My worry about Covid exit plans are due to...
1. The general lack of common sense by so many people. Ignoring recent travel guidelines, general “I can do what suits me”, ignoring what they might pass on.
2. The poor public information being passed on and resultant confusion. A cleaner can visit clients but you cannot visit your own family. A cleaner can visit multiple clients with associated risks yet family cannot be visited. Good logic there!
3. The sense that people think we have already solved it. Deaths dropping yet no clear data for numbers infected, especially asymptomatic people.
4. The original “Save the NHS” target has been met but other measures confused and questionable.
5. The Nightingale hospitals were a great idea, luckily not needed to bolster the NHS. Why were/are they not being used as a recuperative measure to aid safe release of recovered victims back into circulation?
Point 5 is particularly annoying as recuperative hospitals/care were available years ago. I remember my mum going to one post operation. It freed up the bed in the hospital. If used as part of the exit strategy then they could provide extra temporary beds to get the postponed operations back on track by using the recuperation system to unblock beds.
I fear economic reasons are starting to outweigh health issues in many cases. Mind you, I also think many firms may have jumped the gun in stopping work when they could have reorganised to carry on in a limited way. Supermarkets have managed a decent system involving large numbers of customers with staff safety being covered.
Personally I am taking a watch and wait attitude. Watch how relaxation measures are introduced and how effective they are. Playing golf? Not yet. Not a necessity but being missed. Morgan drives? Wales has not cleared such activity yet.
Excellent, especially point 5, likewise both my parents went to one post being a hospital in-patient I think they were called Convalescence Homes? Mom got Weston Super Mare and my dad got a country park based place that was like an NT property. Would certainly be a safer and more supported location for people recovering.
BR
Colin