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/forum/read.php?20,2116888 Protest about the George Floyd murder.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Seriously - I think its a protest about George > Floyd > > https://twitter.com/lexohaha/status/12667374219259 > 57633 Good for them.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I have loads of little tadpoles! So happy! > > > > Thanks for the spawn, Lynne! :) > > > > My taddies should be getting their back legs now, > shouldn't they? > > No sign yet ....... OK I know I'm getting a bit obsessed ... Does anybody posting on here have tadpoles with legs yet? Mine are in an old ceramic Belfast sink. It does have plants and algae, but I'm feeding them a plant based tadpole food which is supposed to be only suitable until they get their first legs. I have some different food for the next stage, when they become carnivorous as well. I'm worried if I miss the leg arrival, they may start eating each other 😭

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is just possible or even probable that Many of > us have been exposed to The Virus > Have had the Virus and are now immune to the > Virus. > So far as I am aware, nobody yet knows whether having had the virus makes you immune, and even if it does how long that immunity may last (even leaving possible mutations out of the picture).

I like the first one it's clearer and simpler (in my opinion!)

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I just did that survey. I thought it was far too long, repetitive and poorly designed. Even the very first part collecting demographic data assumes that if you are British you must be white. Surely they should have got advice on what ethnicity categories to use? Nobody seems to have properly checked any of it over. Some of the questions insist you answer supplementary questions even though you then have no option but to give answers which are not true/do not make sense in the context of your answer to the original question. If you don't, you can't move on to the next part. And there is no way to comment on any issues you may have with the survey itself. Even YouGov surveys let you do that! I'm not impressed. I assume a student has produced this and their supervisor has not properly looked at it.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Boo for Boris? people need to grow up Sometimes it's good to do "childish" things, especially in stressful times 🙂

malumbu Wrote: -------------------------------------------------- > > Funnily enough the only harm from the spikes was > to me! Karma. Oh dear, hope you weren't too badly harmed, malumbu?

One ill person's discomfort and misery is another person's grouchy winge. 😢

SnakeFilth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The OP says they have housemates, which suggests > they are quite young. Its unusual for someone > presumably in their 20's or 30's to whinge about > low level outside noise, wonder what theyll be > like once they are in their 60's! > > My sleep is disturbed each morning before 9am by > some building works near me. I just have to close > my window, and its largely solves the problem. Noise from building works is completely different, as it is unavoidable. The OP is ill. Pretty ill by her description of her symptoms. Her age is completely irrelevant. She is not talking about "low level" noise. Read her post. Have some sympathy, FFS.

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KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dulwich Park this morning ! Oh that's really awful 😢

There was an accident on the South Circular. I'm assuming a serious one 😢

YES!!!! I'm deffo in. Except I will probably forget (I plead senility 🙃 )

tiddles Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No need as we can all travel as we feel necessary 😢 or possibly 🤣

Don't know where abouts you are, Sophia Sophia, but if you are anywhere near the Crystal Palace Road area near The Actress, you have my deepest sympathies if you are still ill in bed. There is a group of people having what sounds like a party in the garden, with possibly the loudest voices I have ever heard (at least no music). I know it's a bank holiday evening, but also surely we aren't supposed to be having social gatherings in our gardens? Ah - now music has started up in the other direction. So much for our quiet evening in the garden communing with the frogs. Signed, Grumpy Old Woman 😬

Clutterqueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hope you get your result Sue, especially if you > are within the first few days of your symptoms. No, due to the lack of availability of home tests whenever I checked, and then delays, I am nowhere near the first few days of my symptoms. The test was collected this morning, and the first definite symptoms were when I woke up on 15 May. So it's highly unlikely I would get a positive result. > I hope there can be a test in the future for > people who think they might have had the virus in > the past i.e. back in February and might have > antibodies. Yes hopefully one will become available, however as presently nobody knows whether having had the virus actually renders you immune, and if so how long for, I'm not sure what the point is. If it meant you could go out without protection because you couldn't get infected again and/or you could no longer transmit the virus, obviously that would be brilliant, but currently I don't think that is the case :(

I understand that a saliva test may be available soon, which would be much easier to administer.

No, it seemed that the provisional findings of the King's study may show six (?) distinct groupings in terms of type of symptom etc.. I'm interested because it seems that the publicised symptoms (fever, dry cough) may well be absent in many confirmed cases.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And when you do the test, it'll be recorded in > Govt statistics as 'two tests', no ?! Probably. When I tried this morning to book a courier collection, the site wouldn't accept the number on my label. I had to phone the helpline yet again and they put it through at their end with no difficulty. The guy said there have been massive problems with the home testing system, including couriers not collecting completed tests at all 😮 I don't know why I'm bothering as it's so late now it's bound to give a negative result, but I don't want to be in the stats as someone who requested a test and then didn't return it. A GP on the helpline when I first got symptoms told me I almost certainly had the virus, but at that time as there were no home tests available I should just proceed on the assumption I had it. However although it makes no practical difference, I would quite like to know if I did. My partner got it (but less badly) a few days later and has also requested a test. We are both pretty pissed off as we had been extremely careful quarantining/washing everything coming into the house, but clearly something slipped by somehow. Just lucky neither of us had respiratory symptoms.

That's very interesting. I'd be very interested to see the groupings.

Oh great. I ordered a test kit yesterday. It has just arrived (nearly 5pm). On opening it, I see that one is asked to book a registered courier to collect the test sample. On going to book the courier, I find a page saying "This service is currently closed and will open again tomorrow at 8am". On further investigation, I find that I must book a courier by 4pm to ensure a pick up the next day. So I can't book a courier until tomorrow. I then have to do the test tomorrow night, and the courier picks up on Sunday. I have just phoned the Covid helpline to confirm that my understanding is correct, and that I can't book a courier tomorrow to collect the same day (Saturday) So that is three days wasted, on top of several days when I couldn't book a home test at all because none were available. My GP surgery said on Thursday that it was still worth having a test even though I had already lost a few days, but really, this is ridiculous. I have registered a complaint, but what's the point?

Renata Hamvas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have tried again and the manager hasn't called > back yet. I do know post is taking up to 7 weeks > and is not arriving in the time order it's sent > in. So how is this going to affect Covid-19 home testing kits, which have to be used within the first few days of symptoms to be effective? The completed test samples are collected by courier, but I assume the kit is sent out by post?