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I agree a lot of infection occurs; n the home. You live closest to these people so it's logical if one has it they are more likely to transmit it in the family. However the virus has to be brought into the home in the first place and that is obviously from an outside environment. You reference...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/05/covid-19-may-spread-more-easily-schools-than-thought-report-warns So looks like we're back to over tens at least being thought to be just the same as adults in transmission . All this talk of them not being able to transmit or unlikely to do so is...

The talk and I stress it is only that is of enhanced shielding of vunerable categories even to the point of including all over fifties in a future lockdown. What that would look like is pure speculation for instance they might be still be expected to work but not to socialise in anyway at all.

Well what a difference a day makes . The papers this morning are full of talk about a possible new lockdown and new lockdown measures. Of particular interest to those with diabetes and concerns about how to return to work is talk about differential lockdown shielding being discussed in...

Yes that's right but what's to stop me happening to be in the pub at the same time as my bro and discussing his possible peerage over a pint My point is that I'm far less likely to catch Covid from my mum; n her garden than from a work colleague or stranger in a bar in a badly ventilated...

They are saying their data shows transmission within families is higher than between strangers but I have yet to see the figures for outside transmission. Also where do those pesky children who can't transmit come into the data?

What the government are doing if you listen carefully are blaming the resurgence directly on the public and their families. They don't want you meeting up with your family at home . You're not spending any money and saving the economy. So with the lockdown in the North you get the absurd...

Schools in Germany are beginning to re open. Guess what? The children are being required to wear face masks. Also talk by the scientists around the fact that if 2 weeks into the summer hols R is already increasing, to open schools properly and stay in control something else is going to have to...

I personally think the guidance on schools could well change. We've got a month to go and we've had within the last week u turn after u turn applied by the government. They are plainly terrified of another resurgence , conspiracy theories apart I can see no other reason why they would risk...

Be careful out there folks.

House arrest and quarantine are completely different things. One implies you may have done something wrong and illegal and are being punished . The other that you have been in the wrong place at the wrong time contracting an illness and are now doing a good thing to prevent others becoming ill...

The reason for that is opposite to any claim that infections have not increased .It is well known that you can be infected sometimes very badly but still not test positive on a nose or throat swabs as the virus can reside elsewhere in the body.

Agree with all of the above. Cut out bread, pasta, rice and potatoes and see what happens. If you need alternatives there are low carb options out there. Sainburies does a high low loaf I enjoy but still sparingly. I cut it all out then added some back in which I felt I couldn't do completely...

No hysteria where I live just the usual calm British stoicism. As to anti science I'm not seen much of that either just disagreement about what the pandemic response should be.

Lot of eyes on the USA at the moment!

I don't think most of us are suggesting this but rather that the guidance is too loose and to vague.Deliberately so IMHO as has been suggested so that the government don't carry the can but the poor pressurised head teacher who unwittingly does is deemed to have sparked a cluster. Guidance...

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/26/more-young-people-infected-with-covid-19-as-cases-surge-globally&ved=2ahUKEwjf-YWo5NPqAhUDsXEKHedfCbUQFjAEegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw3NbsejFKtZNuXGZE8IsT-S&ampcf=1 So it looks like we are finding out that...

Saw this online, it made me laugh `An epidemiologist,an ICU doctor and a scientist all walk into a bar.` Only kidding,they know better.

As I said we just don't know yet. 60 000 X 100 equals 6 million is that correct? So if 6 million infected so far that's 1%ish fatality rate but if we've all already been infected and are immune that's about 0.1% but I'm not betting my life and the rest of my family on this virus being finished yet.