UK Covid death toll

[Kit Kat Chunky]

This has nothing to do with common sense it’s a politically motivated decision by a Prime Minister who is more concerned with doing the budding of right winger on his back benches.

Well, quite. If you're lucky enough to have been eligible for a vaccine and are no longer required to shield you have been able to live a pretty normal life since last summer. Isolating when you're ill, with whatever illness shouldn't be law, it should just be the norm. I can't believe people don't do this anyway.

This exactly - we'll never get back to normal if we don't apply that approach. The days of people 'soldiering on' and coughing and spluttering in the office (and school) should be gone, and until people realise that then we will never get back to normal. I can see, before too long, someone taking a company to court for corporate manslaughter after their relation has caught covid at the office because they were mandated to attend.

It should also be noted that within the next few days we should drop below 10k in hospital in England for the 1st time since last July. It's also interesting to note that the fall in hospitalisations this year is not as steep as it was last year, the fall from c.15k to 10k in 2021 took 12 days, this year that same fall has taken 19 days so far with another 5 or 6 I'm guessing to get to 10k. That indicates that although the symptoms might be milder it is either keeping people in for longer or there are more people being hospitalised and released with a quicker turnaround.

As an aside my mother in law was admitted to Heartlands last night, she has COPD and had an exacerbation which required an ambulance and admission. She was scared and anxious but none of her 3 kids (all adults in their 40s and 50s) were allowed into A&E with her, and trying to get any information is next to impossible. She's on a cardio ward now but again no visitors allowed. This is another knock on from a chronic mistreatment of the NHS over the past decade and more which has left it completely unprepared for these past 2 years.

Sorry to hear about your MIL, mate. I hope she is better soon.