COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

Eurofighter said:
The flu is potentially a lethal disease, yet we don't do anything about it because the vulnerable are vaccinated and it's not exactly anthrax is it. Chances are you will be fine.
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It's advised against flying if you have any infectious disease and airlines can refuse to take you if they're aware.

Did you inform them you had COVID? Did you take any precautions to reduce the risk of spreading the disease?
 
Surveyor said:
It's advised against flying if you have any infectious disease and airlines can refuse to take you if they're aware.

Did you inform them you had COVID? Did you take any precautions to reduce the risk of spreading the disease?
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I didn't inform them I had covid but im guessing I wasn't the only one with it on the flight, I only knew because I took a test, I had no symptoms and I wore a mask.
 
Eurofighter said:
I didn't inform them I had covid but im guessing I wasn't the only one with it on the flight, I only knew because I took a test, I had no symptoms and I wore a mask.
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No need to guess, your parents had it as well. Did they wear masks?

As you were "mostly fine" you can't have had no symptoms.

Eurofighter said:
I have just got back from Majorca with my parents, all 3 of us got it, my dad was coughing loads and my mum was in bed for a couple of days. I was mostly fine though. We have all been triple vaxxed. Came home on the plane, they can't stop you now. I think it is a case of everyone is going to get it at some point so who cares.
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Eurofighter said:
I smoke quite heavily so I cough quite a bit anyway. My parents wore masks, my mums mask was one of the high spec ones.
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So having got onto the plane your family didn't take all the precautions they could though your mum made the best effort. Weren't you asked at any stage, and were there no signs asking you to declare, if you'd tested positive or had symptoms?
 
Tephnos said:
So looks like the mother was fairly sensible, but the son didn't give a damn at all.
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What difference does it make really. If you're flying on planes then you are getting covid at some point. Be it today or next month. If someone wants to take it out of other peoples hands and protect themselves then they can wear a proper filter mask.
 
Remember when the go government led the clapping for the nhs

now your on ya own

Downing Street rejects call by NHS chiefs for more COVID measures
Downing Street has rejected a call by the NHS Confederation for greater mask-wearing and a push to encourage mixing outdoors.

A Number 10 spokeswoman said: "There is no change to our guidance and our living with COVID plan still stands."

The spokeswoman added: "Thanks to a combination of vaccination and treatment and our better understanding of the virus we are now able to manage it as we do with other respiratory infections, so that remains the case with our approach.

"But obviously we continue to monitor any changes in the behaviour of the virus."

Asked about the confederation's view that NHS leaders felt abandoned by the government, the spokeswoman said: "We are incredibly grateful to NHS staff who worked flat out throughout the pandemic and continue to do so in the face of Covid backlogs."

The NHS "is clearly under pressure" but the health and care levy will provide additional funding alongside £10 billion "to recover services and relieve COVID pressures".

"But we are alive to the pressures that they are facing," the spokeswoman said.
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Surveyor said:
So having got onto the plane your family didn't take all the precautions they could though your mum made the best effort. Weren't you asked at any stage, and were there no signs asking you to declare, if you'd tested positive or had symptoms?
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Having flown recently, no, there isn't a quiz or multiple choice question to take prior to flying. To or from the UK.
 
Delvis said:
Having flown recently, no, there isn't a quiz or multiple choice question to take prior to flying. To or from the UK.
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Maybe he'll tell us the situation in Mallorca. Probably shouldn't have gone to the airport in the first place though.

https://www.aena.es/en/informationcovid19coronavirusairportsandflights.html

Remember that it is compulsory to wear a mask and that you must not go to the airport or travel at all if you have any symptoms of disease.
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My fathers flying over from spain at the end of the month for a visit I'm slightly worried about it, he's 80 I think I'll tell him to invest in some FFP masks and wear them on the plane. I've no desire to pick it up off of him either
 
Blackjack Davy said:
My fathers flying over from spain at the end of the month for a visit I'm slightly worried about it, he's 80 I think I'll tell him to invest in some FFP masks and wear them on the plane. I've no desire to pick it up off of him either
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He should do all he can to protect himself given the sort of behaviour exhibited recently in this thread.
 
Vidar said:
Anyone who thinks Covid is over is woefully ignorant, and just because this current variant seems less lethal than others does not guarantee that the next one, and there will be others, won't be far more lethal.

If anything, this pandemic should have changed for the better how we as a species conduct ourselves on this planet. Precautions need to be taken, consideration of the lives of others should be important too. But no, selfish idiots keep doing selfish things and so it keeps spreading. It might not be against the law but it flies in the face of common sense.

Imagine just for a moment if when this started we went in to a real lockdown similar to New Zealand and that the rest of the world followed suit. I mean everyone except truly essential frontline staff were forced to remain in their homes for 3 months. All borders entirely closed for travel. How many lives could have been saved?
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Well that would have ended the pandemic in 2020 if every country could have done that (or been supported by the wealthy ones to do it).

It's a pity that our government had the graphs from their models the wrong way round on the whiteboard. We now know that the 'herd immunity' strategy was the one that would lead to continual lockdown whereas the 'taking it seriously early' strategy worked to effectively eliminate the original variant and required in most cases only one lockdown at the right time and of the right length or no lockdown at all if you had a world class test and trace system (of course if we had taken that approach and eliminated Covid then there would have been continual braying from the right wing media about our gross overreaction to 'a little flu', but much better that than our current situation).
 
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