Well, there are, of course, two major issues with the incidental admissions that complicate matters. Firstly, the hospitals are lumbered with infection control measures for any patient with Covid, wh… (View Post)

This is nothing more than a half-educated guess on my part, but I suspect that the end of January may coincide with the peak of hospital admissions and that the headline figures for those will be hor… (View Post)

I don't think that any of the relatively modest restrictions we've got will be lifted until it is obvious both that the case wave has peaked and that the hospitals are over the worst of it … (View Post)

The approach to masking is easily explicable. The Government has exempted hospitality businesses because they've been battered by cancellations anyway, and it wants to avoid doing them any more … (View Post)

I think we'll have to agree to differ politely on the low quality masks. It's not heresy to suggest that simple masks and some other basic interventions that could've been of useful ef… (View Post)