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Well the UK likely to be in another national lockdown thanks to the new strain ?
I fully expect it to be announced following our "Family Christmas" day. We'll be told sometime between Christmas and the New Year

MPs' shot off to their "first homes", wives, mistresses, etc BEFORE the "Christmas is cancelled" announcement (and nothing will persuade me this wasn't engineered), hundreds, if not thousands of Londoners left to join their families in the few hours before the midnight deadline (As Colin says above regarding Australia - why didn't the govt stop all public transport out of the capital? And block the roads as they've done before? This exodus was obviously going to happen). They're carrying the infectious strain with them, and will be moving about in Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas fairly freely, spreading Christmas cheer and a good dose of "go-faster" covid everywhere they go - so there will be outbreaks everywhere.

If you look at footage of the capital even before this outbreak, streets were packed, hardly anyone was wearing a mask - people who are wearing one have their noses sticking over the top - WE DON'T WANT TO SEE YOUR BEAK! COVER IT UP!

Bumholes!

Ho, ho, ho - merry intubation to all. And God Help Us, every one!
 
What is an "R rate"?

NO ONE wears masks when they don't have to around here. They just don't care. Like comon people just use half a brain cell for once.
"R" rate is the number of people someone with the virus can infect.

So, assume you have the virus. If the virus isn't very virulent (low R rate), then you might meet 1000 people but only infect one of them, because it doesn't transmit very easily. If it is highly virulent, you might meet 1000 people and infect 998 of them (high R rate)- and of course they do the same to the 1000 people they meet.

So you have a lot of people getting ill AT THE SAME TIME. This means that although most may be mildly affected, a large number of vulnerable people are going to need hospitalisation at once. This overwhelms the ITUs.

It's why routine treatment for most people has been cancelled - although some hospitals in some areas are empty (which makes people think there's nothing to worry about) in areas of high infection they don't have enough beds and people are being moved to less affected areas.

People are suffering and dying from other conditions because beds are being kept free in case of mass infection in any area.
 
This exodus was obviously going to happen). They're carrying the infectious strain with them, and will be moving about in Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas fairly freely, spreading Christmas cheer and a good dose of "go-faster" covid everywhere they go - so there will be outbreaks everywhere.
I like that saying for the new strain, it's Go Faster Covid for Xmas :)
 
Wheat is an "R rate"?

NO ONE wears masks when they don't have to around here. They just don't care. Like comon people just use half a brain cell for once.
Re-infection rate. How many people, on average, an infected person passes it on to. When it is above 1.0 the virus is spreading, below 1.0 it is receding.
In the UK we just had a 4 week lockdown which got it to about 0.6-0.8 but within just 2 weeks it has bounced back up rapidly. The new strain spreads quicker and there is a real danger that the hospitals will be overwhelmed in January/ February. :(
 
Re-infection rate. How many people, on average, an infected person passes it on to. When it is above 1.0 the virus is spreading, below 1.0 it is receding.
In the UK we just had a 4 week lockdown which got it to about 0.6-0.8 but within just 2 weeks it has bounced back up rapidly. The new strain spreads quicker and there is a real danger that the hospitals will be overwhelmed in January/ February. :(
Thank you *Naughts* - I missed that bit.
 
According to my local newspaper, the vaccine should be available for first responders and medical staff, not sure how accurate that is though...

Definitely hoping for a vaccine by next year.
 
My town just gone into Tier 3 as of boxing day. TBH it doesn't affect my lifestyle at present.
We've been in Their 3 for awhile. It is the new "normal".

I'm sick of it - I'm not a particularly sociable person, but my husband is. Covid has meant that he is in the house ALL THE TIME and it's driving me crackers! I don't get a moment to myself except when he takes the dogs out and then I'm getting all the jobs done that I can't do when he's in because he's under my feet. Normally he goes out 3 times/ week and on Saturday, and I can get my jobs done and have time to sit and just "chill".

I just want to be on my own with a cup of tea, a bag of apples, a good book and peace and quiet.

I'm a licensed minister and I have funerals to prepare for, and services, and I get no peace to do anything. I can't even visit bereaved families to get info for eulogies, and it is difficult to do over the phone - I am waiting for information for a funeral straight after Christmas - the guy wants to send it by e-mail, but he hasn't sent anything yet and I really need to get it sorted but feel awful chasing someone up for something like this (though I'll have to today).

I'm honestly on my very last nerve, and absolutely dreading Christmas Day.

I know I'm in a much better position than many people, but it is still driving me crackers!
 
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I know I'm in a much better position than many people, but it is still driving me crackers!
I'm losing it as well. Everywhere I look there are people walking around coughing and nobody seems to care. I refuse to go to the doctors because they don't have any air flowing through the building and each room is simply a brick box without windows. On top of that nobody is wearing masks, and they don't listen to what I have to say any way.

The idiot chemist/ pharmacy keeps giving me the wrong prescription and I couldn't take the last lot back to complain because of covid freaking me out. So I have some heart medication I am allergic to. I take it and end up in hospital or I don't take it and end up in hospital. I mean, how hard is it to read the prescription and just give me the one I ask for?

My car's power window is stuck in the open position and no longer works and that is doing my head in. There's no mechanics around here and I have no idea how to fix a power window. This is why I hate power windows. They should have a factory default so if they are going to stuff up and stop working, they automatically close so dust and dirt and people and viruses don't come in. I can't even go to the shop because my car isn't secure and some scumbag will break into it or breath in it.

The oven stopped working a couple of weeks ago and hasn't been fixed. The grass is about 1 foot high in amongst the branches of the tree that blew over in May and that hasn't been removed yet. I can't cut the grass because of the branches and the council is kicking up a stink and saying it's a fire hazard. I tell them to take it up with the real estate agent and nothing happens.

No TV signal most of the time and no radio at all. Bugs everywhere in the house and I have no idea how they get in.

It's stinking hot and the easterly winds started in August this year instead of February next year when they used to (about 7 months earlier than they should start). There is dust blowing around covering everything and I can't open the doors or windows otherwise the place fills up with dust and I can't breath.

I went for a walk at 1am this morning and there were drunk and stoned people everywhere roaming the streets coughing. One car pulled up at the park and 2 guys and a girl got out and went into the public toilets with a camera.

I asked the state government for help and no response. I asked the federal government for help and no response. A person from Centrelink emailed me back and said she wants me to call her to make an appointment to see her, and that was written at the top of my email, which stated I can't go into buildings with people because covid is freaking me out, and I don't have a telephone. I really can't believe how many people ask you to call them when you email them saying you don't have a phone and there are no pay phones left.

I emailed the doctors this morning asking for some help getting a new prescription and said I can't go to their clinic or the hospital because of covid and drug resistant bacteria at the hospital. I said I don't want people coming around, especially not the ambos/ paramedics or cops. I just wanted a new prescription. Well low and behold, a short time ago the ambos and cops rock up asking if everything is ok. I said no, I need some medication. The ambos said I need to go to hospital. I told them to piss off. I'm not paying $800 to travel 20km and get taken into a building full of diseases that can't be cured. And yes the local hospital does have at least 6 types of drug resistant bacteria roaming around in it.

This crap is doing my head in, not to mention my body. All I want for Xmas is a time machine and a regeneration room, or a gun and 1 bullet. Sorry people, just tired and had enough of everything.
 
I'm losing it as well. Everywhere I look there are people walking around coughing and nobody seems to care. I refuse to go to the doctors because they don't have any air flowing through the building and each room is simply a brick box without windows. On top of that nobody is wearing masks, and they don't listen to what I have to say any way.

The idiot chemist/ pharmacy keeps giving me the wrong prescription and I couldn't take the last lot back to complain because of covid freaking me out. So I have some heart medication I am allergic to. I take it and end up in hospital or I don't take it and end up in hospital. I mean, how hard is it to read the prescription and just give me the one I ask for?

My car's power window is stuck in the open position and no longer works and that is doing my head in. There's no mechanics around here and I have no idea how to fix a power window. This is why I hate power windows. They should have a factory default so if they are going to stuff up and stop working, they automatically close so dust and dirt and people and viruses don't come in. I can't even go to the shop because my car isn't secure and some scumbag will break into it or breath in it.

The oven stopped working a couple of weeks ago and hasn't been fixed. The grass is about 1 foot high in amongst the branches of the tree that blew over in May and that hasn't been removed yet. I can't cut the grass because of the branches and the council is kicking up a stink and saying it's a fire hazard. I tell them to take it up with the real estate agent and nothing happens.

No TV signal most of the time and no radio at all. Bugs everywhere in the house and I have no idea how they get in.

It's stinking hot and the easterly winds started in August this year instead of February next year when they used to (about 7 months earlier than they should start). There is dust blowing around covering everything and I can't open the doors or windows otherwise the place fills up with dust and I can't breath.

I went for a walk at 1am this morning and there were drunk and stoned people everywhere roaming the streets coughing. One car pulled up at the park and 2 guys and a girl got out and went into the public toilets with a camera.

I asked the state government for help and no response. I asked the federal government for help and no response. A person from Centrelink emailed me back and said she wants me to call her to make an appointment to see her, and that was written at the top of my email, which stated I can't go into buildings with people because covid is freaking me out, and I don't have a telephone. I really can't believe how many people ask you to call them when you email them saying you don't have a phone and there are no pay phones left.

I emailed the doctors this morning asking for some help getting a new prescription and said I can't go to their clinic or the hospital because of covid and drug resistant bacteria at the hospital. I said I don't want people coming around, especially not the ambos/ paramedics or cops. I just wanted a new prescription. Well low and behold, a short time ago the ambos and cops rock up asking if everything is ok. I said no, I need some medication. The ambos said I need to go to hospital. I told them to piss off. I'm not paying $800 to travel 20km and get taken into a building full of diseases that can't be cured. And yes the local hospital does have at least 6 types of drug resistant bacteria roaming around in it.

This crap is doing my head in, not to mention my body. All I want for Xmas is a time machine and a regeneration room, or a gun and 1 bullet. Sorry people, just tired and had enough of everything.
Colin - it's not like you to complain. You really must be at the end of your tether.

The lack of care and consideration for others that many people show is frustrating and infuriating. "I don't care if I catch it." is all well and fine when it's only your own health you're risking, but when it's the health of others you have no right to take risks that will hasten the spread of infection. I know little about Australian politics, but what little I do know suggests that your PM is as bad as ours.

Feel free to vent here. We all love you and wish you well. I don't know if you have faith, but I do and I'm holding you in my heart and my prayers.
 
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and it keeps getting worse, tried to start the car to go buy some food and the car won't start. so fuplie sick of this crap.
 
I just want to be on my own with a cup of tea, a bag of apples, a good book and peace and quiet.


Well if you have the space just try it, my parents just split to separate rooms after 45+ years of marriage. They aren't getting divorced though.
 

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