Covid-19 lockdown check-in

[Grey Fox]

Sorry B, that's really unlucky.

[11B4V]

So my wife's friend wanted to go get a Covid test.  She bugged Mrs B to go with her.  So even though Alberta is not doing asymptomatic testing right now she lied and got a test.

You know where this is going... Positive.  Still feeling no symptoms, but is kind of freaking out.

And the rest of us are going for tests tomorrow, and are ordered to isolate for 14 days.

I hope all turns out well.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Here's hoping it is a mild case and the rest of you don't have it.

Isolating with three young boys for a fortnight..........that is going to be "fun" 

[Josquius]

Went for an eye test today. Interesting how much less extreme this lockdown is than the spring one.
Quite sad to see the market in my hometown, long on the decline anyway, reduced to a burger van and one guy selling keys and batteries.
On the way home went by my parents and aunts place and talked across the fence.

[mongers]

Back in February exactly a month before the latish UK lockdown, I declared my own lockdown, so no unnecessary shop visits, no social visits, etc. It lasted 7 months and I called it operation Fortitude. 

Three weeks ago I got a bit nervous and decided on a new lockdown, haven't decided on a name yet, but given the projected length of it, till the end of March 2021, I'm thinking of calling it Operation Last Gasp. 

[viper37]

sorry to hear that BB.  Hope all goes well

[Barrister]

Took the boys for a Covid test while Mrs B hunkered down in our bedroom all day.  Boys took the tester up the nose like champs.

Still very sorry we missed the boys first hockey games of the years.

[Iormlund]

Found out Friday that a guy from work died from COVID. Apparently was sick with something else for a while. He was 44 years old. Fuck. I didn't know the guy, but as an immunosuppressed 42 year old that's truly too close for comfort.

[Tamas]

Doesn't look like my Christmas trip home is going to happen. Even if my wife was let in at the border (not a citizen and we don't count as married in Hungary), they do a "temperature check and questioning" to ascertain whether you are an infection risk and it they decide you are, your mandatory 10 days quarantine won't be at home but at the facility (i.e. hospital) they send you to.

No way I am going to roll the dice on having my wife stuck in a foreign (and Hungarian to boot) hospital for two weeks locked up with positive cases.

First Christmas in England it is.

[DGuller]

I think I have a cold.  Sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, slight mental haze, the works.  I'm not worried it could be Covid, seems like the symptoms point to a run of the mill cold, but it does make me think about how protected I am from Covid. 

Shouldn't the measures you take against getting Covid also work at protecting you from cold?  I haven't let my guard down, I still wear masks all the time outside, and don't go anywhere high risk.  If I can still get a cold, that makes you think.

[Josquius]

Even if my wife was let in at the border (not a citizen and we don't count as married in Hungary),

Wut?

[Tamas]

Even if my wife was let in at the border (not a citizen and we don't count as married in Hungary),

Wut?

Well legally, I mean when it comes to what Hungarian law enables to spouses of Hungarian citizens, the marriage must be validated in Hungary, foreign marriages are not accepted carte blanche.

In this particular case, I'd expect the border officials to let her through based on the British paper, but as far as I am aware, they would be not legally forced by a UK legal document to do so.

[Josquius]

That sounds odd. Mutual recognition of legal docs is fairly standard in the EU and marriage is one of those I would have thought would be pretty universal across most of the world.
I guess some kind of workaround to stop them recognising gay marriages?

[celedhring]

So, given that libraries, coworking spaces, bars, everything... is closed, I can't work anywhere that it's not my home.

My neighbor has decided this is the bestest time of all to start renovations in his apartment AND THE NOISE IS DRIVING ME CRAZY.

[Syt]

Drilling/banging somewhere in my vicinity has been going on for months, Mon-Sat, 8 am - 6 pm. I'm not sure if it's one of the adjacent buildings which has scaffolding around it, or if it's related to the subway expansion nearby. I only know it's A LOT louder in the hallway, and downstairs, and it's not coming from our building.