Covid - news and views

Supermarket slots are always full at this time of the year, so I expect there is an extra scramble taking place.

 

Our village village has covid cases, indoor events cancelled. 

I tend to agree. I think it easy for people to pontificate about what shops staff should do without realising they could be putting themselves in danger. Our local Co-Op has about half a dozen staff in at anyone time and they just don't have the numbers to police it. Larger stores have security guards and they are in a better position to control things. Shop staff come in for enough abuse in normal times let alone during the pandemic. 

Case rates are very high again. Some folks forget that having all the jabs doesn’t stop you getting Covid, or transmitting it if you do get it, the jabs are there to help you from dying from it.

It’s common sense and taking care that helps to prevent catching it, that and a pinch of luck. 

I’m getting mixed messages at the moment. Desperate to ramp up the jabs, but hey, it’s ok to have a party......really?🤷‍♀️

It would seem Sage are pushing for the reintroduction of pre departure tests and day 8 as well as 2 for returning travellers. It tends to suggest they are worried.

Yes TTDog, we both had a flu jab, then contracted it and have both been very poorly, would hate to think how bad we could have been without the jab. As you say, the same with Covid doesn’t stop you being very ill. 

We haven’t had a cold for years, either of us. But we have had two now in only two months, and a good bit worse than usual cold. We are both flu jabbed as well. Nothing like flu, but uncomfortable enough. 

I don’t know why, but I am actually staggered that testing before leaving, and on arrival isn’t as good as it sounds for overseas travellers. It’s like everything else about UK.....a money making racket for someone, and no one to properly police it. You can have as many “rules” as you like. It’s enforcing the rules that makes the difference. And that’s not the job of shop workers.

“mixed messages”

I can kind of understand it…. on the one hand there are political, social & economic factors that the Government can’t reconcile, let alone manage. And on the other hand there’s an escalating healthcare crisis. In minister’s minds there must be real concerns about social unrest and disobedience. People are utterly fed up and we’ve seen on the near continent what that can lead to. Therefore weakening the link between catching Covid and hospitalisation is the only meaningful game in town. Infection is a secondary consideration. At one time it was all about slowing the panademic to enable the NHS to cope, now it’s very different. Time will tell whether the vaccination strategy eventually puts Covid into remission. Trouble is, mutation seems to be the strongest player in the game at the moment.

 

 

 

 

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There lots of cowboys I fear, some enjoying the lobbying support of MPs using their ‘free time’. As I said in a previous post, Trustpilot reviews are now starting to emerge and I think they’re a fairly reliable way of filtering out the dross. In the early days most of them seemed to struggle with infrastructure, not least websites that didn’t work properly. It was clear that many had no intention of providing a facility to contact a member of staff when things went wrong. My most recent experience was a good one and I’d happily use them again. Like you, I suspect there is nothing much going on to monitor or follow-up test results.

Totally agree AD. And with much of what you say as well SB. But it doesn’t inspire confidence at all sadly.