Covid Nonsense

[nicebloke1]

Why when calling my waterboard to unblock my sewer,they ask a number of questions, one of them being, (does anyone in your house have covid) my answer to that was no. Stupid protocol?

[youngmafbog]

Sadly it is now the defacto get out clause.

Any sign of Covid, not doing it.

[MusicalN]

Yes, any excuse to still be unnecessarily paranoid about it.

[bobbinwales]

Waterboard? If there coming into your house they should know even if it's just to keep there distance. Just as I wouldn't want someone with covid or a more serious infectious disease in my house without warning

[nicebloke1]

Bobb. Its a well know fact that covid is in the sewer system all over the country.
So even if there is no covid in my home, its on a shared sewer of about 30 or more houses up the road from me that run into my sewer.The sewer cover to my home is like many others, on the drive, that dont have to come into the house.

[nicebloke1]

They dont^^^

[bobbinwales]

So maybe they just want to avoid coming in for a cup of tea or to use your loo if you got covid. I agre it's in the sewers so if there just accessing the general one yes I agreeits not revelant

[gingejbee]

Waterboard? Just which century are you in?

[bednobs]

you shouls ask them if their engineers havea recent neg test

[bobbinwales]

Anyway it's probably a standard question aminimum wage call center clerk is told to ask everyone whatever the repair....dodnt mean they'll refuse to come

[ichkeria]

Covid in the sewer system??

Seems unlikely.

[New Judge]

Regrettably this one of the symptoms left over from the time when the government and organisations took measures to "fight" the virus and they are proving extremely hard to shake off.

Nobody in these circumstances ever asked whether anybody in the house had 'flu prior to Covid and 'flu can be just as unpleasant and dangerous to many people as Covid can (and far more lives have been lost as a result of 'flu than will ever be lost due to Covid). It's just a disease that is endemic (as Covid now is) and to ask specifically about it is utterly futile. Anyway, how would you know if anybody in your house had Covid? It is often asymptomatic but even if you feel unwell, unless you subscribe to the idea that you should dash out and get a Covid testing kit every time you sneeze, you'd never know what you've got. So the correct answer to the question is "I don't know".

[bobbinwales]

Ichkera.....its one of the way's they use to test for covid virus....eg test sewage water from a large building

[ichkeria]

I wouldn't have thought a virus - unlike a bacterium - could survive for very long without contact with animal or human.

[bobbinwales]

OK we known thinks covids just flu and we should get on with life give or take the odd death or long illness but his wrong....although not as much as 2 years ago when it was far more serious pre vaccines.
But I agree that question s alot less important now and may just be one they forgot to cross off...but unless they refuse to come its not worth getting on high horses over IMHO

[bobbinwales]

I dunno ichekira I just remember tests being done. But it don't make a difference to this case

[ichkeria]

No I agree it doesn't
If there were traces of the virus in the sewage system they wouldn't be infectious I'm sure.