My kids were sent home from school today, too many teachers with Covid
Cases are rising rapidly and hospitalisations in some areas of the UK they're the highest they've been since pandemic began.
Just the end free testing, surveillance studies and relax any remaining public health measures.
Didn't do the normal checks?
UK Gov refused to engage with existing approved NHS approved vendors, they couldn't even get phone calls returned.
Anyway, with all the shit in Ukraine going on its a great time for a bonfire and hopefully no one will ever talk about this again
The hard reality is...
Good tool to assess the Covid risk..
Watching BHA at the Amex without facemask 1.5%
Nipping out to the toilet at half time with facemask 0.87%
Taking the train and chatting with facemask 4.3%
Like Ebola for example, just 7% of Africa is vaccinated.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59761537
Global Covid vaccine rollout a stain on our soul -Gordon Brown
May this time we'll dodge the bullet, next time we might not be as lucky, unless we act...
The Omicron variant of coronavirus appears to be milder, with a 20%-25% reduced chance of a hospital visit. Problem is infections are way more than 25% higher
So do we have a problem at least in the short term?
We're seeing the fallout of Johnson's terrible relationship with our near neighbour. Ordinary folk who have friends and family on the near continent are the sacrificial lambs, another screwed Christmas for some. Johnson is a prick, but Macron can be one too...
I'm not a fan of mandatory vaccination
But am in favour of vaccine passports for non-essential indoor activity such leisure and hospitality + long distance travel until we are out of the pandemic.
Exclusions for essential shops and travelling to place of work / study on public transport
The...
I'm putting this on a par of the UK putting France on Amber plus last summer, very twatty decision.
They won't stop Omnicron, all this does is makes people's lives a misery
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/16/france-tighten-covid-restrictions-travel-omicron-uk
Calling for return to stage 2 re-opening with closure of indoor hospitality, if they did that financial support would be required or there would be serial business failure. Also a number of Tory MP's would need to be sectioned.
Hopefully we've dodged a bullet with Omnicron, but since its...
Seems Omicron has taken over in London...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/omicron-dominant-variant-london-cases-covid-b971803.html#comments-area
London’s public health chief Professor Kevin Fenton told The Standard: “Our latest monitoring of provisional data indicates that over 50 per...