Mundane News

[tyred]

Grey, wet and windy again but still unusually mild for December .

I am old enough to remember when we had these things called seasons!

 

[PeteXXX]

Paper shredder emptied. Black bin bag put in the black bin. Sheds checked for incursion by Ratty McRatface.

Vacuum cleaner is about to be put into use.. Queue Freddie Mercury impression 😎

 

[biggs682]

Sounds quite breazy outside
Not raining and only a low % chance of any
So I am going out for a few miles

Ended up with a 38 miles with a fair degree wind assistance.
Damp underfoot
First cuppa went down well

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Grey, wet and windy again but still unusually mild for December .

I am old enough to remember when we had these things called seasons!

Yes, I remember them, if it gets any warmer here I'll have to take my jumper off.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

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?

Did you go to the pub at lunchtime🍺

 

[mybike]

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.

Well, yes they did, indeed that is what vaccine passports are all about. And it isn't vaccine evasion, it's vaccine failure.

Every winter we are told the NHS is in danger of being overwhelmed, the problem isn't COVID but the failure of the NHS to spend its budget appropriately and the failure of governments for the last 20 years to adequately fund and govern the NHS.

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.

Yes, we know that the virus came from the Wuhan lab and we know who run it & the HK uni. We cannot rely on information from China being truthful.

Curiously the Danish study that was set up to demonstrate the efficacy of the use of masks found that there was no significant statistical difference between wearing & not wearing masks.

 

[mybike]

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.

Hope all goes well for them.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

Morning .
Grey and damp here .
I seem to be okay at the moment . I have got to take my wife to the dentist's later this morning for a tooth extraction . Her's not theirs . I wonder if I will end up directing traffic again .

What or who is it that belongs to the dentist

 

[mybike]

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?

A midday meal makes a lot of difference.

 

[mybike]

Best advice I can give is to ignore the rumours, go on what's actually happened. At the same time up your own safety, yourself. Simplest is to up your own hygiene levels. Wash your hands more, keep your distance, that sort of thing.
Don't rely on someone else to be doing what they should, to keep you safe.

Here's to you staying safe.

Plus vit D & zinc.

 

[mybike]

Grey, wet and windy again but still unusually mild for December .

I am old enough to remember when we had these things called seasons!

I recall a boxing day when I went out for a walk & sat down in a sunny spot to enjoy my lunch. I was so comfortable I could have dozed off.

 

[Illaveago]

What or who is it that belongs to the dentist

It was her tooth not the dentist's.

 

[postman]

Don't bother ringing new years eve.I am not stopping up,no booze either can't be bothered..

 

[Reynard]

Breezy, mild and very occasionally sunny here chez Casa Reynard.

I feel like I've been hit by a knackered old bus - but only a small one. Feeling tired and achey this morning, but nowhere near as grotty as I felt with the AZ jabs. My right arm is very sore and bruised though. And the nurse practitioner really wasn't joking about the trots being a side effect...

Ergo I have opened a new pack of 24 loo rolls, just to be on the safe side...

It is almost time for luncheon.

 

[rockyroller]

I have tomorrow off. new year's eve day. but now Wifey wants me in line, at the pharmacy, at 6am, in the hopes of getting a cpl covid home tests ... just so she (we) can go to a friend's house, later in the evening. why can't I just stay home ... whaaaaahhh ...