Euro football is thought to have cause a spike which is over now. I rather suspect any Hampton Court and Tatton spikes will be far lower and not newsworthy.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I can’t see any school children doing the test twice a week when they don’t have to, so those won’t go down as statistics, a lot people are not using the app now with its over pinging. 10 day’s off work is ok if you can afford it or you’d have to take it as your holiday.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Maybe that's the way back to normality - or maybe it isn't. It's the gamble our leaders have chosen to take. I hope luck is on their side or we're stuffed.
It doesn't much matter now what the leaders think and do. It's up to us each to protect ourselves and our loved one by maintaining the hands, face , space rules as long as they're needed and that'll be months yet if not longer.
Go to a night club or hang about in crowds at events or in tourist spots without masks etc is just asking for trouble but so many who are doing that, especially in holiday resorts, have clearly left their brains at home.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I have been wondering , if masks are considered so important in reducing the spread, and the majority of people appear to have been using them for the last six months at least, why is it that the case rate has gone up? Something doesn't seem to add up. I think I'm rather sceptical about the use of ordinary face masks. The medical high quality ones yes, in medical settings I can quite understand the importance of them but I wonder if we're just being sold the idea, of oh well, masks won't do much harm and it will make the population feel safer?
@Lizzie27 Most UK infections have been traced to home life and people aren't wearing masks at home. The Delta variant is so much more transmissible that one person in a crowd of football fans or a night club or bar can infect dozens of unprotected people.
There was an outbreak at Les Sable last week that traced 44 infections back to one person in a bar. No-one except servers wearing masks.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Yes I get that, but one person at least must have bought it into the home in the first place and if most people have been wearing masks for the best part of a year (as they have been doing round here), it doesn't seem to have stopped most of the infections.
It would be interesting to know if any of masked servers in Les Sable had been infected.
What mask wearing does seem to have minimised is the incidence of flu and colds in the general population which I find encouraging but I'm not quite so convinced about masks against Covid. Personally, we've been wearing the blue medical quality ones and changing them regularly but I do wonder if the plain cloth ones are as effective which might be why the infections have been increasing. Having said, I must admit whilst I'm in town tomorrow anyway I'm going to buy a pretty cloth one to match my wedding outfit!
I don't suppose we'll ever know the ins and outs of all the precautions.
I think that in the case that @Obelixx mentions, it is not whether the servers were wearing masks. It is more the case of, if the 1 person that it was traced back to was wearing a mask.
Remember, masks do NOT protect the wearer, instead they protect others from the wearer of the mask. If everyone in an environment wear masks, then everyone is protected to a certain point.
If I had COVID, each time I breathed or spoke, then the virus would be exhaled. If I wear a mask, the distance / amount of virus in the air would be reduced. If I do not wear a mask, the distance / amount would be more, or even more so if I sneeze or cough.
10 day’s off work is ok if you can afford it or you’d have to take it as your holiday.
Some can claim the £500 Test & Trace Support Payment. There are also some employers who have been paying the staff full pay if they have to self isolate.
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10 day’s off work is ok if you can afford it or you’d have to take it as your holiday.
Go to a night club or hang about in crowds at events or in tourist spots without masks etc is just asking for trouble but so many who are doing that, especially in holiday resorts, have clearly left their brains at home.
I think I'm rather sceptical about the use of ordinary face masks. The medical high quality ones yes, in medical settings I can quite understand the importance of them but I wonder if we're just being sold the idea, of oh well, masks won't do much harm and it will make the population feel safer?
There was an outbreak at Les Sable last week that traced 44 infections back to one person in a bar. No-one except servers wearing masks.
It would be interesting to know if any of masked servers in Les Sable had been infected.
What mask wearing does seem to have minimised is the incidence of flu and colds in the general population which I find encouraging but I'm not quite so convinced about masks against Covid. Personally, we've been wearing the blue medical quality ones and changing them regularly but I do wonder if the plain cloth ones are as effective which might be why the infections have been increasing. Having said, I must admit whilst I'm in town tomorrow anyway I'm going to buy a pretty cloth one to match my wedding outfit!
I don't suppose we'll ever know the ins and outs of all the precautions.
Remember, masks do NOT protect the wearer, instead they protect others from the wearer of the mask. If everyone in an environment wear masks, then everyone is protected to a certain point.
If I wear a mask, the distance / amount of virus in the air would be reduced.
If I do not wear a mask, the distance / amount would be more, or even more so if I sneeze or cough.