Corona Virus

It is going around really rapidly. I know of lots of people who are testing positive, many without symptoms, but have been called by friends to say they are positive. There was a 50th wedding celebration last Sunday for some friends of friends. One guy turned up whose wife was positive (at least she stayed at home)! About 50% of the attendees are now positive. My friend was meant to go but (see below) his daughter is getting married in Israel in ten days time and he cannot be anything other than negative before he flies, so he didn't go.

I am flying to Israel for the weekend next Thursday evening (for the wedding). They require PCR tests before we fly and when we land. I am avoiding almost all contact with people, especially large groups of people, so I have declined or given my apologies several invitations to events in the last week and next week. The worry is what happens if I test positive when I land. I am stuck in Israel for ten days I think!

Hope Humphette and Humph Junior start to feel better soon. Do you like acting as a nurse and carer??

It appears to be do whatever you think is right governance now, not just in the UK.

My daughter tested positive Monday 14th March at school. Told to quarantine for 10 days then test, if -'ve OK to go. Meantime, my son (everyone is double injected and have the third booster) is OK to go to school but the doctor will not allow him in the surgery for his monthly injection for breathing issues. WTF ! OK to go to school but not for medication ?
My wife called the doctor this morning (daughter is out of quarantine) he can go for the injection but now needs to go for the next three weeks for weekly injections to get boosted back to the required level for monthly injections. In the surgery the receptionist started giving my wife a bollocking for missing the appointment and having to schedule weekly injections again. My wife is Scottish, she will take so much but step over the mark and she takes no sh*t. Receptionist was about 2mm tall by the time my wife had finished with her. If you're going to berate someone you really should be sure of your facts BEFORE you start.

Yes, this is Germany, all official communication is in German with allowances for guest workers from Turkey and occasionally, though that one may quietly disappear from the official language list, Russia.

I did German at 'O' Level. My wife had no German when she moved here, she took school classes for a couple of years.
Her German is better than mine now, having to deal with schools and general living while I was cooped up in the office.

We've been here 17 years.

After two years wearing a mask is the new normal I suppose, don't really give it a second thought although you do lose the visual cues.
My daughter attends a school for the hearing impaired, they have clear masks to help the pupils who need to lip read.
I always assumed when you see a lone person in a car with a mask on it must be some kind of pool or business vehicle. Do you get much of that in NZ ?

Edit: reworded to avoid WdB asking how I know the school has hearing difficulty.

It strikes me that we have around 40% of the population “getting back to normal” (work, travel, lifestyle,...) whilst another 40% are happy to eke out the disruption for as long as they can? (Skiving, making excuses, self-isolating, threatening to strike,...)

Add in the remaining 20% who have been half scared to death by the fear of the zombie apocalypse for the past 2 years and it looks like that 2022 is going to be a mess as well?!

It never went away for public transport and people have started wearing masks again in public areas such as shops since beginning of August.

It wouldn't surprise me if it was reintroduced during 'flu season. I'll put one on when I put the winter tyres on the car 😁