It's difficult to be really worried about two things at once - for me anyway. My brain is prioritising Ukraine. Maybe that's why people are getting careless about Covid safety measures.
I caught a brief mention on the radio of yet another Covid variant . I think it was supposedly not as serious re symptoms but more easily transmissable. Don't know if anyone knows more ? According to local news, rates of infection are now rising in SW UK.
Rates of infection rising in the East of England too. I don't know where they are getting the figures from as most people I know simply self-isolate if they test positive on an LFT or have symptoms and don't bother to tell anyone that is what they are doing. I would be the same. Touch wood covid-free until now but below the threshold for a 4th jab and judging by how few masks I see being worn in shops I too think it inevitable that I'll get it, after 2 years of being careful. Daily hospital admissions/deaths etc no longer being reported.
I'm guessing more than 50% of shoppers using my nearest SM still continue to wear masks but the management are no longer demanding it - just asking people to wear one "if they are able to". The social distancing has long gone out the window tho. Have so far not received any offer/notification of a 4th jab/booster despite having the 3rd one at the end of November and both I and OH being in the age range 70 to 85.
My parents (aged 79 and 81) haven't been offered a fourth jab yet, and they had their 3rd in September. They're worried about the lack of distancing and mask-wearing in shops etc.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Just back from Sainsbury’s. About 50/50 mask wearing, but no sign of social distancing in the checkout queue. Most staff wearing masks though. We wouldn’t usually have gone on a Saturday, but we had run out of bread. ( OH still hasn’t twigged that if he takes the last slice out of the bag, it means there is no more, and it would be helpful to let me know.)
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According to local news, rates of infection are now rising in SW UK.
Touch wood covid-free until now but below the threshold for a 4th jab and judging by how few masks I see being worn in shops I too think it inevitable that I'll get it, after 2 years of being careful. Daily hospital admissions/deaths etc no longer being reported.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/spotlight/zoe-covid-study-app-kings-researchers-slowed-the-spread-covid-19
via the Zoe app which gives us access to all sorts of info about infection rates etc.
https://covid.joinzoe.com/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have so far not received any offer/notification of a 4th jab/booster despite having the 3rd one at the end of November and both I and OH being in the age range 70 to 85.
https://mailchi.mp/513706791e4c/our-gov-funding-has-been-cancelled-but-were-not-stopping?e=3d3402b125
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.