[cashman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I am not suggesting that they should have been abandoned, but that they should have been put into Quarantine for two weeks like those who came in off a cruise and were immediately transported to Arrowe Park where they stayed until it was clear that they had not brought in any infection.
I am sure that there could have been enough facilities commandeered for this to happen,
But to wait until the third lockdown and 300+ days into a pandemic is just plain lunacy.

I have said this from the very start, and other major mistakes were made too.

Simple common sense strategies that could have helped prevent transmission were not employed.
Yes, Cashy....this was an unprecedented event, but I am not brainy, but way way back I could see things that were glaringly obvious....so why could these Elton educated men, university professors and the like, not see these things too?

It is like when we are told of the daily death toll....no one has asked if these are deaths in addition to the normal deaths that occur every single day of every single year.
So it occurs to me that they do not want us to know what the true figures are....because they want to exert more pressure, more fear on the population.
We are given figures with no real frame of reference...this makes it sound as if all the current deaths are as a result of the virus....when in actual fact this is the time of year when seasonal flu and pneumonia claim many lives.

Speaking of seasonal flu....the PCR test does not discriminate between Covid and flu.
So some of the positive tests may be from seasonal flu rather than Covid, because the only way to truly determine whether you have had/got Covid is an antibody test....where a specimen of blood is required.

Covid is, without doubt, for some people a very serious infection, but for some it will be similar to the seasonal illnesses that come around every year.
This year because of limited contact with others, our immune systems are very likely to be less effective in coping with whatever is doing the rounds.

So do what you feel comfortable with, to protect yourself....but keep a sense of perspective.

i do, but in the early days of this virus no scientist or health specialist knew enough about it to deal with it in my view,so how you did is totally beyond me,