HMG is to publish a list of industries that are exempt from being pinged.
A list of industries that can apply to be exempt from Covid ‘ping’ isolation will be produced today, the Business Secretary has declared.
Kwasi Kwarteng tried to calm fears about an explosion in people being told to isolate in England due to contact with the soaring number of Covid cases.
There have been anecdotal reports of empty shelves in shops as the food supply chain comes under strain.
But there was confusion this morning about exactly how the list would work.
How the list will work is irrelevant. It shows just how absurd and contradictory the measures are. Either we have a killer plague, in which case the measures are necessary for everyone (assuming that they work), or we don’t and we can get back to normal. As it is, this is as daft as the rule that had people wearing masks while walking into a pub only for it to be okay for them to remove them to drink. Either there is a bug about or there isn’t and a face nappy won’t stop it. Once again, these people demonstrate that we are in the grip of an insane religious cult.
And, yes, I am exempt from being pinged, but I’m not on any list. I just wasn’t stupid enough to download the abomination in the first place, so will never get the dreaded ping. If I catch anything, I’ll retire to my bed as I do whenever I am ill. If it looks really bad, then I’ll seek medical help, but that is an unlikely scenario and one I’ll deal with if it arises.
And yet… Still people try to rationalise this insanity and obey every stupid diktat as if it will in some weird way make them safe.
“…these people demonstrate that we are in the grip of an insane religious cult…”
It’s not “science” if you’re not allowed to question it; it’s a belief system, a religion, or a cult, but NOT science.
If you test positive, that’s when early treatment is important to reduce viral load as well as O2 level monitoring. The latter is important because people can be in a state of “happy hypoxia” and feel fine, when a few hours later they need ventilation.
The issue is with the damage done by the immune system, not the virus itself.
Fun fact, the virus is long gone when people die of covid.
The app is just another example of the state’s incompetence but somehow, people think it is capable of dealing with an allegedly civilisation ending thing like covid.
This soaring number of cases, are these cases of people who are actually ill or just people who have had an unreliable test and come up positive? If it’s the former, well we can’t have them going around making other people not ill can we?
On the restaurant thing, we have the same thing at the gym, you are supposed to wear a mask when you go in but you can take it off to work out or swim. Most people don’t bother and the staff there don’t hassle them about it.
Why is it that everytime that I type the word ill it gets auto corrected to I’ll?
I’ve just noticed that I typed former when I meant latter. I suspect that most readers worked out what I meant to say.
Some people don’t like their jobs. A bit of time at home self-isolating in the sun might suit them. tbh that’s the only reason I can think of for having the damn app installed and turned on. Pretty sure everybody turns it off 10 days before they’re due to go on holiday, right?
Likewise. I never bothered with it. I just knew that it would end up like all government IT projects. Way over budget, way over priced and ultimately a problem.
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@Monoi
True, but UK Gov’t have banned use of all early treatments / prophylaxis. Even Vit D is advised against and GPs were banned from prescribing it to care home residents – inc those already receiving
I’ve concluded Gov’ts Want people to die