seems beyond mandating anything - you have to make your own choices
UK hospitals are a joke - we’re essentially running a eugenics program in respiratory, heart and oncology units. Social care testing? I’d love nothing more than separating care setting testing off from the entirety of society and focus precious resources on people who could survive a raft of conditions and early preventable deaths. AandE too as it’s the most hectic face-to-face and triage is pressure enough for shattered staff making decisions under relentless stress. Residential homes ring fenced for testing too. It’s not difficult to achieve ye ol’ ‘infection control’. What ‘individuals’ do with Covid outside of such domains is entirely on them. Everyone has differing views on what constitutes scrutiny or conduct with this disease
It’s far more of a concern re elderly relatives and what the disease will look like through the life time of our kids - how many infections will they be exposed to without plating up dread lurgy hyper vigilance. Not easy, look at school disruption. On the plus side lockdowns were more like camping in. Kids self taught themselves personal responsibility in unique circumstances because you share all the work and floor space. They grew up massively during it all, weird reflecting back on, slightly different in that they weren’t around for enfolding hiv crisis with a novelty disease and the Monolith plinth but staying on top of education, sports days, to expect a mask mandate now would be tough to enforce
But add it up, say 2 infections every 3 years over 60-70 years? All we can do is show them the range of choices within different social domains and they practically live outdoors, even in winter. I’d be more concerned if they were vegetating gaming, brooding on all of these respective discussion points. You have to balance the range of information available and bring any punctuations of concern all kids have round towards attempting to convey the world has changed in key ways permanently with gentleness
Issues around trying to supervise future care support are quite grim with seniors, seems futile denying it. Again, see care setting testing. Fortunate position where no need for social care but for tons of folks who need what still passes as a farce for care there’s no other choice. No testing tells you everything about the collective shrug during unique circumstances.
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