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Don’t know if you have been following the news but we are at the end stages of a global pandemic of which the vaccination programme is a few weeks from completion. But don’t worry, you won’t be asked to mildly inconvenience yourself for a few weeks more so don’t worry.

So in summary the main argument for not mandating wearing masks on public transport and similar for a few weeks and reducing the long term chance of people who have waited to get a vaccine having long term health problems is it is going to mildly inconvenience people? What a great country we...

I agree we are coming to the end of restrictions but the main argument against wearing face coverings in certain places for a few more weeks until everyone get's double jabbed is people don't want to wear face coverings anymore, which to me personally is a weak argument. I suspect Europe and...

Who has said the data was wrong? Don't N95 masks need training to put on and are only for short term wearing?

My argument is until the vaccination programme is complete, namely offered to everyone, which fits in with the government not wanting to ever go back on restrictions. I did read somewhere we reach heard immunity in September although that might very well have come forward now with the success...

That would still mean the young having to wear masks and the rest of us not. They have basically spent the last 15 months locked away protecting older people and when the time comes to return the favour they get abandoned. All I am saying is facemarks remain for a couple more months until...

Also remember it looks like booster vaccines will only be offered to the over 50s.

Yes. I believe face coverings offer some protection to the wearer but mainly the idea is you wear it for other people. That said their effect is reduced if you are standing next to each other.

The whole personal choice thing is entirely disingenuous as choosing not to wear a mask is placing others at risk, not you. We currently have a load of double jabbed people over 40 (or whatever the age is now) deciding the young, who haven't had the opportunity to be fully vaccinated, will be...

But the fact remains they do get it and long Covid is defiantly a thing and unlike most of us they haven't had the opportunity to have two jabs yet (I am 47 and the two weeks after my second jab only happened last week). In some circumstances they don't have a choice if to get on public...

I just think it utterly misses the point. They banned smoking indoors because it causes harm to others with passive smoking, they didn't leave it to personal choice. We will have younger people who haven't been double jabbed until the end of the Summer, would it have done any real harm to have...

I have almost driven into a couple of them at night when pulling out as they have no lights and seemingly no realisation that if they hit a car they will finish second. I once followed one while driving at 30 mph and it was pulling away from me. Anything that powerful either needs limiting or...

Covid-19: Masks will become personal choice, says Robert Jenrick If i wear a mask it is to protect others and others wearing a mask protects me. Basically the government have washed their hands of all responsibility while hinting that not wearing a mask should be the norm. I would rather they...

Does occur to me this is one area that needs more research. I did read that the strain of flu that caused problems in 2018 has disappeared because so few people have been travelling between north and south hemispheres.

Baseless is a bit harsh. Getting run over by a bus doesn't stop me leaving the house but I still look both ways before crossing the road.

As I said elsewhere the trains might need to adjust (although what that would do for defining peak period is another conversation). A couple of places I worked at in London had moved to 0930-1000 starts anyway - which was a pain because the trains from the Sussex Coast are geared towards 0900...

To be honest we should now start doing things that we should have been doing for years with hindsight. Trying to get everyone into London - or other major cities no doubt - for 0900 on packed trains and tubes and home again at 1700 when public transport is half empty the rest of the day doesn't...

Masks have little or no effect if people are packed tightly together, as happens on commuter trains to London, and even if vaccines downgrade Covid to bad flu territory it is still quite nasty. I get the whole we have to return to normal thing but equally if all legal restrictions are lifted I...

Interesting though this dance round cause of death and how long people would have lived is, I suspect it all fairly academic because basically everything will be more or less back to normal on the 19th regardless.

On average, each of the 146,000 people who died with COVID-19 lost 10.2 years of life. Source