Unexpected Hazards of Coronavirus Testing

Weekly ONS survey swab test this morning (not my ideal way to start the week)

I do the swab, snap the handle on the q-tip and put it in the sample vial.

The remaining half a handle is too long and I can't close the cap on the vial.

Try to snap the remaining stub, but I can't get the leverage and it just bends.

Go and fetch a pair of scissors to cut it off with.

Scissors work, but cut-off shard of plastic flies up and hits me in the cheek, just below the glasses.

Imagine the A&E report if it had hit me in the eye! Imagine the paperwork and the health and safety assessments for the survey!
 

This is not 'Scientific Evidence'

I've just read the government 'scientific evidence' on the schools going back. Read it here.

There's some good sense; it's the first time I've seen the government admit that if you have someone clinically extremely vulnerable in the house then no one in the household should return to work. And it advises clinically vulnerable people should work from home. But it then says that if there's someone clinically vulnerable in the house the rest of the household can still go back to work. Which part of infection vector don't they understand?

But it's the advice of social distancing that beggars belief:

"We know that, unlike older children and adults, early years and primary age children cannot be expected to remain 2 metres apart from each other and staff. In deciding to bring more children back to early years and schools, we are taking this into account."

That's it. That's not 'Scientific Evidence', it barely has enough justification to count as an opinion.

(And I don't expect to find sentences that make no sense in English in 'scientific evidence', strongly suggests they didn't even proofread it).