How will this REALLY work?

[KindlyFOD]

So, work in the service industry. Lots of contact with the public. Unavoidable.

New track and trace thingy.. I come into contact with a member of the public with the virus. I have to isolate for 14 days and take a test.

Do I get paid? (SSP is considerably less than my current wages).. And does the time off count as sick days therefore counting against me on the sickness threshold?

If it does how on earth is this going to work?

Service industry workers could have several incidences, none of which would be their fault.. Why should they be penalised via these two measures?

There are things you can do even in one week to help yourself. We all have to...

• Cut out refined sugar and have a low carb diet, limit or exclude alcohol to reduce or prevent visceral fat storage
• Take 3 lots of 20 min high intensity exercise to reduce or prevent visceral fat storage
• Take vitamins to strengthen immune system
• Have plenty of sleep, not too much though, to prevent body going into visceral fat storing mode
• Find ways to relax to reduce stress which often causes hormone release that might cause body to go into visceral fat storing mode

I won't write an essay. But it's a well documented fact that a high visceral fat (belly fat) in any sized person, can cause metabolic disease, inflammation and allows any virus to hang about longer if caught. It's often undiagnosed, but the remedy is lifestyle changes, starting now!

The longer this extra sticky virus is hosted, if your immune system is not strong enough to fight it, the more it can replicate - thats when it turns into Covid-19 and that's when the real problems start. The virus sticks around longer in a person with high visceral fat. You need to be able to fight it if you get it. Wonder why most children don't spread it? Wonder why some countries have lower death rates?

I'm just trying to help!

I completely understand your worries. But, we've lived with 100's of viruses for ever. The problem is that SARS-Cov-2 is very sticky and requires a stronger immune system to fight it. And this Visceral fat problem is rife in the UK, US and places like Brazil, but not so much in Japan, Korea, India, etc.

The government can't make us all healthier, we didn't want a nanny state, so have to fix ourselves.

How do we add new paragraphs, I tried and failed?

@flowerycurtain

But if you are tested straight away and negative you would still need to self isolate for the incubation period of the virus etc, and that would be the recommended 14 days?

I did hear them say though that your family would not need to isolate.. But surely if you are incubating the virus unknown to you, you would be passing it on to them?

All very confusing.

Yes, so if you have below-par immune system it’s your own fault for not trying hard enough.

Sure.

We are more than mere worker bees.
Wellbeing is as important as work. A healthy attitude to our fellow humans.
Doesn’t seem to damage Scandinavian countries does it?

The longer this extra sticky virus is hosted, if your immune system is not strong enough to fight it, the more it can replicate - thats when it turns into Covid-19

What was it before it turned into Covid-19?

@thenamesarealltaken What rubbish you write!

The self employed will also be stung again, no sick pay for them!

DD had a school project about covid19 in the immuno-suppressed...
turns out they are somewhat more protected than the not-immuno suppressed (yes really, well, if I believe a 6th former this is true, but she doesn't make crap up).

The immuno-suppressed can't get the cytokine storm thingie like the normal immune system people get it.

This is why preggo women suffer less from covid19 than they do from influenza.

There was an explanation how the top gunk in the lungs washes down to deep in the lungs in covid infected, this is what kicks off the cytokine storm (if the immune system can react strongly to it).

I assume the pp meant that the SARS-Cov-2 infection develops into the disease Covid-19. Not everyone infected with SARS-Cov-2 will develop Covid-19.

Not sure about the rest of the post. Japan's statistics are fascinating - one of the oldest populations but very very low obesity levels and remarkably few covid-19 deaths despite very low levels of testing (low testing usually results in a high CFR since only severely affected people are identified). Could be a complete coincidence.