In the Dark

Public Service Announcement!

Last week’s UK National Astronomy Meeting in Cardiff was the biggest ever, and it was noticeable that very few people (less than 5%) were wearing face coverings at any point. It’s not surprising therefore that there have been reports of people testing positive for Covid-19. I don’t know how many cases have developed overall, but two people with whom I was in reasonably close contact during the conference have tested positive so, although I have no symptoms, I decided to test myself as a precaution.

Doing a test was more difficult than I thought as antigen test kits are in short supply in Maynooth these days. I tried two supermarkets and a pharmacist to no avail, and then someone in the pharmacist said she’d seen them in Aldi so I bought some there.

The result was negative:

I’ll do another one tomorrow morning just in case.

If you happened to be at NAM I’d encourage you also to get a test. If you have done one already and tested positive I’d encourage you to contact the Local Organizing Committee, who are monitoring the situation, either by email (contact details here) or via the anonymous reporting form here.

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