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Working through lockdown.

Sparkingchip
Halfway through this second lockdown are you finding that customers are expecting business as usual?
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    Earlier this year I went to do a landlords EICR and the tenant let me in , showed where the meter and consumer unit are, then went to work leaving his partner and myself in the flat. 


    After a couple of hours he phoned home to me to say he had had a positive Coronavirus test result and was being sent home, I finished up and got out of there.


    I didn’t work again until the following week, then only started again after managing to get a test myself, which was negative.


    Every time you enter someone’s home there is the possibility that you will be told to take two weeks of work or worse still catch the virus from them and possibly end up of work for weeks, maybe in hospital or worse still dead.


    So am I being  recalcitrant  by being less than enthusiastic to try and book in landlords EICRs with another two weeks of the lockdown to go?
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    I have two 2391 classes next week and so it has been since late September. The classes are less populated than normal as there are very strict distancing rules. However, even though we wear masks, it is very difficult to maintain distance in the workshop during practical training. Sometimes I just simply forget and I end up far too close to candidates often because I find it difficult to understand what they are saying through their masks!
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    Sparkingchip:

    After a couple of hours he phoned home to me to say he had had a positive Coronavirus test result and was being sent home, I finished up and got out of there.


    I didn’t work again until the following week ...


    Yes but you should have self-isolated for 2 weeks!


    Boris is self-isolating at the moment and he hasn't any choice - he must set an example.


    In Sparkingchip's case, he could have been infected and become infective in the absence of symptoms. In Bojo's case, it is unlikely that he would have been infected again.


    So we have one size fits all. Can we really expect tradesmen and others to obey these test and trace rules when they have to make a living? I think not.


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    I still have the email telling me to go back to work.
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    Sparkingchip:

    Halfway through this second lockdown are you finding that customers are expecting business as usual?


    Yes, no problems here.


    Z.


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    Open all of the windows for good ventilation.


    Z.
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    As masks are, in my opinion, very far from an evidence-based approach, it is not my policy to wear them whilst working (other than for drilling etc. to protect against harmful dust and the like). If people feel the need for them then I would respectfully advise them to maintain distance from me where possible to negate the perceived need.
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    As masks are, in my opinion, very far from an evidence-based approach

    Isn't the thinking that they work in the same way as Grandma's instance to use a handerchief when you cough or sneeze - the idea being they reduce the amount of potentially infected droplets being expelled from a potentially infected person? There's no magic boundary at 2m.


      - Andy.
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    AJJewsbury:
    As masks are, in my opinion, very far from an evidence-based approach

    Isn't the thinking that they work in the same way as Grandma's instance to use a handerchief when you cough or sneeze - the idea being they reduce the amount of potentially infected droplets being expelled from a potentially infected person? There's no magic boundary at 2m.


      - Andy.


    Yes, agreed, that is the argument. However there is little to no evidence to support it. Indeed the recent Damask-19 research in Denmark found no particular evidence for the efficacy of masks. I understand some people feel that they must be beneficial, but it's better if they avoid the need to be in the same area where I'm working. That's not to suggest that 2m provides some magical boundary either. But ultimately life has risks, and I'm not convinced that COVID is particularly much greater a risk than many other things. But I don't really want to get into a debate about the merits and demerits of the restrictions - which in my view are totalitarian and unjustifiable.


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    RB1981:

    Indeed the recent Damask-19 research in Denmark found no particular evidence for the efficacy of masks.




    That's not the case. For one thing, that study only looked at whether masks protected the wearer, while the main reason for wearing masks is to prevent the wearer infecting other people. And the sample size was too small, which meant that the results weren't statistically significant (which means that you don't know with any sort of statistical certainty whether the results are accurate, and not, as people often assume, that there wasn't any significant difference between mask an non-mask wearers).


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