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Just seen this explanation on their blog – HERE.
Looks like it was an over protective monitoring system – preferable to a lax one!!
Hopefully you will not get Covid, but should you show signs do try and get the Pfizer anti-vital as Merck’s Molnupirivir is not much cop. link
Amen to that!!! The likelihood is that they will steer me away from the Pfizer pill as they did with the jab. My adverse reaction to my first dose of anti-body treatment for Lymphoma has ensured that they are super cautious. My first two jabs were AZ as well as my third ( full ) dose.
Our son is coming back to stay over Christmas – away from the petri dish that is London!! He has been doing LF tests right through. The previous high for the daily infection rate in the South East per 100000- off the BBC charts – was around 1200 – 1300, last night the national high ( in Lambeth ) was around 2450. The current numbers are just shocking and yet yesterday, I went into our local Post Office ( in the Co op ) and ahead of me in the queue were three 20- 25 year old lads all without masks and only one of them was even posting anything!! I gave them a very wide berth!!
I managed to get a lateral flow test 7-pack last Thursday, it would appear that was one of the last for a few days.
Actually, as I’m on the Clinically Vulnerable register, I got a very interesting email this morning from the NHS. I copy most of it below.
Important information about new treatments for coronavirus.
The NHS is using new treatments for coronavirus. Your medical records show that you might be suitable for these treatments if a PCR test confirms that you have coronavirus.These treatments need to be given quickly after you start to feel unwell. They can stop you from getting seriously ill. More information: https://www.nhs.uk/CoronavirusTreatments
You should:
Have a PCR test kit ready at home.
Take a PCR test if you get coronavirus symptoms.
If the PCR test confirms that you have coronavirus: the NHS will call you to tell you how you might get a treatment.
Coronavirus treatments can help you if you are ill, but vaccination is still the best protection for you and your loved ones.1. Have a PCR test kit ready at home
NHS Test & Trace are sending you a PCR coronavirus test kit to keep so that you can get tested quickly if you have any coronavirus symptoms.This kit will be sent to the address that you have provided to the NHS. Tell your GP as soon as possible if your address has changed. NHS Test & Trace can send replacement tests.
Call 119 for advice, selecting the option for Test & Trace, if:
you have not received a PCR test by 10 January 2022
you develop symptoms before your PCR test arrives
you lose your PCR test or it has any damage or missing parts.
2. Take a PCR test if you get coronavirus symptoms
Use your PCR test if you develop any coronavirus symptoms, even if they are mild: a high temperature, a new continuous cough (coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours), a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste.If you get coronavirus symptoms and don’t have a PCR test kit at home, you can still get a PCR test by phoning 119 or visiting https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test.
When registering a PCR test, it is very important that you enter your NHS number and postcode correctly. This lets you get your test result and allows the NHS to contact you about treatment if you have coronavirus.
3. If the PCR test confirms that you have coronavirus
If the PCR test shows that you have got coronavirus, the NHS will contact you within 24 hours to arrange a telephone appointment with a health professional.If you are not contacted about treatment within 24 hours of your positive PCR test result, please contact your GP surgery or call 111. They can make an urgent referral.
I just hope that, in the worst scenario, there is a quick turnaround of the PCR tests!!
Yes, a Merry Christmas to all here and fingers crossed that you get to do what has been planned and enjoy what you can attend.
As a result a lot of Hindu were able to return from their religious trip to the Ganges without testing or going into isolation.
If they survived the Ganges, Covid probably didn’t worry them too much – they were probably carriers rather than sufferers!!
The first time that I heard Omicron mentioned, I joked and asked wasn’t it one of the Transformers – then hastily added “I hope to God it isn’t!!!”. After all there’s nothing worse than a variant of a variant.
Also when they called it the Kent variant I said to the wife that due to Kent’s proximity to the Channel it had probably been brought in on one of our many new residents, rather than a ‘homebrew’.
I saw that mentioned – either on the news ( not sure ) or, more likely, Have I Got News for You!! They were very understanding of the natural tendency to allocate it to China, in a ‘full circle’ type of way!!
HERE is a great place ( and method ) to get the latest W10 iso. It showed 21H1 as the latest, but actually it gave me 21H2 from November 2021.👍👍
Found one from Dave’s link HERE. Bonus was they took PayPal!! Less than 5 minutes later, I’ve got the Key.🙂
Cheers PM👍👍 It all arrived today, so I’m reading the installation details for any ‘gotchas’, but I’ll need a W10 ( Pro ) key and they all seem to have vanished – well the cheap ones anyway. I’ll check for some old links from on here.
Well, I dropped the hammer. Reason behind that call was some parts were getting out of stock on all three sites, ( the GT1030 I was after, as per Dave’s recommend ) which were like rocking horse poo at one stage, only place was Amazon so I got it there along with the case, which was disappearing fast. The rest I was waiting for on Ebuyer and when I saw their Black Friday promise that if the price went down further on BF they would refund the difference that sealed it, no more twice daily checking and waiting.
Case arrives Friday, mobo, CPU, memory, M2 and PSU the same day, with the graphics card on Sat/Monday.
Just over £600 after some cashback on the mobo ( which I upgraded to the MSI MAG B560 TORPEDO ATX simply because I liked the look, seeing as it will be on display through the glass side.
The wife has decided it’s time my old desk was retired, so she’s getting me THIS, with THIS by the side for my printer. Fun times ahead!!
Well, I’m still holding out for Black Friday, but my list of items has ben increasing in price at Amazon over the past few weeks. My case above on 6/10 was £64.98 is now £74.99, Mobo was £89.99 is now £93.05, Ram was £68.44 is now £75.90. Prices at CCL and Ebuyer have stayed about the same, but availability has gone down. Amazon seem to be increasing prices now just to drop them come Black Friday. They’re going to need to drop drastically if I’m going to source from there.
I’m going to have to buy cagily, and maybe from different suppliers to get the best deal. I was hoping to get them all from one place in case of any incompatibility, but at the moment that’s up in the air!!
This time we had the Pfizer version. Once again my wife, who has been known to react with anaphylaxis to some encounters, and now carries EpiPen ‘insurance’ with her at all times, had no reaction.
Good to see you back, Richard, though your priority closer to home is understandable. You’ve gone through more hard times over the last year or so than most others have from Covid. The gut-wrenching thing with cancer is the ‘less bad’ news is never the same as better news. Our thoughts are with you and you’re wife, along with hope that your daughter is stabilising.
Regarding your wife’s booster, the on-site GP who nixx’d my Pfizer booster because of my prior history, OK’d the wife’s even though she also carries an Epi-pen in case of wasp stings.
I can appreciate that GPs are worn out, and in need of a rest, but it is getting really hard to get attention, even from really good practices.
5 years ago there were public meetings that overflowed the venues, getting together to complain about ours. They went into a programme of improvements that scratched the surface, got more Advanced Practitioners, Practise Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and the like, but were still losing GP’s. Plus there is one expensive locum GP all day Mon – Thur and 2 all day on Friday!!
Just pre/early-covid it was sold on to an ( apparently ) good company – Invicta Health. The CQC ratings have gone from an overall ” Needs Improvement” to an overall “Good”, but all the patients in my circle of friends/acquaintances say that it still needs improving. I do have friends that work there who say that they are all trying as hard as they can but resources are still lacking, ie funding and GP’s. It’s probably the same story all over, even worse on the, hopefully, tail-end of Covid.
I eventually got my third jab Saturday before last. This was after about three weeks of pro-active chasing for it.
25th Sept I went for my flu jab and booster- well I got the flu jab but as I needed the AZ and they were only doing the Pfizer, the on-site GP said no and I went onto a list for when the AZ became available. Heard nothing the following week so I then booked on 119 for Tuesday, went to the centre, went in and was told still only Pfizer, check with your GP. Rang GP, ignored the recorded message about them not knowing anything about boosters and spoke to them, filling them in. Later that day they phoned back and could only suggest I try the NHS ‘grab-a-jab’ website. Tried on there but they showed my local jab-sites as not having any AZ.
Heard over the next weekend from a friend in the NHS that ‘on the grapevine’ there was supplies of AZ in the area, so rang 119 for an appointment, again on the Tuesday. Turned up and went in to be told that all doses held were allocated doses booked via our GP. Unofficially told that if I turned up on the Saturday early, they would ensure they got something into my arm!! Visited GP and was told on reception that I would be put on the list that they held.
Come Saturday I went to the site and was put through for a jab. Only delay was whether they would use a booster dose, or as I was marginally immuno-compromised from the Lymphoma, they would use a full third dose. I got the full third dose.👍👍 Finally.
Throughout, on a personal level, all the NHS staff that I encountered were pleasant, tried, to the best of their capabilities to get me sorted, understood my situation, but the system just failed all round.
I still haven’t heard from my GP’s list, two weeks later!!
Our village went that way a few years ago now. In the space of a few years we lost three banks completely, the Post Office closed and went into one of the Co-ops and a building society went too. Replaced by a charity shop, a dentist and a Domino’s Pizza. The only reason the BS stayed was because it was a ‘half shop’ so wasn’t too costly to justify staying. As far as ATM’s go, we’ve got four.
I was a late converter to online banking and used the branch in the village for years, but now I don’t really miss it at all. If ever I get a cheque – rarely now or if at all – I use the app to photo it and it’s in the account next day. It still takes the extra day or so to clear.
It sometimes need things like an OS change to galvanise regional EMEA* CEOs into reluctantly sticking money into their IT budget.
Sometimes, not even that!! It seemed more like “If it ain’t broke, don’t spend money on it!!”
My son was contracted to Jaguar Land Rover about 4 or 5 years ago on a project to upgrade their central software so that all the different factories, national HQ’s and showrooms, that over the years had been brought under the JLR umbrella, were on a common global system. The code was written, the prep work done and tested out in UK, US and parts of Europe but come global changeover day they discovered that there were systems in Russia, Romania, Bulgaria etc that were still running on W95 and 2000 so there was a huge pause in the project and the software side was stood down while a hardware upgrade was put into place.
Don’t know the outcome as he was contracted out elsewhere and never went back.
Have I Got News for You had an excerpt from an Australian News broadcast where the presenters couldn’t keep a straight face.
The phone system appeared in other songs of theirs. The intro to ‘Money’ from Dark Side of the Moon had the cash register/coins/drawer shut followed by the old Strowger switch – the mechanical stutter sound. I still hear this sound in my head from my exchange maintenance days – there would be a cacophony of sound as you walked around the exchange – H&S would have had a field day, forcing engineers to walk around with ear protectors!! Unfortunately you had to listen out for alarms when switches stuck or incoming calls from other exchanges for co-op clearing a problem.
I must confess I always thought the tones were just Blue Box Phreaking noises!
The tone calling systems were like an earlier version of the old fax machine’s handshake, just separated to enable the switches to connect ( and clear ) forward to the ultimate destination, the person called. In fact an engineer could piggyback onto a call and listen and recognise the tones as the call was successfully set up and connected.
The Americans used an outdated system that let ‘phone phreakers’ set up a free call, then use the tone machine to try to clear it down and set up a ( chargeable ) long distance call ( Blue Box Phreaking. Steve Jobs/Wozniak made some of these Blue Boxes as an earlier illegal side-line prior to starting Apple.
The tone system used by the UK ( and most parts of Europe ) was 2280Hz – this was researched when the switches were developed and found to be the frequency least used by the human voice in conversation, but still within the range that the old telephone system was optimised for – 200Hz to 2400Hz.
Hi Lee – I just checked the son’s PC and it’s an old P4 Socket 478, Mobo is a Gigabyte GA81K1100 ( Rev 2.x ), 6 x Dimm slots, but a maximum capacity supported is 4Gb. Been up in my loft for minimum 6 years.
Well past its’ useful time!! Shame.
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