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Coronavirus discussion thread

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Johnny Blaze Jan 2021 1:30pm, 30 Jan 2021 24,687 posts	0 Johnny Blaze 😝
Grast_girl Jan 2021 1:32pm, 30 Jan 2021 1,951 posts	0 Grast_girl Will probably have both the current rapid test and the new Surrey test before teaching again on the 19th. I'm not convinced that I'll be reducing my risk or the risk to others by taking either test seeing as I really haven't been anywhere (even my last trip to the shop was weeks ago), but I'm happy to be able to help out with the research in some way.
DocM Jan 2021 1:47pm, 30 Jan 2021 39,582 posts	0 DocM drive through anal swabs....just stick your butt out the window
Bazoaxe Jan 2021 1:48pm, 30 Jan 2021 18,782 posts	0 Bazoaxe wonders how that works at the drive through testing centre. 'Drop yer kecks and stick yer erchie oot the windae sir.'
jda Jan 2021 2:00pm, 30 Jan 2021 9,343 posts	0 jda I don't think we could easily have been like Australia, but we could easily have had many tens of thousands of fewer deaths, just with an additional week or two of lockdown (at the start of the waves, not the end). But it takes leadership...
um Jan 2021 2:00pm, 30 Jan 2021 4,207 posts	0 um So many questions ... Isn't that a long & uncomfortable route to the tonsils? Will there be a queue of volunteers to do the swabbing? Will Fleecy still be swabbing the school each week?
Bazoaxe Jan 2021 2:04pm, 30 Jan 2021 18,784 posts	0 Bazoaxe jda, I can understand why the first lockdown was delayed longer than necessary as no one wanted to take that action hastily. However its the repeated slow reaction ever since that I find frustrating
um Jan 2021 2:06pm, 30 Jan 2021 4,208 posts	0 um jda - not just from lockdown. I suspect there's a few "if only's" that won't be addressed in the short term. As in .. "If only when we said to get the old bedblockers out of hospital to make space for the incoming covid cases" someone had added or checked 'once we know they aren't infected already'
swittle Jan 2021 2:07pm, 30 Jan 2021 72,637 posts	0 swittle Re: anal swabbing. 'The National Institute of Health (ISS) [in Italy]said water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December. ...' bbc.co.uk
um Jan 2021 2:09pm, 30 Jan 2021 4,209 posts	0 um and 2 weeks enforced (and checked) isolation for ALL people entering the country (whatever means of transport) ... that would have ensured 'essential travel only'.