NurembergVillan Posted November 5, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 5, 2020 16 minutes ago, Seat68 said: My personal email test result had a subject with Your COVID-19 swab test result. Mine was via ipsos mori though. Any NHS results people able to check the sender format and title of the email. My cousin had negative test results so whilst the wording of her email was slightly different it still may be legit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, NurembergVillan said: My cousin had negative test results so whilst the wording of her email was slightly different it still may be legit. He might be telling the truth. Its difficult to tell as its just an email which is very easy to fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 I’m getting tested next week in advance of some minor surgery, unsure if it’s to test only if I have it or to also test to see if I’ve already had it but intrigued either way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chrisp65 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 The covid app, it’s not that great is it. I’ve had one weekly report since I’ve had the app. Nothing for the first couple of weeks, then a ‘weekly report’ that told me there was nothing to report. No weekly reports for the month or so since that. Today, sat in the house on my own, I had the little virus icon flash up, the start of a message, then it disappeared off the phone and there’s no record of it. Checked on the web, apparently this is a known glitch. But then it also says, this known glitch was fixed 2 weeks ago! Junk. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: The covid app, it’s not that great is it. I’ve had one weekly report since I’ve had the app. Nothing for the first couple of weeks, then a ‘weekly report’ that told me there was nothing to report. No weekly reports for the month or so since that. Today, sat in the house on my own, I had the little virus icon flash up, the start of a message, then it disappeared off the phone and there’s no record of it. Checked on the web, apparently this is a known glitch. But then it also says, this known glitch was fixed 2 weeks ago! Junk. Me and my wife both got notifications a couple of weeks ago, we tapped it without reading it thinking it would launch the app but then it vanished and we were left wondering what it said. After a google we saw it was a fault. Literally not a peep out of the app aside from that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 8 hours ago, NurembergVillan said: I've been sent this (boring) video on WhatsApp and have spent an hour trying to prove it's absolute bollocks. Most of it isn't worth watching, but you can see the supposed email from the NHS near the end. Anyone with evidence to help me support a "defo bullshit" argument would be met with a virtual round of applause... My negative test - https://ibb.co/3BLnDq4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post snowychap Posted November 6, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2020 New lockdown: Manchester University students pull down campus fences Quote Students have torn down "prison-like" fencing erected around their campus on day one of England's new lockdown. Those living at the University of Manchester's Fallowfield halls of residence awoke to find workers putting up "huge metal barriers". They were eventually pulled down as hundreds of students - who said they were not warned about the measure - protested. The university apologised "for the concern and distress caused". ...more Good work from the students. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, snowychap said: Good work from the students. Absolutely. What the hell do the University think they are playing at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 1 minute ago, Genie said: Absolutely. What the hell do the University think they are playing at? Not sure. It was Manchester Uni who thought they could get away with effectively confining them all to their rooms/halls over that first weekend and had to row back and admit they had no legal powers to do it, wasn't it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Operation Moonshot: rapid Covid test missed over 50% of cases in pilot Quote A rapid coronavirus test at the heart of Boris Johnson’s mass-testing strategy missed more than 50% of positive cases in an Operation Moonshot pilot in Greater Manchester, the Guardian can reveal. The 20-minute tests, on which the government has spent £323m for use with hospital and care home staff with no symptoms, identified only 46.7% of infections during a crucial trial in Manchester and Salford last month. ... Scientists with Greater Manchester’s mass testing expert group (MTEG) raised significant concerns about the accuracy of the OptiGene Direct RT-Lamp tests this week, and said the technology should not be widely used as intended in hospitals or care homes. ... The MTEG, which reports to the region’s health chiefs and the Greater Manchester (GM) mayor, Andy Burnham, revealed their concerns about the Operation Moonshot findings to Martyn Pritchard, the chair of the region’s testing strategy group on Monday. In a letter seen by the Guardian, they wrote: “The current available data from the Manchester pilot shows low sensitivity (46.7%) of the Direct RT-Lamp platform,” which is favoured for use in hospitals because of its ability to produce results in around 20 minutes. They wrote that “a high proportion of samples collected from infected individuals in a ‘real world’ setting would not be detected” using the technology, and added: “MTEG have significant concerns and do not feel the data supported the investment in the large scale rollout of Direct RT-Lamp saliva testing in any of the proposed clinical settings considered (hospital staff, care staff, community settings) at this time.” ...more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NurembergVillan Posted November 6, 2020 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted November 6, 2020 1 hour ago, snowychap said: New lockdown: Manchester University students pull down campus fences Good work from the students. When I was living in Fallowfield we'd walk on the opposite side of the road to the Owen's Park halls during autumn and winter because it was always so full of meningitis cases you only had to look at the place and you'd get a stiff neck. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 £9,200 for fees plus accommodation costs I’d want a better **** fence than that AND I would expect all the good stuff to be on the inside. What is the thought process of the microdick nutter that thinks they’ll put heras fencing around a compound without warning and it’ll all work out fine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 The new covid spreading in Denmark is making me feel slightly uncomfortable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted November 6, 2020 Moderator Share Posted November 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: The new covid spreading in Denmark is making me feel slightly uncomfortable Cheap fur coats! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted November 6, 2020 Author Share Posted November 6, 2020 13 minutes ago, bickster said: Cheap fur coats! Hairy bacon! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 6, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted November 6, 2020 20 hours ago, chrisp65 said: The covid app, it’s not that great is it. I’ve had one weekly report since I’ve had the app. Nothing for the first couple of weeks, then a ‘weekly report’ that told me there was nothing to report. No weekly reports for the month or so since that. Today, sat in the house on my own, I had the little virus icon flash up, the start of a message, then it disappeared off the phone and there’s no record of it. Checked on the web, apparently this is a known glitch. But then it also says, this known glitch was fixed 2 weeks ago! Junk. Yep. I deleted it as a waste of space. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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