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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I think some works companies (and taxis) insist their employees/contractors wear masks and are quite hard line about it. Self employed people in my neck of the woods, not.

  • Workmen, friends and relatives enter my home on my terms, not theirs. 

    That means that there’s one relative who doesn’t come in and is likely to be spending Christmas on her own. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    The Vaillant engineer who did the boiler service wore a mask, as did the delivery guys who brought the washing machine, despite only popping it down in the hall.
    We’ve decided to give up our trips out for coffee for a while, but I was a bit over the top anyway. Not only carrying our own hand sanitiser, but also a pack of wipes to clean the rim of cups, handles, forks etc. Rarely see anyone else taking similar precautions, apart from one couple who used their hand sanitiser and a tissue to do the same. 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Not sure I am supposed to tell you this, but here goes.

    At yesterdays SAGE meeting [ higher up than the ones I go to, but I get the summaries ], they recommended immediate switching to Plan B, expecting up to 2000 hospital admissions per day.

    Do as you see fit. [ any  nasty PM's will be sent to the mods ]
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Thanks Pdoc. I had the impression from the news today that this is what the Government are now briefing the press to warm us up to. 

    All very depressing but not surprising
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Thanks @punkdoc not unexpected I'm afraid.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We've already got Plan B here.  What's the problem?   Just hoping they don't put a limit on private Xmas gatherings again as that will make a lot of people very unhappy.
    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)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    punkdoc said:
    Not sure I am supposed to tell you this, but here goes.

    At yesterdays SAGE meeting [ higher up than the ones I go to, but I get the summaries ], they recommended immediate switching to Plan B, expecting up to 2000 hospital admissions per day.

    Do as you see fit. [ any  nasty PM's will be sent to the mods ]
    It looks like it's public knowledge now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59581234
    "they say the peak of the wave is "highly likely to be higher" than 1,000-2,000 Omicron hospital admissions per day without new rules to slow the spread of rising infections.

    There are currently around 680 people admitted to hospital each day with the Delta variant in England (latest seven-day average). At the peak of the last winter wave of coronavirus hospitals in England were admitting 3,811 people a day infected with the virus."


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    South African medical authorities seem to be reporting the opposite, majority are very mild cases, no big upturn in hospital admissions and nobody's died yet.

    Who to believe?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited December 2021
    Wonder who leaked that then, wasn't me. Not supposed to be in the public domain.

    Sorry I didn't word my post well, I meant 2000 Omicron admissions. There would of course still be Delta admissions too, although these will go down as Omicron becomes the dominant strain.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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