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Looking at the current number of infections I don't think we are being nearly cautious enough.
A few years from now we will understand better but for now 'If you have been in contact with a positive case you isolate, no excuses' seems reasonable to me.
jellybaby-
Here that's the rules; isolate and after 5 days have a test. If negative, return to your life, if positive, get on the blower to anyone you had contact with.
I reckon probably 20-30% of my colleagues have either been positive or had significant contact with someone who was. We get staff to choose if it's WfH isolation or medical leave (both are fine); for the most part non-positive people WfH, people who test positive rest up. Obviously that's not the case if your work can't be carried out from home.
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I think the biggest problem all along has been lack of support for self isolation - Millions can be spent to dodgy mates hastily setup PPE companies but yet no raise in Statutory Sick pay, no efforts to separate infected people from shared households (lot's of empty hotels at the moment that could do with the money...) Issues with food delivery's etc. It's not just a failure of Test and Trace the Isolate component has been useless aswell.
The £500 they started offering late in the day to people on benefits helps but misses the problem of lots of low-paid workers not on benefits who still can't afford to lose two weeks of work...
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roadwarrior
Being over cautious? 54 million people had it, a handful twice, some we can name.
You can spread it from antibodies? Something i'm not understanding...