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It was announced today that from 16 August, those who have had both COVID vaccinations will not have to isolate if they come into contact with an infected person.<\/p>\nIt was announced today that from 16 August, those who have had both COVID vaccinations will not have to isolate if they come into contact with an infected person.<\/p>\n
I notice that social media is still fairly overflowing with flat-earthers in the allegedly \u2018professional\u2019 ADI community proudly trumpeting that they\u2019ve never worn a mask, and nor have any of their pupils, so the change in rules in a couple of weeks about masks won\u2019t affect them. In case you forgot, let me just remind you what I\u2019ve said before. That they are complete twats.<\/p>\n
I wonder how these same specimens will do – due to their similarly stupid conspiracist views about the vaccines and whether COVID even exists – if they subsequently are<\/strong> supposed to isolate after 16 August? If they don\u2019t, they’ll be breaking the Law, and if they insist on bigging themselves up on social media every five minutes (as is their wont), the Registrar might take a very dim view of their status on the Register. Frankly, if they did fall foul of that, my feelings would be along the lines of \u2018serves you right, and good riddance\u2019. After all, they are almost certainly a part of the reason all of this has gone on quite as long as it has (they\u2019ve helped spread it, for a start).<\/p>\n Strong evidence is mounting that the vaccines are preventing deaths. Last year, with three noticeable spikes in infections, the death rate increased approximately 3-4 weeks later. That was when we had no vaccines. However, during this latest spike in infections, the level at which an increase in deaths subsequently occurred last year was surpassed right at the start of June. And death rates have not risen significantly at all after five weeks (fingers crossed they don\u2019t, even though today\u2019s figure is a little worrying). The only difference is<\/strong> the vaccine.<\/p>\n As for masks, I find it incredible that there are still people out there who believe the mask protects the wearer. It doesn\u2019t, and never has. The mask is for the benefit of others.<\/p>\n I haven\u2019t decided yet how I am going to deal with masks when the requirement for them ends in a couple of weeks. I am doubly-vaccinated and careful, of course. However, my pupils collectively (on average) go to school and go out and get pissed whenever they feel like it. Some of them have flat earth mothers who \u2018don\u2019t believe in\u2019 the virus, or who are anti-vax\/zero knowledge. So the risk to me is still there. I might decide that I still need protecting from them – it depends on how the numbers go over the next fortnight.<\/p>\n One asked me today what I would do. I explained what I just said, and she agreed. And another one later also fully understood. Any who don\u2019t can find another instructor.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was announced today that from 16 August, those who have had both COVID vaccinations will not have to isolate if they come into contact with an infected person. I notice that social media is still fairly overflowing with flat-earthers in the allegedly \u2018professional\u2019 ADI community proudly trumpeting that they\u2019ve never worn a mask, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-covid-19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}