General Chat

Yes as Joan said, its different up here in Scotland. We have a bad outbreak in our little corner and everynight we get told how many new cases. Tonight there are 12 cases.8 are connected to existing cases but the other 4 are new and unconnected..and so it goes on & on.
If you get covid here(say my daughter tests positive) she has to isolate for 10 days. If I test negative, then i dont have to.

Each time I have had to go to hospital recently, i get the 3rd degree as to why i cant wear a facemask. The questions they ask me are really intrusive even though i wear an exemption mask!

I really hope we are not heading into another lockdown before xmas! Some business's have just really got going again, a 3rd shutdown would destroy many.

Florence in the hebrides

How many would read on to the next bit?

Gwyn, I believe that's happening with schoolchildren.
The one with it, stays home, the others go to school.

Here's the official advice:

"If you live in the same household as someone with COVID-19, you should stay at home and self-isolate. If you are fully vaccinated or aged under 18 years and 6 months you are not required to self-isolate if you are a contact of someone who has tested positive for COVID-19."

But, confusingly, it then goes on to say:

"You could be fined if you do not self-isolate following a notification by NHS Test and Trace. You may be entitled to a one-off payment of £500 through the NHS Test and Trace Support Payment scheme if you are required to stay at home and self-isolate or you are the parent or guardian of a child who has been told to self-isolate."

Scotland isn't exactly out of the last Lockdown yet !
Still got mandatory wearing of face masks for certain places & have to have vaccination passports for certain venues in this part of the world & that's bad enough, so I hope we won't be going backwards again!

Joan.

I really can't get my head round the idea that if daughter (who lives with me, both double jabbed), or I caught covid, the other could go out and about and circulate as normal.

That can't be right..........

I'm also wondering now about all those negative PCR tests I had since last June, after positive lateral flow results. :-S

At no time did I feel ill , have symptoms or have any known contact with a positive case, so I sincerely hope that I really was negative and didn't unknowingly pass the virus onto others.

Well, all the false negative tests from that Wolverhampton lab haven't helped.
Makes you wonder how many other labs, set up on the spur of the moment, and funded by our tax money are as useless.

I suppose, due to the number of vaccinations, the death rate is lower, but can/should people work with covid, even if they're working from home?

Apparently, there's a 'Plan C', not sure what it entails - I'm not sure the Government know, either. :-(

As the numbers of positive cases of COVID rise are we sleep walking into another lockdown?