"If this allows us to return to greater normality, it would be a great step forward."

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "This new pilot could help shift the dial in our favour by offering a viable alternative to self-isolation for people who are contacts of positive Covid-19 cases,...

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COULD

"If this allows us to return to greater normality, it would be a great step forward."

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "This new pilot could help shift the dial in our favour by offering a viable alternative to self-isolation for people who are contacts of positive Covid-19 cases,...

Another cock up or common sense?

... A large study of the test-and-trace system, published last month, found low numbers of people had followed the self-isolation rules in full.

Men, younger people and parents with young children were less likely to self-isolate - as were those from more working-class backgrounds, people in financial hardship and key workers...

... Here's hoping we don't blow it again!

I strongly believe we need to keep the international holiday trade still blocked/stopped for a good while yet...

Add the greedy beyond death Punch Taverns to my personal list:

[...]

Really? A restaurateur knows better about killing people than Scientists and our government?...

For me personally, simple: ALL Punch Taverns are henceforth totally blacklisted for the next decade.

Latest R and growth rate for England

Latest R range for England
0.8 to 1.1

Latest growth rate range for England
-4% to -1%
per day

An R value between 0.8 and 1.1 means that, on average, every 10 people infected will infect between 8 and 11 other people.

A growth rate of between -4% and -1% means that the number of new infections is shrinking by between 1% and 4% every day.

These estimates represent the transmission of COVID-19 2 to 3 weeks ago, due to the time delay between someone being infected, developing symptoms, and needing healthcare...

... large gatherings of people ...

Such as: Nightclubbing, airports, and other indoor venues that involve a large throughput of people...

Dr. Torgrimson-Ojerio decided she would try to figure out whether these anecdotes were outliers or representative of a more common phenomenon. She surveyed around 2,200 adults who said they had been exposed to tear gas in Portland last summer. In a study published this week in the journal BMC Public Health, she reported that 899 of them — more than 54 percent of the respondents who potentially menstruate — said they had experienced abnormal menstrual cycles.

Suspicions about tear gas and menstruation first came up more than a decade ago, during the Arab Spring protests, Dr. Jordt noted.

In 2011, Chile also banned the use of tear gas after a study suggested that CS gas could cause miscarriages and harm young children. Three days later, the Chilean police lifted the ban, insisting that the type of tear gas they used was perfectly safe.

... Here's hoping we don't blow it again!

I strongly believe we need to keep the international holiday trade still blocked/stopped for a good while yet...

Add the greedy beyond death Punch Taverns to my personal list:

Covid-19: Scientist urges patience before 17 May lockdown relaxation
wrote:

People need to be "patient for a short period" ahead of the next planned relaxation of Covid rules in England, a government scientific adviser has said.

Prof Sir Mark Walport said there was "very good news" in the progress of the pandemic, but many people were still not vaccinated yet.

He told the BBC there is still a "potential for that spark to reignite" and cause infections to rise...

[Note: Just like before, TWICE before! And just like India now...]

... Mr Osmond [founder of Punch Taverns], who brought a legal case against the government to bring forward the indoor reopening of pubs and restaurants... Meanwhile, every day of closure was costing the hospitality industry £200m, Mr Osmond said...

Really? A restaurateur knows better about killing people than Scientists and our government?...

For me personally, simple: ALL Punch Taverns are henceforth totally blacklisted for the next decade.

The High Court ruled in favour of the government after a case was brought by Punch Taverns founder Hugh Osmond, and Sacha Lord, the night-time economy adviser for Greater Manchester.

Pubs and restaurants were allowed to reopen - but [so far] only outdoors [since] 12 April...

... funding to fast-track new vaccines will help "future-proof" the UK against new coronavirus variants, the vaccines minister has said...

... £29.3m funding increase would boost testing facilities...

... Following the funding announcement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: "We are committed to supporting the UK's flourishing life-sciences industry - and this announcement is yet another critical way we will build back better to protect the country...

• Science warns of a risk of impending disaster;
  
• Politicians ignore the inconvenient science;
  
• Politicians continue to 'defund' the inconvenient science;
  
• Disaster happens;
  
• Science gathers up whatever shoestrings happen to be available to save the world again...
  

Oh how researchers and Science continue to be abused...

Will we learn any better ways?


Stay safe folks!
Martin

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/index.html

https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html

https://vaers.hhs.gov/

WOW

Yep

Alcohol killed more people in 2020 in England and Wales than in any of the previous 20 years, official data shows.

There were 7,423 deaths from alcohol misuse last year - a rise of 20% from 2019, the Office for National Statistics says.

Deaths increased from March 2020 onwards when the UK's coronavirus epidemic forced the first national lockdown.

Most deaths were related to long-term drinking problems and dependency.

... The analysis shows wild animals are mostly moved [traded] from low-income countries to rich developed nations...

... The researchers believe the pandemic could lead to a decline in international wildlife trade, due to a number of factors including bans on wildlife consumption in China. They say this should be viewed as the foundation for change.

"To avoid returning to business as usual, we should take advantage of the public's awareness of the possible consequences of consuming wildlife products to reduce demand, and make the Chinese ban on wildlife consumption permanent," Dr Liew said...

... the US was the biggest importer, with France and Italy a distant second and third...

Our big outbreaks of new diseases have all come from our 'farming'/trading abuse of wildlife, most recently including the present COVID pandemic.

• Two-thirds of UK adults – 35 million – have been vaccinated with a first dose of a COVID-19 jab
  
• More than 16.7 million people in the UK vaccinated with a second dose of a COVID-19 jab
  
• Public urged to get the jab when their time comes and do their bit to send the virus into retreat