DOOM: "Omicron Covid cases ‘doubling every two to three days’ in UK"

[d000hg]

Maybe Pfizer should focus first on making more vaccines for all the developing countries with lower vaccination rates, which is where variants will develop from.

They should focus on making them for whoever is paying. The buyers are responsible for deciding who gets them.

[AtW]

Maybe Pfizer should focus first on making more vaccines for all the developing countries with lower vaccination rates, which is where variants will develop from.

They can do both, there are plenty of vaccines about now anyway, but no good working antiviral

[AtW]

Presser is not starting, some last minute decisions being made...

[SueEllen]

80k. That's it. Another lockdown on the horizon, probably in the next couple of days. That's what I think is going to happen. Everything closed apart from vital shops and mandatory vaccination like in other European countries.

Hope you all have done your Christmas shopping already.

M&S has a food hall and allowed click and collect last year.

(Yes you know where lots of my presents came from......)

[mattster]

Not sure where you get that from, given schools have been pretty vigorous at sending kids home. Even if it were, that's exactly how the UK deals with chicken pox. We don't take drastic measures when a disease has no sign of being dangerous "just in case".

They were shutting down classes and whole year groups, but that was in 2020. Now it is 2x LFT a week per child (voluntary), class closed with 5 cases - although that doesn't seem uniformly applied since my other (younger) son has > 5 cases in his class right now - there were 10 off today, and school continues. I don't know if you've got school age kids, but around here there are very few of them who haven't had the virus by now - we seemed to hold out far longer than most. The government have really not done much to help schools prevent spread at all, and also no sign of the vaccine approval for 5 - 11 year olds yet which annoys me since many other countries have done this. It may well turn out to have been a reasonable course of action, but we have far less long term knowledge of this virus than we do of chicken pox so I think there is always a risk.

[mattster]

We can compare notes then. Daughter upstairs with covid (assume Omicron from the symptoms - don't think she's had it confirmed). Adult, so she is confining herself to the bedroom and (shared) bathroom, but she was with us downstairs on Sunday when her symptoms first appeared.

Mr ms and I both LFT negative and no symptoms (he's had a slight headache maybe) - PCRs posted yesterday so awaiting results. I was boostered 3 weeks ago, him a couple of days before she came home, so hopefully they're doing their job and either protecting us from getting it, or protecting us from symptoms.

Good luck with it. I am assuming non-Omicron here, since we are out of London, but who knows? Rest of our household had negative PCR on Sun/Mon and neg LFT since. If it isn't Omicron then perhaps me and the misses not getting it is a possibility, but still expecting younger son to get it - if he doesn't get it from his older brother, he's probably picked it up from school since apparently 10 of his class were off with it today alone(!) so we are under special instructions from them for daily LFT, although we were doing that already.

We are under a double-pronged attack on Christmas at my Dad's, since my bother in London tested positive yesterday - he's got his own family to infect now. So far all of us out for Christmas, but any more positives between now and the 25th and it looks like it's off. Oh, and my brother had dinner with my sister's family on Sunday which could be interesting if it is Omicron - so make that triple-pronged.

[cojak]

Is this the time to say that I'm planning to go to London on Friday for my ex-company Christmas do?

[Whorty]

Hope you all have done your Christmas shopping already.

Tried to book a sainsbury's slot yesterday, first one available is 27th Dec, so it's off to the shop for me at some stage. Shopping not been top of my priorities for some time, so I forget to put the order in .. I may regret that when I start to run out of food

[Whorty]

Is this the time to say that I'm planning to go to London on Friday for my ex-company Christmas do?

Our team party was planned for tomorrow but no one wanted to go, so it's turned to virtual.... my idea of hell, but thankfully I have some none alco beers in the fridge if I have to pretend to be enjoying myself!

[SueEllen]

Is this the time to say that I'm planning to go to London on Friday for my ex-company Christmas do?

Only go to the things you want to go to.........