Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

Is that my post you quoted ? Don't know why you didn't quote my complete post and let me know you were referring to it at least ?

Yes ..immunocompromised , very ...did you not read that part ? Post cancer treatment . Hence why they didn't want to go back to hospital .

Some people are vulnerable no matter what they do and with all the precautions in the world .

As @jackboy said they will never be able to relax .

Not saying everybody else is at this stage due to immunity from infection and vaccination , changing severity of variants .

But people who are immunocompromised like the person I refer to, has been clear all along until they attended for a check up and picked it up in there probably . It's still a risk for some but not others as I clearly said in my post .

But others need to be aware as well if you are going to be in contact with someone like that .

It's not just elderly people who get very sick with this .

New variant dubbed the real deal detected in UK Pirola strain

'Real deal' Covid variant is now in Britain: Patient is hospitalised in London with heavily-mutated 'Pirola' strain - and experts think they caught it IN the UK | Daily Mail Online

Virologists are unsettled because of the catalogue of mutations it carries on its spike protein, the piece of the virus vaccines were designed to target. 

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Others, however, have warned it's far too early to panic. No evidence shows Pirola is any more of a threat than the dozens of strains that have come before it. So far

Shin

What happens if this becomes a variant of concern? Will it be back to mask mandates?

Posted this in the work problems area but no real responses. Can anyone help me with what rights I have here

I have completed my 5 day isolation period and meet the HSE criteria of symptoms mostly gone for the last 48 hours. My employer is saying because I didn't take a test until Monday I should stay out for 5 days from that time.

Totally arbitrary as nothing in the HSE advice mentioning isolating from the time of a positive test. Feel like asking them to pay me for the time they are telling me to stay out beyond the required HSE isolation period.

Thoughts?

I would respect that if they just said it and but they came up with some baloney about the 5 days being from when I was tested. I have kept saying it is 5 days from start of symptoms and they ignore it, saying I am arguing with them.

It would be possible to work on my own in any case. Could leave site for lunch etc.

I have a doctors letter saying that I have completed my 5 days of isolation and sent it to them, no response as of yet. If they want me to stay off beyond what is required they should still pay me.

No . It would just mean a wave of infections which may cause more hospitalisation, spread in hospitals and care homes and ICU cases .

Probably back to masks in all healthcare again if that were the case .

It's no more than we had for Omicron in the last year .

It's been reported widely but the Daily Nail has done a few this week, all with different bands on the same variant :)

Wow ..autocorrect gone mad!

Edit ..Daily Mail ...different NAMES

It's causing disruption in schools in America as well and schools only went back a few weeks ago there.

They referred him on to the main hospital in town and when we went there nothing at all it was completely normal so obviously not something they are all doing..

Sure but the second dentist we were at had no precautions, same as a dental clinic I was at myself recently. If its so dangerous why are they not all doing the same

Unless the dentist can work on a patients teeth through a mask then making them wear one in the waiting room is completely pointless when the mask is getting removed after a few minutes. I'm assuming they aren't making them wear a properly fitted n95 or similar so most will be wearing cloth or surgical masks which aren't stopping anything anyway.

They are going to be exposed to patients saliva and possible viral particles that become aerosolized during certain procedures. It's just a fact of life when you're a dentist. If they are concerned for their health then they should wear a proper non surgical mask, or change jobs. This nonsense of treating people who aren't even sick as nothing but disease vectors should really be a thing of the past at this stage.

They managed to do their jobs without requiring masks for all the decades prior when the flu, colds and various other viruses were doing the rounds. How did they ever survive?! If you don't want to be exposed to people's exhalations then being a dentist is literally the worst career choice possible.

By all means, air filters are probably a good idea anyway, and proper PPE for themselves can help reduce their own exposure during procedures. Making patients wear a crappy mask in the waiting area is performative nonsense.

Sorry you didn't like my use of language but I do stand by my point of feeling like the whole thing was a bit ott. Like a lot of people my mental health took a good whack during lock down and I think the reminder of it maybe gave me a bit of a fright, that is my problem of course!

I have no issue with people in a health care setting taking precautions of course, especially with vulnerability they might have. But my son couldn't wear a mask during treatment, if I had something he most likely would too. It seemed like more of a token gesture, the cloth masks aren't going to be very protective.

We were in A&E in may and there was none of this, the shields were down and over the 3 day stay there was never a mask requirement. And I would feel a lot more at risk in a hospital.

If I was ill in any way be it covid or any other bug I wouldn't attend an appointment. Staff of course I think can and should wear protection, but all those extra layers yesterday no, we can't be wrapped up in cotton wool forever