TheTeapot Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Banker said: Yes but not essential in my view in respect of access to schools, health, emergency services, supermarket workers etc You spent months and months going on about the economy last year. Sort yourself out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxas Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Be interesting to see how they police those who should be self-isolating when there's hundreds of households to keep an eye on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manx Yeller Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 So lateral flow testing has a 60% success rate so apparently no use. Surely that's better than the 0% success rate of not testing at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wright Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Interesting take from World in Data for IOM vaccination figures. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Manxas said: Be interesting to see how they police those who should be self-isolating when there's hundreds of households to keep an eye on. Is it too much to expect that most people would do the right thing out of respect for the rest of the community? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, TheTeapot said: You spent months and months going on about the economy last year. Sort yourself out. WTF are you on about idiot, of course we’re essential to economy but nearly 100% can work from home unlike emergency services etc which maybe you don’t understand which is why I queried why they were classed as essential for schools provision!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bees Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 40 minutes ago, Andy Onchan said: Many companies/contractors are not members of the federation that you refer to. Having said that many don't want to be members because of the clique that exists within it. It's incestuous and sits very comfortably alongside the funny handshake society on Woodbourne Rd. Not at all. The information I posted earlier is free for all on the website and they made clear expressions that they wanted the information shared as much as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Manx Yeller said: So lateral flow testing has a 60% success rate so apparently no use. Surely that's better than the 0% success rate of not testing at all! It is debatable. In Liverpool they actually found that 60% of Covid positive cases were not detected by Lateral Flow tests. That means 40% were detected which is good, but it may also give a false sense of security to the others who were missed, making it more likely that they would spread the virus. Hopefully the accuracy will improve because a rapid test would be really helpful. Have a look at this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manxas Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just now, pongo said: Is it too much to expect that most people would do the right thing out of respect for the rest of the community? Absolutely and most people would respect the self isolation and help protect the community. The problem is that we all know there are many who would choose to ignore the advice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 1 minute ago, Manx Yeller said: So lateral flow testing has a 60% success rate so apparently no use. Surely that's better than the 0% success rate of not testing at all! Well it means that you're not picking up 40% of the people who actually have Covid[1], which makes it pretty useless if you're using it to stop the disease spreading. [1] It depends who is doing the tests to some extent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 That was less defensive and more friendly, do you think they have been looking on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTeapot Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Glad its over. Youtube has auto played this today 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Non-Believer Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Manxas said: Absolutely and most people would respect the self isolation and help protect the community. The problem is that we all know there are many who would choose to ignore the advice During the course of today the number of cars around on the roads that I've seen (during work) and the number of people out and about, sometimes with no sign of any social distancing, it would make me wonder if there's actually a lockdown in place at present. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Newbie said: It is debatable. In Liverpool they actually found that 60% of Covid positive cases were not detected by Lateral Flow tests. That means 40% were detected which is good, but it may also give a false sense of security to the others who were missed, making it more likely that they would spread the virus. Hopefully the accuracy will improve because a rapid test would be really helpful. Have a look at this 6 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said: Well it means that you're not picking up 40% of the people who actually have Covid[1], which makes it pretty useless if you're using it to stop the disease spreading. [1] It depends who is doing the tests to some extent. If someone does 4 tests per week. On that basis, if positive one of them may actually work. So they have a place - and could usefully be deployed. Edited March 4, 2021 by snowman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manx Yeller Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 2 minutes ago, Roger Mexico said: Well it means that you're not picking up 40% of the people who actually have Covid[1], which makes it pretty useless if you're using it to stop the disease spreading. [1] It depends who is doing the tests to some extent. Hardly useless. Say there's an asymptomatic case who goes into school, I'd prefer a test that had a 40% chance of picking it up rather than the 0% chance of them realising they have it since they are asymptomatic. Surely we should be using every possible means to avoid transmitting cases. If this finds even only 1 or 2 cases that wouldn't be found otherwise, I don't see why it wouldn't be used Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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