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All we have now is the random testing that gives an estimate of how many have been infected in a week and the proportion of the population infected, like 1/23 of the population. I went back to work Saturday as I'm finally non infectious after 10 days. Return to Work interview due next week ( no...

Great situation to be in eh ? no requirement to self isolate so.... if you feel absolutely shite you still drag yourself in to work as a, No statutory Sick Pay and b, if your company ( loads nowdays as we know ) do not pay sick pay you either stay home and don't get paid or come in and give it...

Just seen on a local Worthing FB page that Boots the Chemist are now charging for Lateral Flow test kits. So, a major disincentive if you are doing a poorly paid job with no sick pay, pay for your test kit then lose your meagre salary when isolating ....I wonder what will happen ?

Well after 2 years of dodging Covid Mrs V and I both caught it this week. We were both still wearing masks for a lot of the time despite most people not bothering. Mrs V was not even going to report her case as she though it was not worth the effort but did after I persuaded her to go by the...

I notice we don't seem to announcing case numbers at weekend's any more ....if its not being recorded are we just ignoring it now?

Looks like the majority view is that we are ****ed then ? maybe I should harden up my attitude and stop worrying about those with health issues who are less fortunate than me ? I really struggle with that though, bloody compassion... I can't get rid of it. Is it because sooner or later I'm...

How long ? It is fairly obvious that the combination of winter and mixing and merging and the arrival of the much more transmissible Omicron variant have put additional strain on a NHS that is haemorrhaging frontline staff. So, who amongst those who have left are going to come back to join a...

Odd that you forgot the official government policy long term was to try to " Flatten the curve " and limit the strain on the underfunded NHS. It's common-sense to limit mixing and merging to reduce transmission. .. Do you have any ideas how to reduce the strain on an underfunded and burnt out NHS ?

Its pretty obvious that the NHS and its staff are struggling, a little bit of enforced commonsence distancing would help limit the case numbers and ergo, the numbers of hospitalisations. If everybody limited their interactions it would slow infections, its not rocket science. but hey, wisdom is...

For the majority of us empathy comes naturally, I'm hoping yours has just been delayed but will come in time. Happy New Year.

Closing down options for mixing in close contact is the sensible thing to do temporarily. The " Government " has told us all to be careful about close contacts and interactions but dare not actually try to stop it. Try to imagine the effects of 5-10 people who are Covid positive spending the...

Unless you do get it bad.

It's no problem, remember Johnson said we have 40 new hospitals arriving any day now and was it 40,000 new nurses? Throw in the World Beating mid table vaccinations total and we are home and hosed.

Hope all goes well for you and the family with the bug Harry. Although things seem better this wave it is still going to cost some people their lives and some their health for months if not years. Johnson is hogtied due to the group within his party and cabinet that put the needs of business (...

A friend of Mrs V went down with it last Monday, he was WFH and was very careful about wearing a mask and limiting contacts... .he tracked back his recent movements and worked out he caught it when he went for his booster jab, either in the Vaccination centre or on the bus there and back...

Hilarious that the Daily Telegraph has found its voice over " Dodgy Data "....they had no problem with publishing no end of inaccuracies regarding how wonderful Brexit would be!

Crikey.! Johnson and Drakeford are leagues apart when it comes to porkies. More worrying for me is the talk that Wannabe Tory leaders jostling to replace Johnson have been warned by the Looney fringe that they must not impose any further controls to stop the spread or lose said Looneys support...

Is a return to Step 2 restrictions really a surprise? This is probably what should have happened a few days ago when Johnson and the cabinet met to review the figures .. Johnson has lost all credibility to lead, and was unable to get this past them without major fallout....so, no decision was...

Indeed. Mixing indoors in large venues is dodgy but government " Advice " has been pretty much to lightly put the ball in the publics court.. as I heard the other day, if the government bans Christmas parties in pubs and restaurants then the owners would probably and rightly expect compensation...

Yes, that's what happens, facemasks are far far more sensible. National store advice was to ditch the visors as they gave a false sense of security. About the ONLY time they help is if people are coughing and sneezing at someone wearing a facemask as it is possible for the virus to enter via...