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Two friends have covid at the moment big drinkers wouldnt be overly active both smokers one has sky high blood pressure hes managing it alright im told only a bit of fatique now and then, the other fella weighs excess of 150kgs and is shook enough with it from.what ive heard. Im no picture of health by any means myself but you still cant be blaming covid for the effects on those two lads at the minute the reason they both are sick is surely down to lifestyle

I never got measles or chicken pox when I was growing up despite sharing a bedroom with my brother that had measles bad, luck of the draw I guess, years later I got both from a school teacher I was going out with at the time and she wasn't affected at all

AAAGH, the sixties and seventies, they say if you can remember them you weren't there, so i better say I can't remember

A breathalyser test certaintly does not form an opinion. Its a measurement accurate to a percentage error of BAC.

My initial point about Covid testing was, that if it was so transmissible, I would have thought merely a breath test alone would indicate the presence of Covid in the upper respiratory tract.

Both PCR and Antigen require incredibly invasive nasal swabs.

Are any of the unvaccinated members in your family sick? Just curious… you must be bulletproof not to have picked it up yet :-)

Some doctors or maybe consultants in U.K. were advising using antigen tests both in throat and nose as a better test.

How many of them are sick or have bad symptoms?

Someone on twitter was claiming to have it six times, it's coming round very fast to some, they used to think if you got Covid you were covered for six months then three mths and now two

She’s quite surprised but most have symptoms, sore throat, chills, aches and pains.

After being triple vaccinated?

Vaccine is only as good as the person it goes into, we just have to have patience now, we're still trying to learn how to deal with it, the expertise isn't there yet, even worldwide.

Sorry but totally disagree …have daughter in primary .both principal and teachers are running a super smooth safe environment where everything there been asked to do is Donte to make that environment safe ….what happens outside school at home. Weekends etc is the issue

there is some that believe all the online shite that it’s a hoax etc etc ,there’s some parents still organising and sending invites for parties etc …totally irresponsible and selfish .online education is a poor substitute for in class teaching …zero issue sending my daughter back next week …proably expecting that there will be no school tho and start afresh Monday week

Fact remains school environment is safe ….what teachers and students do outside of that is where the issue is ….it’s brought in to school and despite best efforts it spreads even in the pods etc …..this was very apparent after halloween when kids off for that break …big outbreaks when they returned to school …infection picked up in those days they weren’t in school due to more unstructured mixing of people …

It's not possible. There are always trade offs to be had in transmission and severity.

Both don't come together..

Yound lad here in secondary school and he tells me not one kid in his year (c.150 ) has been out with covid .2 in his class of 25 have stayed at home for a couple of days as close contacts while people were waiting on test results .That's about the extent of it .

Stuff like this is known by kids as it spreads through the rumour mill like wildfire .Last year one 5th year sent home with high temp but no covid .

Brother is secondary teacher and he tells me the same .Very big school and very very few pupils out with covid pre Christmas.

Children have missed enough schooling and other things over the past 2 years so if some are afraid to send their kids then perhaps they could home school them till the danger passes .

Fingers crossed schools reopen as normal next week .