[COVID-19] General Discussion

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

We made it!

Covid hospital numbers in Scotland reach new peak

A record 2,128 patients in Scotland have Covid-19, the highest number since the start of the pandemic.

www.bbc.co.uk

Fairish article except for giving oxygen to the flat out horse manure that the benefits of wearing a mask are now less than before. This was a bigger article at lunchtime and is utterly without foundation as far as I'm concerned. Omicron and its subvariants are not magically transmitted by other means. Very disappointing that the state broadcaster has been allowing unfounded mince like this into its articles of late (all of it rose tinted of course).

"Christine Tait-Burkard, from The Roslin Institute, has told BBC Scotland the impact that mask-wearing makes without many of the other restrictions in place "is small, or is smaller than it ever was before"."

 

[Amiga500]

I have it at the minute - dunno what flavour.

Missus took it home from school (I'm guessing), gave it to me and somehow the vector we thought we had - the toddler - got it last.

Day 0 being the day of positive test, bit of a fuzzy head, minor joint ache and some coughing on day 1, and that was pretty much it bar coughing up crap intermittently.

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

For those finding chestiness like Amiga here I'd heartily recommend Benylin (sic) syrup for chesty coughs. Other expectorants can have similar ingredients but this one is the daddy and if a bug gets stuck in your chest you can be exhausted for up to 3 weeks with no difficulty at all and can end up then needing antibiotics. My brother got Covid last week and was just at mine today picking up two bottles of the stuff because he suspects it's still clinging on in his chest and he is weaker than he was 5 days ago (which is often a sure sign it's in your chest).

Holding a very deep breath for 5 seconds and repeating this 5-10 times after any sleep / nap you've had is also very worthwhile to get the lungs moving.

The above combo has kept me chest infection free for at least 5 years now and I used to get them all the freaking time (usually from hiking up foggy mountains or in freezing winds).

EDIT: I should add that you will most often have zero cough with a chest infection and the purpose of an expectorant is to break up chest mucus and make you cough.

 

[Which Tyler]

Yeah, I definitely encourage people to learn to code - I'm self taught and it got me out from working in a warehouse for years to now being a developer for the past 4. There's a lot of incredible resources online either for free or for very cheap - but it takes a lot of time and effort - you don't sign up to Codecademy on a Monday and start applying for Jobs on the Friday

 

[ncurd]

snip

Clearly whoever wrote that never did embedded work and created the magic smoke.

Honestly though in my time I may do weird **** but the true dark arts are RF engineers. Like you can study the theory (and I have) but the reality is mind boggling in how to create the correct golden etchings on a PCB and attenna design is even worse so the magic invisible waves are properly caught and turned into a digital signal.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

The claim that the NHS 'coped' with Covid is not true - it's drowning and damaged | Rachel Clarke

Two years on, so much rewriting of history has happened, it is easy to forget just how anarchic and desperate conditions were, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

My employer is now going against ScotGov advice and forbidding anyone who has been working from home from returning to the office and face to face meetings until June at the earliest. The level of absence is such that we likely couldn't function if we started mingling. Politicians "hoping figures will level out then fall" while presiding over a relaxation of measures that will make that harder. Who needs sound policies when you have hope?

Media finally reporting that hospitals are more stretched than they have been at any point in the pandemic and schools are being shut because there isnt enough staff.

I'll be sticking to a return to socialising next week but if I was a vulnerable category I wouldn't be. At least now that there has been media coverage, anyone who catches it can't say they haven't been warned (unlike when I first raised this a couple of weeks ago).

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Media finally awakening to the horrific consequences of burying your head in the sand over a Covid wave and hoping it just goes away.

Hundreds of patients dying due to A&E delays, doctors say

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates there has been 240 avoidable deaths this year.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Media finally awakening to the horrific consequences of burying your head in the sand over a Covid wave and hoping it just goes away.

Hundreds of patients dying due to A&E delays, doctors say

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates there has been 240 avoidable deaths this year.

www.bbc.co.uk

A&E in Scotland was ****** anyway before covid which has made it lots worse.

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

A&E in Scotland was ****** anyway before covid which has made it lots worse.

Pre-pandemic A&E times in Scotland were consistently better than in England. There was just an unwillingness from the Scottish media to ever report that its NHS coverage.

Does Scotland have the best A&E waiting times in the UK?

The NHS in Scotland is treating more people within the four hour waiting time in A&E but there is debate over the measurement's value.

theferret.scot

 

[Not Mike Brown's Sock]

Pre-pandemic A&E times in Scotland were consistently better than in England. There was just an unwillingness from the Scottish media to ever report that its NHS coverage.

Does Scotland have the best A&E waiting times in the UK?

The NHS in Scotland is treating more people within the four hour waiting time in A&E but there is debate over the measurement's value.

theferret.scot

The four hour figure is a pretty poor metric tbh (as that article points out actually)

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Covid: Face mask row led to man being run over in Caerphilly

Darren Smith is jailed for nine months for headbutting and driving into Stephen Callaghan.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

UK Covid infections climb by a million in a week

About 4.3 million people - or one in every 16 - are thought to have the virus, compared to 3.3 million the week before.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Media finally awakening to the horrific consequences of burying your head in the sand over a Covid wave and hoping it just goes away.

Hundreds of patients dying due to A&E delays, doctors say

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine estimates there has been 240 avoidable deaths this year.

www.bbc.co.uk

Covid in Scotland: New record as one in 11 Scots had virus last week

Official estimates suggest 473,800 people in Scotland had the virus in the week ending 20 March.

www.bbc.co.uk

The Times is reporting Scotland hospitals have been warned that they should be bracing for a surge of up to 3.5k in Covid cases in next fortnight.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Took two years but The Rona finally has me (positive LFT today)

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

my brother-in-law got it Thursday after two years as well. hopefully you have a quick recovery

 

[Which Tyler]

Took two years but The Rona finally has me (positive LFT today)

Good luck - hope it's mild / asymptomatic, and short-lived

 

[Bruce_ma gooshvili]

Global daily deaths how the lowest since way back on 1st April 2020, when parts of the world hadn't yet been fully gripped by it. Plus global death figures are still falling quite sharply. Hopefully Scotland remains some kind of weird (and temporary) outlier that doesn't reflect the start of a wider blip.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Someone else at my work has tested positive again after catching it last summer. Despite having the same double AZ jab and Moderna booster jab.

Also In SK a Dr has insulted those who have not yet caught it.

People who haven't had COVID yet probably have no friends, a Korean doctor says

The doctor later deleted his Facebook post and told Korean media that his remarks were "metaphorical".

news.sky.com

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Going to my first live sporting event since two days before COVID shut down everything. Hockey game indoors so probably not the best covid situation but rates are pretty low right now.