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I guess this is the question I was asking (in comparison to false negatives especially). Knowing how accurate, in either direction, a test is is important.
Contamination and inappropriate sampling can occur for any test.
I guess this is the question I was asking (in comparison to false negatives especially). Knowing how accurate, in either direction, a test is is important.What is the UK operational false positive rate?
Especially when you are forcing people into house arrest because of the tests?Knowing how accurate, in either direction, a test is is important.
The day has come, the whistles have blown and the shielded are climbing the ladders and walking off into no mans land.The Government are starting to remind me of Lieutenant-General Browning from a "Bridge Too Far". "Ahem chaps right well as long as you wear your kit, helmet, carry your rifle and socially distance from the nasty enemy you will all be fine, despite the fact that our operation is a disaster waiting to happen!"
There wasn't any choice in the trenches but regarding shielding...The day has come, the whistles have blown and the shielded are climbing the ladders and walking off into no mans land.
I hope the virus has run out of bullets.
It makes it difficulty if one needs to work to receive funds.There wasn't any choice in the trenches but regarding shielding...
This guidance is government advice and it’s your personal choice whether to follow it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ng-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19
The WHO recommends medical masks rather than fabric masks for people at increased risk from Covid:-Maybe I've been a bit over dramatic but regardless I have sent this letter to my MP.
Dear
I thought I would write to you with regard to my concerns as a diabetic in these strange times with the Coronavirus epidemic.
I ask what the Government plan to do with regard to safeguarding us diabetics, along with other clinically vulnerable people, considering statistics apparently show that 1 in 4 diabetics who end up in hospital die?
On the Government website we diabetics are down as clinically vulnerable and are still advised to stringently social distance. However, I work in a school as a Learning Support Assistant and whilst I have been working at home since late March, (albeit on a reduced hours contract and pay), due to the Government advice at the time, I am due back in September because the Government wants all children back at school and yet it’s absolutely clear and obvious that you cannot social distance correctly and safely in a school.
For sure I am allowed to wear a mask but masks in schools are not mandatory so if I am the only one wearing a mask I am not protected at all because as you know masks are only effective to try and protect others rather than the wearer.
Our school was kept open for children with care plans and those whose parents were key workers but within two weeks the school had a case of Covid so had to shut again. Thankfully I was working from home. So it is plain to see that once September comes and the Autumn/Winter approaches this WILL happen again. Even the Government have admitted to be concerned about a second wave and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that this WILL happen.
My GP has been very sympathetic and feels that I should continue to work from home but is bound by Government guidelines. My school too purely goes by Government advice but as I am sure you would admit Government handling of this epidemic could have been better to be brutally honest so GP’s and Schools are following what is clearly flawed advice.
You are trying to protect the NHS and claim that you are trying to protect the vulnerable but how am I being protected by being forced back into the classroom? I use click and collect for groceries, I social distance if out and have not, and will not visit a shop, barber, restaurant, cinema or pub until we either have a vaccine or some other form of immunity. In a nutshell I can be in control of my own personal risk but I cannot be in control in the workplace which renders my own personal risk strategy as useless. I cannot decide to leave my employment because you cannot claim Universal Credit if you leave your job voluntarily even if by leaving I am potentially saving my life.
At schools there will hundreds/thousands of clinically vulnerable students and staff and come the Autumn Term the idea of sending all back into the classroom will NOT be saving the NHS! I fully understand the mental state and education of children but what will deaths of students or staff do to the mental state of a child?
So I respectfully ask why I am being asked to play a game of Russian Roulette with my health when the Government themselves have classed me as clinically vulnerable but at the same time are forcing me back into a workplace where I cannot be safe?
Kind regards,
Maybe I've been a bit over dramatic but regardless I have sent this letter to my MP.
Dear
I thought I would write to you with regard to my concerns as a diabetic in these strange times with the Coronavirus epidemic.
I ask what the Government plan to do with regard to safeguarding us diabetics, along with other clinically vulnerable people, considering statistics apparently show that 1 in 4 diabetics who end up in hospital die?
On the Government website we diabetics are down as clinically vulnerable and are still advised to stringently social distance. However, I work in a school as a Learning Support Assistant and whilst I have been working at home since late March, (albeit on a reduced hours contract and pay), due to the Government advice at the time, I am due back in September because the Government wants all children back at school and yet it’s absolutely clear and obvious that you cannot social distance correctly and safely in a school.
For sure I am allowed to wear a mask but masks in schools are not mandatory so if I am the only one wearing a mask I am not protected at all because as you know masks are only effective to try and protect others rather than the wearer.
Our school was kept open for children with care plans and those whose parents were key workers but within two weeks the school had a case of Covid so had to shut again. Thankfully I was working from home. So it is plain to see that once September comes and the Autumn/Winter approaches this WILL happen again. Even the Government have admitted to be concerned about a second wave and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that this WILL happen.
My GP has been very sympathetic and feels that I should continue to work from home but is bound by Government guidelines. My school too purely goes by Government advice but as I am sure you would admit Government handling of this epidemic could have been better to be brutally honest so GP’s and Schools are following what is clearly flawed advice.
You are trying to protect the NHS and claim that you are trying to protect the vulnerable but how am I being protected by being forced back into the classroom? I use click and collect for groceries, I social distance if out and have not, and will not visit a shop, barber, restaurant, cinema or pub until we either have a vaccine or some other form of immunity. In a nutshell I can be in control of my own personal risk but I cannot be in control in the workplace which renders my own personal risk strategy as useless. I cannot decide to leave my employment because you cannot claim Universal Credit if you leave your job voluntarily even if by leaving I am potentially saving my life.
At schools there will hundreds/thousands of clinically vulnerable students and staff and come the Autumn Term the idea of sending all back into the classroom will NOT be saving the NHS! I fully understand the mental state and education of children but what will deaths of students or staff do to the mental state of a child?
So I respectfully ask why I am being asked to play a game of Russian Roulette with my health when the Government themselves have classed me as clinically vulnerable but at the same time are forcing me back into a workplace where I cannot be safe?
Kind regards,
I seriously hope soI 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 political capital doing this.
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 give. The suggestion was that it would be pubs ( won't go down well). I think rather than closing pubs they'll put in more stringent opening conditions to full school opening.I seriously hope so
Well when everything is talking about face and space and schools have neither of these, and secondary school also don’t have the same consistent exposure all day (5 or 6 class participants and room changes a day) then current school guidance is doing pretty much the opposite !!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 alreadyialready then to open schools properly and stay in control something else is going to have to give. The suggestion was that it would be pubs. I think rather than closing pubs they'll put in more stringent opening conditions to full school opening.
Those of you returning to work in schools hopefully could benefit from this
There were four pubs in Carlisle and two in Penrith had people with coronavirus in them two weeks ago.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 give. The suggestion was that it would be pubs ( won't go down well). I think rather than closing pubs they'll put in more stringent opening conditions to full school opening.
Those of you returning to work in schools hopefully could benefit from this
Hobson's choice. Weasel words. There is no real choice, just words pretending there is a choice.There wasn't any choice in the trenches but regarding shielding...
This guidance is government advice and it’s your personal choice whether to follow it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ng-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19
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