A ‘Sustainable Suppression’ Strategy for Keeping Society Open
The aim of this document is to outline an overall strategy for handling the COVID pandemic which...
Read Moreby independentsage | Feb 19, 2021 | Front Page, Lockdowns, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports | 0
The aim of this document is to outline an overall strategy for handling the COVID pandemic which...
Read Moreby independentsage | Feb 16, 2021 | Lockdowns, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Recent reports, Short statements | 0
Blatant and visible violations of Covid-safe rules and guidance are relatively rare and probably...
Read Moreby independentsage | Jan 4, 2021 | Lockdowns, Media highlights | 0
‘The minimum is to go back to where we were in March, which means closing schools, closing universities, don’t leave home, but that on its own is not enough.’ Professor Christina Pagel speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News about the need to protect essential workers and to pay them to isolate where necessary. Watch a clip here
Read Moreby independentsage | Jan 4, 2021 | Lockdowns, Media highlights | 0
‘We have been wanting this for some time but it’s disappointing that the government is in this reactive mode. They seem to wait until the very last moment, until the crisis is breaking on us, before they take the necessary action.’ Professor Gabriel Scally gives his reaction to announcement of a new lockdown on BBC News. Watch a clip here
Read Moreby independentsage | Dec 30, 2020 | Lockdowns | 0
The pandemic in England is now at the most threatening stage of the entire year. The number of...
Read Moreby independentsage | Dec 29, 2020 | Lockdowns, Media highlights | 0
by independentsage | Oct 16, 2020 | Find, Test, Trace, Isolate, Support, Lockdowns, Mitigation measures, Overall COVID-19 Strategy, Short statements | 0
We wrote on 21st September that we were in a crisis and put forward a ten point plan to avoid a...
Read Moreby independentsage | Aug 28, 2020 | Lockdowns, Mitigation measures | 0
Returns to workplaces must be rooted in the Precautionary Principle to make work COVID-Safe for all workers including those not directly employed; and in so doing, safeguarding the economy too. Workplaces may be an important...
Read Moreby independentsage | Jul 2, 2020 | Lockdowns, Short statements | 0
The lockdown in Leicester constitutes a foreseeable crisis of the Government’s own making. It has come too late and, by being imposed on the locality, rather than being developed and implemented with the locality, it risks creating uncertainty, dissent, and even disorder.
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