Self Isolation going to be scrapped

[Overthebow]

www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-self-isolation-law-set-be-scrapped-telegraph-2022-01-16/

So that’s it then, the pandemic really is going to end in the UK in a couple of months time. I’ve never been so happy to read a news article!

@thewhatsit sp it doesn't matter then about ecv people who work?

By the way, I am not talking about people coming into work with a bit of a cough. But people coming in who are ill, but able to get out of bed and sit in an office doing work.

AllThePogs Mon 17-Jan-22 16:20:52
"The EU has nothing to do with it."

You don't appreciate jgw1's irony !

Iggly" All of our laws were never made in Brussels.

No wonder people voted Brexit if they believed such cock."

jgw1 was being ironic

@HarrietPierce

Iggly" All of our laws were never made in Brussels.

No wonder people voted Brexit if they believed such cock."

jgw1 was being ironic

It went over my head 😂 Sorry

Iggly .🤣

[quote AllThePogs]@jgw1 Every country in the EU has different covid restrictions and different vaccination protocols. If the EU dictated this, every country would be different.[/quote]
Brussels has been busy making different laws for different countries.

I thought @jgw1 was being serious at first and had to check up on some previous threads to see I was wrong

@kittensinthekitchen

I thought *@jgw1* was being serious at first and had to check up on some previous threads to see I was wrong

I was being serious. It is a serious business trying to channel ones inner Brexiteer.

[quote AllThePogs]@thewhatsit sp it doesn't matter then about ecv people who work?

By the way, I am not talking about people coming into work with a bit of a cough. But people coming in who are ill, but able to get out of bed and sit in an office doing work.[/quote]
I didn’t say it didn’t matter (?) but I think as mandatory isolation comes to an end so will mass testing. I find the idea that one will continue without the other kind of illogical - why would the government fund your test with minor symptoms to then tell you to go on your way?

It’s most likely that once we are in the next stage (end of March possibly) that a lot of people will be completely unaware of if/ when they are carrying Covid so most of the time they won’t be going into work knowing.

Vulnerable people will know that there is Covid around them in the community and what that looks like yet I suppose none of us know. What it should look like I couldn’t honestly even suggest either although I’m sure others have ideas. This is probably why certain groups are being sent PCRs to keep in the back of the cupboard and told that once they test positive they will be given certain drugs, this is probably one of the ideas for what this post mass testing / isolation world looks like ..

Only 10,000 people are given access to anti-virals. Not all ecv people.

It’s most likely that once we are in the next stage (end of March possibly) that a lot of people will be completely unaware of if/ when they are carrying Covid so most of the time they won’t be going into work knowing.

Yes, and only those who become ill enough to be unable to work will need to stay at home. Just like with Flu or a cold.

And tough if you die of covid or get really ill.
And if a dangerous variant comes up we will be fucked.

I hope people realise that the published rates are completely inaccurate now that the need to get a pcr on a positive LFT ...

No one knows you have it if you test positive on a LFT which is what most people are now doing.

Once again it's smoke and mirrors. They abolished a test to make it look like lower infection rates.

This is far from over but this govt has made a politically expedient decision to let it run rife. - watch the death rates folks compared to the 'declared infections' .... you cannot trust this lot. Boris needs major good news to help him out of this massive hole. He has done this by getting rid of the virus ... if you don't register a test then it's not in the stats . - simple .

Good.

I hope people realise that the published rates are completely inaccurate now that the need to get a pcr on a positive LFT ...

Yes case numbers are probably inaccurate.

But what matters is hospitalisations and deaths, and thankfully they're not as high as had been feared. In London they're already coming down.

News is it will become guidance instead of law.

Seems potentially loaded for those who ignore the guidance and don’t isolate… if they or their kid then infects someone who dies or has long term illness.

It’ll be the new mass legal claim thing.

@AllThePogs

Okay so the pandemic is legally over. I had no idea pandemics obeyed laws.

This is a very succinct summary of my views!

@AllThePogs

Only 10,000 people are given access to anti-virals. Not all ecv people.

Where did you get that figure from?

Here it says 1.3 million. inews.co.uk/news/health/clinically-extremely-vulnerable-covid-antiviral-drugs-1397514

Although it is really unclear who is eligible as yet.

@herecomesthsun you are talking about ecv people. Browse further. 100,000 people have been identified as eligible for anti virals, that is all. I know because I am ecv but am not entitled.

@Aimeehedge

News is it will become guidance instead of law.

Seems potentially loaded for those who ignore the guidance and don’t isolate… if they or their kid then infects someone who dies or has long term illness.

It’ll be the new mass legal claim thing.

Guidance means it won't happen. Most people work and cant decide not to go to work because it is guidance.

@Blubells they are going up in my City. But I know all that matters is London.

Hospital admissions and deaths rising here in the Scottish part of Not-London too. ICU figures lower than last week, thankfully 🤞

[quote AllThePogs]@herecomesthsun you are talking about ecv people. Browse further. 100,000 people have been identified as eligible for anti virals, that is all. I know because I am ecv but am not entitled.[/quote]
I'm also cev, and have various family members who might or might not be entitled to this. Where did you get 10k or 100k from?

I'm working, I'm going to fly in a plane next month, first time since Aug 20, I've been on trains, went to the Cinema on Saturday. I've been on a ferry. I've spent a week in London, travelling on the tube - Aug 21. I've been to pubs and socialised.Triple jabbed and still wearing a mask and social distancing.

How are any of those things "social distancing"?

I mean, absolutely, crack on and do all those things, I'm doing them all too.

But if going on the tube, planes, socializing in pubs and sitting in a cinema can all count as "social distancing" then the term is getting very elastic indeed.

@Kokeshi123

I'm working, I'm going to fly in a plane next month, first time since Aug 20, I've been on trains, went to the Cinema on Saturday. I've been on a ferry. I've spent a week in London, travelling on the tube - Aug 21. I've been to pubs and socialised.Triple jabbed and still wearing a mask and social distancing.

How are any of those things "social distancing"?

I mean, absolutely, crack on and do all those things, I'm doing them all too.

But if going on the tube, planes, socializing in pubs and sitting in a cinema can all count as "social distancing" then the term is getting very elastic indeed.

I had a sofa to myself in the Cinema - I've been twice.

I social distance whenever possible, especially in shops and I respect others who do too.

I didn't travel at peak times on the Tube as I was visiting and I mostly walked around London - by golly I felt fit.

I was in the premium lounge on the ferries.