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NHS text messages

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mikeydt1

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anyone else got the NHS text stating not to go out for 12 weeks? i think these are basically bulk messages to all mobile numbers as a carer also got one. all very well if you are getting help but for many this is totally useless if you can't get help from anyone one.

what peed me last night, got another text message stating' you may open a window up but not go out of the door, does it also apply to MP's and GOV doctors? to opt out text 'stop' and guess what i will be doing? so were not even allowed to open a front door! does this imply that the virus is airborne?
 
You have more than diabetes though do you not? Fibrosis I think? The more conditions you have the more they will ask you stay in
 
They obviously have you in the most venerable group. I have had one 2 weeks ago, and that was just after doing self isolation for 2 weeks, followed by a letter. I am complying with the advice 100%. So I have not been out the house for 4 weeks now (although I'm almost convinced I've had the virus, but didn't get tested)
The end of the day, they're just trying to keep you safe
 
I had a normal gov message, saying about social distancing but nothing after that.
 
I had a very brief text on 24 March:

GOV.UK CORONAVIRUS ALERT
New rules in force now: you
must stay at home. More info &
exemptions at gov.uk/coronavirus
Stay at home. Protect the NHS.
Save lives.

That was shortly after the restricted movement rules came in.

No mention of 12 weeks in the text though?
 
No - nor me. Pete had the same texts but additionally one letter from the NHS saying he was in the most vulnerable group and this week, one from Matt Hancock and also the Local Gov & Housing Minister enclosing a leaflet saying much the same as the first letter, but signed of 'Yours ever' by the two of them, which I still think is inappropriate, esp as they are both blokes as far as I know and I can defo confirm that Peter is absolutely heterosexual and still tells me that any female that happens to catch his eye desperately wants to 'bonk' him (except that is not the exact word he uses and never was ! 😉) TMI !
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
I had a very brief text on 24 March:

GOV.UK CORONAVIRUS ALERT
New rules in force now: you
must stay at home. More info &
exemptions at gov.uk/coronavirus
Stay at home. Protect the NHS.
Save lives.

That was shortly after the restricted movement rules came in.

No mention of 12 weeks in the text though?
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There was a text sent out by all mobile phone providers, at the behest of the government, to all mobile phone users, and linked to the government website. I think some of the people with very serious conditions qualifying for 12 week shielding got texts in the first instance, but from the NHS not Gov.UK, (which should then have been followed up by a letter). It caused a lot of confusion, because the shielding was announced on the Monday, and the GOV.UK texts reminding people generally to stay at home went out the next day, and some people got muddled up and thought they were being asked to shield.
 
we had a district nurse here yesterday, i told her about the fibrosis and that some receptionist had put me as having covid 19 and she thinks it is because of the latter that this has happened. i am sat here and feel fine and def no 19 virus.

talk about me been a bit freaky.

some good news though, after filling in the gov help for vulnerable for my partner, i have since heard from gov. i am concerned that if i become very ill my partner wouldn't be able to manage esp with having a stroke.

at the moment the pure lack of help does concern me and we also have quite a few elderly around here who are also not getting any help, very sad to see this going on.
 
should of added, the first thing they shut down around here was the community centre. our warden is also totally refusing to go to any homes, she wouldn't have to enter so this basically leaves all properties unsupported.
 
Glad to hear you are feeling well @mikeydt1

Hope the help comes through for you and your partner.
 
got something in place if i should end up in hospital and the text i got last night puts my mind at ease a little more.

many thanks Mike for the kind message.
 
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