@lonelyplanet
What is interesting is a lot of discussions have been focused around the end of term, but actually contacts between children have been reducing for the few weeks before this.
I agree there were over a million children self isolating before term end either as close contact or had covid.
On top of that some parents chose keep kids home as bubbles bursting so often or took a cheaper term time holiday.
I have a few questions as really confused right now.
The consensus by American CDC is double vaccinated Americans can catch covid and pass it on and they advising mask wearing again.
The new plan let double jabbed tourists not to quarantine if they double jabbed do they still test upon entry then test later like they currently do.
We told 10_15% postive covid cases are genome sequenced.
How much of this is airport's if any as assume airport testing private not state.
Are postive tourists currently included within the postive stats or just UK residents?
I am just thinking if from 16th close contacts don't have to test.
That there's less lft testing in education as there was talk charging for lots from end if August.
Education staff were expected test twice a week and postive lft led to taking a pcr to confirm and its the pcr results that included in daily stats and are genome sequence.
Confused if secondary school pupils testing new academic year apart from 2 tests at the start which I assume are optional.
My senior age child lft test average once a week when she remembered but more often if there were cases.
With my primary age kids I just tested if there were cases in their schools .
My concern is if double vax travellers don't quarantine or test and in the autumn we doing less testing is we won't see the next varient coming until its too late and community spread.
Is it natural for one varient end then another take over so will delta die down and then possibly beta or lambda take over.
As all 3 waves been different varients on the UK.
Also when are government going to change symptoms as symptoms are different if delta or vaccinated.
Watched latest tim spector video and hes usually optimistic but hes baffled by steep drop with no extra restriction.
I do think schools a big cause of the spread and we should be vaccinating teens and investing in better ventilation.
I do think we sending mixed messages giving a unvaccinated child the same rights as double vaccinated adult bot to quarantine as close contact as assuming under 18s are immune when we know from September and June how high cases were in education and fact we had close schools down again in January.
Scientists keep on about magic number immunity and don't think we can hit the magic number required without kids.
If you add up people who don't vaccinate either choice or medical reasons plus add all under 18s thats a sizable population that can be infected and virus possibly mutate.
Less testing or encouraging less testing will make us blind to when and where we have problems.
The wrong symptoms to enable them to get a test.
Not testing close contacts
Making testing very optional
Will all lead to less testing and complacency.