Topic: Coronavirus outbreak

@Mr-Fuggles777 Gosh I am really sorry you have had Covid How awful, I understand where you are coming from with economic migrants. I was more talking about refugees.

I believe now everyone has to have neg. test and quarantine before entering the UK which should have been done ages ago. I normally travel 4-5 times a year and have not left the country since last Feb.

@jump hardly hating on them, it just seems pointless restricting movement when they can still travel across borders freely.
It needs to be full lock down or no lockdown, these half measures aren't exactly working are they.
The virus is already mutating so the vaccine is likely going to prove ineffective, people have already caught it twice proving it is stronger than the anti bodies before the mutations.

@XxSupernova8xX who's testing the people entering the country illegally and how does there movements impact track and trace and those they come into contact with?
Thank you for the sentiment, I caught it from work. I was furloughed from my management position and went back into front line care instead of sitting at home doing nothing - ive worked in the industry for over 15 years so it made sense to help out seeming as they were struggling so much.

@Mr-Fuggles777 the ;p means it’s not a comment to take seriously, Im not keen on the emojis on this site so I use ;p instead.

The mutated strains have been around for at least 6 months. The UK are just spotting them as there’s more gene work done in their testing as opposed to other countries. It’s only in the last month or so the mutated strain has been emphasised as it’s when Boris has to cancel Xmas, explain his poor planning etc so he needed to deflect to cover himself.

Yeah the half measures aren’t working. They should just get rid of the lockdowns and have Eat Out To Help Out applied to everything from laser tag to Primark ;p

@jump I do miss laser tag, where else can you make a kid cry and eat soggy pizza at the same time?

Laser tag is okay but it wouldn’t make my top ten things I miss during lockdown list. I’ve not included violent protest as they have been happening anyway ;p

10. Cinema
9. Shopping for cloths (I’m 6’5, I need to try them on first!)
8. Art exhibits
7. Aimlessly wandering about
6. Holidays
5. Gym
4. Restaurants
3. Nights out drinking
2. Seeing family
1. Gigs and festivals

@XxSupernova8xX
I'll @ you again and mention your musical references on the Chit-Chat thread, because it'd be better there. https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/general_discussion/the_ch...
Welcome aboard! Be warned though that I write a ton. A lot of people on this site do, honestly.

I was in Bristol for six weeks, before moving to the Middle East, and it was a very popular student town. Sometimes as I'm walking down the river I'll see a ton of students socialising, going on skateboards and generally being... irresponsible I suppose. Here, schools have just been shut down after three months of low-risk physical interaction, and going back to a virtual school is not very appealing to me! Indoor dining is also gone, but @ogo79 that burger place I mentioned in Chit-Chat is only outside so I'm going today!

@theJGG
eat one for mii

With newer variants ending up on the other side of the globe, I can't help feel travel restrictions aren't proactive enough.

When restaurants, and schools closed in Bahrain in January we were getting around 200 cases a day. In late March they reopened again and we're now getting 1300 cases a day despite the vaccine.

Almost all of these cases are from non-vaccinated people as well.

@WoomyNNYes Well yeah but it's nothing to do with new variants since not all countries are being vaccinated at the same rate with even richer countries struggling and being vaccinated doesn't mean you're now automatically immune to it or not spreading it.

In Saudi Arabia it's been announced that if you aren't vaccinated you can't travel to mosques to pray. Considering how devout most Saudis are it's a major step from the government.

I guess according to our Governor today if we stay at where we are with confirmed cases or go lower then California will fully open up again June 15th.

@jump That too. The world does need to be vaccinated. My point is, the speed at which variants can travel the globe is ridiculous, and seems so preventable. If a more deadly variant comes to UK from South America, and your current vaccines aren't effective, you're going to wonder "why aren't they restricting travel more?".

A week or two after the UK variant was discovered, it was found in the US, and that variant is on track to be the dominat variant, if it isn't already. The South African variant was discovered here in January-ish? I can't recall the other far-off variants that got here pretty quickly, but there's more. The freedom viruses have to cross the globe just seems to preventable.

Interestingly, it seems humidity plays a role in covid transmission rates.
Higher humidity = less transmssion, because covid droplets are heavier and fall out of the air quicker.

edit: Forgive me, NHK doesn't allow embedded youtube's to play, so you'll have to click it to go to youtube to watch it. It's a quck 1 minute video

@WoomyNNYes That's because good ol' Boris was spinning the variant, it was spotted during the summer around the same time UK finally did put restrictions on international travel and kept quiet about it til he had to tell people xmas was cancelled so he could blame it on that rather than not locking down sooner. Keep in mind the UK does more gene testing of the virus than other countries so it's not so much it comes from the UK but finally discovered in the UK.

The UK goverment has become a bit of a joke with this. I was watching Hancock try to gaslight people during an interview about how the UK didn't have a shortage of masks and other stuff for the NHS and that they didn't buy a load of useless rubbish from Turkey. I know about 3-6 people who work for the NHS and some of the stories they tell me is ridiclous.

@Northwind If you search google & cdc, I think you can find recommdations or read about the the vaccine after affets. You can ask the place you're getting the shot, or your doctor, if it's ok to walk 2 miles back.

My parents & sister in law got the vaccine, but only my mom felt sick afterwards. But she only felt sick after her second shot, and she didn't feel sick until the following day (she felt like crap for two days, I believe). I think she felt ok for the rest of the day after the shot. But my account is rather annecdotal.

@Northwind Both my parents reported a considerable loss of energy for a few days, they're both extremely fit but took it very easy for around three days. I think you should take a taxi just to get back, walking three kilometres after taking the vaccine is indeed ill-advised. I hope you get the vaccine and return home safely.

My parents got their vaccines. I haven't really noticed any ill effects on them.

I find if you put some tin foil on your head it stops the side effects of the vaccination as the tin foil stops Bill Gate's zeta waves enterting the microchip they put in you.

Great advice