Coronavirus discussion thread

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larkim Feb 2021 2:05pm, 1 Feb 2021 13,388 posts	0 larkim True, icemaiden, but if 100,000 people walk down that path 1 will break their arm. If 100,000 go winter climbing on Ben Nevis, a fair few more than 1 will need some sort of rescue, and some will die.* It's about picking the least risky options. *Made up numbers!
MarkyMarkMark (3M) Feb 2021 2:11pm, 1 Feb 2021 14,174 posts	0 MarkyMarkMark (3M) That feels like a reasonable incentive for spending on public "infrastructure" to fix wonky kerbs, cracked and lifted paving slabs etc., to "Protect the NHS". ION, MrsMMM's nursery unit has shut down this morning due to a childcare professional getting a positive diagnosis. Traceable back (most likely) to contact with a now known to be infected child last Friday. Staff in that day are now self isolating until next week. Fortunately MrsMMM wasn't in on Thursday or Friday, so think she has dodged that bullet. Getting close, though.
MajorRunning Feb 2021 3:19pm, 1 Feb 2021 46 posts	0 MajorRunning Hi I'm a researcher at the University of Nottingham and we have just launched a new study looking at the effect of covid-19 pandemic on runners. Whether you are healthy or have had covid we would like any runner to join us to answer a survey and share their garmin or ~~strava~~ data so we can monitor training load and help identify risks of injury and recovery along with recommendations for training and recovery. Please visit runningthrough.org to learn more about the study or please message me with any questions. Thanks
Grast_girl Feb 2021 4:03pm, 1 Feb 2021 1,957 posts	0 Grast_girl Major Running, do we need to have had a positive test?
MajorRunning Feb 2021 4:30pm, 1 Feb 2021 47 posts	0 MajorRunning @Grast_girl, no we want healthy people as well as people who have had covid. In fact healthy is great as we will be able to track changes to your health and training status if you do unfortunately test positive in the future. Part of the study also wants to training load and recovery in healthy runners of all fitness levels and how it affects illness and injuries. Due to the pandemic people are running on treadmills more and not getting to run out in the fells or trails so much, or we can't train with our running club and coaches and push ourselves as hard. So through sharing your garmin/ ~~strava~~ data we can hopefully see if we can see improvements in health when we are forced to rest through isolation, for example. Basically lockdown is giving us a unique opportunity to see the effect of different changes to our training which we normally wouldn't have the opportunity to collect data on. We also will collect data from people who have had covid and hopefully come up with recommendations to people recovering on how to return to training.
swittle Feb 2021 5:40pm, 1 Feb 2021 72,688 posts	0 swittle Not the best 0f news: 'Around 80,000 people in England will be offered urgent tests for the South Africa coronavirus variant after cases with no links to travel were found. Residents aged 16 and over in eight areas across Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport and Walsall are being asked to take tests, regardless of symptoms. ....' bbc.co.uk
macca 53 Feb 2021 6:09pm, 1 Feb 2021 28,572 posts	0 macca 53 I’m another struggling to understand the vaccination calculator. It tells me there are 3.5 - 5.9million ahead of me and that at 2.7 million per week and 70% uptake, I should get my first jab between the third week of Feb and the second week in March? 70% of 3.5 million is (conveniently) close to 2.7 million - so they should be through to me in a week or thereabouts....(7-10 days)?
Fragile Do Not Bend Feb 2021 6:58pm, 1 Feb 2021 7,809 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend My mum lives in the area of Maidstone being tested. I’m glad she’s had the jab, though that was less than 2 weeks ago.
Lip Gloss Feb 2021 7:05pm, 1 Feb 2021 48,482 posts	0 Lip Gloss Also think one lady falling locally didn’t need mountain rescue in attendance and thus putting even more lives at risk.
icemaiden Feb 2021 7:36pm, 1 Feb 2021 5,098 posts	0 icemaiden She did need help, from the public in the park, and a jaunt to A&E and then treatment and follow ups. When I broke my arm I had A&E, plaster, fracture clinic a week later, operation to fix it, return to A&E because the plaster was too tight, an overnight stay, replastering, fracture clinic to put on a plastic cast, fracture clinic to remove it, several physios in the hand clinic. One tiny break and a huge bunch of people to deal with it.