Mundane News

[mybike]

I won't get involved into pointless discussions.

So you'll only talk to people who agree with you?

 

[biggs682]

Grey old day outside .

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

So vaccines & masks don't prevent the spread. (I presume, from your tone, everyone else was masked & vaccinated).

I don't think anybody made the claim that they prevent spread. Vaccines reduce the spread - omicron in particular is both highly contagious and rather successful at evading the vaccines. Where vaccine evasion happens, however, the infection rarely leads to hospitalisation for vaccinees. Masks don't prevent spread either - they reduce it and offer a degree of protection by impeding the spread from and toward both the wearer and other people around them.
The reason we need to reduce the spread is to prevent hospitals becoming totally overloaded while hospital staff are suffering great pressure, and while hospital staff numbers are increasingly off sick or self-isolating. I saw hospital sickness rates of over 30% for London in the last few days.

 

[oldwheels]

time to get cozy & hunker down

I already spend too much time hunkerd down to escape from the unspeakable tourists and second home owners.

 

[cookiemonster]

I don't think anybody made the claim that they prevent spread. Vaccines reduce the spread - omicron in particular is both highly contagious and rather successful at evading the vaccines. Where vaccine evasion happens, however, the infection rarely leads to hospitalisation for vaccinees. Masks don't prevent spread either - they reduce it and offer a degree of protection by impeding the spread from and toward both the wearer and other people around them.
The reason we need to reduce the spread is to prevent hospitals becoming totally overloaded while hospital staff are suffering great pressure, and while hospital staff numbers are increasingly off sick or self-isolating. I saw hospital sickness rates of over 30% for London in the last few days.

To add, masks do assist in preventing Covid spread. The University of Hong Kong carried out a study at the start of the pandemic that proved that masks reduce infection risk from 66% to 16%. Yale, John Hopkins and Harvard Universities took this study, peer reviewed it and got the same results and this changed the WHO's stance on masks. Also, HK has one of the lowest % mortality rates, per 100,000 of the population, and this has been credited to mandatory mask wearing in public, no exceptions.

Omicron is more infectious but less deadly as, again citing HK Uni, it affects the lining of the nose rather than the lungs, as in the case of Delta. Vaccines ease the symptoms and those who are fully vaxxed will recover in approx. 7 days.

Time @mybike quit the Covid conspiracy theories. You're on to a loser here. Grow up and mask up.

 

[Speicher]

Changing the subject completely,

I am expectant today.

My niece is expecting her first child around about now. She is 39 years old, so an "older" mother. I have four other nephew/nieces.

 

[Reynard]

Grey, squelchy and mild here.

I went to bed very late last night in the end, as Madam Poppy insisted on loitering in the hall. During the winter I keep the door shut between the hall and the rest of the house as it helps to keep the place warm with far less effort on my part. I didn't want to leave her in an unheated room overnight. Dirty little stopout is now fast asleep on the bed...

I found the missing Xmas tree baubles under the radiator in the dining room.

Spent the morning re-jigging the fridges in the kitchen and utility room, replenishing the supply of cat biscuits in the house and filling up all the wood bins.

Have also done a LFT (negative, yay!) prior to poddling off for my rooster booster this afternoon. It's just courtesy to all the volunteers at the vaccination centre. I have a box of Polish fudge for them as well as a thank you for giving up their time.

Anyways, it is almost time for luncheon.

 

[Speicher]

I have made a tentative start to editing the filing cabinet. Lots of very files look like they need to go on a diet. Plus "old" brochures etc.

In doing so, I found my old (aka antique) school reports. One report (at the age of eight years) is rather strange.

For the classes in the morning my spelling, grammar, and pronunciation is described as "very good". However in the afternoon those same skills are described as "poor or even very poor". I assume that I was not asleep, so who can suggest a good reason for the difference in the skills levels between morning and afternoon classes?

 

[Reynard]

Oh, I have also done a load of laundry.

 

[rockyroller]

I already spend too much time hunkerd down to escape from the unspeakable tourists and second home owners.

I hear ya. one of the reasons I make myself go in to the office instead of working from home. 4.5 months was all I could tolerate

 

[rockyroller]

Changing the subject completely,
I am expectant today.
My niece is expecting her first child around about now. She is 39 years old, so an "older" mother.

so wonderful! may God bless Mom & Baby today! & here's to the rest of the family presented with another loving life. may the new one live to be 100!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

In doing so, I found my old (aka antique) school reports. One report (at the age of eight years) is rather strange.

For the classes in the morning my spelling, grammar, and pronunciation is described as "very good". However in the afternoon those same skills are described as "poor or even very poor". I assume that I was not asleep, so who can suggest a good reason for the difference in the skills levels between morning and afternoon classes?

Afternoon Attention Deficit Disorder, eh? It sounds like you were very low on energy in the afternoons.

 

[Speicher]

The "new" parents got married on what would have been my Mother's one hundredth birthday. She died on 30th December 2018.

 

[Speicher]

Afternoon Attention Deficit Disorder, eh? It sounds like you were very low on energy in the afternoons.
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A sensible suggestion, but not the correct one.

Not sure that disorder existed in the early sixties.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There is a surprisingly common belief that repeatedly sounding your horn in a blocked road will magically unblock it. It's particularly evident in the road outside.