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Are you worried about contracting coronavirus?

  • Yes, I am absolutely terrified

    Votes: 12 15.6%

  • Yes, I am slightly concerned

    Votes: 35 45.5%

  • I am neither concerned or unconcerned

    Votes: 7 9.1%

  • No, I am slightly unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • No, I am totally unconcerned

    Votes: 6 7.8%

  • Bring back the old poll

    Votes: 3 3.9%

  • Charlotte Awbrey tits out doing the Macarena

    Votes: 2 2.6%

  • I believe VoR is evil

    Votes: 11 14.3%
  • Total voters
    77
I had my booster yesterday so thought it was just that! But someone who was in the pub Sunday told me they had it, so did a test just now. Annoyed about Christmas but it felt inevitable I was going to get it anyway. Just moved Christmas with my parents to the 27th.
 
How are you feeling with it Lu? I’ve gone DOWNHILL very QUICKLY.

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London seems to be absolutely RIDDLED, to the point where I'm a little surprised they haven't enforced a local inside-m25 lockdown ahead of a large amount of people travelling out the capital for Christmas.

London has basically become RACOON CITY! :yeahyeahfire:
 
Christ. What a fucking mess. Maybe the real pandemic was the one we caused by fucking about being greedy over vaccine patents.
 
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My family aren’t coming for Christmas. It is too much of a risk, although they have all been vaccinated. It is very disappointing BUT everyone’s health is far more important. My decision to go over last weekend now doesn’t seem like such a bad one. I am lucky that I will spend it with my 2 and the dog, so a trying to stay positive although I am absolutely gutted.
 
BlitzenGiraffe🎄 said:
Does this not work out mathematically as infecting the entire population of the UK in the first few weeks of January?
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Yes, if it keeps doubling at this rate, the whole population will have had it by New Year’s Day. Obviously it will slow down before that happens but it’s an illustration of the sheer speed and scale.

It’s going to be incredibly disruptive, but hopefully the record infection numbers combined with the record vaccination numbers mean it will be a very short, sharp (if dramatic and very badly timed) spike.
 
FaiRitale of New York said:
My family aren’t coming for Christmas. It is too much of a risk, although they have all been vaccinated. It is very disappointing BUT everyone’s health is far more important. My decision to go over last weekend now doesn’t seem like such a bad one. I am lucky that I will spend it with my 2 and the dog, so a trying to stay positive although I am absolutely gutted.
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QUESTION: Was this the sensible thing to do? I am sitting back thinking have we cancelled when we shouldn’t have? Guidance is still rather SKETCHY, but they were coming over from Ireland, and they are supposed to be getting more restrictions at the end of the week. I just don’t know. :(
 
FaiRitale of New York said:
QUESTION: Was this the sensible thing to do? I am sitting back thinking have we cancelled when we shouldn’t have? Guidance is still rather SKETCHY, but they were coming over from Ireland, and they are supposed to be getting more restrictions at the end of the week. I just don’t know. :(
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It’s a very personal decision isn’t it. There is nothing in the guidance against it and there’s unlikely to be now, but you need to do what feels right for you.
 
FaiRitale of New York said:
QUESTION: Was this the sensible thing to do? I am sitting back thinking have we cancelled when we shouldn’t have? Guidance is still rather SKETCHY, but they were coming over from Ireland, and they are supposed to be getting more restrictions at the end of the week. I just don’t know. :(
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It really is personal judgement at the minute. We've got both sets of parents over at Christmas, and even though we've just had it we'll test before they come to be double sure.
 
SilVoR Bells said:
R value for Omicron estimated to be between 3 and 5.

CHRIST. The entire country is going to have it by this time next week...
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At the risk of sounding like a Tory, maybe this isn't a bad thing, if the symptoms remain mild then surely this variant is the one to get herd immunity from?
 
Christmas Wrapping(u) said:
It’s a very personal decision isn’t it. There is nothing in the guidance against it and there’s unlikely to be now, but you need to do what feels right for you.
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big rondeer said:
It really is personal judgement at the minute. We've got both sets of parents over at Christmas, and even though we've just had it we'll test before they come to be double sure.
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We are from 6 households, and they are quite confident come Friday that they will be told not to travel so then it comes down to getting back home if any of us do catch it as we planned to go over there for new year. It’s just very messy, and yes although we have no clear guidance none of us want to have to isolate for 10 days.
 
R3-5? Sweet Jesus.
If it did infect us all at least it's out of the way, though no doubt we'd only get reinfected with the next mutation and meanwhile goodness knows how many will die

At a meet up on Saturday, travelling by train, not really comfortable with it but I'm doing it for a friend who has limited time and wouldn't be able to make it without my help. Thankfully only like a dozen or so people going. But it's really feeling inevitable very soon depending how well that booster works
 
Christmas Wrapping(u) said:
It’s going to be incredibly disruptive, but hopefully the record infection numbers combined with the record vaccination numbers mean it will be a very short, sharp (if dramatic and very badly timed) spike.
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Potentially, yes. It's ripping through the country at an unprecedented rate but it can only do so once.

Well, in this variant, at least.
 
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