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Ask an economist what we should do. Ask an epidemiologist what we should do. We would get two very different answers. Ask a pub landlord what we should do. Ask a bus driver what we should do. Different answers again. ...
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It's a difficult balance, isn't it?
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It's down to us now.
Trystan
Hello All
I am very sorry to hear of those of you who are ill, have ill spouses or family and those worried about family and friends who are ill.
Trystan, a summary of your main points (quoted) sums up the current dilemma!
I know what our GPs would opt for! My last recent encounter with a GP ... he opened the door and was effectively in a washable clothing with white wellie bottoms and spoke to me through a full facial visor and a mask.
This thought crossed my mind ... Am I in a Doctor's Surgery or a contaminated nuclear waste facility?
Unfortunately, a skin itch began whilst I still had a severe cough (I thought my skin itching was a coincidental change in washing powder, but it didn't go with rewashing with my old powder brand). I was prescribed skin treatment which made little difference, then suddenly I suffered an 'inflammatory response' March 2020, which was a substantial immune response. It took months to calm down and prescriptions had little effect. It was made worse again last Summer 2020 by insect bites in the garden ... Twenty-nine blood tests, 2 referrals to hospital for scans later, it is not over, but I feel more hopeful.
Had a right range of bizzare health problems, a few serious, caused by the immune response, the original virus having gone.
So I'm surprised mask wearing and distancing has gone, we already know this works extremely well. UK deaths were zero after the first Lockdown.
Hoping time will be a good healer and in the meantime I continue to pray that I will through this.
All the best, Mark
Added: one of my GPs has said my early 2020 illness was a strain of influenza.