Covid - news and views
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50K new cases yesterday, however, we are just enjoying life, beautiful day yesterday and our beaches very quiet, mostly pebbles, thankfully, so no difficultly doing the social distancing bit, beautiful day today, caravan on the hard standing until September but that is normal for us, dont do the July/August thing, like to make way for the younger generation.
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Notice on our Surgery- " Holidaymakers do not enter". If you need assistance phone your own provider. If you feel you have Covid symptoms do not enter, phone 111 and seek advise. Cant believe this is an isolated incident, so visitors need details of their own surgery before leaving. Another item to the tick list.
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The advantage of living near to the coast Rufs. I've enjoyed similar in the past.
I was listening to holiday traffic through the night, we can hear it in certain weather. It sounds like a busy summer ahead.
I hope people have safe holidays and if the weather's good they'll be able to stay outside in the fresh air.
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some retirement this is turning out to be, we dreamed of taking the van out 4, 5, 6 times a year and then only three months in the first shutdown began! We're just grateful neither of us have had the disease and we belong to an organisation that doesn't require deposits etc. Now both double jabbed we're still hoping for North Yorkshire and Scotland in September (Ms Sturgeon permitting!)
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Talking to a youngish teacher today as she walked past. She is not at school as she and her partner, also a teacher, have both been struck down by Covid, although they both have had their second jobs. They have been quite poorly and unable or fit enough to leave their house for over a week, she was still breathless and her partner still had a severe cough and was continuing to self isolate. So the vaccination is certainly not the be all and end all.
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Both sides of us I heard neighbours children in the garden, different ages, different schools. Seems both sent home as covid in their bubbles. Then phone call to say granddaughter sent home, same reason. On the local news that covid has increased here by 140 percent in a week. We had planned a meal out this evening but decided on caution and got Chinese takeaway instead.
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We seem to have dropped lucky with our recent break away in Scottish Borders recently. Case numbers have rocketed since we got back. It was a very different break, we did little in the way of town visits, or to many tourist sites, stuck mainly to the beach and some nice garden visits. I think this is going to be the pattern for us this year, avoid crowds, busy towns, concentrate on the outdoors. In truth, it’s not that dissimilar to our usual breaks away, just needs a bit more planning. I think a lot of tourism is going to suffer from lack of staff to be honest, either unable to recruit, or businesses forced to close to self isolate.
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Earlier in the pandemic there were lots of complaints about the Test and Trace system not working fully/correctly. Now that it is working fully yet more complaints about it working too well!!
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Fish, your 1st Minister has shown far more intelligence in his Governments approach to the pandemic than PM Johnson has I’m afraid, the Govt in England is a busted flush, totally untrustworthy. I stopped having faith when when his Govt claimed enough PPE whilst the news stations were showing NHS staff with tears in their eyes shattered telling us they were washing disposable PPE. Shameful☹️😞
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Oh the irony. The three most powerful politicians in England will be isolating on the day they have decided its safe to re open and pass the buck onto employers, service providers and the public in general. Fastest U turn yet, apparently they were going to be some little pilot scheme to allow special people the right to not have to self isolate. 🤷♀️
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It was not as if those two powerful politicians had been pinged for being thrice removed from a positive but were actually in the same room as him. A case of "do as we say not as we do". Any wonder the public have given up on restrictions.
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I expect next week will reveal how people are going to respond to the new found freedom in England. Our village is virtually shut down due to local outbreaks so I guess a few lessons have been learnt here! Maybe I'll be able to get my prescription tomorrow, finding the pharmacy suddenly shut wasn't a good experience.
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Just watched the CEO of Ibiza Rocks moaning and groaning that the UK government is ruining his business, do i care if it helps to keep us safe, let me think about that
, he should look carefully at the news report and ask himself why covid is spreading at an alarming rate within Ibiza 0 -
It is heddlo🤔 All management, containment of the virus in England has now passed to employers, service providers and individuals, who have to decide/risk manage the situation for themselves.
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During the majority of UK winters Flu infects large numbers of the population. The vast majority recover in a couple of weeks, some need treatment and possibly a stay in hospital to help them get over it, and a smallish number die. Mostly the effects do not make the news.
There is little difference now with what is happening with Covid 19 except that we now know more or less daily how many are infected, how many need hospitalisation and how many die.
We now more or less have our freedom and it is up to each of us to decide how we act in our own best interest. Lock yourself up or go clubbing or anything in between it's your personal choice and responsibility. Enjoy.
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Went to an indoor shopping centre this morning, a fair few people there and only saw two people ( together) not wearing masks. So pleased to see that most people are being sensible. In my opinion our government should have kept the face mask rules. Came back past the beach, seriously you couldn't put a pin between the family groups it was rammed.
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Because we have it in our village thanks to Euro finals TV and then a wedding in the pub it has "sobered" us locals up a bit. Not having the pharmacy open in the next village and hearing that people have been quite ill even after both jabs has been a reality check.
Our hedges need cutting, but the local chap is out of action and if we need a plumbing job we'll have to wait till they are all given the all clear too.
So we'll proceed with caution.
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Took a while for the penny to drop though, and a further six weeks before it becomes compulsory, plenty of scope for transmission there! Stable door and horse come to mind.
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One of his(advisers) better thought out rules-no pay no play👍🏻. I’m strictly against mandatory vaccinations but creative enticing is excellent.
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I doubt very much that will happen-there’s a World of difference between health care professionals & the electorate.
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There is little difference now with what is happening with Covid 19 except that we now know more or less daily how many are infected, how many need hospitalisation and how many die.
I would disagree. The transmissibility is higher and this is happening in summer. A time when the health service normally gets a bit of a break.
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