Coronavirus

[EpsomWolf]

Pinged early this morning. 8 days isolation apparently. No idea how that’s come about as I’m self-employed and haven’t worked since last Tuesday as taking a couple of weeks off to decorate the house. Haven’t scanned in anywhere since Goodwood the previous weekend.

The wife just pinged a moment ago. 7 days. Linked or coincidence? I dunno, I’m getting confused.

Does make you think. I’d just be hit with loss of earnings but luckily I’d written that off to get on with other stuff for a couple of weeks anyway.

As for the missus, funnily enough, she said just last night, “I’m just amazed with so many off at Addenbrooke’s no one in our department has been pinged yet. It’s going to put the cat amongst the pigeons when that happens”….,,,

 

[Tony Towner]

Can't she avoid it with the key NHS worker thing they introduced at the weekend?

 

[EpsomWolf]

Good question, she’s on that one. In contact with her boss and Occy Health looking for clarification as we speak.

 

[Tom Hark]

Mate, do me a favour and actually read my posts before accusing me of scare mongering will you! I was talking about a hep b vaccine I had through work a while ago not covid.

Fair cop. Apologies for the confusion. It looks as though a similar process might take place with that one too, though: Can anti-HBs levels following vaccination decline over time?

 

[WolfMan]

Fair cop. Apologies for the confusion. It looks as though a similar process might take place with that one too, though: Can anti-HBs levels following vaccination decline over time?

No worries mate, easy mistake to make, it was posted in a coronavirus thread after all.

In terms of the science behind the hep b vaccine and the blood test etc, no idea. The process was delayed by the pandemic but they said that shouldn't have made a difference. There were 7 of us on my team who had it, in 5 the the blood test showed they had immunity, then me who they said had limited immunity and then as I mentioned the bloke who had zero immunity.

As I said they just said the policy was to give a top up and then not do another blood test as it's likely if I hadn't developed immunity after that I wouldn't anyway, I left the job for an office job a couple of months after so I wasn't really bothered. I don't know what they did with the bloke who had zero immunity in the end.

 

[EpsomWolf]

So

Can't she avoid it with the key NHS worker thing they introduced at the weekend?

So essentially it appears it can be done, although the guidance is a bit muddled (no surprises there).

It appears as long as no symptoms, have daily tests, and your job is not one that can be carried out at home, then you can work. She has to go in later today for the first test (seems odd to me but something about it being quicker (within the ‘system’)) and hopefully back to work properly tomorrow.

However, it has been made absolutely clear this is for work only and she must self isolate in all other situations.

That’s the long-awaited multiple-rearranged weekend in London buggered then.

 

[BillyDee]

Vaccination proof may be required to attend sports events of about 20,000 or more capacity

Fans may be required to show proof of full vaccination to attend sports venues with capacities of about 20,000 or more by the end of September.

www.bbc.co.uk

Vaccine passports may be required for sporting events of 20,000 or greater.

 

[Tony Towner]

Vaccination proof may be required to attend sports events of about 20,000 or more capacity

Fans may be required to show proof of full vaccination to attend sports venues with capacities of about 20,000 or more by the end of September.

www.bbc.co.uk

Vaccine passports may be required for sporting events of 20,000 or greater.

Vinny says only Wolves branded passports will be accepted at Molineux - £30 a pop.

 

[BillyDee]

Wolves+ members will get a plastic vaccine passport holder...

 

[Aikiwolf]

Vinny says only Wolves branded passports will be accepted at Molineux - £30 a pop.

Additional £20 for Wolves vaccine passport+.

Gets you access to pre-sales on snazzy Wolves Vaccine passport holders and the opportunity to use the same passport at 6 games.

Slight Ninja by BillyDee, thus proving BillyDee and I are both hilarious.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1390982625502941185

 

[WolfMan]

 

[WolfMan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1390982625502941185

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.


First they excluded the unvaccinated from society..............

 

[Tony Towner]

You can't choose whether you are a Jew you can't choose your gender, you can't choose your ethnicity, you can't choose your sexuality. You do choose whether to be vaccinated. Not having any of this alienation/victimisation crap.

Get jabbed, don't get jabbed, 100% support the freedom of choice, but don't complain if that decision has consequences

 

[sycophantia]

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.


First they excluded the unvaccinated from society..............

I've been known to trot out this quote on occasion to make a point but it really doesn't apply to our present situation imo, this pandemic is unprecedented in recent history, we just have to suck up things we don't like for now till we get some sort of control of it.....its going to take some time unfortunately.

 

[WolfMan]

You can't choose whether you are Jewish, you can't choose your gender, you can't choose your ethnicity, you can't choose your sexuality. You do choose whether to be vaccinated. Not having any of this alienation/victimisation crap.

Get jabbed, don't get jabbed, 100% support the freedom of choice, but don't complain if that decision has consequences

You can choose whether you are a Trade Unionist or Socialist though can't you.

 

[Tony Towner]

Not sure what relevance Thatcher and Blair did to those has to the current situation

 

[WolfMan]

Not sure what relevance Thatcher and Blair did to those has to the current situation

It's about the lead up to the Holocaust mate, the Nazis purged the Trade Unionists and Socialists first. The poem was written in 1946.

 

[Tony Towner]

It's about the lead up to the Holocaust mate, the Nazis purged the Trade Unionists and Socialists first. The poem was written in 1946.

OK, ta. Point still holds re vaccines though unless you are drawing parallels between that and 1930's Germany?

 

[WolfMan]

I've been known to trot out this quote on occasion to make a point but it really doesn't apply to our present situation imo, this pandemic is unprecedented in recent history, we just have to suck up things we don't like for now till we get some sort of control of it.....its going to take some time unfortunately.

I totally get what your saying mate, we are in unprecedented times. I think everybody should be vaccinated and I totally disagree with those who don't. The problem for me is a govt dictating what individuals should do to their own bodies as a condition of participating in society.

It will always be something thats unprecedented that leads a govt to feel empowered to do something like this. It's a matter of degrees, first it's this, then what's next and what's after that. It's a slippery slope. I mean I might just be being hyper paranoid, but all the examples from history show that once freedoms start going, they aren't given back.