Tag: covid19

COVID and Omicron responding to the current situation

In today’s post I want to update on risk assessment and risk management. I’m aware that a lot of churches will have big decisions to make this weekend about how to respond to the current new wave of cases driven by the Omicron variant. My advice as things stand would be as follows. Continue to… Continue reading COVID and Omicron responding to the current situation

COVID19 update 16th December 2021

Last week, I expressed my concern that if the Government’s aim was to prevent a high level of cases driven by the Omicron variant then I wasn’t convinced that the measures announced at the time were likely to affect case rates much. In fact, by delaying some measures I was concerned that this might drive… Continue reading COVID19 update 16th December 2021

On what do we base our belief in human rights?

In my article on vaccine passports, I argued that I was unconvinced by the argument that vaccine passports would be a major breach of human rights. I thought therefore that it might be worth leaning a little further into that and get us thinking more about the question of human rights. A good few years… Continue reading On what do we base our belief in human rights?

Omicron and “Plan C” – how’s it going?

Yesterday morning, I wrote about talk of a Plan C against COVID this winter. My view was that the Government would feel under significant pressure to implement this plan over the next few days.  I had always suspected that we’d be hearing very soon from the Prime Minister again and so it turned out with… Continue reading Omicron and “Plan C” – how’s it going?

COVID19 update – will we need plan c?

One of the concerns I’ve raised over the past week or two is that we now seem to be on a trajectory towards even stricter COVID19 restrictions in England and presumably then across the United Kingdom. My concern is two-fold. The first is that such measures might become urgently necessary because I’m not convinced that… Continue reading COVID19 update – will we need plan c?

Vaccine passports?

I wanted to say a little bit more about the possibility of vaccine passports coming into play over the next few weeks.  I hope that this doesn’t happen for two simple reasons. I’m aware that a significant number of people struggle with the concept on a moral/ethicl basis and even having received the COVID vaccines… Continue reading Vaccine passports?

COVID19 and Omicron – what next?

I’ve been sharing regular updates about COVID-19 primarily to help church leaders plan. Occasionally I share my thoughts and opinions about what we should be doing, nationally and internationally. All of this comes with the qualifying caveat that I’m just a bloke sat on his sofa with his laptop -I’m no expert in Epidemiology or… Continue reading COVID19 and Omicron – what next?

What about the not so Nu variant?

Okay, I was all ready with my article heading about a nu variant and then the WHO threw me a curve ball and called it “omicron” instead.  I’ve decided to press on with a small variation to the title.  Like me, your social media timeline and news feed has probably been full of stuff about… Continue reading What about the not so Nu variant?