Yeah the point we're at now is absolutely ideal for me. Pre-covid my job was 100% office working which wasn't so bad for me as I can walk to work but for 99% of the company home-working was a blessing. But 100% home working is horrendous too and I feel like if it were to continue I'd completely flatline my career prospects and would have zero confidence to ever go for any promotions etc. with not being able to build up any rapport with senior colleagues.

 

At the moment I'm in the office 2 or 3 days per week and this set-up is great for me.

Notting Hill Carnival cancelled for second year running as cases rise in London. Organisers will try now to get permission to stage it on the August bank holiday instead,

Working from home doesn’t work as efficiently in my job. It can work in extreme circumstance but nothing beats face to face.

Working from home doesn’t work as efficiently in my job. It can work in extreme circumstance but nothing beats face to face.

 

There are certain jobs which cannot be worked from home, education being one of them. But certainly office work for the majority should be WFH with a balance of home and office work.

 

Covid growth is slightly decreasing which is good, it's certainly not on as big as an upward trajectory as it was a week ago, so fingers crossed we get to about 15-20k cases per day as a worst case scenario before it tails off.

The Netherlands is listing almost ALL restrictions next week :cheeseblock:

 

I can go to tge KLAAABS again :cheeseblock:

Just a quick lil' test and we are ready set go :cheeseblock:

In their 2019 manifesto, the Tories promised a review into home-working and whether people should have the right to request it with employers having to give a good reason to refuse. A cynic might think that this was a vote-grabbing exercise and that the intention was to make sure that the review recommended no change. That cynic might also think that the evidence that working from home works very well for a lot of people means that the review will now not happen.

You can’t cancel if theres a vaccine and if everyone is allowed

I’ve worked from home or less from the moment the pandemic started and absolutely hate it, although given that I live on my own and have no dependants at the moment there are more drawbacks than benefits for me - I love the coffee-pot conversations that can trigger interesting developments, and I like being able to turn my head to ask a colleague a question, rather than sending an email that can get garbled or hope they’re available to take a call. But I recognise that a few years down the line when I have kids I’d savour being able to work from home to spend more time with them, so I am glad that there will be a greater flexibility going forward plus it allows those people who would have been excluded from work due to having dependents or having mobility issues to keep on working in a way that more suits them.

 

Surely it’s better now that you are alone at home to do the work. Once you have kids it’s even worse as you have two jobs lol!

You can’t cancel if theres a vaccine and if everyone is allowed

 

Yeah but, how long until they renege on that?

Lots of pop up vaccination centers in and around London this weekend which is promising. I'm also having my jab today finally! Hopefully we'll see record amounts of vaccinaitions over the next couple weeks or so.

One of the midfielders for Scotland's Football Team has tested positive for Covid. I wonder if any more of the Team will be forced to self isolate.

Almost 3k cases in Scotland today 😐

Thankfully not many hospitalisations though!

UK is finally 'world beating'.

 

Those exact same spikes are going to happen all across Europe though and the US too. While it's easy to be critical of the Tories for the mess they made with the Delta variant, Europe and the US are going to experience a similar third wave. The one positive out of all this so far is while cases are growing and will probs peak in 1-2 weeks, the hospitalisations are levelling off. Just makes you think how bad things could possibly have got if June 21st happened, think those few extra weeks will be crucial.

Those exact same spikes are going to happen all across Europe though and the US too. While it's easy to be critical of the Tories for the mess they made with the Delta variant, Europe and the US are going to experience a similar third wave. The one positive out of all this so far is while cases are growing and will probs peak in 1-2 weeks, the hospitalisations are levelling off. Just makes you think how bad things could possibly have got if June 21st happened, think those few extra weeks will be crucial.

 

The spikes might not be as pronounced in the US/Europe on account of their vaccination programmes will be ahead of where the UK's was when the third wave started. Had the UK government acted sooner with the knowledge they had, we would've likely seen higher vaccination rates before the third wave started/delta variant taking over. In turn that would've likely helped reduce cases, reduce hospitalisations and ultimately save lives.

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Those exact same spikes are going to happen all across Europe though and the US too. While it's easy to be critical of the Tories for the mess they made with the Delta variant, Europe and the US are going to experience a similar third wave. The one positive out of all this so far is while cases are growing and will probs peak in 1-2 weeks, the hospitalisations are levelling off. Just makes you think how bad things could possibly have got if June 21st happened, think those few extra weeks will be crucial.

 

And now the Delta Plus variant, a further mutation to the Delta variant which has arrived in the UK, nothing has been confirmed yet as to how dangerous it is to vaccinated people but it could and in my opinion, should, put back full reopening and masks/distancing easing even further.

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The spikes might not be as pronounced in the US/Europe on account of their vaccination programmes will be ahead of where the UK's was when the third wave started. Had the UK government acted sooner with the knowledge they had, we would've likely seen higher vaccination rates before the third wave started/delta variant taking over. In turn that would've likely helped reduce cases, reduce hospitalisations and ultimately save lives.

 

While the Government definitely fecked up massively with India, this was always going to happen. As long as borders are open, the virus still finds a way to get in. Fingers crossed this doesn't happen in Europe and the US, but again the difference between ourselves as the US for example is we have 0% vaccination amongst school children, whereas they are far higher. But on the flip side, they have nowhere near the same vaccine take-up in the Over 40s. So a lot of it is a guessing game really.

 

Bigger problem for me is the Government seemingly want to have mass sporting events and probably open travel now for double jabbed.

And now the Delta Plus variant, a further mutation to the Delta variant which has arrived in the UK, nothing has been confirmed yet as to how dangerous it is to vaccinated people but it could and in my opinion, should, put back full reopening and masks/distancing easing even further.

 

I disagree. They put these restrictions back one more time then we're almost into the Autumn so that'll effectively mean rather than delaying them for another month, you're gonna be delaying them for another entire year.

 

There's no point the government barking on about how successful their vaccination programme has been yet other countries with slower rollouts being more open. Variants are inevitably going to keep on cropping up and this scaremongering by the media is becoming boring now, rather than frustrating.

And now the Delta Plus variant, a further mutation to the Delta variant which has arrived in the UK, nothing has been confirmed yet as to how dangerous it is to vaccinated people but it could and in my opinion, should, put back full reopening and masks/distancing easing even further.

 

God, part of me thinks you actually want this to last forever. :rolleyes: