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   Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 03:26:46 JST Normal for '24 😷🇪🇺🍸

   UK Covid.

   We did some extensive planning for how to cope with a global pandemic. And then threw it away.

   Covid happened. And we tried to ignore it for too long and then muddled through while exploiting it for personal gain. That went badly wrong.

   The second wave happened and we deliberately forgot all the lessons from the first wave. That went badly wrong too.

   We took the edge off with a vax programme. Before that had even finished we screwed it up.

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     Touch. Washing hands is good basic hygiene. But is only of limited help for airborne diseases.

     Infection control is *really* important in healthcare and care homes. We should be testing, and isolating when +ve, all patients, residents and staff. Especially when moving between environments.

     Air Hygiene should be built into corporate health & safety rules and building codes.

     Isolation when ill and especially +ve Covid needs support from the state. With statutory sick pay.

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     Covid is a highly infectious, airborne pathogen that spreads via the respiratory system and causes an all body disease, often with lasting damage. It can infect and damage all ages.

     Vax. Mainly reduces severity. A good thing for everyone of all ages.

     Air. It's airborne. Air hygiene is important.

     Space. Most dangerous are indoor crowds. Avoid.

     Mask. Good (FFP2/3) masks help reduce spread

     Test. If you can't measure, you can't manage.

     Isolate. When ill. No matter what the infectious illness.

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     Sorry, not UK. England and Wales. Although Scotland and N Ireland are not much better.

     Now we're in denial. and have deliberately forgotten all the lessons from the previous 4 years of Covid and the years of planning before that. Now we've given up on the most basic Public Health as PHE has been replaced by UKHSA and that's been captured by the minimisers.

     Will we ever learn from our mistakes, learn from 4 years of Covid, and actually pro-actively fix this?