Coronavirus General Discussion

The difference is that other countries are doing it based on the scientific evidence and we're doing it on the basis of The Mirror publishing pictures of our PM getting pissed at a party that didn't happen and he didn't know about and didn't attend and was certainly not a social event.

There may not be a case against the employer, but wouldn't there be a case against the person who acted recklessly by coming in to work (especially if they were unmasked)? I think there were successful cases like this when people with HIV/AIDS had unprotected sex, knowing they were contagious.

Well yes, yes doing it earlier cos of his issues for sure.

At the same time, countries like Netherlands and Sweden are removing all restrictions in the middle of a cases spike. But high cases don't mean massively high death or hospitlisation rates anymore cos of vaccination or omicron.

I believe, however, there is a legal obligation on employers to take reasonable steps to provide a safe workplace, and there could be a case against the employer if they knowingly asked an infected employee to come in to work.

I just don't understand. People still need to isolate. Even if you do just have a cold, isolate. I do not want your germs, whether it's Covid or cold. If one good thing were to come from this, isolating when you're sick in any way should have become the norm.

I agree with that, but it needs the proper infrastructure around it. I am going to continue working from home for three days a week, so if I get ill, it's easy for me to just tell my boss I am not feeling well, it's better if I don't come into the office that day or week and I can continue doing my job. But if you work in a job in which you aren't able to work from home, isolating when ill only works if you get adequate sick pay, otherwise people will have to decide between paying their heating/putting food on the table or isolating.

Pleased you enjoyed that titbit! Further news, yesterday while masks outdoors were mandatory there was about 99.5% compliance. Today when you didn’t need one anymore, it was still about 95% of people wearing them. 

Well done Spain. A while back in Japan, we saw people wearing masks and it looked random, mums with buggies but not their kids, business men walking but not people in shops, some people serving in shops but not all. V odd. Now I understand a bit more. Mind you , getting on the train there in the morning made it easier to comprehend. And guess who is going to be mask wearing til the summer?

All restrictions seem to be over , or heading that way.
If people won’t have to isolate when they test Positive, what’s the point in the LF Tests.

Personally I’m grateful I have a couple of Boxes of LF Tests, which I ordered few months back. So my family & I can use them whenever we need to.
And I will still be wearing a mask

As someone in Spain, wearing masks outdoors has been an exaggeration with no scientific base. It was a cosmetic measure so the government could pretend they were doing something, and it didn´t last for long. Why wear one in the street and then take it off for dining at an indoor restaurant? It doesn´t make sense. Besides, many studies affirm that almost all of transmissions occur indoors.That being said, people usually wear masks indoors (unless eating) and don´t complain, which I´m glad about.

It's annoying, and I'll probably order a few boxes before the free ones are gone. I like to be able to test before meeting friends or going to the theatre, at the very least, and I don't want to have to pay for it.

It’s mean and silly. The sensible people want to stay sensible. Joined up went out of the window decades a go, but one might expect the last vestige of common sense to prevail….