Clearly, sensible people are going to continue wearing their masks in public spaces and taking care bout reducing the risk of infection spread. Those who were already ignoring the rules won't be behaving any differently whether lockdown rules are relaxed or not.
However, there is a huge difference between choosing to go to crowded places such as shopping centres, night clubs, pubs and the like and being obliged to get close to people not wearing masks on public transport. Keeping masks obligatory on buses, trams and in trains etc is just common sense and affords protection not only to staff but to those who are uncomfortable or at risk from such proximity.
Who is going to accept responsibility to new Covid cases after the relaxing of the rules or for long term impacts of long-covid and complications arising from new infections?
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"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I haven't had a cold since covid restrictions. I would get two or three most years so the masks etc must've been having some effect. Admittedly, I haven't been out much either.
Whilst my area of expertise, is in the acute critical care of COVID, I have been party to much of the information coming from other parts of SAGE, and I think it would be reasonable to say, that many, if not all of the relevant experts do think it is the right time to return to normal.
Personally, I don't think my own life will ever return completely to normal, but then I am someone at very high risk if I do contract the disease. I have for the first time in over a year been to pubs and restaurants, whilst on our holiday. It was slightly scary, but also a wonderful joy to be in a buzzing sociable atmosphere.
We have to learn to live with it, because it is never going to go away. It is inevitable that new mutations will continue to occur, and highly likely that some of these will be resistant to current vaccines.
People will continue to die, as they do now, of other viral illnesses.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
You beat me to it Punkdoc!! I can't remember the last time I had a cold donkeys years ago. I dont know if it was the same for Punkdoc,the mentality of NHS management, ( nursing staff)was that we went to work unwell, because you were given verbal and written warnings very rapidly,and frowned upon for leaving wards short staffed
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However, there is a huge difference between choosing to go to crowded places such as shopping centres, night clubs, pubs and the like and being obliged to get close to people not wearing masks on public transport. Keeping masks obligatory on buses, trams and in trains etc is just common sense and affords protection not only to staff but to those who are uncomfortable or at risk from such proximity.
Who is going to accept responsibility to new Covid cases after the relaxing of the rules or for long term impacts of long-covid and complications arising from new infections?
Personally, I don't think my own life will ever return completely to normal, but then I am someone at very high risk if I do contract the disease. I have for the first time in over a year been to pubs and restaurants, whilst on our holiday. It was slightly scary, but also a wonderful joy to be in a buzzing sociable atmosphere.
We have to learn to live with it, because it is never going to go away.
It is inevitable that new mutations will continue to occur, and highly likely that some of these will be resistant to current vaccines.
People will continue to die, as they do now, of other viral illnesses.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border