I don't think CDC say that.
They say that it is predominantly droplet transmission
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/how-covid-spreads.html
Airborne transmission and droplet transmission are not considered the same thing as droplets generally travel only short distances through the air.
No one has said that children can't spread it with any serious scientific credentials that I have seen though it is possible that the rates of transmission may be a lot lower than adults.
Plus the will I get the horrific version with pneumonia or will I be asymptomatic.
They're not a waste of money, they allow people to continue to work, if they can't work from home, and if you test positive they force you and your family members to isolate.the antibody test is what needs rolling out ASAP in my opinion these current test do seem a waste of money and they are not accurate.
I'd inform the employer you were applying your right not to work as protected by:Some other advice /opinion needed.
I work in care and have been told the client I have on Monday has covid.
My company are not the best and they do the bare minimum to comply. Which means for example this particular client was supposed to be locked down but was going out three times a day because he didn't believe he should be locked down. The company sort of turned a blind eye - requested him to stop going out but not actually stopping it happening.
Would you go in?
PPE is visor, gloves, apron, so no issues there except 6 hours of wearing that is difficult (no breaks)
Viruses arrive, spread rapidly, finish off a lot of frail and elderly people, then disappear as the population acquires immunity. I see no reason to believe this one will be any different.It's an odd moment with it now (although no more odder than it's been for the last few months tbf...) as the shocking death tolls are nowhere near what they were or highlighted grimly on the news every day. We've also seen a cessation of positive vaccine and treatment stories (which came after the 'postive' ventilator stories earlier on).
And nobody can really agree, or at least deduce at the moment, on how much of the population has had it (the T cells information added a spanner in the works there...hopefully a good spanner). So your mind flips between 'we're going to have to live with this for an awful amount of time' and 'it may fizzle out due' to the particular nature of the virus. Might also be treatments that mean we can hold out much longer for a vaccine (if one is eventually needed after all). It's a collective mental bashing and I'm absolutely hating it if I'm honest.
That there are uncertainties about every possible means of transmission and the precise likelihood of the different ones is true. However the basic idea that the main route of transmission is by droplets to those close to the infected person has barely changed.I've just posted some links mate - I'm not saying it's all cast iron stuff with evidence etc, (personally, I don't see how we can have much evidence of a 6 month old virus.) but the "information" true or not, is out there and it's very very confusing.
They're not a waste of money, they allow people to continue to work, if they can't work from home, and if you test positive they force you and your family members to isolate.
I wouldn’t go in and I would be inclined to tell the client to do one. Doesn’t look good on your company turning a blind eye and is the client self isolating now or is he out and about infecting people! No wonder the country is in such a mess but of course it’s the government’s fault that he couldn’t stay inside.Some other advice /opinion needed.
I work in care and have been told the client I have on Monday has covid.
My company are not the best and they do the bare minimum to comply. Which means for example this particular client was supposed to be locked down but was going out three times a day because he didn't believe he should be locked down. The company sort of turned a blind eye - requested him to stop going out but not actually stopping it happening.
Would you go in?
PPE is visor, gloves, apron, so no issues there except 6 hours of wearing that is difficult (no breaks)
I wouldn't go in, and if there is proof he's been going out with the virus confirmed he should be reported to the police for breaking the isolation rules, with selfish idiots like that out and about we'll never get back to any kind of normality.Some other advice /opinion needed.
I work in care and have been told the client I have on Monday has covid.
My company are not the best and they do the bare minimum to comply. Which means for example this particular client was supposed to be locked down but was going out three times a day because he didn't believe he should be locked down. The company sort of turned a blind eye - requested him to stop going out but not actually stopping it happening.
Would you go in?
PPE is visor, gloves, apron, so no issues there except 6 hours of wearing that is difficult (no breaks)
Turned a blind eye was probably a bit ott but they do the bare minimum to cover their arses.I wouldn’t go in and I would be inclined to tell the client to do one. Doesn’t look good on your company turning a blind eye and is the client self isolating now or is he out and about infecting people! No wonder the country is in such a mess but of course it’s the government’s fault that he couldn’t stay inside.
How old are you ?The client is young, laughs at Corona as an old people killer, I guess he might have changed ghis tune now.
I assume your in a union - if not, join one today, without hesitation, you can do this online. If you are in a union, you should contact your rep and advise them of your situation. They will help and support you with any section 44 claim. If you are expected to work in and around infected workplace, your employer has a statutory duty to do a risk assessment and to provide a copy to you. If this person should be in isolation and isn't and this endangers your welfare you could have a very strong case for saying this contravenes section 44. Contact your union - this isn't a time to fuck around; you could be placing yourself in mortal danger. It's that simple.Some other advice /opinion needed.
I work in care and have been told the client I have on Monday has covid.
My company are not the best and they do the bare minimum to comply. Which means for example this particular client was supposed to be locked down but was going out three times a day because he didn't believe he should be locked down. The company sort of turned a blind eye - requested him to stop going out but not actually stopping it happening.
Would you go in?
PPE is visor, gloves, apron, so no issues there except 6 hours of wearing that is difficult (no breaks)
Ha! Ha! A bit of "Tap" to lighten the mood!Not groundbreaking treatment/vaccine but interesting article about the research of the virus itself (which could lend itself to future treatments & cures).
Estimated around 200 millions atoms make up this particular virus (a grain of salt contains 200 billion atoms). When you consider an *atom is pretty much the half way point (size wise) between us and the centre of the atom...the point at the Planck scale) it puts a lot into perspective ("Too much fucking perspective").
* Read this in a Brian Greene book. If you blew the centre point of an atom up to the size of a tree the outer section of an atom
would be the size of our current universe (93 billion light years in diameter). Nuts.
You are as guilty.I could post links to things saying they are true, however, my point was that there is so much mixed messages out there, it's really hard to be informed.
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CDC says COVID-19 not caught easily from surfaces
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-co...ily-on-surfaces-transmission-before-symptoms/
Study shows that six-feet social distancing may not be enough
https://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20200523/3563474.html
School kids at ‘unbelievably low risk’ of catching and spreading coronavirus, major review finds
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11673942/school-kids-low-risk-catching-spreading-coronavirus/
No hard evidence children less likely to spread coronavirus
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/n...pVfR3rSeGjDqi07ApnxDKVkFV78PsjMTSkaPpFwyzaW5o
An utter minefield of misinformation
Wouldn't be a chance of me going especially with his attitudeTurned a blind eye was probably a bit ott but they do the bare minimum to cover their arses.
The client is young, laughs at Corona as an old people killer, I guess he might have changed ghis tune now.
I am going to put my complaints fw and if I have to go into the job I will but would really rather not.
If course there is a point to testingUnless it’s an antibody test I don’t see the point, you go down without symptoms and the test comes back negative in 3 days but in that time period you could get it! Or the test comes back positive and you should’ve been isolating in that time but haven’t so possibly passed it on!
Nobody is immune to covidOne explanation is that the virus is quite mild and is fought off by healthy young individuals using existing immunity, these individuals are the asymptomatic cases and can’t be detected by the antibody test because they don’t need to develop antibodies to fight the virus off. This is why it has killed the frail and elderly who have compromised immune systems and left the young and healthy largely unaffected.
The CDC is wrong,that goes against everything we know already about picking it up from surfaces as well as close contact to peopleI'm confused,
CDC says you can't pick it up off a surface.
'Science' says airborne transmission low.
Gov says children can't spread it.
So how exactly do you catch this?