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06-03-2021, 12:15 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

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...... but they had quarantined! ..... that’s all you need ‘worry’ about.

You appear to have a habit of blaming the government in every bit of news you snip from the media.
Well, I try not to keep my head in the sand .....
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06-03-2021, 12:31 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

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Well, I try not to keep my head in the sand .....
There is a very fine line line between keeping your head in the sand and not worrying about the 'What if's' Omah....
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06-03-2021, 12:38 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

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There is a very fine line line between keeping your head in the sand and not worrying about the 'What if's' Omah....
Well, my career in IT operations management required skills in (past) performance reviews and (forward) contingency planning .....

However, I started as a computer programmer - a job littered with IF, THEN, ELSF, etc. .....
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06-03-2021, 03:18 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

Originally Posted by Omah ->
Well, my career in IT operations management required skills in (past) performance reviews and (forward) contingency planning .....

However, I started as a computer programmer - a job littered with IF, THEN, ELSF, etc. .....
Sounds more like insurance than IT Omah....
Taking too much notice of what the media is saying though produces unnecessary stress and aggression...
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06-03-2021, 04:09 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Sounds more like insurance than IT Omah....
Taking too much notice of what the media is saying though produces unnecessary stress and aggression...
Not taking notice of the media is like sticking your head in the sand .....
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06-03-2021, 04:25 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

Someone didn't fill the form out truthfully. Well there's a surprise.
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06-03-2021, 04:28 PM
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Re: Brazilian variant

Originally Posted by OldGreyFox ->
Sounds more like insurance than IT Omah....
Taking too much notice of what the media is saying though produces unnecessary stress and aggression...


Yup, our media do have this tendency to be very selective about what they want us to see and all too often miss out the context or relevant factors completely which, of course, leads to very misleading stories.
Some people however seem to thrive on such "fake news" ......
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11-03-2021, 01:11 AM
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Re: Brazilian variant

It took almost a month to locate a missing positive case

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-03-10/...race-programme

On March 5, Health Secretary Hancock proudly announced that a carrier of a Brazilian variant of concern had been located after going missing due to an incomplete passenger locator form.

It took five days after the case was identified as a variant of concern for Test and Trace to locate the missing person.

In a desperate bid to locate the person, Matt Hancock held a press conference in which he urged anyone who could be the person to "get in touch".

The search was narrowed down to 379 houses in the south east, before the person was eventually located in Croydon.

Matt Hancock praised the "dogged determination" of health authorities who found the missing case.

But the person who did not complete a test registration form was tested for coronavirus on February 12 or 13, meaning it took almost a month * for the positive case to be located.
I make it 3 weeks but, nevertheless, that's a long time for a possible "superspreader" to be on the loose in the community and longer than I inferred from the original reports .....
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11-03-2021, 11:13 AM
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Re: Brazilian variant

Wasn't he found to be self isolating at home Omah?
and there have been no reports of the further spread of that particular strain. So all's well that ends well....
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11-03-2021, 11:27 AM
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Re: Brazilian variant

According to the DM (yes, I know) this man handed himself in. Checks were ongoing afterwards to find out if anyone else tested in the Croydon area, where he was found, had been infected:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...wide-hunt.html
 
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