Shielding

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It looks like shielding is back in force for this lockdown

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19/guidance-on-shielding-and-protecting-extremely-vulnerable-persons-from-covid-19

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Not as bad as it was during the first lockdown though. 

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MarkN88 said:

Not as bad as it was during the first lockdown though. 

True. 
Won't affect me much as I'm self-isolating for medical treatment for all but the last 3 days and that is stricter than the new shielding. 

gary83

Good spot. think it’ll lead to the same can of worms as last time, with the bit about being entitled to SSP, UC or “you may be eligible for CJRS” seeing as its down to the company’s discretion. The other bit of clarification that was perhaps needed due to the number of questions on here; 

Other people you live with who are not clinically extremely vulnerable themselves can still attend work if they cannot work from home, in line with the wider rules set out in the new National Restrictions from 5 November.

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They've embraced the digital age at last. I've just got my shielding letter by email. 

Jeremy535897

unforeseen said:

They've embraced the digital age at last. I've just got my shielding letter by email. 

They are rightly concerned by so much phishing.

calcotti

unforeseen said:

They've embraced the digital age at last. I've just got my shielding letter by email. 

Me too.

SingleSue

unforeseen said:

They've embraced the digital age at last. I've just got my shielding letter by email. 

Snap! Not that it makes much difference as I am now being furloughed again (we all are, I work somewhere that has to shut for the duration of lockdown) and I hadn't resumed normal life anyway.

Justiceforme

Hi, I also received a letter about shielding today and I'm now placed in the clinically extremely vulnerable group.  I contacted my Drs surgery months ago about this but the receptionist almost laughed at me, when I said I thought I should have been contacted about this, she said if there was a problem, I would have already have been contacted, not so.  So I was not considered at any risk months ago when there was all sorts of help available but today I am at risk.  The letter is a formal shielding notification and can act as evidence for your employers to show that you can not work outside you home until Dec 02 /2020, for SSP & ESA.   I registered on the gov.uk web site provided today and received a duplicate copy of the information already provided in the letter.   Letter says Stay Home as much as possible, I have not been out anywhere socially since last February, plenty of walls to climb.  Guidance can be found online www.gov.uk/coronavirus.   Hope this helps someone.

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Justiceforme said:

Hi, I also received a letter about shielding today and I'm now placed in the clinically extremely vulnerable group.  I contacted my Drs surgery months ago about this but the receptionist almost laughed at me, when I said I thought I should have been contacted about this, she said if there was a problem, I would have already have been contacted, not so.  So I was not considered at any risk months ago when there was all sorts of help available but today I am at risk.  The letter is a formal shielding notification and can act as evidence for your employers to show that you can not work outside you home until Dec 02 /2020, for SSP & ESA.   I registered on the gov.uk web site provided today and received a duplicate copy of the information already provided in the letter.   Letter says Stay Home as much as possible, I have not been out anywhere socially since last February, plenty of walls to climb.  Guidance can be found online www.gov.uk/coronavirus.   Hope this helps someone.

The majority of people getting the letter are old hands, we did the main lockdown. So for most its just go back to the way it was, or in my case, nothing changes as we never relaxed our measures for various reasons.
The new measures are not as strict as the original ones. At least they now say you can go out for exercise, rather than 4 months+ on the old one of only allowed to go in the garden.


I'm actually self isolating due to hospital treatment for most of it anyway. Those rules are even stricter than the first lockdown. 
Don't leave the house at all, apart from the trip to hospital for treatment. If possible, all other members of the household to self-isolate as well. If they have to go out then face masks should be worn at all times and only leave the house when absolutely necessary. 

SingleSue

unforeseen said:

Justiceforme said:

Hi, I also received a letter about shielding today and I'm now placed in the clinically extremely vulnerable group.  I contacted my Drs surgery months ago about this but the receptionist almost laughed at me, when I said I thought I should have been contacted about this, she said if there was a problem, I would have already have been contacted, not so.  So I was not considered at any risk months ago when there was all sorts of help available but today I am at risk.  The letter is a formal shielding notification and can act as evidence for your employers to show that you can not work outside you home until Dec 02 /2020, for SSP & ESA.   I registered on the gov.uk web site provided today and received a duplicate copy of the information already provided in the letter.   Letter says Stay Home as much as possible, I have not been out anywhere socially since last February, plenty of walls to climb.  Guidance can be found online www.gov.uk/coronavirus.   Hope this helps someone.

The majority of people getting the letter are old hands, we did the main lockdown. So for most its just go back to the way it was, or in my case, nothing changes as we never relaxed our measures for various reasons.
The new measures are not as strict as the original ones. At least they now say you can go out for exercise, rather than 4 months+ on the old one of only allowed to go in the garden.


I'm actually self isolating due to hospital treatment for most of it anyway. Those rules are even stricter than the first lockdown. 
Don't leave the house at all, apart from the trip to hospital for treatment. If possible, all other members of the household to self-isolate as well. If they have to go out then face masks should be worn at all times and only leave the house when absolutely necessary. 

I agree, I think most of us former and now current shielders never went back to a completely normal life. Youngest had to shield in his halls last time and had no access to an outside space for the duration and for the initial few weeks, no access to a kitchen as he shared it with 10 other people. This time around, he is still in halls but this time, he has his own kitchen (to mitigate risks, we opted for a more expensive studio apartment), had been preparing for it and has got at least a month's worth of supplies and is in a slightly quieter bit of the city rather than river side where everyone likes to take a daily walk and can at least get some fresh air.

Since his return, he has kept himself apart from the other students and has not joined in socially in any student or non student related activity, he actually has no idea who is on his floor (his so called bubble), as he has nothing to do with them. As for me, I returned to work but in a very safe Covid aware and secure environment but apart from that and a very occasional pop to the shop, didn't go back to what I was doing pre pandemic and pre shielding.