This is an extremely complex subject and the more we know the less we seem to know and thus the need to keep up with research funding to prevent against future greater pandemics. Supermarkets are a very high risk of transmission mainly because of the number of people who use them at any one time, the difficulties in marshalling the internal flow and separation of the people and the way in which the people finally decide and select the product of their choice. This is a complex process and it has been shown that the products have different virus retention properties subject to the surface tension properties of the packaging.
Far better internal marshalling required and hand PPE protection
To compound the risk in a Supermarkets there are also constantly varying ambient conditions subject to the number of people in the space that changes the environment that may support the propagation of and the life expectancy of the virus together with increasing the transmission rate and also the possible rate of mutation.
We discovered the conditions which suited legionella. The challenge with all viruses is to determine quickly the ideal ambient environmental conditions which suit each virus and the one in which it cannot survive and change it.
What are the conditions that suit Corona Viruses.?
Hand and exposed skin must be given equal prominence Suggest that all supermarket shoppers are required to wear gloves. Hand gel is not enough for the volume of shopping, that the average shopper is seen to purchase these days. To face covering. Bare skin elbow and knuckle greetings must be banned

What actions, if any, have the Government taken to ensure that all places of living, working, playing and praying are safe? Self- certification does not work. They need to understand and ensure that a Holistic Systems view is taken and harness all HSE Inspectors co-ordinate this effort with a National Asset Register.
The Government should make public their contingency plans, disaster plans, business interruption plans and Risk Assessment as part of the Prevention Strategy.
The Government need urgently to identify all the variable parameters that impact on the ability of the virus to transmit and a risk assessment before allowing mixing and so-called safe distances and then issue mandatory or optional action plan. They have shown no indication again that they understand enough about the prevention of transmission or the environment that this coronavirus survives in.
Vitus Viral life expectancy is also an unknown variable and itself subject to other variable parameters related to ambient conditions and material surface texture. Social Safe Distancing is then extended to an unknown metric. For example, an infected person can leave a virus on an item, move on and a person following behind within the life of the virus and become infected.
Ban non-standard face covering, Ban fashion face coverings, Ban shield only face-covering Ban all but essential international travel unless subject to controlled guarantees. To continue to advise the population to Stay ty Home has no benefit and does not address the core message. High density poor Urban living has since the Great Plague been identified as the ideal breeding and transmission environment.
Bernard Heys 18.01.2021
The Radcliffe Lad
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