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Surely it would also take forever?
Locally they have installed a lot of portable ones in schools including some homemade
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roydo
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Didnt know they could be temps. I have a mate who works in that field, and he makes out that its like witchcraft. I guess its in his interest to say that.
Know little about their effectiveness myself, hence tagging in haydn who iirc has experience in the field.
Looks like eyes are all going to turn to Copenhagen hospitalizations over next few days for clues as to impact.
No information that I have seen yet as to whether these London admissions are Omicron related.
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Friend of mine who works in admin in the hospitals said the same thing. The biggest admin department in the entire trust has managers upon managers , they have managers , assistant managers , assistant assistant managers etc.
I remember he told me they just add managers to the pool without them even knowing what they do.
From what he says, those same people are trying to justify their jobs during a giant review currently and that they can second anywhere they want but none of the lower staff are allowed to.
Where?
I'm not saying that we shouldn't wear them. I just think in the grand scheme that with Omicron they aren't going to help much. But if they help a tiny bit (like a plaster) that'd be great. I was reading that Omicron particles last in the air up to 4x longer than the previous strains. That's what I meant. If it's so airborne it's going to infect a lot of people regardless of mask wearing or not. But like I said, I'm behind them where they're needed and reasonable for things being able to operate (i.e. masks in certain settings like clubs, gigs aren't going to work, you just might as well shut those places down).
I think there is a lot of flexibility now with days off depending on what company you work for. I'm lucky, my company are pretty great, and I wfh anyway so being ill really doesn't impact me. I take time off if I can't work but it's not like I need to commute, I know I'm lucky with that. And it's very rare that I'm too ill to work. The only recent time has been when I had COVID, and even then I didn't miss a shift because at the time I was self-employed... That's a big thing here too, ultimately self-employed people can't just take days off. Now that's a choice you take when you become self-employed, as I know. And there's a balance with support there isn't there.
Fully agree on the rest. Ways to boost your immune system, encouraging exercise (which was done last year) should all be front of the queue. I will say though as someone who is very active, it didn't stop me getting COVID bad. Maybe it stopped me being worse than I was, though!
Issue they have is as soon as they open up they'll see a spike.
Nowhere in the world, barring desert islands, is going to avoid Omicron.
Hopefully for Germany whatever spike they have isn't severe, like anywhere
Probably the ones that are all about to break up for Christmas...
My schools almost always had an inset day or two in the final week before Xmas. If that's the case, I bet a fair few schools take the decision to shorten their weeks
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