Anyone else worried about what will happen when everyone stops wearing masks, piles into pubs and nightclubs and starts running round like it's VE day? cases are rising and the removal of masks is just going to make it worse.
On top of this, I've just read this morning that the Pfizer vaccine is only 64% effective agains the new delta strain. I had the Pfizer vaccine.
I've been told it will be October before my immune system starts getting back to normal..... I had underlying health conditions before all the cancer stuff and was in the extremely high risk category to begin with, now with no immune system to speak of, it's really frightening.
Googling how the lifting of restrictions will affect cancer patients this morning and all the google and press articles are talking in skewed terms about, "when you can stop wearing masks"! and "getting back to normal"! which is all well and good and I know millions of people are just desperate to do that, but it really is confining us and other people with immuno illnesses to life imprisonmnent or even death sentences.
I don't want to get political but I do think the whole thing has been badly handled right from the beginning causing thousands of deaths, particularly in care homes, where people wern't tested before being readmitted from hospital. Or lack of PPE or not shutting down borders quickly enough or even going into lockdown quickly enough. Now there is no shielding, so even if I was well enough to go back to work, I couldn't even shield at home as shielding doesn't exist anymore...... (in terms of employment and payments). Herd immunity is great in theory, but not when you're on such a low peg on the ladder in terms of immunity. Is there anything that can be done?
I am part of our work Covid taskforce. For those who are CEV, we do an individual risk assessment taking into account their personal medical concerns and the actual job we are asking them to do. Then we, with the support of Occ Health, suggest extra precautionary measures to be out in place. This is what all employers should be doing.
On the latest government relaxation, as businesses we are still waiting for an updated set of guidance, which is expected next Monday. We will have a better view then on what is expected from employers in terms of relaxation.
Finally, having just discussed this on a call, our work view will be to be cautious, but it is very difficult to message this as an employer when people can be so free outside work. That indeed is a dilemma that we will face with our more cautious approach.
I am part of our work Covid taskforce. For those who are CEV, we do an individual risk assessment taking into account their personal medical concerns and the actual job we are asking them to do. Then we, with the support of Occ Health, suggest extra precautionary measures to be out in place. This is what all employers should be doing.
On the latest government relaxation, as businesses we are still waiting for an updated set of guidance, which is expected next Monday. We will have a better view then on what is expected from employers in terms of relaxation.
Finally, having just discussed this on a call, our work view will be to be cautious, but it is very difficult to message this as an employer when people can be so free outside work. That indeed is a dilemma that we will face with our more cautious approach.
