Len Rum
Well-Known Member
What's all this about an October 'circuit breaker'?
Surely Covid is over ( if you want it)?
Surely Covid is over ( if you want it)?
Me neither, I have spent some time in New Zealand and its a lovely country.New Zealand is approximately the same size as the U.K, with demographic and geographical advantages. Of course they have big challenges ahead so does Israel and the U.K, who were at the forefront of the vaccine roll out.
New Zealand needs to ramp up vaccine roll out but it’s always more difficult to create urgency when there are very few cases. At least medicine and science has advanced over the last 20 months.
Btw, If I was living in New Zealand I wouldn’t be in a rush to open up borders beyond Australasia. The Kiwis were having a fantastic lifestyle when we were deep in lockdown.
Our government regularly put ideas through the media in order to gauge public opinion before either going ahead with it or fobbing it off as hearsay.What's all this about an October 'circuit breaker'?
Surely Covid is over ( if you want it)?
Your employer is wrong then. See the NHS / Government advice I posted earlier.No, following my own, sensible advice. No requirement according to my employer to lateral flow:
As with positive cases in any other setting, NHSTest and Trace will work with the positive case and/or their parent to identify close contacts. Contacts from a school setting will only be traced by NHS Test and Trace where the positive case and/or their parent specifically identifies the individual as being a close contact. This is likely to be a small number of individuals who would be most at risk of contracting COVID-19 due to the nature of the close contact. You may be contacted in exceptional cases to help with identifying close contacts, as currently happens in managing other infectious diseases.
Individuals are not required to self-isolate if they live in the same household as someone with COVID-19, or are a close contact of someone with COVID-19, and any of the following apply:
Instead, they will be contacted by NHS Test and Trace, informed they have been in close contact with a positive case and advised to take a PCRtest. We would encourage all individuals to take a PCR test if advised to do so.
- they are fully vaccinated
- they are below the age of 18 years and 6 months
- they have taken part in or are currently part of an approved COVID-19 vaccine trial
- they are not able to get vaccinated for medical reasons
Staff who do not need to isolate, and children and young people aged under 18 years 6 months who usually attend school, and have been identified as a close contact, should continue to attend school as normal. They do not need to wear a face covering within the school, but it is expected and recommended that these are worn when travelling on public or dedicated transport
Here in Southern Spain we suffered along with Italy the worst loss of life imaginable of our older community.Safety has a cost. What cost are you willing to pay?
We could have 10mph speed limits and almost every accident would be survivable, even car vs pedestrian. That’s be safer, but we don’t do it.
Why not?
This virus has shutdown entire economies, and with the world on its back economically, who is going to pay for all the shit that needs doing to regenerate those economies?
Accordingly, we know certain things allow us to move forward with minimal risks: Vaccines, masks, and social distancing.
Lets do as much of those as we can until this virus runs out of steam. If things track as they have in the past, we should be back to normal by Summer 2022.
October lockdown trending. I don't see any point in another lockdown at all. People who have been jabbed done what they have needed to do to get the protection. Booster jabs if necessary but not another lockdown. Took about five steps forward from May, lets not take 15 back