Luckily we have seen nobody and been nowhere.
Thank you all very much!
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Hope you donât all get it. My niece (13) had it and no-one else in her immediate family got it from her so itâs not inevitable. Fingers crossed for you.
Izzy x
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Similar situation to us, 4 generations at Christmas, regroupement dans lâaveyron (de lâaveyron, du tarn et de lâaude), and three are already positiveâŠ! 
Fortunately we had limited the gathering a little but weâve all been back to work sinceâŠ
This month (December), the Bordeaux University Hospital Intensive-Care Unit (Reanimation) had to refuse more than 110 sick people (who needed their care) ⊠because they were swamped with Covid-19 patients, none of whom had received the triple-vaxâŠ
and I bet theyâre not the only Hospital which is overloadedâŠ
It makes you despair.
232,000?
Where did that come from?
I have thought broadly people in France were being cautious.
Not sure why UK is only reporting 190,000 now. I canât see any reason why the rate of increase would be slower there : rather, quite the opposite.
You make it sound like a competition 
Both countries have been reporting huge numbers for several days now. France also has a lot more people in hospital sadly.
Izzy x
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as the article goes on to say⊠the rising number of tests is providing rising numbers of casesâŠ
until folk accept it is highly contagious and therefor limit their activities/mixing/whatever plus continue to take precautions⊠rather than assuming Vax will handle everything (as I suspect many still do) ⊠I reckon we will continue to see these figures rising⊠and, sadly, even if âit is only mildâ⊠it is deadly serious for some.
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Or get vaccinated.
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No, tim17, sadly getting vaccinated is not sufficient.
A vaccinated person can still catch Covid, especially Omicron, whether or not they personally have symptoms, and transmit it just as readily.
Thereâs the danger, especially until we have a better idea of ratios of infected:hospitalised:reanimation(ICU): deaths.
Iâm just as hopeful as you and others here, that a comprehensively spreading Omicron variant that doesnât hurt too many people will finally push out the nastier versions so Omicron could be the swansong of continuing (rather than seasonal) Covid.
But we just donât know enough yet. And some people are medically unable to vaccinate and have a right to be considered while we all hope for the end of this.
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Iâm sure @Tim wasnât poking at those who really are unable to have the vaccine - for legitimite health reasons.
I know that when Iâm complaining about non-vaxed, (and there are several in my small village⊠aaargh)⊠Iâm talking about those who dratted well wonât NOT those who canât.
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4 million adults in France are unvaccinated, they canât all be âmedically unableâ.
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One of my nearest neighbours (fortunately over a km away and a second home) refuses to get vaccinated as he thinks the whole covid pandemic is a scam. Some french friends in our commune wonât get vaccinated as their disabled (Downs syndrome) son is terrified of needles - I canât work it out either.
Thatâs their views and they ainât budging from them. We now have nothing to do with them.
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Vaccination doesnât seem to stop Omicron, weâre all vaccineted but have half of our extended family positive at the moment, nobody ill or badly ill but i can count 8 known positives and the other half havenât been tested . Everyoneâs active; working or school and now mây employeeâs phoned me because her husband is positive. Best way forward for everbody vaccineted is to carry on regardless unless you are ill, thatâs the advice of one of the doctors on BFM too. It should work itself through France in no time at all and then weâll be clear february march time ready for the next varientâŠ! 
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No, some are right tw@ts, a customer was boasting the other day that she isnât⊠Sheâs in her 60s, overweight and has two family in hospital who arenât vaccinated either, both with covid.
You have to wonder what goes on inside someone like thats head, knowing that she has family in hospital with Covid.
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Letâs just be clear⊠I hate needlesâŠ
Our pharmacy are used to me be an absolute baby when it come to the Flu Jab. I look resolutely at the ceiling or keep my eyes closed until the horror is over.
and the local vampires know that I am terrified when I have to have blood tests done and they sooth me as they would a quaking child.
I was quite open about my fears, when I met the Doctor at Perigueux for my first vax⊠and she made a point of being so kind⊠and I never actually saw a needle being waved about.
similarly with the other 2 jabsâŠ
Thus anyone who is refusing vaccination due to fear/phobia of needles can be dealt with sympathetically, if they make their fears known.
They arenât afraid of the needle, itâs their son who is, but for some reason itâs stopping the parents getting vaccinated. They had no answer when I asked them who would care for the disabled son if they caught the plague and died