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NorthernWisdom

NorthernWisdom

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fernandopartridge said:
In practice I think many people are still doing it, I know I am having STILL not been allowed to the office since March 2020. Lots of my clients still 100% wfh
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I'm still baffled by Mrs Wisdom, who's been asked to go in four days a week so 'students get the full experience'. Given she's mainly office based... I have to say, when I went to Uni, my idea of the full experience wasn't some woman doing mundane admin tasks in an office!

tbf, *some* of her job, she needs to be in, but it's a flexible working contract that, it turns out, ain't flexible about *where* you work flexibly!

I can only assume said university has some prominent Tory donors funding it!
 
skybluetony176

skybluetony176

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Kieranp96 said:
Im double jabbed and have been ill 3/4x in the past 3 months, im takong antobody test just out of curiosity (paying for it myself), im eligible for my booster in the uk now and in Hungary where i reside, but i dont want to waste a vaccine when it wont affect me, assuming one of my sicknesses was covid.
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Sounds like you’re going to a lot of trouble just to be told you need the booster. Which you already know.
 
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CCFCSteve

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Sky Blue Pete said:
Scotland wales and Northern Ireland just simply following medical advice. Boris no plans mmmmmmm
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To be fair though Pete those countries have had ridiculous vaccine passport rules that have had little/no impact as well as confusing mask messaging (see pubs and clubs) that again won’t help in certain situations

We currently don’t know whether this variant is any more serious and still don’t know if it’s vaccine resistant and if so, how resistant it is. I’d imagine this won’t be the last time this situation arises with a new variant in the coming months and years so they’ve got to be very careful introducing measures that aren’t necessary otherwise it could be a case of the boy who cries wolf when something serious does come along where they need full compliance

I think the restrictions/measures put in place appear to be sensible precautions while the scientists get a better understanding. In the meantime the best thing people can do is stop fucking about and get the vaccine and booster when able to... worst case it protects them from the delta variant which is still by far the most prominent variant in the UK (to at least minimise hospitalisations from that), best case is it provides sufficient protection from new variant to avoid serious illness

Obviously all of the above is caveated on data coming through on new variant ! Just keeping fingers crossed 🤞
 
NorthernWisdom

NorthernWisdom

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CCFCSteve said:
We currently don’t know whether this variant is any more serious and still don’t know if it’s vaccine resistant and if so, how resistant it is. I’d imagine this won’t be the last time this situation arises with a new variant in the coming months and years so they’ve got to be very careful introducing measures that aren’t necessary otherwise it could be a case of the boy who cries wolf when something serious does come along where they need full compliance
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I do agree with you, fwiw. The wfh rule though, doesn't really affect 'normality' as such, the same as wearing masks in crowded spaces - they still allow people to get on with life pretty much as before. I know at my workplace they were flexible that those who were going mad at home / unable to work because the world and his wife were also wfh, they were allowed into the office anyway. Surely better that way around than compelling people for no real reason?

And I'd say that Covid or no Covid! tbh I've been going in a day a week as much because of that madness issue, but there's no *need* for me to be in much of the time. What we don't seem to have done is used Covid to take certain elements, and adopt them. Instead, it's back to same-old same-old in many areas and that's... depressing really.
 
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CCFCSteve

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NorthernWisdom said:
I do agree with you, fwiw. The wfh rule though, doesn't really affect 'normality' as such, the same as wearing masks in crowded spaces - they still allow people to get on with life pretty much as before. I know at my workplace they were flexible that those who were going mad at home / unable to work because the world and his wife were also wfh, they were allowed into the office anyway. Surely better that way around than compelling people for no real reason?

And I'd say that Covid or no Covid! tbh I've been going in a day a week as much because of that madness issue, but there's no *need* for me to be in much of the time. What we don't seem to have done is used Covid to take certain elements, and adopt them. Instead, it's back to same-old same-old in many areas and that's... depressing really.
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Yeah, WFH should currently* be a workplace call though, not government. I agree, a lot of roles could/should be flexible working and no reason why higher risk employees shouldn’t be actively encouraged to WFH.

*could change soon !
 
jimmyhillsfanclub

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Skybluefaz said:
Fair play Saj. He makes Hancock look like, well Matt Hancock.

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....although actually it appears hes dropped a bit of a bollock as the drop in centres are keeping to the strict 6 month gap....if you want it earlier you have to use booking system.

So....more mixed messages
 
Sick Boy

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From tomorrow I can book my booster - there has to be some kind of insights they got around this new strain that’s made them so edgy, surely?
 
NorthernWisdom

NorthernWisdom

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fernandopartridge said:
I think it's trying to avoid heavy restrictions at all costs tbh as they are not politically tenable nor likely to be adhered to
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I'm not convinced the haste to push them through will convince people who are dubious in the first place, mind. We can see as much in this thread!

I dunno, currently we don't know if it can evade vaccines (although Moderna said it was pretty likely it would) and we don't know how serious it is (cases currently mild, but have been in young people so maybe distorted) but, if it evades vaccines anyway, and is weaker than the current, then pushing the younger people to three months seems counter-intuitive. If it were the older lot, I'd understand more!
 
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wingy

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NorthernWisdom said:
I'm not convinced the haste to push them through will convince people who are dubious in the first place, mind. We can see as much in this thread!

I dunno, currently we don't know if it can evade vaccines (although Moderna said it was pretty likely it would) and we don't know how serious it is (cases currently mild, but have been in young people so maybe distorted) but, if it evades vaccines anyway, and is weaker than the current, then pushing the younger people to three months seems counter-intuitive. If it were the older lot, I'd understand more!
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Or even those who were never dubious originally.
 
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