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Mcbizz said it won't so Northern Hibee should be delighted
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Considering what diseases are still notifiable and require isolation, I think it's utterly ludicrous to remove the need for isolation for confirmed covid cases. I'm at the stage now where I think we're about ready to lift nearly all restrictions, but the removal of the requirement to isolate for people confirmed to have Covid19 is mental.
I personally wouldn't trust Boris Johnson as far as I could throw him and don't disagree that this decision has a lot to do with him trying to placate the fringe elements of his party.
I do agree with most of the post above, I think free testing should continue being available to anyone who is now advised to get another booster in spring but other than that I do agree with this decision. England may be the country in Europe that is proposing to go the furthest but it's not the only nation that is proposing measures like this over the coming weeks.
I think the time's come to scrap things like vaccine passports and compulsory mask wearing and I hope we hear something similar tomorrow.
Do you think the rest of Europe should have copied our plan the last 12 months. Strong on vaccine light on restrictions that don't do much equals less deaths
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We should be clear - the pandemic is not over.
There may be significant resurgences, scientists certain there will be new variants and it's possible they may be worse than Omicron.
I’d be hugely surprised if each lateral flow test cost any less than £10 to process end to end, PCRs significantly more than that.
Just have a look at what these same lateral flow tests cost for travel. The government aren’t going to have got some spectacular deal that makes them dirt cheap.
Not impressed. I'm all for trying to get back to normal and ending restrictions but ending testing and charging for it.....
We have lost family and friends to this ducking disease. One of them being a single mother in her 40s who left her son behind. She had no illnesses and was relatively fit for her age. I myself have had covid and ended up pretty unwell with breathing difficulties. Im early 40s with no known medical conditions. Thousands of people still testing positive everday but lets just stop testing. You all might agree with it but not me. Sure end restrictions, lets try and get back to as normal as we can. Stopping testing though, not for me.
Don’t think I even disagree with you but I suppose the flip side of it is do we do this level of testing forever? If not, when do we stop? Everyones vaccinated and pretty much everyone even boosted now, so it’s not the same as before when we had lots of people dying of the virus whilst everyone was locked at home. Assuming that everyone accepts the testing at the current scale can’t go on forever, when would it be reasonable for it to stop?
There's a huge amount, a huge amount of super profit built into the pricing of tests for travel. Some of the Tory friends and family have seen these mandatory tests as a licence to print money. A lot of Tory donors are making themselves very rich on the proceeds of Covid.
Breaking: The British Medical Association,
@TheBMA
, says removing all restrictions, testing, sick pay and isolation payments in England is "premature", "incredibly concerning" and "completely illogical", adding that it "neglects" and "fails" those most at risk from Covid-19.
Even at a tenner and on average 50% of sent tests being inputted as estimated, that would be £600,000,000 a month just on lfts. I agree it's not money well spent, although it was last year. Looking at the German and French lft budgets it matches our price with the scale we have been doing
It would still give them free to the vulnerable asymptomatic, although glad to hear they will be further boosted in spring.
Have to remember we aren't going from 100% isolating to 0%. As ons estimate only 40% of positive cases each day are caught, so 60% don't isolate just now. Also of the 40% a fifth say they don't fully isolate.
Hopefully symptomatic people isolate, also if the have flu ect. The biggest disgrace is a decent statutory sick pay didn't come out of this
BMA said we shouldn't fully open last July and England shouldn't fully open 5 weeks ago, glad they didn't listen to them
The government are hopeless, but vaccines meant they could open fully with less deaths per head than all the big European neighbours the last year