Help...quick... I have covid ?

[southerncomfort]

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A friend/relative of my friend lives in Bolton. They are shortly going on holiday to Turkey. Looking at Bolton's lockdown rules it is OK to go on holiday outside the borough. You can't however travel to another area without restrictions to visit family or friends.

Yes it is ok to go on holiday but you need to go in to quarantine after visiting certain countries which is what this guy should have done but didn't.

 

[Winters100]

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Yes it is ok to go on holiday but you need to go in to quarantine after visiting certain countries which is what this guy should have done but didn't.

That seems so strange. It basically says that it is OK to go and take the virus elsewhere!

 

[Arzada]

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Yes it is ok to go on holiday but you need to go in to quarantine after visiting certain countries which is what this guy should have done but didn't.

That's right but it makes no sense to me that it is OK for someone from a locked down UK area to holiday abroad. And possibly take infection with them. But not travel outside their locked down borough within the UK. We expect someone to quarantine on return from abroad but some reason we let them go there to potentially infect another country.

 

[ycbm]

That's right but it makes no sense to me that it is OK for someone from a locked down UK area to holiday abroad. And possibly take infection with them. But not travel outside their locked down borough within the UK. We expect someone to quarantine on return from abroad but some reason we let them go there to potentially infect another country.

The other countries want them to go there and spend money. It's in their hands to ban Brits if they want. I think it may be short sighted, but I don't think it's our role to tell other countries not to admit our travellers if they want them.
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[Pearlsacarolsinger]

The other countries want them to go there and spend money. It's in their hands to ban Brits if they want. I think it may be short sighted, but I don't think it's our role to tell other countries not to admit our travellers of they want them.
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But it certainly should be our role to stop people going to airports out of their own borough to mix with everybody else in an airport and on a plane.

 

[Valadictory]

Things I do not understand about covid:
1) Is the severity of the disease dependant on the exposure? ie do you get it worse if you inhale a lot of the virus from an infected person rather than just touching something an infected person touched?
2) Is it bad to keep totally away from any infection so we get no immunity built up?
3) When we get tested are they testing for antibodies we have produced or the actual virus?

Maybe some of the knowledgeable people on here can enlighten me....

Viral load definitely plays a part in the severity of the illness.

 

[Valadictory]

That is the past not the present
History shows us that this sort of virus does its worst at the start

Actually history shows that the second wave is often more virulent and deadly than the first.

 

[Arzada]

The other countries want them to go there and spend money. It's in their hands to ban Brits if they want. I think it may be short sighted, but I don't think it's our role to tell other countries not to admit our travellers if they want them.
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I wasn't thinking of us telling other countries what to do. It just makes no sense to me that we ban people travelling from a locked down borough within the UK but not outside the UK. Then some people complain when returning travellers don't isolate on return to the UK and spread the virus, assuming that they brought it from overseas. Maybe they went with it and brought it back home again.

 

[twiggy2]

It is quite literally all over Facebook. Both with people I know personally and people on, for example, BBC news articles.

I have several friends who are teachers who were giving each other pep talks about going back to school because they were “really scared”. All 3 are fit and healthy and 30 years old with no known underlying conditions. All 3 have been going to the pub though...
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hardly terrified if they are going to the pub, sounds like they just want their paid holiday extended.
a family member of mine is a teacher, they have a heart condition, they were travelling to school during lockdown and using facilities to produce face visors and then having them delivered to local places that needed them, the school is in a high poverty area, they felt it was important that they did their bit and that they were seen to do their bit by the kids.

It must be horrible for the school kids because the older ones have probably worked out that because of them the death rate is going up albeit not their decision to cause that

Poor kids, that sort of opinion expressed they want help.

 

[Fellewell]

I think the death rate is rising again because the government panicked and tried to re-float the economy without a proper plan. And now they're blaming the general public. I think Matt Lucas had it right with his video!