landsurfer wrote:I've been at work every day since the 23rd of March.
Not working from home ...
Every working day .. apart from the 2 weeks in Cornwall with the children on holiday in August.
Everyone of you that calls for greater lockdowns, more separation, more draconian measures to "defeat" C-19 ...
I take it you still want me to go to work ....
Food on your tables, transport, I take it you want that .. ?
As long as you don't have to do it ........ after all your "shielding" ...
Every one of you that clapped for the NHS ... did you clap for the men and women working in ALDI ? ...
No you didn't ...
On Tuesday another raft of pointless restrictions will be announced, and you will all be in favour of them ...
As long as I keep going to work .... while you hide away ......
And I thank you for it...
As I do all retail workers who have carried on adapting to the restrictions which have been applied.
As I have done those who have delivered food and drugs, batteries and bottles, ....
I've been at work every day except a few scattered days off, but since I've been working from home since an illness 2.5 years ago that didn't need to change. I haven't been out significantly until about 4 weeks ago, and still am very much limiting where I go, and who with.
I will continue to do so, and each day of increasing cases I consider whether or not I should go back to my parents house in a far less affected area of the country - and continue to shield there.
There is a strong suspicion that I contracted the illness much earlier in the year, but since testing was only available if you were an inpatient at a hospital (a rather bizarre requirement) which I barely avoided (pulse oximeter and my wife timing my breathing throughout the night - I was very close to being admitted).
The problem being that if what I had *wasn't* covid, then hospital would have been the absolute worst place for me, if it *was* covid then it would have been a sensible place to be. But we couldn't make an informed decision because I wasn't an inpatient...
It looks like some of the medication I was on anyway is part of what they are using to reduce the immune mediated "second phase" of the illness which has proved so dangerous.
Of course there is still no evidence to suggest whether that possible encounter would have conferred any resistance - and since my immune system is suppressed by four different medications (two broad spectrum, two targeting different pathways) that wouldn't really be much indication anyway.
There have been a million deaths worldwide... In the UK there had been ~ 64,000 deaths (that's basically 1 per 1000 population killed) above the adjusted annual average when I did the calculation more than a month ago (i.e. before the second wave).
[Adjusted Annual Average - I took the rolling 5 year average for each week, and noted that we were tracking for a low flu year, so adjusted the numbers a little down to reflect the early weekly death rate]
That is the number of people who have died, not those infected, or permanently disabled, or even permanently "inconvenienced" by having their lungs wrecked.