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Yep, we are all desperate for time off whilst being held over targets to get our children back to where they were pre COVID-19. Think we have time to be off as and when? 1661101700 Who said they felt fine? One colleague was unwell and another was asked to test to accompany his wife into...

The thread wasn’t about what people do or expect to do, it was why people are still isolating. People will do what they want. I think that’s selfish. The vast majority of people I know continue to self-isolate for reasons mentioned above. 1661025294 Granted but again, many adults and children...

Which whilst scientifically sound and adequate in the early stages of the pandemic when no available data was available, was rapidly outclassed and become more primitive as expertise and genomic sequencing and adapting PCR testing for specific aspects of the COVID-19 virus moved on.

In my school, you’d have to recruit for the entirety of the staff in that case! I can vouch for many other schools across the country too. What about the HCPs that have caught COVID from working in hospitals and caring for others? Ridiculous notion.

Have you got anything to back this up? References? 1661013261 Do you have a quote for this? Considering COVID-19 was endemic after Mullis’s death is slightly problematic there. Whilst Mullis may have said the original PCR method was not to be used for diagnostic purposes (indeed, he...

Quite a few times for shingles and outbreaks of various sites of herpes across my body. Influenza is more challenging because there isn’t an ‘at-home kit’ that you can use to test for like you would COVID-19.

If I thought I had influenza, chickenpox, or even tonsillitis I would be very careful about the contact I have with others. With something like chickenpox, would you advise that you don’t worry about being in contact with pregnant women because of the issues with pregnancy and varicella virus...

Sensible thing to do in my opinion. You don’t know who you may encounter and inadvertently cause illness to or how that’s going to impact subsequent close contacts etc. It’s five days.

Where have I said I’m annoyed about it? 18 months of shielding I was far from happy with the situation but recognised it was needed at the time. 1654903082 Apparently so if you read some of the comments where people seem to believe that there’s a militant group of people that want to go back to...

I never said it wasn’t over. I just raised the point that the use of statistics by Yorkie has been very select and has (purposely?) chosen to ignore evidence from the ONS showing that tested samples have shown a rise in COVID cases, rather than just the symptomatic Zoe study as mentioned. Has...

I just find it pretty telling when people are saying, ‘It’s time to prepare for more cases’ without discussion of a lockdown (has anyone said anything to that effect thus far?) and the reference to Zoe data based on symptoms but ignoring the data collected from the ONS which has relied on...

Did you include the data that was collected via nose and throat sampling?

And I see the hard right (as far as COVID is concerned) back on the front burners on RailForums.

Can’t see Boris et al allowing any of that from their personal coffers.

Get cold/flu type bits and pieces if you can for coughs, blocked noses, any analgesia you’re able to take. I’ve had four vaccines and luckily I’m only suffering with some tachycardia and general cold symptoms. Last week was terrible: absolute physical and mental exhaustion, breathless/short of...

You’ve not answered mine still so why should I?

Unfortunately, very very true. 1644103535 So you disagree that paediatrics need mental health support and specialists even though there are rising numbers of children with mental health issues?

No one is denying that the mental health is diminished. If we’d have had proper funding and resources for paediatric mental health prior to lockdown, we would better be able to support now. As it is, those resources are severely lacking and those in the highest need will be waiting far too long...

As Yorkie pointed out earlier, I’ve made suggestions around this. Schools need more support in terms of being able to get counsellors and mental health specialists into schools and providing more funding for services such as CAMHS to help reduce the waiting list of x years rather than weeks.

You talk the talk and seem to enjoy peddling this wherever and whenever you can but are not actually providing any substance in what you’d like doing. At least I provided a suggestion.