Covid Unit

Am shaking my head but not commenting on the new and sometimes contradictory rules about numbers on bikes, trikes, and cars. It will probably be rescinded shortly.

What is sadly lacking in this discourse among government agencies is a definition of what I call "a Covid Unit." This is a group, anywhere from 1 to 5 or more, that lives together, eats together, and goes out together if the number is permitted. Even if only one or two of the group is allowed out, they are a group. None of them will get the covid, or they all will, it's part of the family.

To forbid the group from traveling together on a trike or bike, or even in a car, is ludicrous. And then to formulate new different laws on numbers allowed ?? My only real complaint about the Philippines is "Lack of ATD - Attention To Detail."

 

The UK is calling this a 'bubble' and they have really complicated rules. For example, if a group of friends share a house, they are a 'bubble' - one person can go out from the 'bubble' to visit and stay with a bf/gf but then the others cannot. So it is a case of pick a straw or finding out who is most desperate!

If even one or two go out then the risk of bringing back the infection to the 'bubble' is a high risk (in badly affected areas but not MOST of the Philippines) then it is very likely all members of the 'bubble' will have the virus enter the body but some may destroy it before it causes an infection. In the UK, each symptomatic member of a 'bubble' has to isolate for 7 days and then, from that moment, all the asymptomatics in the 'bubble' for 14 days. If any of the 14 day isolators shows symptoms then they start a 7 day period (even if just one day short of the original 14). But there is a flaw in that the asymptomatics who start the 14 day isolation are not extended even if another member of the 'bubble' shows symptoms at any time during that 14 days (according to a chart by the 'Public Health England' I saw) and that indicates they have not understood that a person could be infected by another person within the 'bubble' on day 13, show no symptoms by day 14 (as is quite possible), but can go out on day 15 and probably infect others! Either the chart is wrong or the 'experts' don't even understand it themselves. (Also, I may have misunderstood it, of course, but I have checked my reasoning many times on this).

I think many UK residents will fail to understand the complexity of the 'bubble' concept fully and for sure many will ignore it - I cannot imagine how a complex system will work here with so many poorly educated people (not a criticism of them but a fact).

 

Rest assured that we are all living with it every day, and we are all adults....

 

Hey will start start to get serious on Monday, June 15

 

I was stopped on the Duma Sibulan border. They would not let me pass with a back rider.

 

Yup Jeepneys still packing um in like sardines, just no more hanging out the back, but they still want the social distancing fare, soon enuf the lokals will just go back to the old fare, just hand the 20pesos trip and drop the shoulder.