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Proactive testing rather than reactive locking em up👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. It’s good news MrC.
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I wonder what the UK would look like now if, as many had wanted, we had left the coronavirus to its own devices and just let it run rampant throughout the land, in terms of number dead, total number of cases, long term sufferers of covid19, state of hospitals, food supplies,....the list goes on.
roll on my vacination day
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We had an Airedale who was stung in the mouth by a bee, she went into anaphylactic shock. Whisked off to vets, one quick injection, 30 seconds later the mischievous little pest was fully restored and up searching for more mischief😱
The Alsatian that I had used to love going into the front garden and snapping up and eating bees on a large lavender bush in summer. As far as I am aware she only ever got stung once ..... not that it put her off.
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Things that buzz and twirl past are fascinating to a lot of dogs, just our band luck to have one that had such a bad reaction.
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Anyone still thinking the Christmas "free for all" is a good idea would do well to read this article -
With a vaccine now becoming available, surely it's not too much to ask that folk hold off family gatherings for the long term benefit of us all?
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With a vaccine now becoming available, surely it's not too much to ask that folk hold off family gatherings for the long term benefit of us all?
Certainly in wales we have been advised not to get together pointless when they (The Welsh Government) have 'promoted' such activity
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Totally agree M. We watched Channel 4 news a couple of nights ago, South Wales is a disaster waiting to happen, interviews with hospital consultants, nurses, pleading with folks to be careful. The next stage for them is to triage for Covid beds.........
I know you have suffered a personal loss, and we came super close to losing a much loved friend in similar circumstances. He hadn’t been out for months, fully shielded, except for life saving routine hospital visits, but after eight months of being so careful, he caught it in hospital. He cannot believe he has survived after five weeks in ICU.
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It was hinted on the news tonight that Wales are considering whether they should cancel the "Christmas Free Period" and set the whole of the Principality at level 3/4 from next week till after the New Year.
"Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said changes would cause "huge issues about trust", but could happen if case rates stayed high."
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Talking to various people in the village, Nellie, most have already made their Christmas plans and nearly all of them have opted to play as safe as they possibly can. Obviously some won't comply but the figures in Wales aren't going down.
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My frail elderly neighbours are hoping to join some of their family in Wales, I'm wondering if this will actually happen and I don't think they'll be safe at all. I've heard today of friends who are joining their family, both friends are in ill health and it's just beyond me why families are playing Russian Roulette, especially with the vaccine on the horizon. We won't particularly enjoy being on our own and we've even said to neighbours, if the weather's ok, we'll raise a glass or two outside our homes but it's really only two days that we need to get through.
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It certainly doesn't look promising and family gatherings over the holiday period will only exacerbate the situation.
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I've heard today of friends who are joining their family, both friends are in ill health and it's just beyond me why families are playing Russian Roulette, especially with the vaccine on the horizon.
Agree 100%. We've been careful for the last 9 months; why risk that for the sake of what's really just 1 day? It just doesn't make sense to me; we'll enjoy Christmas Day on our own this year, and look forward to having a "normal" Christmas next year, with family/friends like we usually do. We've been together for over 40 years now, so being on our own for once over Christmas is not really a hardship, we're thankful that so far we've escaped Covid-19.
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IMO it depends on the circumstances and it is very difficult looking in to determine the exact circumstances, e.g. the parts of our family we will be meeting up with on Christmas day & boxing day have all had Covid-19 within the last 2 months, and although myself & OH have not had Covid-19 we consider the risk of being infected from people who have had it and recovered is very very low, however, table plans have been devised to maintain some semblance of SD, and hugging & kissing is off the menu
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However careful you are, sometimes things just happen outside of your control. My car broke down on Friday and had to be pushed off a busy road and recovered to a local garage. The combination of stress, circumstances and necessity combine to make it impossible to avoid close contact with strangers, be that at the roadside, in the recovery truck or taxi home.
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Positive tests in this borough have been on the up again in the last couple of weeks from 117 to now 147.if it is because the UNI students are being tested before released home ,it does not bode well for the rest of the country come the "free for all" over xmas and what is going to follow afterwards
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Well Germany have just announced what almost amounts to a national lock down that will last until the 10th Jan, i wonder if the UK government have got the B**** to do the same ???might be a good thing if it negates any north/south divide issues which could be on the table again next Wednesday
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It might also be a good thing if it stops people mixing at Christmas and sending the case count upwards.👍🏻
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Please, please stop blaming the Uni students every time you quote rising rates in your area JV. There was obviously a big problem back in late September when they went back, but it wasn’t just students then. Even in Nottingham where your Grand Daughter is studying.
It’s more likely to be your proximity to London and South East that is part of the issue, at the moment, growing case numbers. The cases seem to cascade out of the high areas, until measures are taken, then they roll back again. There must be hundreds of thousands of journeys every day from high into low areas, and vice versa that feeds the case rates. Most journeys hopefully will be necessary, but not all, and that’s the problem.
The next wave will be all about those unable or unwilling to look beyond the Christmas period, and satisfying their personal gratification. Yes it’s hard, but it’s easier than the alternative, and there is now hope on the horizon.
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The highest rates of positive tests in this area are in South Hatfield in the area of the UNI and where all the student accomodation is
Our grandaughter is now home and is working at the Tesco superstore in Hatfield and has said , it seems to be the student popoulation there , as at her UNI in Nottingham who seem to still be in denial about the virus and thhe danger it brings
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Ok JV, but it’s just that you mention the Uni and students each time you post about your local case rates. Either way, I hope you all stay safe down there.
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and that is exacly why we are doing it, if we had deployed this stategy earlier then there is every chance we would not be in the situation we find our selves, using Australia, New Zealand, South Korea as examples. If you know something bad is out there but dont know where it is and it is not easily idenfiyable, then testing has to be one of the weapons of choice.
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I hope you realise "all posters..." includes yourself, JV.
In this area we have 3 unis within an hour's drive. To find news reports regarding students and infection, I’d have to search really hard. You do seem to have quite a thing about it.
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