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jda Dec 2022 1:33pm, 29 Dec 2022 14,018 posts	Quote Pin jda It's not like it isn't already spread round the world!
run free Dec 2022 2:30pm, 29 Dec 2022 5,256 posts	Quote Pin run free Agree with @jda It is rampant in many places including the UK Few are testing here and we do not want to wear a mask if we do have symptoms. I have just recently recovered from Covid when my housemate brought it in. She refused to test and wasn't interested in protecting others. It came over me 3 days later. I tested positive. I was weak but as am wfh still continued working. She says it could have come from anyone and she believes it was flu. My symptoms mirrored hers.
run free Dec 2022 2:32pm, 29 Dec 2022 5,257 posts	Quote Pin run free My housemate is a new housemate and think I made a mistake in agreeing her to stay.
Tim of Fife Dec 2022 4:21pm, 29 Dec 2022 3,863 posts	Quote Pin Tim of Fife Logged in today to add some training runs and was staggered to find this thread is still active. Happy New Year one and all.
fuzzyduck79 Dec 2022 9:27pm, 29 Dec 2022 1,563 posts	Quote Pin fuzzyduck79 The positivity rate being not far off 50% for the two flights from China seems a bit mad/scarcely believable. Anyway, Covid deaths for UK this year look like about 50,000 which is a bit lower than the ~75,000 for each of 2020 and 2021. Glad that's all over. A good friend in her 40s was recently due for an emergency operation on a misdiagnosed large growth in her abdomen, possibly cancerous. She went to her mother's funeral a week before her operation was due, a relative attended despite feeling very rough, infected all of the family including my friend with Covid, so the operation can't take place for 8 weeks after she has cleared the infection. Waiting to see how that turns out.
LindsD Dec 2022 9:39pm, 29 Dec 2022 58,953 posts	Quote Pin LindsD That's awful
Grast_girl Dec 2022 12:16pm, 30 Dec 2022 2,852 posts	Quote Pin Grast_girl Covid does seem to be very risky if caught just before an operation, but it must be very frustrating for her fuzzyduck79.
fuzzyduck79 Dec 2022 8:12pm, 30 Dec 2022 1,571 posts	Quote Pin fuzzyduck79 BBC - China Covid: UK set to require negative test for arrivals: bbc.co.uk This is getting so weird I'm trying to figure out if there is a sub plot I'm missing. Why would anyone care about importing a few hundred cases when you've got (checks notes) 3.4 million active symptomatic cases in the UK, with tens of millions of cases expected every year? If we're concerned about importing new variants, surely nobody in their right mind still thinks you can stop those getting a foothold everywhere. But then the near 50% rate on the Italy flights was so ridiculous, does that suggest some wealthier Chinese are trying to get out of the country (knowing they are infected) because the healthcare system is doomed to collapse, so treatment will effectively cease to exist for a while?
LindsD Dec 2022 8:13pm, 30 Dec 2022 58,992 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Or is it just the optics?
jda Dec 2022 8:24pm, 30 Dec 2022 14,026 posts	Quote Pin jda Agree with fuzzyduck it seems completely bonkers to me. I wonder if there's any scientific support (SAGE etc). With the Chinese vaccination situation being so dire, any variants they generate are likely to be less dangerous to us than whatever is already floating around here after 2 years of strong selection pressure. Of course it's easy to say "well it could happen" and the cost falls on the Chinese so maybe the govt doesn't care about that. But it's far removed from their previous policies.