I have just done the questionnaire @Jenny_Aster; thank you for highlighting it and I am pleased to be asked my opinion on something I feel strongly about.
My concern is that the responses will be worthless. I am astonished that a questionnaire using such convoluted phrasing and incorporating double negatives could be devised and approved. I used the open text box at the end to tell the DHSS this but obviously it is too late now.
I think it's a political decision as well but I'm not sure it will make a massive difference given that half the people who have covid, don't actually know they have it (or whatever the percentage is, we are certainly not seeing everyone with covid isolating) so are spreading the virus anyway. Sensible people will still take precautions but I don't think the behaviour of those that are sceptical of restrictions, are following them at this time anyway.
This is a curmudgeonly post, but a COVID-related one so I'm putting it here. The messaging around the 'end of restrictions / self-isolation' is really getting on my nerves. I can can see that it has to end sometime (though imo it's too early) but in reality it's the end of the legal requirement to self-isolate, not the end of the need for it nor the end of the advice to do so. The messaging all seems to imply that people should no longer self-isolate, rather than that people will no longer be fined if they don't self-isolate, and they're two completely different things. Yes, I know that the outcome of the removal of the legal requirement will be that some people won't do it, and that some people will be pressured by employers to come into work (especially if they are asymptomatic), but that's not my point. Responsible messaging would be to caveat any change in the law and any headline about it, with the message that COVID can still be passed on, it can still be dangerous, and that the sensible and responsible thing to do is to reduce contact with others as much as possible. I fear that the current messaging implies the opposite - that it would actually be irresponsible and 'against the rules' to reduce contact, to wear a mask, to protect others etc. Grrr.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Agree it's a bit of a mixed "message" @LG but I suspect it may just be yet another ploy to take the focus away from the Govt's Partygate issue. No restrictions, no rules, no fines - all's well on the home front so forget what happened a year or 2 ago I suppose it is now a matter of relying on everyone's common sense. Not exactly a prospect to look forward to.
Agree it's a bit of a mixed "message" @LG but I suspect it may just be yet another ploy to take the focus away from the Govt's Partygate issue. No restrictions, no rules, no fines - all's well on the home front so forget what happened a year or 2 ago
Exactly if they remove the rules then they cant be blamed for breaking them. This is the attitude all along , "move on,move on, nothing to see here".
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This is an opportunity to have your say (whether or not it will make a different I couldn't say)
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/revoking-vaccination-as-a-condition-of-deployment-across-all-health-and-social-care
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
My concern is that the responses will be worthless. I am astonished that a questionnaire using such convoluted phrasing and incorporating double negatives could be devised and approved. I used the open text box at the end to tell the DHSS this but obviously it is too late now.
Good to have an opportunity to comment, even if they carry on and do what they want anyway.
Sensible people will still take precautions but I don't think the behaviour of those that are sceptical of restrictions, are following them at this time anyway.
Grrr.
No restrictions, no rules, no fines - all's well on the home front so forget what happened a year or 2 ago
I suppose it is now a matter of relying on everyone's common sense. Not exactly a prospect to look forward to.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...