Avoid Birmingham

[_V_]

Yes, I know this is great general advice, there are too many squirrels, kebab shops and terrible drivers, but this time it's worse.

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/surge-testing-birmingham-after-south-20437707

 

[ladymuck]

I ordered my pack of 7 lateral flow tests today. I think it's a rubbish test because the rate of false positives is too high but they're free and may come in handy.

https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests

 

[AtW]

Why 7?

 

[OwlHoot]

Didn't Mark Thatcher, Maggie Thatcher's son, once get lost in Birmingham for a whole day? To be fair, it could happen to anyone, given its convoluted road system

Or I may be thinking of some rally car race in the Sahara.

edit: In the interests of accuracy, I did a quick Google and it appears that "On 9 January 1982 Thatcher, his French driver, Anne-Charlotte Verney, and their mechanic went missing for six days in the Sahara whilst driving a Peugeot 504 in the Paris-Dakar Rally". But I'm sure Birmingham is just as bad!

 

[BlueSharp]

Indeed avoid Birmingham, we don't want your sort here.

 

[ladymuck]

Why 7?

No idea. You're supposed to do a couple a week so they're giving you three and a half week's worth.

 

[ladymuck]

I ordered my pack of 7 lateral flow tests today. I think it's a rubbish test because the rate of false positives is too high but they're free and may come in handy.

https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests

Arrived earlier today. Made in China, of course, by Xiamen Biotime Biotechnology Co Ltd.

 

[SueEllen]

Arrived earlier today. Made in China, of course, by Xiamen Biotime Biotechnology Co Ltd.

Just a warning - you may find one or two just don't work at all.....

 

[ladymuck]

Just a warning - you may find one or two just don't work at all.....

That's a better result than a false positive.

 

[Andy2]

covid or no covid , avoid Birmingham