I guess now we know why the Prime Minister went on holiday
Government getting absolutely roasted by this report
Do we think anything will happen though?
I hope but doubt.
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Nah because itâll focus and be highlighted by the media on the vaccine and end game.
Holy moly thatâs some serious mask against covid.
And here we are all packed like sardines on a bus wearing a paper thin âsurgicalâ mask.
Being on a bus for a half hour with people who might have covid wouldnât require the same level of protection as someone around patients who definitely do all day every day though would it. Not rocket science.
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Looks like a mask to go paint or protect against paint fumes. Or maybe join Walter White and cook some meth.
Certainly unusual mask for doctors.
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Caption says it was last year, doesnât give a date beyond that. Could have been real early when we werenât very sure what we were dealing withâŚso why not take all the precautions? Honestly itâs a weird thing to fixate on.
Masks like that are only used in the ICU, where people may be ventilated.
If the ventilation tubes come loose, air from COVID patients, with aerosolised COVID particles that might leak and spread further.
So you need a higher level of protection and masks like that for those areas.
However, in the rest of the hospital, itâs just surgical masks, just like the bus.
Like this:
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Do you doubt the surgical claim of the mask?
I laugh when people who are not afraid of Covid are so afraid of wearing a mask.
And I laugh at people assuming I am afraid of wearing a mask. :ozil:
I wear it all the time since I am out and about most of the time, need to obey the rules innit mate
Wasnât aimed specifically at you
But why would anyone be afraid of it? It is just a lightweight mask
It is more about the inconsistency and ridiculousness of how some governments apply the mandated mask-rule. Wearing one alone on the beach was a fineable offence in Spain for instance, but at the same time a bunch of people sitting shoulder to shoulder in a cafe without a mask was all bueno.
By the way, today I sat on the Thalys from Rotterdam to Paris. A train you can only get on if you are vaccinated or have a negative antigen test. So, I assume we all got it right. Next to me a guy sick as a dog, coughing the gnarliest cough and sneezing the dirtiest snot every 5 minutes. Flu can be deadly too, but somehow people fucking party and go to work nonetheless risking the health and well being of their fellow humans. Tssk.
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My mother worked in a hospital on ICUs too and I have been to a few and never ever saw that type of half-face respirators worn in Dutch hospitals.
Perhaps it is different in the UK. But, quite certain you wonât see this type of mask worn in Dutch hospitals unless they are working with dangerous fumes and chemicals. That is why it stood out to me.
Yeah it is a strange one, thatâs for sure.
There are all kinds of ffp3 respirators about these days.
I guess that person liked that one, or that was the only one that fit, or the bulky nature maybe gives them more security.
My step daughter tested positive last night and as sheâd been coughing all over me and my wife before the test (lost count of the times Iâve asked her to cover her mouth bless her) Iâm guessing itâs days before we get it.
Seems like itâs going through the local schools like a dose of Epsom salts. It was always going to take off once the Autumn weather cooled.
Once again the U.K. government has missed the boat by delaying the decision to vaccinate secondary children.
My step daughters vaccine was due tomorrow- talk about shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. This should be called the dither and delay government.
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Sucks man, how is she holding up? Are you and the missus both positive then?
Weâre all ok at the moment thanks Big Weng
Sheâs still in her bedroom isolating with standard symptoms (cough, sore throat, loss of taste etc) and me and the Mrs are ok for now but if weâve caught it, itâll only come out the next few days after incubating.
Bad timing as I had a good mate flying over from France next week and hadnât seen him in years. Fingers crossed the house is corona free by the weekend.
Everyday Iâm coming across more and more people in our neighbourhood whoâve got it after kids have brought it home from school.
Itâs another Boris special in the making.
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British exceptionalism strikes again.
Every other country was vaccinating kids.
But no, we are Britain, we are better.
Now kids are the number one age group and reservoir for the virus in the UK.
Even more bizarre is the health system is about to be swamped and the Plan B is also not yet in place in England so now weâre pouring more oil on the fire.
Boris again too late on vaccinations for school kids, too late on vaccine boosters and too late now on plan B. It seems obvious too that the whole population will need to be offered 6-12 monthly boosters if they want for the next few years until genuine long term herd immunity is built up.
This is beyond a joke as we try to become the corona capital of the world again.
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