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<blockquote data-quote="JRT" data-source="post: 2304210" data-attributes="member: 520947"><p>I think your post sums it up perfectly Max. On the one hand you have Government workers,GPs,and even Union Officials who are working from home or with rigid social distancing, then there are the rest of us.!</p><p>GPs, the ones that I have been in contact with seem to go to extraordinary lengths to protect themselves at work but feel also dismissive of someone in another occupation,sometimes it feels to me as they dont want to get involved!</p><p>Risk assessments to me seem like statistics they can prove or disprove anything. My work place had a very basic one where it would unlikely that anyone who worked there would have made high risk as they would have been unable to get out of bed! On this I was low risk,on the one the NHS use I was high. </p><p>I have almost given up trying to assess what the real risk is. On the one hand theres all the things that have happened since March and all the measures that have been put into place. On the other is what seems to be the general feeling that infections are up and rising but that's ok because its younger people and they will be fine. Deaths are drastically down. I have wondered who these deaths are. I wonder how those that were shielded and returned to work are fairing. In my workplace they disappeared off the rota.</p><p>In a society where the majority view the virus as an inconvenience and a quite vocal minority as fake I think anyone who is vulnerable or feels at risk is very much on their own.</p><p>Every situation is a unique combination of individual risk factors combined with risk in the workplace. Schools and care homes seem to be places where risk is debated but people just put a few things in place and wait and see. Schools people are mainly concerned about childeren. Care homes currently just isolate their residents to the point they are almost prisoners. Tests are hard to come by for many,a lot are struggling financially. The only hope is that at least hospital patients wont be discharged there again.</p><p>Maybe government policy,if they have one,is to follow herd immunity and for as many people to be infected before winter so NHS isnt overwhelmed?</p><p>I think anyone who is concerned is on their own and left feeling a nuisance or paranoid for making a fuss. I think that your colleagues didnt social distance during training says it all really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRT, post: 2304210, member: 520947"] I think your post sums it up perfectly Max. On the one hand you have Government workers,GPs,and even Union Officials who are working from home or with rigid social distancing, then there are the rest of us.! GPs, the ones that I have been in contact with seem to go to extraordinary lengths to protect themselves at work but feel also dismissive of someone in another occupation,sometimes it feels to me as they dont want to get involved! Risk assessments to me seem like statistics they can prove or disprove anything. My work place had a very basic one where it would unlikely that anyone who worked there would have made high risk as they would have been unable to get out of bed! On this I was low risk,on the one the NHS use I was high. I have almost given up trying to assess what the real risk is. On the one hand theres all the things that have happened since March and all the measures that have been put into place. On the other is what seems to be the general feeling that infections are up and rising but that's ok because its younger people and they will be fine. Deaths are drastically down. I have wondered who these deaths are. I wonder how those that were shielded and returned to work are fairing. In my workplace they disappeared off the rota. In a society where the majority view the virus as an inconvenience and a quite vocal minority as fake I think anyone who is vulnerable or feels at risk is very much on their own. Every situation is a unique combination of individual risk factors combined with risk in the workplace. Schools and care homes seem to be places where risk is debated but people just put a few things in place and wait and see. Schools people are mainly concerned about childeren. Care homes currently just isolate their residents to the point they are almost prisoners. Tests are hard to come by for many,a lot are struggling financially. The only hope is that at least hospital patients wont be discharged there again. Maybe government policy,if they have one,is to follow herd immunity and for as many people to be infected before winter so NHS isnt overwhelmed? I think anyone who is concerned is on their own and left feeling a nuisance or paranoid for making a fuss. I think that your colleagues didnt social distance during training says it all really. [/QUOTE]
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