I’m in charge now.

[womanity]

I’m

• closing the borders instantly
• vaccinating all school staff and all adults who live with school children.

You?

What@soundofsilence1 said!

Saved me a lot of typing...

Oh and INVEST in long COVID research and treatments NOW.

I'm going to provide shit hot schooling online until lunchtime only so kids can play in the afternoon / day light 😃

I'd vaccinate people properly.

In three weeks there will be 15 million people who need a second jab. When are they going to get it?

And how is anyone else going to be vaccinated until they do?

Close the borders
Community service and loss driving licence for breaking the rules inc not self isolating
Masks compulsory indoors everywhere public
Nursery/school places only where two from line key workers both
Shopping trips limited
Fewer bubbles
More wfh rather presence on site where not needed
No meeting other households outdoors

Really drive cases down whilst the vaccines are rolled out and second doses as recommended by the scientists who made the vaccines.

@PrincessNutNuts We seem to have forgotten that people die of other things. About 165,000 die of cancer annually in the U.K. but everything except covid is ignored at the moment. Repeating death figures is not meaningful unless we compare it to other causes of death, and at the moment the media are not doing this.

I'm injecting lots of cash into the NHS to train new nurses and doctors, update equipment and give them a pay rise including all bank nurses who didn't get bonus.

We have the highest death rate because we have failed to protect our elderly. The average age is 82 of those who die. If we protected our elderly our death rate would be lower than other countries.

I’m in charge and I want a fucking enquiry and some answers as to how this is still running rampant through the elderly and why we stand alone in being unable to protect them. In our care homes, in our hospitals and in their own homes, with family and carers visiting.

I want to know who is infecting them and why they aren’t able to take precautions to protect them.

@KatherineOfAragon

I'm ordering informative broadcasts about aerosols and making mask wearing mandatory outside and also in schools for ages 10 and over.

I'm punishing repeat Covid law breakers by giving them community service in hospital on a Covid ward. Stripping and remaking beds etc, but so they've got eyes on the problem.

I'm closing the borders.

I'm doubling the salary of all healthcare workers who work with Covid positive patients and offering generous incentives to train as nurses and doctors over the next two decades

I'm opening the existing nightingales, offering huge bonuses to doctors and nurses and every other member of staff to work in them, this freeing up space and hopefully doctor's and surgeons for cancer care and emergency surgeries.

I'm paying students a proper salary for being expected to fill the gaps in the NHS in their second and third years.

I’m voting for you @KatherineOfAragon !!!!

I'd get rid of the bullying mismanagement in some areas and replace them with brilliant leaders - this would make nursing in the nhs so much easier.

oh dear, having read all of this, I'm emigrating (well I would if I could....)

[quote Flyonawalk]@PrincessNutNuts We seem to have forgotten that people die of other things. About 165,000 die of cancer annually in the U.K. but everything except covid is ignored at the moment. Repeating death figures is not meaningful unless we compare it to other causes of death, and at the moment the media are not doing this.[/quote]
Well a lot more cancer patients are going to die this year because we didn't control covid and our health system has had to cancel so much.

2020 won't be finalised by the ONS until June/July but it looks like a lot of causes of deaths are way down - stillbirths, deaths in childbirth, childhood accidents, road fatalities, workplace accidents, but Covid is expected to be the 4th or 5th biggest killer in the U.K. in 2020. (It's 3rd in the USA)

But that's with all the restrictions.

Without them we'd be Brazil

@PrincessNutNuts Yes, cancer deaths will surely skyrocket as a result of limiting screening and treatment. It is interesting looking at predictions of how many more will die as a result of lockdown than because of covid.

@Robbybobtail

I'm giving community service to rule breakers

Thank god there’s no chance of you ever being in charge then.

Making masks mandatory outside for everybody and in schools for secondary students

And you.

@50but17inside

I am :

Declaring that the supermarket click and collect drivers shall all wear masks. And all people collecting their shopping wear masks.

If you don’t think it’s an issue I suggest you drive to your local Sainsbury’s in the freezing dark night air and just sit there under the lights and watch the staff’s breath billowing in clouds through the open drivers’ car windows and then over the customers as they stand at their car boot waiting for the box of shopping.

Not how it's done at our sainsburys.

You let them know you're there by pressing a bell and telling them your name via the intercom. Then you have to get back in your car.

An assistant wearing a mask brings your shopping in boxes to the back of your car and leaves it, then you can get out and pack it away in the boot. The boxes are picked up by a member of staff once you've left.

I'm getting rid of hands, face, space. It's the worst of all the slogans and arguably in the wrong order anyway. I may allow Air, space, face, hands at a push.

Much tighter border controls. Encourage freight to be sent unaccompanied where possible. Restrictions on what activities hauliers returning from abroad are allowed to do where it isn't possible. 14 days mandatory quarantine for everyone else. With a test on day 13/14.

Hugely ramp up testing capacity until we've got it more under control and then hit any areas with outbreaks early with lots of testing when there's a need. Faster testing. Not necessarily rapid testing. None of this sending stuff through the post.

Better support for isolators and people with dependents who are isolating. Anyone who needs to isolate should be able to do so. Consequences for employers who prevent people who need to isolate from isolating.

I am revising the criteria regarding who is advised to get a Covid test because limiting testing to only three symptoms is bonkers.
I am making it a criminal offence to send a child into school if you know the child should be isolating.
I am tightening up the quality requirements for masks because some provide much more protection than others.

[quote Flyonawalk]@PrincessNutNuts Yes, cancer deaths will surely skyrocket as a result of limiting screening and treatment. It is interesting looking at predictions of how many more will die as a result of lockdown than because of covid.[/quote]
Lockdown is because of covid.

Therefore covid is causing whatever you are attributing to lockdown.

@PrincessNutNuts Morning. But covid hasn’t inevitably led to lockdown. Other responses were possible and have been suggested, but they would have involved accepting more deaths in the short term rather than long term.

Most of us want the same things here - working healthcare, education and prosperity. We just differ over how it should be achieved. Do we accept more covid deaths now, or a higher rate of usually preventable deaths later? It is a grim choice.

Once all medics have had 2 doses plus the most vulnerable I'm letting people who have had covid and not got sick get on the other their lives, those who wish to stay at home entitled to furlough until vaccination. For me I've have had worse colds and quite willing to work in my public facing role

[quote Flyonawalk]@PrincessNutNuts Morning. But covid hasn’t inevitably led to lockdown. Other responses were possible and have been suggested, but they would have involved accepting more deaths in the short term rather than long term.

Most of us want the same things here - working healthcare, education and prosperity. We just differ over how it should be achieved. Do we accept more covid deaths now, or a higher rate of usually preventable deaths later? It is a grim choice.[/quote]
That's a false dichotomy. It's not a choice between death now or death later.

We know this because it's been a year, and most countries have managed covid so much better than us that their total covid deaths are less than ours this month.

I'm against lockdowns.

But when your government doesn't do TTI properly for a year and repeatedly lets the infection level build for months, to the point that 30,000 of us die of covid in a month, Lockdown is the only way to stop it.

I'm going to pay everyone who tests positive £1000 on the condition that they download an app to their phone that tracks movements for the isolation period.

I'm going allow schools to provide outdoor education sessions on a rota basis whilst we are in lockdown.

I'm going to start investing now in picking up the pieces from lockdown, such as training more cancer specialists, mental health workers, screening facilities for health problems that will have been missed etc.

I'm going to allow all shops to reopen provided they have limits on the amount of people they admit in store at anyone time and employ marshalls to enforce social distancing. Currently it's ridiculous that you can buy toys in Asda but not in a toy shop, and retail adds very little to the R number but is vital for the economy.

I'm going to introduce an online sales tax to pay for this and close tax loop holes that benefit the ultra rich. And Amazon are going to pay their fair share.