From the foot of the previous page of this thread (sorry) :
Wilf said:
To be fair, early on government themselves were responsible for using 'has a flu jab on medical advice' as a marker of vulnerability (and thus the 12 week self isolation). I know that has changed with letters and lists of conditions, but you can see how it sticks in people's minds.
Yeah, a couple of people I work with were sent home for that reason, then told they had to return to work a couple of weeks later when the advice changed.
They're regarded as more vulnerable than those without eg diabetes, but not extremely vulnerable.
There was quite a bit of early confusion about people categorised as vulnerable.
I'm in one of the
non-extremely vulnerable categories (there's a fair few of the standard vulnerability conditions).
An early message that reached me online, that I didn't keep
and was subsequently unfindable, contained the flu-jab reference and stated that I'd need to be off work for twelve weeks.
I've been feeling in rude health all through (and I've been very careful too), so that long off work seemed embarassing.
But after telling my bosses that 12 weeks was being specified, that became their understanding when they sent me home on a Civil Service thing called 'special leave'.
Not long afterwards (on the Thursday before full lockdown came in, Monday 23rd March),
all my CS colleagues were sent home.
When they're called back -- not soon, I'm sure -- I'll go back, even if that's before 'my twelve weeks' is up.
(The time will have to be agreed with PCS anyway)
(ETA later :
Apologies -- the above was a bit too personal, more for the 'Pandemic personal consequences' thread really
. Just responding to other posts earlier up, was all
)
metro.co.uk
Shows up the good and the bad, doesn't it, a crisis like this?
www.standard.co.uk
