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So angry at them letting the Brazil virus in

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Polarbear2 Mon 01-Mar-21 10:34:48

I’m seething at hearing about this person wandering the country with the Brazilian virus. He ‘didn’t fill in a contact form’ apparently. What the ****** is going on! If someone doesn’t want to fill in a form isolate them for 2 weeks. If you go to the US and don’t fill in a green form you don’t get in!!!! What are our border services playing at.

Polarbear2 Mon 01-Mar-21 12:52:21

You’re all right. It will happen and I shouldn’t seethe. I’ll go sort bedding. ?‍♀️ (I’m still mad tho!)

GrannyGravy13 Mon 01-Mar-21 12:52:12

Thank you for the clarification Alegrias1

B9exchange Mon 01-Mar-21 12:52:11

I think once the daily numbers reduce to last summer's levels we should stop publishing them, and stop the constant Covid updates in the press. With the vulnerable vaccinated, we have to get back to normal, and as long as people are bombarded with numbers of people dying, they will continue to be too scared to resume their normal lives. Around 1400 people die every day in the UK, that is normal, but if we had news broadcasts of how many had died each day on the evening news, no-one would ever go out!

Alegrias1 Mon 01-Mar-21 12:40:39

paddyanne

The Scottish cases flew from Brazil to Paris and then London ....then apparently made their way north without any attepmt to isolate ! WE really need control of our borders ,we had no deaths last year for over 8 weeks until the tourists started swarming over the border and got abuse for saying to them please dont come during the pandemic .Boris of course said ther IS NO BORDER .Now we're facing the same again ,you'd almost think its part of the chief clowns plan to keep us infected !!

That's not the case paddyanne. The three cases found in Scotland all isolated on their arrival in Aberdeen at the expense of their employer, as they were required to. They tested positive during their isolation and the government are now tracing people who were on the flight with them.

All 3 are Scottish residents, by the way.

BlueBelle Mon 01-Mar-21 12:40:28

I believe this happened a month ago whitwave

BlueBelle Mon 01-Mar-21 12:38:21

It’s going to happen I can see no point in seething about it

New Zealand (well Auckland) has now gone into lockdown, 12 days before my granddaughters wedding ? this time it was a college student going to the gym but the last time a few weeks ago were U.K. visitors who probably passed it to each other IN the quarantine hotel testing negative when leaving the hotel but positive two days later already passed it on !!!
It will happen throughout the world absolutely no point in getting overly annoyed ? It will happen
(who said it was a he?)

Whitewavemark2 Mon 01-Mar-21 12:34:39

44 days between the government being told of the danger of the Brazilian mutation and the government taking any action at all. Plenty of time for this opportunist to spread around the U.K.

EllanVannin Mon 01-Mar-21 12:17:44

Every year we never know what " germs " travellers bring into the country, it's been going on for years with foreign travel to all kinds of far-flung places.
We must have built up some resistance over the years ?.
How many people do you hear coughing and sneezing when flying ? People will still fly whether or not, we can't stop them.

Watch a few youtube flights and you'll be guaranteed to hear coughing. Those droplets are circulating within the confines of an aircraft cabin. So if there's anywhere you should wear a mask, it's on board a flight, even in normal times.

paddyanne Mon 01-Mar-21 12:13:26

The Scottish cases flew from Brazil to Paris and then London ....then apparently made their way north without any attepmt to isolate ! WE really need control of our borders ,we had no deaths last year for over 8 weeks until the tourists started swarming over the border and got abuse for saying to them please dont come during the pandemic .Boris of course said ther IS NO BORDER .Now we're facing the same again ,you'd almost think its part of the chief clowns plan to keep us infected !!

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 11:58:57

I agree. We just need people not to jump the gun for a few more weeks.

BlueSky Mon 01-Mar-21 11:56:43

Agree Ellan it’s the only way forward.

Shinamae Mon 01-Mar-21 11:52:30

EllanVannin

We can't live our lives forever in and out of lockdown, it's not normal. I think it'll be a case of if everyone's been vaccinated you take your chances and hope for the best.

I totally agree EV...

EllanVannin Mon 01-Mar-21 11:45:08

We can't live our lives forever in and out of lockdown, it's not normal. I think it'll be a case of if everyone's been vaccinated you take your chances and hope for the best.

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 11:43:32

That doesn’t mean they hadn’t flown from somewhere before they took the home test, if you see what I mean.

The test and the filled in form were done at home not Stan airport.

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 11:41:01

It wasn’t a flight passenger Pamela. It was a home test.

EllanVannin Mon 01-Mar-21 11:40:15

As I've been saying in a few posts that people have still been flying hither and thither throughout this past year, regardless !
I'm not surprised by this nor anything else that comes our way, afterall, we can't be locked-down forever which is what it amounts to as people will begin their holidays abroad soon anyway. What's going to happen at the beginning of this Autumn again ?

Jaxjacky Mon 01-Mar-21 11:39:25

Could’ve been a she...as GrannyGravy13 said, Australia, with all their controls have had a case sneak in. These cases won’t be the last.

PamelaJ1 Mon 01-Mar-21 11:28:33

I don’t understand this.
I got the impression that they know which flight the passenger was on.
If so then surely they know who was on the flight and by the Process of elimination surely they can work out the name and passport details of the person they are looking for.

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 11:18:27

Hmm, before quarantine but should have self-isolated if they travelled from abroad. I wonder if they did.

Or if they caught it here they could just be wandering around. Shows it’s not over doesn’t it and that any of us could be a source of infection.

Such a lot of people are relaxing now and taking the chance.

Smileless2012 Mon 01-Mar-21 10:58:51

I thought that too maddyoneangry.

BlueSky Mon 01-Mar-21 10:57:02

Yes I’m sure some people don’t put in the correct details on purpose. I know of people who did exactly that last year when pubs reopened. angry

GrannyGravy13 Mon 01-Mar-21 10:54:41

The vaccines minister this morning said it was part of the surge testing. Their are 3 confirmed Brazilian variant cases in Scotland, 2 in Gloucestershire (same household) along with the one they are trying to track.

The Kent strain has been found in Australia despite quarantine and stricter border controls.

The virus is here to stay, it will continue to mutate which is why the vaccination programme is vital.

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 10:43:05

Probably a random sweep of someone with no symptoms who just filled in the form carelessly.

Peasblossom Mon 01-Mar-21 10:42:01

It wasn’t an airport test where forms are checked. It was either a home test or one of the random sweep tests.

maddyone Mon 01-Mar-21 10:41:24

It strikes me that this person is selfish beyond description as they obviously didn’t want to be found, regardless of the result.