Coronavirus Thread

[Leicester_Loyal]

4 hours ago, KrefelderFox666 said:

I've seen some around the £50-60 mark but a lot of them are going at around the £100 mark. Seems reasonable. However, you then think about having to do it twice (out to

You must have a lot more money than me!

 

A family of 4 or 5 and it's £400/£500, then got to do it again! Adding a grand onto any holiday is madness, someone must be making a fortune from it all! It'll price millions out of going abroad I reckon, so hopefully they're either made cheaper or done away with ASAP.

[StanSP]

 

 

 

[KrefelderFox666]

1 hour ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

You must have a lot more money than me!

 

A family of 4 or 5 and it's £400/£500, then got to do it again! Adding a grand onto any holiday is madness, someone must be making a fortune from it all! It'll price millions out of going abroad I reckon, so hopefully they're either made cheaper or done away with ASAP.

I think I wrote it confusingly. In isolation to book one test seems OK, but when you consider needing multiple tests (going out AND coming back), for multiple people, it quickly adds up (just like your example). I certainly would think twice about going on holiday until vaccination status is accepted.

 

There is also the example of a £3,000 holiday for two people where a couple of £100 extra is worth it against the cheap Ryanair weekend away where the testing costs triple the holiday cost.

 

I am sure the government have some sort of agreement where it becomes a great income for them, hence opening up travel but with many restrictions. Essentially forcing people to pay them (via third parties) to go away. If the government were that bothered about boosting the travel sector, they could have provided NHS tests as part of the travel testing (at least for green countries).

[filbertway]

41 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

 

 

STOP THE COUNT

[CosbehFox]

Cases up by 1k on previous week - not unexpected given the bank holiday weekend and the cases actually being from across the three days. Hope it levels back off tomorrow 

[FoxesDeb]

4 hours ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

You must have a lot more money than me!

 

A family of 4 or 5 and it's £400/£500, then got to do it again! Adding a grand onto any holiday is madness, someone must be making a fortune from it all! It'll price millions out of going abroad I reckon, so hopefully they're either made cheaper or done away with ASAP.

You only do it once, like this week for my kids to come to Spain, they didn't need a test to come here, but they need an antigen here to get on the flight back to the UK, which is about £25 each. Then they need day 2 and 8 tests, which are £89 each person for both tests. So £230 all in for the pair of them. 

[VLC86]

3 hours ago, StanSP said:

 

 

 

Tells me that we should lock down for everything so nobody ever dies.

[Alf Bentley]

3 hours ago, filbertway said:

STOP THE COUNT

[Dr The Singh]

3 hours ago, filbertway said:

STOP THE COONT

Which one???

[Leicester_Loyal]

4 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

You only do it once, like this week for my kids to come to Spain, they didn't need a test to come here, but they need an antigen here to get on the flight back to the UK, which is about £25 each. Then they need day 2 and 8 tests, which are £89 each person for both tests. So £230 all in for the pair of them. 

Didn't realise that thought you had to pay twice, thanks!

[Nuneatonfox in Manchester]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9642563/Israel-sees-probable-link-Pfizer-vaccine-myocarditis-cases.html
 

Absolutely not a reason to refuse the jab, but definitely for fellow young active men to be aware of. Don’t exercise too intensively in the days after the Pfizer jab and if you get chest pain request medical attention asap.

[Izzy]

Anyone have Nepal in the next variant sweepstake?

[MattFox]

Portugal is being taken off the green list today allegedly 

[Alf Bentley]

58 minutes ago, Izzy said:

Anyone have Nepal in the next variant sweepstake?

 

Now that the Indian variant has been renamed as the Delta variant, they wouldn't be able to call it Nepalese variant. If it's really bad, they could call it the Yeti variant.

Mind you, the renaming is a pisser for folk from New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta, when they had nothing to do with the current variant.

 

To be serious for a minute, I do see the point in the renaming. A mate who's English of Punjabi parentage was saying how he's been getting suspicious looks and strangers moving out of his way since talk of the Indian variant.

Likewise, there were assaults on people of Chinese origin in the early days of the pandemic. I wonder if English people got targeted on the continent (what we call "the Kent variant" seems to have been known as "the English variant" over there)?

 

My money's on Thierry Henry causing the next mutation.....the Vavavoom Variant.

[z-layrex]

1 hour ago, MattFox said:

Portugal is being taken off the green list today allegedly 

My wife is from Porto, she hasnt seen her family since October 2019. We were due to go June 13th.

[Sol thewall Bamba]

2 hours ago, Izzy said:

Anyone have Nepal in the next variant sweepstake?

Being reported that the WHO has said there is no Nepal variant. They're literally just making it up now. 

[Izzy]

15 minutes ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Being reported that the WHO has said there is no Nepal variant. They're literally just making it up now. 

Yeah. We won't get fooled again 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

53 minutes ago, z-layrex said:

My wife is from Porto, she hasnt seen her family since October 2019. We were due to go June 13th.

Hopefully they don't send Portugal to amber, mate.

Be nice to see Balearics and Canaries go green too.

We can't live in fear forever.

[Otis]

45 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

Hopefully they don't send Portugal to amber, mate.

Be nice to see Balearics and Canaries go green too.

We can't live in fear forever.

Sage would beg to differ 

[Tuna]

3 hours ago, Izzy said:

Anyone have Nepal in the next variant sweepstake?

It'll be the Narnia variant next.

[BenTheFox]

3 hours ago, MattFox said:

Portugal is being taken off the green list today allegedly 

I was planning a weekend in Lisbon. Good job I haven't booked it yet. 

[stripeyfox]

BBC now saying it understands Portugal will be removed from Green List
 

BREAKINGPortugal to be taken off green list

Nick Eardley

Political correspondent

It’s understood Portugal is being removed from the green list and will be added to the amber list later today.It follows a meeting this morning between the UK and devolved governments and advice from the joint biosecurity centre. Sources tell me this decision will be announced later.

Edited 3 June 2021 by stripeyfox

[Mark 'expert' Lawrenson]

12 minutes ago, stripeyfox said:

BBC now saying it understands Portugal will be removed from Green List
 

BREAKINGPortugal to be taken off green list

Nick Eardley

Political correspondent

It’s understood Portugal is being removed from the green list and will be added to the amber list later today.It follows a meeting this morning between the UK and devolved governments and advice from the joint biosecurity centre. Sources tell me this decision will be announced later.

Outrageous decision if true 

[StanSP]

Government says it needs to follow the data in deciding countries to go on/off the list. 

 

Yet looking at BBC's newsfeed, Grenada is one country you'd expect to go green? 

Only 161 cases since March 2020.

No new cases since February 2021.

No imported cases since allowing overseas travel 

Regular variant checks along with 90% hotel staff vaccinated. 

 

What does a country need to go on to the green list? 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Was it Portugal's 445 new cases yesterday or the 1 death registered yesterday out of a population of 10 million that took it off the green list?  

 

I wonder how this period specifically will be remembered in 20 years time. 

Edited 3 June 2021 by Sol thewall Bamba