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Approximately 10% of mild coronavirus cases who were not admitted to hospital have reported symptoms lasting more than 4 weeks. This is commonly known as ‘Long Covid’ following substantial research and development into the impact of Covid-19. As a result, it was announced in December that 69 sites would be established to support Long CovidContinue reading “Harnessing the role of Long-Covid Centres”

This is a kick-start idea in which local Councils (along with retail advisors) would take over all empty retail spaces (could offer council tax relief to landlords?) for a 1 year period, and fill those spaces with micro-businesses, craft groups, start-up ideas, everything considered -the most obvious being fashion in all it’s forms -made inContinue reading “THE GREAT LITTLE YEAR-LONG EXHIBITION all things for all seasons”

Vaccines are highly specific to a given emerging pathogen, and as a result need to be developed from scratch once a pandemic organism is identified. Although vaccines have the benefit of preventing disease, they are of no value to an individual who is already ill. In this setting, supportive care and antimicrobial therapy are necessary.Continue reading “Response – Pandemic Organism Biochemistry & Therapeutics Database”

This problem was recognized in the 1960s by the new labour government and the Open University was set up under Harold Wilson’s prime ministership. What we now need is to create a similar organization and the current pandemic has forced us some way in the direction of achieving this. Television programmes like the BBC’s ‘Bitesize’Continue reading “Covid-19 lockdown has created a big problem with education”

The apparent misinformation that has bubbled up during the pandemic must be tackled from various angles, whereby the government must make a country-wide decision to integrate critical thinking into the national curriculum from primary-age. Increased censorship of media platforms is not necessarily the answer. Solutions lie in taking responsibility in education to better teach theContinue reading “Fighting untruth with critical thinking”

The pandemic has highlighted the unity of the U.K. with the clapping for the N.H.S. , food shopping and deliveries to the housebound, Captain Tom and numerous charitable acts which kept our spirits up. At the same time disunity was reflected in the different rulings which confused and did indeed lead many to agree thatContinue reading “Building Opportunities- Fixing the problem and making an opportunity of it.”

Fraud is a threat to national security (see RUSI paper Jan 2021 _The Silent Threat – The Impact of Fraud on National Security_). Suggestion to reduce the problem of fraud: Enhance the civil remedy available in the courts against fraud. An amendment of the Fraud Act 2006 could introduce a statutory requirement for exemplary (punitive)Continue reading “The problem of widespread and increasing incidences of fraud in the UK”

My proposal is to improve local community resilience (CR) capability as part of the national Civil Contingency Plan. CR is enabled when the public are empowered to harness local resources and expertise to help themselves and their communities to: ● Prepare respond and recover from disruptive challenges in a way that compliments the activity ofContinue reading “Improving the Civil Contingency (Community Resilience) capabilities of all communities across the country.”

The Food Insecurity Network in Dundee, Scotland, was developed at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in response to the immediate and urgent need to provide food to local people. It is a city-wide network of 24 community food projects, senior managers from Dundee City Council and the city’s volunteer network. Since the start ofContinue reading “The combination of direct provision with policy level decision-making in one forum.”

In response to the problem raised of recovering the costs of Covid and the loss of tax revenue due partly to many in the construction industry and other trades being paid cash in hand, often claiming benefits illegally alongside the failures of the not fit for purpose regulatory system, this is an ideal opportunity toContinue reading “Response to ‘Recovering Some Covid-19 Costs and Resolving Building Compliance Issues simultaneously.”