skydriller wrote:The thing is, you would think that by now, if Hairdressers and Nail Salons were hotbeds of C19, that there would be a spike in the number of those workers that had caught the virus. Is there evidence there has been? Similarly, I also cant understand why a toyshop is any less C19 secure than a Supermarket, or a why a newsagent is more C19 secure than a bookshop.
I do understand about general increase in mixing of people increases transmission, but that appears to be in crowded indoor situations - I just dont see any evidence that getting your hair/nails done or going to a toyshop or bookshop is more dangerous than a supermarket, in fact its probably less crowded and so more likely that transmission occurs in a supermarket between customers than anywhere else. My own view looking around is that co-workers and friends are more likely to spread the virus when not "in public view"...
The published list, showing "places visited before a positive covid test", was as follows :
Proportion of all common locations reported in PHE data:
Supermarket - 18.3%
Secondary school - 12.7%
Primary school - 10.1%
Hospital - 3.6%
Care home - 2.8%
College - 2.4%
Warehouse - 2.2%
Nursery preschool - 1.8%
Pub or bar - 1.6%
Hospitality - 1.5%
University - 1.4%
Manufacture engineering - 1.4%
Household fewer than five - 1.2%
General practice - 1.1%
Gym - 1.1%
Restaurant or cafe - 1.0%
Hairdressers didn't even figure in the list - but they are all closed down. The last dozen do not add up to the same percentage as the top contender. But, of course, none of this makes a blind bit of difference because they simply don't know where/how the infections are really spreading. So they are doing something/anything top make it look like they are in control here..........
I intend to live forever.... so far, so good.