The month things will change

Well, we're into July where touch wood, I should be able to be out of this house overnight for the first time in absolutely ages.

There is as ever continuing discourse about how we are supposed to get out of this some of which can be paraphrased as "let me sleep on it" forever looking at other things into the future and saying effectively I'm not sure I need more time.

We of course now have for other reasons a new health secretary who is more inclined to take a broader view looking at the social,economic and even health consequences of the measure we felt were necessary to tackle the Covid pandemic.

It's always been a balencing act an act that has at least reduced the numbers of projected deaths by a huge margin even if the situation around Care Homes remains understandably sore part of the problem being that Care homes moved from mainly local authority controlled where they would of recieved support to mainly privately owned ones where it appears home owners expected the state to supply P.pe. and non one in the state was checking what if anything care homes were doing.

Regardless of party politics, social care and medical care including homes needs to be fully intergrated into the NHS, not fractured with demarcation issues.

There is talk around the requirement to wear masks (we can now call them what they are not just facial coverings) with some saying they should be optional given some 85% of people have  had a one innoculation and about 63% currently have had both has had a massive effect at bring the link between cases of Covid which are high and people being so ill as to require hospitalization.

That impact goes beyond being decimated but I do feel strongly that in enclosed public spaces people would be best adviced to stay with wearing mask for both the additional protection against transmission not just of covid but of things such as Winter Flu.

There was a reason many in South East Asia do wear masks for this and from my point of view we should keep that even if we do relax the one metre rule in things like entertainment centres.

Yes we need, however hard we may be pyschologically to break out of the fearfullness of the last year and a bit for our own good but we should be prepared to learn from and kept those things that can keep us all healthy