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It's hard enough for ill people to see a doctor as it is. There is no need to waste their time filling in certificates. Don't forget deaf people. Exemptions are available to anyone talking to a lip reader.

That's the one that says that wearing masks reduces transmission by 53%, if I remember rightly, without ever saying what that means. Logically it should mean that if we had continued to wear masks since the first wave, the disease would have never had a second wave because it would never have...

No - the point is that if you randomly test millions of people with no symptoms, you will find asymptomatic cases that countries who don't randomly test will not find.

I think you might have been indoors too long, crodo. Take a look at the calendar. It's back end of October. Meeting outdoors is no longer a possibility. The original idea of this lot was that if we have a few weeks of misery, things will get better and we can enjoy the rest of our lives...

I don't know if you're remotely interested in accuracy, but just in case you are: 1. In post 224 you raised the unvaccinated by saying that people have been "sacrificed needlessly by the Government because it's too politically difficult to persuade selfish people to put masks on or get a...

Are you saying that it's the government's fault if someone dies unvaccinated, because the government should have worked harder to persuade them?

Not invincible. I don't think many people believe that vaccination confers immortality, and I hope there aren't many who even hope that it wuld. What the vaccine does is improve your odds. If, for example, you are an 88 year old woman, your chances of making it to this time next year are...

Would you allow permission for anyone talking to a deaf person to pull down the mask to allow lip reading, or are the deaf simply persona non grata in this scheme?

Maybe try a pilot scheme in Scotland - see if it works? :whistle: