He was pinged (it looks like on Friday) & promptly did a PCR test and is isolating.
I’m sure he has also been responsible and been double vaccinated
So whoever gave it to him, for him to be positive on Friday must, themselves have been high viral load just days before.
He says he was asymptomatic so unaware.
So maybe he too was high viral load when he was unmasked in a crowded House of Commons on Wednesday.
How did he travel? Train? Did he stay up? Travel back? When?
Go into offices? Meetings? All unmasked.
HE might be alright, Jack.
How many others in that crowded chamber were Covid positive cumulatively adding to the viral load?
How many have underlying conditions? A fair few I am willing to bet. Several have diabetes.
High blood pressure from the colour of faces?
What about House of Commons staff?
We know some MPs have had cancer diagnosis and treatment.
How many have spouses and children at home that are clinically vulnerable?
How many are carrying it back to their constituency surgeries?
It is fair to point out that due to the Immensa Lab Fiasco (another commissioning balls up?) we high sky high Covid rates in Cheltenham.
Rolling seven day rate of 7700/100k in 10-14yr olds.
High in 5-9 yr olds too.
I don’t know how old are his kids…but it certainly isn’t their fault if they have be exposed to Covid and passed it to him.
It is the fault of his Government for creating those conditions.
Prevalence is now so high I know a children’s nurse here who has caught it and is isolating now. Bad enough to be in bed, not hospital, despite being double vaccinated.
I have had three messages about 3 more people who are positive and one is immune compromised.
So do I hope Alex remains asymptomatic and recovers?
Of course I do.
But I also want him and Sunak a good hard look at themselves and the risks they are exposing others to.
Now. I wonder if it happened the week before.
Friday 15th October. So that was just when the Immensa Lab fiasco was made public (but some days after it had been identified by UKHSA.
The same questions apply.
He is setting an example to his constituents where we have rocketing Covid levels. And it is spreading to the elderly now.
This happened in part because of an issue that was not known at the time. But that is the point of precautionary measures.
Covid can transmit whilst a person is asymptomatic
And incidents occur that can exacerbate prevalence considerably. As now
What is the harm in wearing decent quality masks when going about your public duty? And sending a message to the public that it is a good thing to do.
One way or another, he clearly fails the Rees-Mogg test of safety due to protection by conviviality.
Instead Rishi Sunak sends a very different message.
And surely he was aware that at least one of his fully vaccinated colleagues - apart from Peter Bone had caught Covid, when he sent out that message.
In fact all the unmasked Tory MPs are deliberately flouting the Government’s own advice.
“Wink wink. Nudge nudge. Look at us. We don’t really mean it. Suckers!”
And who thinks they would tell us when their MPs test positive?
At least Alex did. And Peter Bone.
I do have a doubt about whether it was Friday 22nd or Friday15th as Newsletters might take a bit of time to prepare.
But PMQs are on Wednesdays and work is work, offices are offices and travel is travel and office staff are office staff.
Same messages apply.
The date on this article was 21st Oct
So it was unlikely to have been the previous Friday as he would have been isolating wouldn’t he? Unless it is very old news.
But Unmasked again. ..and when prevalence is sky high in schools.
Well. It looks as if it was this Friday he was contacted and asked to do a test.
Because an hour ago he posted a video on Facebook confirming that he can be contacted remotely. The time is on the top right hand corner of the Facebook screen.
Now. Was he contact traced by the House of Commons contact tracing team because a positive contact arose there?
And did he go to Bourneside School on Thursday (or maybe it was earlier in the week?) and spread it around there?
Because he did not know he had it
Because he was asymptomatic
Did he stay in after he was pinged or contacted or both? The latest nutty rules suggest you only have to isolate, if vaccinated, once you have a positive PCR
This is a great example as to why those rules ARE a nutty
So what did he do between being pinged or contacted and getting a positive result? Constituency work? How? Masked up?
His Government’s advice here.
I’ve just been told that this photo was taken at 10.30 am yesterday in LongLevens.
So after he was told he was a contact.
No mask.
How many others in that photo have been contacted?
Remember the Bourneside School photo
Remember the rolling rate for 10-14yr olds in Cheltenham is 7700/100k and vhigh in younger and older kids too
And this is Cheltenham on the Gov Covid website today
1/ Wales have not submitted any case or death data
2/. It is Monday (..so tends to be low Sunday and Monday…then catch up Tuesday to Friday
3/. It is half term. Testing reduces a lot.
4/. Infectious diseases both grow and subside exponentially.
@RobertSyms 5/. So if cases are “dropping like a stone” that is a sign that there is trouble in the testing world.
It was the first clue there was a problem with testing #Immensa fiasco. @RobertSyms
6/ Positivity levels are increasing 9.8% in England from today’s website.
I would expect half term, thus reducing human contact in classrooms to reduce the opportunities for Covid to grow. But infections caught towards the end of last week, will likely show up this
Ask your colleague, Alex Chalk, who was maskless in PMQs on Wed @RobertSyms
She thinks we won’t be arsed to read what the Lord’s amendment set out to do.
No doubt because the lot of them could not be arsed to read and understand the WA and TCA, whilst preventing MPs having committee & debating time so they understood it before they voted on it.
Or find out how much money water companies gave away in dividends when they needed to invest it in infrastructure.
The thing that struck me most about the recent void data is that at one point (see @OliasDave animation - and h/t to him for digging into this in the first place) voids hit nearly 10%. Which is more than the known prevalence at the time.
David Hare furious at BBC after it rejects his Covid play, starring Ralph Fiennes
“Everyone was very keen on the show at the BBC until it went upstairs. Suddenly, mysteriously, something they were very keen to show, they became less keen to show.” theguardian.com/culture/2021/o…
Suddenly it was “no one wants to see a play about Covid”
@Channel4 HELP has attracted their 2nd highest viewers for drama so I really think they do @BBC
The @BBC is yet again allowing protecting the Government from criticism to interfere with its duty of impartiality @Ofcom
“His drama explores his illness, recovery, survivor’s rage and, ultimately, just being “glad to be alive”.
In the play, he takes aim at the prime minister and cabinet ministers and their systematic failings..