@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31 Please read. First of all; you’re coming to an Island that has a small hospital that was struggling like hell in second wave. You have to use ferries : public transportation with Islanders that have to travel for medical appointments for radiotherapy, & ALL major surgery.
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31 2) Unless the Ferries/ Council re-instate requirements for passengers to sit in vehicles for journey: you’ll be mixing with the vulnerable. While you have your ‘ loophole’ to not be masked; they have to run the risk of you mixing with them, especially in rough crossings where
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31 Neither you nor they can sit outside. On Red Jet it’s sit inside only, anyway. Last Summer the island was COVID-19 free for about a month; before holidays started up again. By Oct we missed a lockdown, our MP pressured for tier 1 to fit his GBD support: By November we went
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31 from tier 1 to tier 4 in a week. From them to 4th highest U.K. infections at one point in second wave. I don’t know how this Hotel can can straighten its statement out with regulation for its public liability insurance and it’s stated Policy, either with @iwight or @PHE_uk
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31@iwight@PHE_uk or with COVID-19 Regulations which are Law in U.K. until they are either lifted or amended. Further to this I expect you have seen that @WHO has ammended its advice for COVID-19 being Airborne: which could open up places that do take risks to claims, I would imagine. I’m not a
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31@iwight@PHE_uk@WHO lawyer but would anticipate someone that is might want to add their thoughts on that. I know that Dino says his hotel is minimally staffed etc; but he does have a duty towards the staff he does employ. I cannot see how he can ‘ slip between the gaps’ in the legal context without
@oaklandcottage@Nightingale_31@iwight@PHE_uk@WHO running into all sorts of problems, tbf. because there are simply too many situations where the practicality of doing as he’s advertising seems to be a public health minefield. And that’s before we start on the rising Covid-19 figures for Indian variant.