Important people apparently immune to Covid-19

[Newchodge]

In a wonderful breakthrough the government has discovered that important business people are not able to catch or tansmit Covid-19. Who would have thunk it, EH? Do you think this was the basis for Hancock's assumption that the rules dd not apply to him?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57644437

 

[WaveJumper]

The whole thing is becoming a complete farce now

 

[AllUpHere]

I wish I'd have known; I wouldn't have bothered getting jabbed.

 

[Ian J]

In a wonderful breakthrough the government has discovered that important business people are not able to catch or tansmit Covid-19. Who would have thunk it, EH? Do you think this was the basis for Hancock's assumption that the rules dd not apply to him?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57644437

Rubbish like this is one of the reasons that I spend less time on UKBF nowadays

 

[ctrlbrk]

In a wonderful breakthrough the government has discovered that important business people are not able to catch or tansmit Covid-19. Who would have thunk it, EH? Do you think this was the basis for Hancock's assumption that the rules dd not apply to him?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57644437

Sounds like Brexit is hurting the UK more than anticipated if the gov't has to resort to this.

 

[The Byre]

Rubbish like this is one of the reasons that I spend less time on UKBF nowadays

In what way is that rubbish? It is very relevant to the SMEs here.

 

[Mr D]

Oh that's all right. Surely the most important business person in the room when alone at home is then immune to the virus.
Forget vaccine, forget having had the virus, all it takes is to be an important business person.

I'm still going to wear masks, social distance and avoid crowds after government restrictions end. Appears quite a number of us don't trust the government to communicate the solution to the virus itself.

 

[japancool]

Didn't you know that football officials are also immune to Covid?

 

[jimbof]

I don't know, strikes me as not being that unreasonable at all.

Transmission rates and the like are a statistical problem; and strikes me that given this is a statistical problem you could reasonably model how many unquarentined travellers you can allow without significantly harming transmissions.

Now, say your models say that you can let, say 50,000 people travel without quarentine and not have too negative effect on transmission rates; with a business brain on (that's what this forum is supposed to be about) do you have 50,000 select tourists go and fritter some money outside the country, or let some significant businesses that can potentially bring large economic benefit do some unencumbered travelling instead, and reap the benefit from that?

Of course, the difficulty is that the plebs don't understand anything that isn't spoonfed to them by the rag of the day, so it makes for a tough sell when outrage is much cheaper and sells more copy.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

We have been exempt from quarantine rules since day one when running into Europe and this never even made the news

 

[Newchodge]

I don't know, strikes me as not being that unreasonable at all.

Transmission rates and the like are a statistical problem; and strikes me that given this is a statistical problem you could reasonably model how many unquarentined travellers you can allow without significantly harming transmissions.

Now, say your models say that you can let, say 50,000 people travel without quarentine and not have too negative effect on transmission rates; with a business brain on (that's what this forum is supposed to be about) do you have 50,000 select tourists go and fritter some money outside the country, or let some significant businesses that can potentially bring large economic benefit do some unencumbered travelling instead, and reap the benefit from that?

Of course, the difficulty is that the plebs don't understand anything that isn't spoonfed to them by the rag of the day, so it makes for a tough sell when outrage is much cheaper and sells more copy.

And you genuinely believe this is the reasoning behnd the decision?

 

[gpietersz]

Important people have never followed the rules. There has been an immigration fast track for important people for years. Even before it was official and widened really important people were always treated differently - admitted dispite having serious criminal records, visas on arrival pretty much automatically, etc.

 

[MBE2017]

Told today on Nick Ferrari show a doctor stating booster covid jabs to be given in the autumn, with flu jabs at the same time. Ferrari asked if this was safe, to which the Doctor replied “Not sure, not enough data.”

If people are happy to be in the medical trial until 2023 for covid vaccines, plus this new addition, go ahead.

 

[jimbof]

And you genuinely believe this is the reasoning behnd the decision?

More than I believe in it being a conspiracy to keep the plebs and small businesses down, yes.

Putting the allowance of a trip or not being linked to the chance of creation of x number of jobs has all the hallmarks of being the result of some statistics based analysis. It's a case of benefit outweighing the downside.

 

[Deleted member 59730]

Others immune from Covid are toffs at the races, toffs at Wimbledon, football officials etc etc.

Quite why the Government thought it a good idea to allow 6,000 police from all over the country to go drinking in the local Falmouth pubs during G7 is beyond many in Cornwall. Cornwall went from near zero cases just before the press and police arrived to a severe crisis.

 

[Newchodge]

More than I believe in it being a conspiracy to keep the plebs and small businesses down, yes.

I certainly don't believe that. I just think it is an act of utter stupidity.

 

[Paul FilmMaker]

I'm in video production and for a while 'film production' was on the UK exempt list. Because movie people are immune to Covid??? Government advice is just nuts.

 

[jimbof]

I'm in video production and for a while 'film production' was on the UK exempt list. Because movie people are immune to Covid??? Government advice is just nuts.

There's nothing new there, the arts have long had all manner of legal exemptions in the interest of output and not those involved that don't make much sense, like the notable exceptions to child labour laws.

 

[zwilliam]

Its weird thing. Rules should be followed by all. Govt. just categorize the people but virus doesn't. Its better to safe yourself first until unless situations get better.