So this is freedom day. Humph. Much like the day before really. Anyway, Boris the Buffoon is telling us that some folk can ignore the ping and others can’t.
Boris Johnson tonight gave a small number of ‘critical workers’ permission to skip Covid self-isolation as England struggles to cope with the pingdemic.
People working in food production or the water supply, plus electricians, soldiers, train drivers and care home staff will join NHS medics in having special dispensation to ignore the NHS app if they are pinged.
Once again, the whole thing is exposed as a farce. Either this thing is so dangerous, we have to hide under the duvet if we are pinged, or it is not. Make your mind up. The contradiction here is as obvious as wearing a mask into a pub or restaurant and taking it off to eat and drink.
Apparently, everyone else will have to isolate if they are pinged. That’s assuming that you are daft enough to have downloaded the app. As someone who has not and never will, I won’t be pinged so will carry on as normal, which is pretty much what I’ve been doing all along. No mask, no anti social distancing and no bubbles.
We’ve got arguably the dumbest COVID-19 restriction of them all in Queensland at the moment. People in parts of South East Queensland are currently required to wear masks, indoors and outdoors, in response to a handful or so of infections (which is dumb enough), but it gets better. These areas are designated “impacted areas”. If you live in or visit an impacted area and then travel to a non-impacted where there are no mask wearing requirements, you are still required to obey the impacted area restrictions, i.e. walk around everywhere with a mask on when the majority of people are not. This is obviously completely unenforceable and, I imagine, compliance is at zero per cent.
We boarded a train yesterday and the announcer stated that anyone who had been in an impacted area was required to wear a mask for their entire journey, I didn’t see anyone put a mask on in response.
I work in a care home, one resident and one staff member got it. Only mild as both double vaccinated. We were not allowed to isolate or there would be no staff. We had to do lateral flow tests for 7 days and PCR ones twice a week. We had to wear full ppe, we’ll mask, gloves and a flimsy (must be magic) apron. The member of staff isolated, but everyone else could carry on as normal outside of work. Needless to say none of us caught it. So looks like that is the way to go, which is what PM and Chancellor were going to do until the media started squaring.
‘Only mild as both double vaccinated.’
You’re drinking their koolaid.
That is all that the vaccine does – it minimises symptoms.
Went shopping in Sainsbury’s yesterday, massless for the first time. There was a big sign outside stating mask wearing was personal choice now but ‘we encourage you to continue to wear one’.
Walked in looking for a fight – and the two people usually stationed by the door (one handing out masks, the other tapping on a tablet) weren’t there! No-one said a thing!
Best shopping I’ve had since lockdown.
This whole “freedom day” thing is bollocks. There were 500,000 people on Bournemouth’s beaches on Sunday, not one of them wearing a mask
Isolation:
Ping from Test and Trace app is advisory
Phone call from Test and Trace is mandatory
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC_l40uXGZM