Well, just when we thought it was confusing enough… I have spent the past few weeks wondering whether the almost entirely contradictory information and guidance coming from Whitehall is deliberate or just inefficient, and came to the remarkable conclusion that it probably doesn’t matter, unless you want to place the blame.
Perfectly timed with the return to school and, later, the universities, the ‘world beating’ (not my words) Test and Trace system disappeared, not so much in a flash, but more the way batteries run out on a torch in a power cut.
Public health teams groaned under the strain of multiple calls from concerned head teachers and managers looking for expert advice, and I have spent my time trying to distinguish a ‘new continuous cough’ from other types of coughs.
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