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!

[baroqueandblue]

Not enough people can see what a cold-blooded megalomaniac Johnson is.

[ClaudineClare]

@baroqueandblue

Not enough people can see what a cold-blooded megalomaniac Johnson is.

Yep. All this "Boris" stuff, as though he is everyone's mate...

[FruitMelange]

So that’s it then, the pandemic really is going to end in the UK in a couple of months time

It's not though, is it? The requirement to self isolate might, but the pandemic won't.

[nether]

@baroqueandblue

Not enough people can see what a cold-blooded megalomaniac Johnson is.

I think anyone who is CV, CEV or critically vulnerable or who has someone in these categories in their household sees the cold-hearted aspects very clearly

[Dontforgetyourbrolly]

People are not isolating or testing much now anyway ,hence figures showing a decline in infections. People are making up their own minds now so the government might as well back it, as compliance is dwindling by the day .

[CovidCorvid]

The article says that the guidance will still be to isolate but just that there won’t be any legal requirement to do so. So guess some people will still isolate and some won’t. Which has probably always been the case.

[Dontforgetyourbrolly]

Covid hasn't gone anywhere of course , there was always going to be a point where we just had to get on with it , and I'm not prepared to give up another 2 years of my family's life .
I'm waiting for the selfish comments but I don't care .

[rrhuth]

@ClaudineClare

These plans were made public last year before Omicron arrived. It was always the plan to scale back testing for asymptomatic cases and scrap isolation laws from April. It’s not new information

Yes, but as you say that was before Omicron, which changed things. If it is old news, why is it being "leaked" again now via the Torygraph?

The timing is definitely no coincidence. This is not about :ending the pandemic", it is about saving Johnson's premiership.

Absolutely.

I love that Johnson thinks he can decide when to end a pandemic! Everything is about the opinion polls - presumably he will want to end in April ahead of the May locals... because he will be out if the May locals don't go well?

Whatever someone's views about covid restrictions, only an absolute fool can't fail to see this self-serving government is not in the national interest.

[rrhuth]

@baroqueandblue

Not enough people can see what a cold-blooded megalomaniac Johnson is.

I think more people can see it now. Hopefully it sticks. The man is a disgrace and has led the country so badly throughout this pandemic.

I never realised how much I love Britain until I watched this bunch drag it down and down

[PhilCornwall1]

Surely Johnson would not play with the nation's health in order to save his own skin?

Johnson would put a bullet in you, me and everyone else in this country to save his own skin.

Anyone who believed all his bullshit about wanting to save lives during this pandemic, are naive.

[xxxGirlCrushxxx]

@Dontforgetyourbrolly

People are not isolating or testing much now anyway ,hence figures showing a decline in infections. People are making up their own minds now so the government might as well back it, as compliance is dwindling by the day .

Was going to say this

People are half assed about it now. I'm sick of covering at work for the same few who remain unvaccinated and are always on a loop isolating, on full pay!!

[Testingprof]

@CovidCorvid

The article says that the guidance will still be to isolate but just that there won’t be any legal requirement to do so. So guess some people will still isolate and some won’t. Which has probably always been the case.

The issue is the people least likely to isolate are those in the job you absolutely want to isolate. Those with jobs they can’t do at home and the jobs unlikely to pay sick pay. Carers, shop staff, restaurant staff.

[Namechangeforthis88]

Not a very reliable source of they don't know that UK gov only decide covid rules for England. Shockingly bad journalism.

[TangoWhiskyAlphaTango]

But, for this country at least, it will no longer be a pandemic but endemic.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59970281

[jgw1]

@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!

Didn't the pandemic end when Boris announced with great fanfare that Freedom Day was in the summer and we could do anything we liked, and that if we happened to have been doing anything we like anyway before that, it was in the past so didn't matter.

[jgw1]

@Reallybadidea

If you read the article, advice to self-isolate will remain, it just won't be legally enforceable. So not actually scrapped at all.

Phew, it didn't seem right that Big Dog would be removing an excuse for him to hide in his kennel.

[ClaudineClare]

@Namechangeforthis88

Not a very reliable source of they don't know that UK gov only decide covid rules for England. Shockingly bad journalism.

Well, only England counts as far as a lot of the media is concerned! It is infuriating.

Wales and Scotland might want to keep the SI rules, but it would be hard to do so if England scraps them. How would they stop covid positive people crossing over the borders etc.?

[rrhuth]

[quote TangoWhiskyAlphaTango]But, for this country at least, it will no longer be a pandemic but endemic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59970281[/quote]
Decreeing it 'endemic' does not mean it actually is endemic.

The government have been told it will take years to settle to a stable endemic state.

It is not a political decision the government can make, although there are many wallies who will believe their nonsense.

[xxxGirlCrushxxx]

Why are people so worried? Everyone returning to work says it's was fine, just a cold. They were bored!

Not a single person I know has been hospitalised, nobody at work has either (90 of us)

Hardly any customers are bothering with masks anymore either

Mumsnet seem to want to cling on to this virus! It's as if they are enjoying it all!

[BashStreetKid]

Terribly convenient timing after Johnson has been using isolation as an excuse to hide his sorry face away.

[ClaudineClare]

Mumsnet seem to want to cling on to this virus! It's as if they are enjoying it all!

Have you read the whole thread or did you just jump in to trot out that hoary old line?

[BashStreetKid]

Why are people so worried? Everyone returning to work says it's was fine, just a cold. They were bored!

So how come the death rate went up?

I know a number of people who felt very ill indeed, including my sister who was basically knocked out feeling dreadful for well over a week and didn't have any Christmas as a result.

[BashStreetKid]

[quote TangoWhiskyAlphaTango]But, for this country at least, it will no longer be a pandemic but endemic.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59970281[/quote]
... until the next variant pops up. Really, no country gets to ordain what a virus is going to do.

[MrsLargeEmbodied]

seems too soon

[rrhuth]

@xxxGirlCrushxxx

Why are people so worried? Everyone returning to work says it's was fine, just a cold. They were bored!

Not a single person I know has been hospitalised, nobody at work has either (90 of us)

Hardly any customers are bothering with masks anymore either

Mumsnet seem to want to cling on to this virus! It's as if they are enjoying it all!

Oh honestly this is such a silly post!

Do you really think that your personal experiences are all that matters?

I don't know why anyone worries about cancer, I've never had it.
I don't know why anyone worries they might have a bad birth, I was fine.
etc. etc. etc.

Have you read a newspaper in the last eight weeks?