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Just as well I’m a miserable bugger and don’t like mixing with people anyway, isn’t it :lol:

Unfortunately as the Government have handed the decision on the use of Evusheld over to NICE to look into, then clearly the whole thing is being driven by cost. Apparently Evusheld would cost £1500 per patient, per year - which with anywhere between 200,000 and 500,000 patients involved, is not...

Good luck! Hope things go well for you...

I realise, from the amount of time since anyone last posted on this forum, that everyone is now bored of, or is busy “living with Covid”, so this latest decision by the Department of Health may have passed them by. The decision not to buy the anti-Covid drug, Evusheld has caused outrage in the...

No, it isn't - it makes those that do have genuine concerns feel like we are all just part of his gag!

OK, thank you that gives a bit more clarity if different departments offer different rules. My youngest's SLT/OT have said while they no longer have to wear masks they will at parental request, which seems eminently sensible when working with vulnerable children.

That is a little surprising, as there are certainly departments, like Oncology, where the risk clearly isn't negligible. Maybe those departments have different rules!

I’m still a little confused. Is that the risk to staff that is negligible?

I should have also added that it seems the hospital themselves feel it’s more than a coincidence, as they have now restricted visiting to between 5 & 7pm of an evening, in I presume an attempt to keep all but the determined visitor away!

Yep, then there’s the clinically extremely vulnerable, for whom many have developed no antibodies despite 5 or more vaccinations. I don’t ever want to see a return to 2020, and the shielding that my family endured, but I would like to see a modicum of decency and empathy, and for people to stop...

I would equally be genuinely interested to know the reasons. I would be interested to know if it was science led, Trust led, or pressure from patients? I know my GP surgery has recently, very reluctantly, removed the need for patients to wear masks in the surgery, but a local decision by staff...

No, of course not - but it sure didn’t help! For me, some places, like hospitals should never have bowed to the pressure to relax all the rules. No, you will never know for sure how well the rules work, but surely they have to be better than no rules at keeping the most vulnerable safe. My...

As is always, there is a flip side to everything. My father-in-law had a massive stroke 5 weeks ago and was admitted to the local hospitals’ acute stroke ward. The visiting was strictly controlled with only two visitors per day and for no more than 2 hours, between 2 & 5pm. Your name was taken...

Thought you were going to say dancing on the ceiling to Lionel Richie.

Hope he is OK, but there is a real irony about this, far more than anything Alanis Morissette could pen!

Agree. As we have done, throughout the pandemic we will do what we can to keep ourselves safe, take vaccines when offered, and now keep our own counsel, as there is little conversation to be had.

Or, as an alternative, those still concerned about Covid, for many reasons, are fed up with being told to learn to “live with Covid” and so are avoiding coming on here to be told how wrong they are to still be concerned.

Glad you last two posters find Covid so hilarious and easy to dismiss, good for you that you're fit and healthy and don't need to worry about coming into contact with one of the 1 in 13 people currently estimated to have Covid.

I can’t see anyone on here shutting conversations down! I’m guessing throughout Covid, many people could have a story to tell of a personal nature. In the same way as I would empathise with your friend and their current situation, I also empathise, from a close personal point of view, with...

Ah, mental health figures... what about the mental health of those who were told to shield by the government, pretty much told they were going to die if they caught Covid, spent 6 months locked indoors. - no hours exercise, or walking the dog or such, no visits to the park, no seeing ANYBODY...