Masks in schools make huge sense @Lizzie27. The younger groups are the last to be vaccinated and have low vaccination rates and as they are together so much they can easily transmit and catch infections and then generously pass them on to family members at home, including their older relatives who are more likely to suffer serious symptoms and complications.
Rather than throw away our masks I am making new ones in the interests of staying safe and keeping others safe.
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If masks in schools helped prevent transmission of covid, then there wouldn't be so much transmission from school children would there? It doesn't make any sense to me and it's very bad for the children themselves. Primary school children do not catch covid badly and do not transmit high levels of virus in any event. I believe it is much more likely to be the adults in schools who are the main vectors.
Someone nearby (fit and in her 50s) caught Covid from her pupils in early October. … she tried to go back to work but couldn’t keep going she was too exhausted … its affected her so badly she’s taken early retirement 😢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can somebody please reassure me that a positive lateral flow test is actually finding the antigen specific to what we now know as the Covid virus? It seems strange to me that we are always hearing about the number of "cases" and yet many of them do not involve actual illness. I wonder how many positive results would have occurred pre-Covid when other Coronaviruses were available?
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but the scientists all seem to be talking down the current state as well
Just watched our local news with the scientist they talk to here saying he thinks it's a London-centric decision. Hospitalisations are coming down in London. They're still going up here
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OK - but Covid is never about 'me' is it? After 2 years, hasn't the emphasis been in the chain? The 150,000 dead were part of a chain. The 1,500+ per day hospitalisations are all part of a chain. I don't doubt that you will face Covid admirably, but some poor sod doesn't. That has been the point. Break the chain.
Now if we're entering the endemic stage - that changes things - the emphasis is no longer the chain (although keeping infections low is always good), but on protecting the most vulnerable. That will occur at some point. Absolutely no issue with that at all.
On top of that - and again I fully recognise that the NHS is pressured during winter anyway - IF we don't need 1,500 cases a day entering hospital, why encourage it? At this point, during winter, isn't it still sensible to keep the covid numbers as low as possible to allow the NHS to function as close to normal as it can with other illnesses?
Did you think about those issues? - and if you then answer yes - then how is my process 'over thinking' and yours not - isn't it more that we both thought about it, and came to different conclusions?
I look at the gov cases data for my county, area and town (ish), and all three are coming down - they're still stupidly high, but are falling. The gov interactive map shows a general decline countrywide. But I still can't see how anyone knows if that's due to fewer cases or in the data collection (since 11th Jan).
But as we've both agreed, the gov data is unreliable, the scientists are also doubting them now for all the reasons we've discussed. You need to look at the more reliable data, and accept that measurement takes longer than counting, so the results are less granular
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Rather than throw away our masks I am making new ones in the interests of staying safe and keeping others safe.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”