immortalpuppet

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Peak sometime in the next week do we think is the collective opinion based on previous surges? Work discussions and down the pub chatter seems to be focused on a circuit breaker type thing but as we have seen in the past, that hasn't worked so there is little point. Things grinding to a halt based on no availability of staff seems to be the more likely route for the next couple of weeks but I see that as riding the current wave out rather than more mitigation.

Having to test once sometimes twice per day gives my colleagues creative license to explore things to do while testing.

Yes, and strangely one nostril positive and the other one negative

Redeployment at short notice, additional responsibility without new role profiles/job descriptions being updated, aswell as the rest of the BAU pressure cooker. Very much supportive of the NHS on this

Disappointed Alf didn’t get his Sandhurst chop AKA knife hands out while covering the key parts. He also failed to say the mission twice.

I am quite surprised and reassured by that conference to be fair. Accepting that Omibollocks is the dominant flavour of Covid and self management of testing and symptoms. No way of telling which flavour of Covid you have but accepting it’s irrelevant. I can see some people going into meltdown over this, especially the ones who already moan about LFD tests etc. Great result all round.

Waiting patiently for the good Dr to wade in with her chastising of the NHS lab etc etc

If vaccinated people have mild symptoms of Omicron and are not that arsed about or put it down to a cold as with the time of year, I don’t think we (UK at present) would have noticed at all. There was always a prediction of more cases as the winter came around. I suppose now it’s a chance to galvanise support for the booster program and extend the yoofs vacination. As Delta is highly transmissible, I am struggling to fathom how Omicron is much more transmissible. I keep seeing news reports about a person or persons in quarantine hotels managing to catch/spread the new variant yet not being in physical contact and socially distanced (separate rooms) I guess the change in transmission may have alerted us to something being different to normal Rona but then again, we may just pass it off as winter again.

Booster today, thanks to whoever reminded to have your consent form filled in prior. In and jabbed within 5 minutes while a colleague took nearly 30 mins pissing around with paperwork and queuing.

Alf is reporting that the lab at Nobles can now test for the new variant. Time to find out if its already here or not

I don't think its to get out of paying for parties, I think for some of the bigger organisations they are worried of the bad press if one of them turned into a superspreader event. I know my partners do was canned because they were worried about the risk of the majority of the company in a single place where at the moment they have a balance of WFH and in the office with regular LFD and good ventilation.

I was reading some of the Twitter responses to Alfs briefing yesterday. One particular post had a lot of anti-Vax types orchestrated in the belief that the vaccines are somehow reducing our immune systems rather than our bodies naturally learning to fight the virus off. They have come along way from chips in the arms and spoons sticking to peoples arms.

Seeing a lot of company parties postponed today.

The good Dr made a blog post on Friday and continued today essentially saying in house, Manx Care don’t have the expertise to run genomic sequencing. Dr G has also just announced that her company will carry out sequencing on LFD results to see what flavour of Covid you have (positive tests). The motivation seems to be that Manx Care don’t want to use the Dr’s lab so she is going to offer the service to paying customers to satisfy their curiosity.

If we have a track & trace system set up, there should be a picture of how/where things are spreading and more insight around potential mitigations. I don’t get the impression that the data is going to drive what announcements come later. I really don’t want mandates forced on us again to keep a minority of shouty people in a perpetual state of fear happy.

yep, balance transfer virgin mastercard last year.

Wholly depends on the type of device/devices and the complexity of the build. Vest/rucksack combo with a deadman’s switch would be a bit difficult to sit down in without arousing suspicion. Also if it was just a vest loaded with shipyard confetti, that’s going to be a heavy bit of kit, again causing suspicion.

The vehicle had not even come to a standstill before the bomb detonated. So much chatter around, he couldn't get near remembrance, it was a timer, the cabbie locked your man in so it will be interesting to hear the proper version of events. It would seem strange on the face of it that if the cabbie had locked the bomber in for having a bomb, why drive to the front of the building in the first place, why not ditch it somewhere less populated. A fucking big near miss regardless of the build up.

Absolute dogshit

Is the course that bad? Its a genuine question by the way, I have no idea what standard the roads have to be in to run the event.

Didn’t she used to troll herself on the politics pages of Facearse too?

The dude that died was going to knock the burglars necks in, didn’t he have posters up or am I confusing the story with Our Amy’s hilarious attempt at running for MHK? Sausages the lot of them.

Was supposed to be signed off on Thursday with an announcement on opening the slides and stuff but got delayed. I hear there is going to be 6 weeks free entry for kids when it finally opens.

May have misunderstood their model slightly but aren’t Berry T just corporate VOIP providers? Easy market to break into on the IOM.