on Monday, which he really wants to do, claiming to have seen all content on Netflix and Prime…….Plus my wife has to have some medical tests next week and they are saying she has to go in on Sunday for a PCR.
The whole test & trace system has been pretty ****e from the start and now free LTR tests look like being scrapped. Is this the end of the virus battle in England?
My son is now being pestered by Test and Trace by email and text, multiple times today, to upload his PCR information to the app which he doesn’t have. I’ve suggested to him that if they resort to harassment by phone he should pass the phone to me. If the ****ing system worked I’d have no problem with this, but it has never worked and with the numbers we are seeing now even the best designed and operated system would collapse. Time to reassess self testing and isolation. Any luck numbers will start going down soon.
Its now been designed for the numbers to go down via paying for tests, tests not being available, delayed results etc. Our infection rate has been ridiculous and they need to make the numbers look better some way. I know of people who arent arsed about even isolating nowadays nevermind not wearing a mask.
All of my family have had bad colds (possibly Covid) in the last week or two, but none of us have got tested and we just carried on as we would have with regular colds. I suspect that's what most of the rest of the country are doing. The government have decreed that there's no point in testing people coming into the country anymore because Omicron is so widespread already. Just get on with it.
