FAQ/Help |
Calendar |
Search |
Threadtastic Postaholic
Member Since Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 6,006
(SuperPoster!)
5 192 hugs
given |
#801
WELL WELL WELL LOOK WHOS STILL NEGATIVE! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#802
Quote:
|
|
BreakForTheLight
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#803
I guess normal-ish life goes on, we have all our restrictions dropped this week, not that we had many recently anyhow, including vaccine passports for bigger venues I believe (not that I ever went anywhere to use mine!). Case numbers have halved from a couple of weeks ago but still at around 90,000 per day.
I do feel anxious, I’m picking up anxiety from others too (I’m really good at that unfortunately!) I have a very slight sore throat tonight and I’m probably overreacting to it, I tested negative today (saw friends) but will test again before I see another friend on Thursday. It would be very unusual to get covid so quickly after having it, but I still worry I might and that I’d spread to others. |
BreakForTheLight
|
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2015
Location: Europe
Posts: 852
9 211 hugs
given |
#804
Quote:
Sadly knowing I'm maybe not 100% to blame does not make me any less lonely :/ Quote:
Well, my UK trip is booked. And I hear the day 2 tests will be scrapped from 11 February - is that definite now? If so, it'd save me some money, that is the exact day I'm traveling. Thank you, universe! Now if you could make the rest of the trip go well, too, I am really grateful! And if I saw correctly, 1 dose of J&J still counts as fully vaccinated in the UK? That would mean I am even considered boostered there, since I got a 2nd shot. I still need to check the rules on getting back since in Germany, I am not considered boostered yet. I can't get the booster until after I get back. But I think even if I am not required to quarantine, I might do so voluntarily for a while. It's a little scary in the UK! And I will definitely make sure my fridge and freezer are full before I leave, in case the rules change during the weekend I'm away |
||
Discombobulated, Nammu
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#805
@BreakForTheLight
Approved COVID-19 vaccines and countries and territories with approved proof of vaccination - GOV.UK Yeah it looks like your J&J is counted as fully vaccinated, at least at the time I write this.. The requirement for the test is being dropped for fully vaccinated at 4am on 11th February according to the government website, double check that yourself though please. in case I read it wrong! It’s weird to hear you describe things as a little scary in the UK now, honestly I think I’m used to it now! Are you in the London area? Rates there peaked first and are now lower, it’s higher in the North West right now. My sore throat I think may have been psychosomatic! It vanished and I’ve taken 3 negative lateral flows recently (excessive probably but I was socialising this week and one friend is vulnerable so extra careful). |
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2015
Location: Europe
Posts: 852
9 211 hugs
given |
#806
Quote:
Last time I was in London, it felt so weird having a stranger sitting next to me without a mask. Even though back then they were sort of following German guidelines at the event and requiring a vaccination certificate or negative test result. Now they're following UK guidelines which are all scrapped? I'd probably still feel weird going anywhere in Germany that allows close contact without a mask but with a negative test. It's not so much a real fear as it is just something I'm no longer used to. Edit: 851 cases per 100.000 in London VS. 1829 in my city or 2408 in just my area. yep, London is doing much better. |
|
Nammu
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#807
@BreakForTheLight
Yes we had what our government called Plan B which involved mandatory vaccine passports for larger venues but from yesterday we’re back on plan A which is essentially no restrictions at all: Covid passes and face mask rules end in England - BBC News The article explains what’s changing, although some venues can still ask for vaccination proof or negative test it’s no longer a government order, so best to check the actual venue. Your levels sound like ours were in early January, we’re a little behind the curve in my area but even here cases are dropping. A few weeks ago I was hearing every day of someone testing positive, now not so much although my colleague at work currently has it (he didn’t get it when I got it, and actually although many people at work have had it we’ve all had it in separate outbreaks despite working closely together!). Anyhow hopefully in a few weeks your cases will drop too! |
Nammu
|
Magnate
Member Since Apr 2016
Location: Somewhere in South America
Posts: 2,229
8 1,042 hugs
given |
#808
Here no one understands the different steps or phases any more. They can't do lockdowns any more, but there are steps one to five. Those have to mainly do with capacity restrictions in theaters and restaurants and controls on larger public events like sports. But, there are so many rules in each step that it gets confusing. For example, the restrictions vary depending on whether everyone is vaccinated or not. It's pretty much impossible to enforce.
|
BreakForTheLight, Nammu
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2015
Location: Europe
Posts: 852
9 211 hugs
given |
#809
Well, the gig has been cancelled. "having heard from so many of you that are not yet comfortable travelling to the shows" Translation: we didn't sell enough tickets, tough luck for anyone who's already made travel plans.
I guess not everyone in the UK is on board with life going on as normal, even though the restrictions have been lifted. I'm disappointed, I was looking forward to getting away for the weekend. This city is depressing me. (Not that London is such a cheerful city but it would have been a good change of scenery.) And annoyed because I only booked my flight 3 days ago - they couldn't have announced this a few days earlier? Now I'm hoping they announce new dates on time and there won't be too much extra costs changing my flights. I kind of want to still go, but not on my own with not even a gig to go to |
Discombobulated, Nammu
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#810
Quote:
Yeah I think many people aren’t ready for big venues just yet, I know I’m not there yet. Idk whether government withdrawal of vaccine passports was helping venues either as maybe many people preferred the reassurance of them? I saw a very small anti vaccination/anti vaccination passports protest today, just 5 adults and their children in hazmat suits with placards. Honestly? Vaccination passports were very short lived in England, and as of last Thursday they are no longer government order. Did they miss the news? Or was the protest already organised and they didn’t like to cancel it? |
|
Nammu
|
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2015
Location: Europe
Posts: 852
9 211 hugs
given |
#811
Quote:
I'm in omnicron central here numbers are probably even higher than what's being registered because they have run out of test capacity. it's starting to feel like getting it may be unavoidable. I had a co-worker who tested positive even though she's working from home and said she only goes out for grocery shopping, with a mask. The demonstrations here are getting quite crazy. It's scary how people seem to be moving away so far from reality. Just read they apparently stormed a hospital in Leipzig yesterday - what the hell? And wearing a star of David.... I don't even have words for how disrespectful and delusional that is. |
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Jan 2014
Location: US
Posts: 4,887
10 3,788 hugs
given |
#812
Ugh, what crappy timing @BreakForTheLight - I hope you can find some other way to treat yourself. @Discombobulated the five person protest after restrictions were lifted is bizarre.
I read an interesting article about Covid in Mexico this week. Schools were shut for 17 months but travel was never restricted because the govt. wanted that tourist money. I am so tired of all the double standards. I recently won an all expenses paid trip to an event this summer -- but they are still not sure they will even hold the event. If they don't, I win nothing. It sort of dampens the excitement, you know? Even if they plan on holding it, they may cancel at the last minute due to a surge. Omicron may have peaked here. Tests are still backed up, but hospitalizations are going down. I hope we have a more relaxed spring and early summer like last year. |
Discombobulated
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Nov 2014
Location: Spain ( the land of flowers and gladness, lol!)
Posts: 3,825
9 1,758 hugs
given |
#813
Quote:
Sarah, I would like to ask you a thing. Did your brother told you about if these patients with covid in intense care are people who haven’t been gotten the vaccines? In my country, doctors says a big percentage of people in the hospitals with covid are people in a high percentage who haven’t been vaccinated. Which experience have your brother in this regards? I want you to understand that my intention is not make things harder for our heroes in health system. Unless I have dangerous symptoms or another serious pathology, I’m not gonna charge them with more worK. But, up this point in time, I wonder about the current situation in the pandemia and up to what point, taking the same restrictions are justified. In the North of Spain, there’s a curfew now what I consider totally futile while there have been concentrations of people in the stadiums, at street markets... Ah, I forgot. I received my booster yesterday. I’m pretty fine other than a pain on the upper arm. 😀 __________________ Social Anxiety and Depression. Cluster C traits. Trying to improve my English. My apologies for errors and mistakes in advance. Mankind is complex: Make deserts blossom and lakes die. ( GIL SCOTT-HERSON) |
|
Discombobulated, rechu
|
Grand Member
Member Since Jan 2015
Location: Europe
Posts: 852
9 211 hugs
given |
#814
The gig has been postponed to July. That's a real disappointment. I don't have anything else planned either until then. I honestly don't think I can handle another 5,5 months of nothing but loneliness and misery. Feel like I made all the wrong choices. I know there's a pandemic and times are **** but all around me I see people still living their life and here I am, no friends, not bonded with any co-workers, almost afraid of people, only leaving the house to go grocery shopping or for a walk by myself. Getting out of bed in the morning is so hard
I can't go on like this but I have sunken so deep it's going to take a massive amount of effort to get out of this hole and I have zero energy or motivation and now I'm just rambling on here when I should start working. |
AzulOscuro, Discombobulated, Nammu
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#815
I have long since given up on our government giving us the right information, I no longer trust them, and I’m certainly not alone on that. Yesterday more conservative MPs (the party that is in power here) submitted letters calling for a vote of no confidence in their prime minister Boris Johnson, there has to be 54 letters for the vote to be triggered. The Gray report into allegations of lockdown social parties attended by Boris Johnson was partially published this week. It was partially published because the police are investigating some of the parties, and they don’t want an investigation prejudiced! Of course many people are angry about this, there definitely were parties, at least one of them were even held in the prime ministers flat - all at a time when we were legally forbidden from seeing people, never mind partying. It’s all very Marie Antoinette! Boris Johnson has apologised but it was a fudged apology IMO and he quite obviously intends to draw a line under it and roll on. Personally I think it’s incredible.
Anyhow the whole thing has undermined the credibility of any new information or guidance - I don’t think they could order anything of the public in future, people wouldn’t take it, we’ve just got to hope no more public emergencies happen during this time because I think we’d be well and truly stuffed, not many people would comply with instructions from this government. Anyhow throughout all this my main source of information has been a study from Kings College London lead by professor Tim Spector, he’s a genetic epidemiologist. Most recently he’s been saying at this point omicron has meant less serious repercussions and the death rate although sad is often people who were already in hospital anyway, he thinks the data should be changed in how it’s shown to reflect that. This man is not an out there conspiracy theorist so I put weight on what he says. In particular he feels it’s right for care homes to open up after 2 years of heavy restrictions. A dear friend lost her dad (who was in a care home) a year ago, not to covid (he actually had that earlier without symptoms) she hadn’t seen him except at the window, and once in summer 2020 in the garden and they had to wear masks, she’s not sure if he even knew it was them. She’s actually pretty calm about the whole thing but how many families suffered like this? And all the while the wine and cheese was flowing at these government parties. |
rechu
|
Magnate
Member Since Apr 2016
Location: Somewhere in South America
Posts: 2,229
8 1,042 hugs
given |
#816
Our president is completely AWOL. He is on vacation even though he is only president for another month. Meanwhile, the country is falling apart. In addition to increasing Covid cases we have a migration crisis overwhelming the north and violence in the south being perpetrated by Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco an indigenous militia group. It almost feels like he wants to leave a huge mess for the incoming administration to deal with.
|
Discombobulated
|
Super Moderator
Community Support Team Community Liaison
Chat Leader Member Since May 2014
Location: Northeast USA New England
Posts: 17,446
(SuperPoster!)
9 2,312 hugs
given |
#817
Quote:
Here are my favorite exercise links very short 5 minute Tai Chi with 8 modules total 20 minutes Complete Beginner Yoga with Adrienne If you want to start hearing from a grandfatherly person that helps me accept myself even though I am in the midst of this mess we are going through, try this Self compassion hour with Padraig O'Morain 3rd December 2020 - YouTube __________________ Super Moderator Community Support Team "Things Take Time" |
|
Magnate
Member Since Apr 2016
Location: Somewhere in South America
Posts: 2,229
8 1,042 hugs
given |
#818
Quote:
I'm really sorry the event was canceled. I have pretty much given up trying to plan or even hope to be able to do anything because every time I do, cases go up again and there are more restrictions. That sucks to that you feel so isolated. I do have my husband around, but some days I would really prefer to be alone. His boss is out sick this week. It's probably COVID but she hasn't gotten tested. She hasn't been vaccinated and is pretty sick. She's kind of lazy even when she is working, but not having her around means more work for him and he is being grouchy. |
|
Discombobulated
|
Grand Magnate
Member Since Oct 2019
Location: UK
Posts: 4,722
(SuperPoster!)
4 11.7k hugs
given |
#819
@BreakForTheLight I don’t think you’ve made all the wrong choices, I personally don’t think there was much choice at all.
I think it’s really good you plan ahead at all actually, and you’re much braver than me with your travelling and gig going. Hoping that Spring and Summer will bring more settled times. I think there’s a very good chance they will. We had a mini covid wave at work, 4 off with it, which has caused stretched staffing as we are a small team. All of them mild (I think all vaccinated). Its the first time covid has transmitted between staff, before we would have one person at a time, I suppose it must be that omicron is more transmissible. I would say about half of us have had it now but no one got seriously sick thankfully. |
Threadtastic Postaholic
Member Since Dec 2018
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 6,006
(SuperPoster!)
5 192 hugs
given |
#820
Quote:
2 months ago he helped an 11 year old facetime his 41 year old mom before she was completely incapacitated and then when she died he had to tell this boy because the boy's grandpa was stuck in traffic. I feel like nurses are prepared for just about anything and ICU nurses are around sick dying people. But no one told my brother or any other nurses that they would be the only person-literally in a room with patients who were dying so they wouldnt die alone. Below: 3/2020 ICU below my brother taking a breather my brother in proper ppo. [/B][/SIZE][/FONT] __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
|
Discombobulated, hvert
|
AzulOscuro, Discombobulated
|