From: slider@anashram.com

Some Cheshire East residents are facing delays to bin collections due to Covid-related sickness and staff shortages.

Ansa, who deliver waste and recycling services for Cheshire East Council,
made the announcement regarding delays on their social media page on
Thursday (December 30).

The company said recent increases in Covid-related staff sickness, the
ongoing impact of the national shortage of HGV drivers and an increase in
the amount of waste produced has 'heavily affected' teams.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/cheshire-east-bin-collections-delayed-22612566

A number of the scheduled rearranged Christmas collections that were due
to take place on Thursday (December 29) will now be attempted on Tuesday (January 4).

Ansa apologised for any inconvenience caused and told residents whose bin
had not been collected by 6pm to take it back in and put it out again for 6.30am on January 4.

The full post by Ansa Services read: "Recent increases in Covid-related
staff sickness and self-isolation in addition to the ongoing impact of the national shortage of HGV drivers and an increase in the amount of waste produced by households has heavily affected our teams following the
Christmas period that has affected our ability to complete some collection rounds.

"We are trying to get back to missed collections as soon as possible.

"A number of the scheduled rearranged Christmas collections due to take
place today Thursday 29.12.21 will now be attempted on Tuesday 4 January 30.12.21.

"If your bin has not been collected by 6pm please take your bin back in
and represent it for 6.30am on Tuesday 4 January.

"Due to the current situation staffing levels may change at short notice
we will keep you updated on our plans via the website and social media.

"Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause."

### - it appears they're only very reluctantly reporting on all the
growing staff shortages here, they've indirectly mentioned a few
different, perhaps more-important, industries so far (hospital & care
staff down 40%, airport & railway staff too, and now today the garbage-men
and air traffic controllers as well) when it's actually occurring right
across the board from top to bottom everywhere people are... employed!?

that if it's 40% down in say the care or airport industry, then you can
bet your bottom dollar that staff shortages are similarly 40% down
everywhere else as well!

and steadily rising...

them reducing the isolation period from 10 days minimum to 7, and then
from 7 down to only 5-days in some places in an effort to offset these
rising staff outages, just means infected people will be returning to the community too soon thus helping to 'spread' the infection instead of
arresting it??

i mean, would you 'really' invite someone, who was only found to be
infected 5 or 7 days ago with THE most infectious covid agent ever, into
say an otherwise isolated care-home full of the elderly & infirm?? (would
ya take that risk??)

methinks not! - especially when it took the boris TEN DAYS to become ill
enough IN isolation to be then taken to the icu and put on oxygen + quite
a few more days after THAT to get back OUT of the hospital + another 2
weeks after that to recover enough to work ffs!!!

iow: it's just not gonna work is it!

and THEN wot's gonna happen???

(chaos at some point, that's wot...)

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