We are at such low risk of contracting and passing the virus on if we are double jabbed, that we can fly around and not quarantine. (any minute now, they say)

Or,

We are still at high risk of serious illness even if we have been vaccinated twice, so we need the people who care for us to be vaccinated, under threat of losing their jobs.


How can both be true?

They can't out of context: hospitals and carehomes are where the virus has spread like wildfire and killed off the vulnerable, not the beaches of Portugal...
This was why lockdown achieved little but damage to wider society: we should only ever have focused (but effectively not the shit show we endured) on "care" environments. The Gov knows this, hence the difference in approach. Your brain-teaser nicely demonstrates the fallacy at the heart of the lockdown fiasco...

Honey wrote:
we need the people who care for us to be vaccinated

True. I don't know anything about the lifestyles of my aunt's carers, but would wish them to take every possible precaution to avoid infecting their patients and residents. Some young people have been more interested in the furlough money available, and enjoying life, than the virus itself. Always assume the worst, and most improbable, inept and careless scenarios.

Wolfgang wrote:
[quote]Honey wrote:
I don't know anything about the lifestyles of my aunt's carers

Too true; they could be one of those types who leave their house or don't wear masks when driving....Selfish arses...

Wyot wrote:
[quote]Wolfgang wrote:
Honey wrote:
I don't know anything about the lifestyles of my aunt's carers

Too true; they could be one of those types who leave their house or don't wear masks when driving....Selfish arses...

I know a lady who works in a care home, and she and her colleague were giving personal care to a resident who had coronavirus, and they were washing her.

On leaving the room, the colleague, who was sweating profusely, wiped her face on the towel she had just wiped the resident with.

I would have been screaming hysterically if I had seen it, but my friend managed to calmly wipe her workmate's face with an alcohol wipe, saying nothing beats them for cooling you down when you are hot, and held her tongue.

Maybe it is because my mind is addled by being in the third week of flu, but there is a teeny tiny doubt in my mind that "Wolfgang" is Barney.
Normally, I would know our Barney anywhere, but this time I am hesitant to interact.

Barney PLEASE stop the name changing.

Honey wrote:
Maybe it is because my mind is addled by being in the third week of flu, but there is a teeny tiny doubt in my mind that "Wolfgang" is Barney.
Normally, I would know our Barney anywhere, but this time I am hesitant to interact.

Barney PLEASE stop the name changing.

Course it's Barney; hope you feel better soon Honey.