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I am a shielder due to having a weakened immune system and have been acting responsibly and very carefully for the last 18 months. I would not put myself in a situation where I felt it likely that I would get the virus because most likely that would be it for me. If people like me think that the way the Welsh Government is going about this is wrong, then Drakeford really has got problems.
to answer the first para...there was a very very small majority that voted for Wales to have devolved government, but that's democracy. Same with the democratic Brexit vote in Wales.
Second Para...I'm not talking about crossing fingers. There are already plenty of measures already in place designed to protect us. Adding more isn't necessarily going make things better. In the past we have been the most cautious of the home nations yet we have not done any better, in fact, on many measures we have done worse.
Also some of the latest restrictions are just daft..Written into law that a a worker can be fined £60 for going to work when they could work from home, and the employer fined £1,000. What about the many, and there are many, who live in Wales but work in England, plus of course the English that travel to Wales for work. Drakeford says the rules still apply, but of course they don't in England.
Even the TUC complained to Drakeford about this naive law.
Then the rule of six...No scientific evidence for it. It was something Michael Gove made up a year or so ago. But what an impact on the hospitality sector.
Same with football attendance ...cant watch CCFC at home, but can attend away games...
All poorly thought through impositions on our lives
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2021-...-on-boxing-day
Wales’ largest ever Christmas lights trail is to close early due to covid restrictions.
https://petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/245037
Drop the limit on outdoor gatherings and allow community events to continue
Is Drakeford doing anything differently to the majority of European countries who are in a similar situation to us? It's a genuine question. It would be interesting to make a comparison if that was at all possible.
You read about long term harm due to a weaker variant isn't that also the risk to any respitorty diseases, we don't lockdown for them we cope and get them treated ???
The head of Health Analysis at the UK Office of National Statistics has accused Drakeford of lying to the Welsh people over the severity of the omicron variant. Jamie Jenkins, the head, who lives in Wales, reckons Drakeford is taking us for fools when he says that 'if you have never had coronavirus and you get omicron the evidence is that is probably as severe as Delta'
Drakeford has used this as the reason to introduce new draconian rules in Wales but the evidence does not support what he says.
Lord help us whilst we have this man in charge
This has just reinforced my opinion that the poorly thought out measures just introduced by Drakeford have absolutely nothing to do with Covid itself and the severity of the new variant and are just designed partly to try to force people to get the booster quickly but mainly to protect the NHS which is struggling to deal with the existing admissions for usual winter diseases and the backlog of other cases caused by the earlier more serious Covid variants. Whilst the latter objective obviously has merit in respect of taking pressure off NHS staff, this is a slippery slope as every year the NHS faces exactly the same pressures, pandemic or not. Cue Mr Drakeford every December trying to introduce similar measures to restrict population movement and lifestyles, just because the NHS is busy.
Drakeford made the decision to go further than Westminster and earlier, right at the beginning of the pandemic. He sadly seems too stubborn to go back on this decision and has made a rod for his own back now. He always has to go one further than our cousins over the border.
At the beginning of the pandemic I saw some benefit of this, now he's just too stubborn to adapt and change his stance.
Maybe so, but his decisions have a big impact on peoples' lives and on businesses in Wales. He seems to do things on a whim just to be different. He talks about protecting the NHS when the NHS exists to protect us.
I looked the data on the number of Covid patients in hospital in Wales over recent months. 18th December is the latest shown on the PHE website so I list the numbers for the 18th of each month from August:
Aug 162, Sept 506, Oct 590, Nov 547, Dec 345. Why the new measures?
And now we have the final nail in Drakefords metaphorical ‘coffin’. Scientists are now advising the Premier League NOT to close stadiums due to the emerging data on Omicron and the lack of evidence that Covid is spread easily in outdoor settings. How is Drakeford going to get out of this without looking stupid ?
Drakeford needs to do a upturn ASAP. If he dies then the damage will be minimal.
I can imagine a large percentage of Welsh folk will take the opposite view - look at those buffoons in England while Mark Drakeford is keeping us safe in Wales. Sadly, along with matters non-Covid as well, it is all bout being 'not England'. The less opportunities given to the Welsh Assembly to act differrently, the stronger the Toytown Govt. becomes.