Covid - news and views

We recently experience senior Londoners who came on holiday travelling by public transport ( train). Arriving Friday, showed symptoms on Sunday. Proved positive by test on Wednesday. Returned to London again by public transport before their quarantine time was up, So not just the young are feckless.

How disgusting of them, Fishy,  BUT I have to admit 'feckless' ain't the term I would use    !

It seems you have evidence that all the "problems?" covid related have only it seems have come from london? what ever would the attraction be? 

No one else had symptoms in the village, but after they came 3 went down with it. Fortunately none were that serious but it just shows how vigilant we still have to be.

The info came direct from the visitors, is that enough? Going back they booked a taxi from the holiday cottage to the station at Machynlleth.

Wearing face coverings will no longer be compulsory but the public and businesses will be urged to apply “common sense” and consider using them in enclosed spaces. The public will also be warned that some shops, restaurants or public transport will decide to continue to require them.

I am sure removing the speed limit on motorways and urging folk to stick to 70 mph would work equally well.🤔

I consider this issue poorly dealt with and agree with the statement from BMA "The BMA said that the number of people admitted to hospitals in England with Covid-19 had risen by 55% in a week.

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, BMA council chairman, called the jump in cases alarming - fuelled by the spread of the Delta variant and increased social mixing.

"It makes no sense to remove restrictions in their entirety in just over two weeks' time," Dr Nagpaul said.

The BMA called for the continued use of face masks and new ventilation standards, among other measures."

I believe that daily infection rates in the West of the country are falling as they rise in the East. Presumably the virus is starting to run out of easy victims in the West. The government talk of tackling the backlog of patients in the NHS waiting lists. With Covid patients hospitalised doubling weekly good luck with that. If all the other areas are to have regulations removed then there will likely be a greater increase beyond that. How people deal with that (on a personal level) is their choice. Mask wearing in public areas inside buildings is, for me, a totally different issue.

Each business premise needs to undertake its own risk assessment whether serving the public face to face or not. Would I choose to visit a pub restaurant that removed all its current mitigation measure. For me the answer to that is a resounding "No". This is at a time when the Delta virus appears to need far less contact time to transmit a load such as to infect.

In offices the management, who have a duty of care to its employees, can do its own assessment and undertake mitigation measures accordingly. The government know full well that even with the mask policy in place there will be additional rises due to the removal of other restrictions. To probably add to it further seems ludicrous. All situations that I deal with I can either mitigate or totally avoid except buying food. If the management of supermarkets are to remove the need for masks I suspect that the screens at checkouts will remain.

The daily rates of vaccination have been no more than half of what they were and have been low for best part of a month.

Remains to be seen what the Welsh Government will decide on 15th July

Sorry for the long reply

Govt boxed themselves in led by Bojo before taking a full assessment. Lets hope the sacrifices made have not been in vain.

I think the reason vaccination rates have been lower  is not that the facilities are not available  but the population who are/were willing to be inoculated have now almost been exhausted and it is those who seem to think as many things these days dsoe not need to apply to them 

The rate dropped to around its present level a while after India supply of AZ stopped as they needed it themselves. Th UK government said that they were expecting supplies in a month or so. The rates never increased. I have seen a similar drop off in other European countries with no shortage of arms available.