Archive for February 2022
Crew expendable
Let's just take a minute to think about how this is going to work...
A few months ago the NHS kindly sent me a single PCR Home Testing Kit, because I'm "At Higher Risk".
The idea is that if any of my regular LFTs return a positive result, I then take the Home PCR test ASAP and send the sample to the lab ASAP via either a courier or the Priority Post system. If that test returns a positive result as well, I get a call to hot-foot it to hospital to get drugged up again. The sooner the meds are in, the more effective they'll be. Five days is the limit, after that they'll be of no use to me whatsoever. On the menu are Dexamethasone, Sotrovimab, Paxlovid and Molnupiravir, and if they want me to have another vaccine jab I'm going to push for Novavax because 2xAZ + 3xPfiz won't have worked.
But... if I don't have any LFT kits here because they'll only be issued when I'm symptomatic, how the Hell will I know when to deploy the Home PCR kit?
If it takes a day to get LFT kits, and another day to get the Home PCR sample to the lab, and another day to process it and let me know the result, that's three of my five days wasted, and that's not even factoring-in any weekend interference.
No, it's not going to work.
Situation normal…
German cars have a reputation for being well-engineered, reliable and reassuringly expensive.
Sadly, many drivers of German cars have a wholly-different reputation:
