Who's WESo are we right and that seems like the rest of the world wrong ??
We've moved from coping with a Pandemic to living with an Endemic...Covid - 19 will never go away just like the flu virus it will just mutate so every year we'll get a vaccine.So are we right and that seems like the rest of the world wrong ??
Think the early intervention has long gone by this stage. They made such a push for freedom day when in reality keeping less disruptive measures like masks and working from home and possibly at a push isolation rules for contacts of a confirmed case, would have more than likely kept cases low enough to manage.Without early intervention (and maybe even with) I just can't see how the NHS won't be overwhelmed over winter. It was always barely able to cope pre-covid, it won't take much to push it over the edge.
It's a ticking bomb and as ever this government wants to stick its head in the sand. Unlike brexit, there's no long grass to kick this one into though. The proverbial is going to hit the fan unless the government follow the scientific advice. I just can't see how it's not, I'm fairly sure they'll cave, they have to.
The ideological underfunding and running down of the NHS is going to be as much to blame as covid. Nothing a bit of applause won't fix though I'm sure.
Let the bodies pile high
My brother and his wife are both doubled jabbed and have both had it recently - she was really bad.I had it in June, lost my taste and smell and that's about it, no other symptoms. Got my 2nd jab not to long ago and now I feel like there's nothing to 'fear' as such.
The passports are pointless, I went to Silverstone over the summer which was classed as a test event, you needed to state you had a negative lateral flow (no proof required) or were double vaccinated (which doesn’t stop you passing on the virus)I can't believe how relaxed things have become. I went to Tesco yesterday and there was only one sanitiser station at the entrance to clean your trolley down - plenty of hand sanitisers inside the shop but people were just walking in without santising their hands or trolley. You could count on one hand the number of people wearing masks and social distancing seemed to have ceased.
I was offered a free ticket for the match today and turned it down, I am still not comfortable in large crowds. If they had have brought in the Covid passports or produce a negative test before entering, I would have taken up the offer. I did attend the England game at the Riverside but there was social distancing in place and you had to produce a negative test - no hardship. You just don't know who you are sitting next to.
I have seen the Covid passports work over the summer in France. It takes minutes to download them from the NHS app and having them checked was easy. Each member of staff had an app on their phone which scanned your QR code on your CP. People who didn't have a mobile phone produced a paper copy. I witnessed people being turned away from restaurants, cafes and bars for not producing them. There was no hassle from them, people realised if you didn't have the CP, you didn't get in.
Too many in this country thought it was against their civil liberties but that is a debate on another thread.
The government has badly handled the pandemic from the start and is continuing to do so. We will see the death toll rise and they will stumble to plan B, plan C and into another lockdown. When giving clear direction regarding the wearing of masks in public places and adhering to social distancing would have helped.