I’ve just posted in another thread that my little Derbyshire village was absolutely rammed today. The word rammed doesn’t actually fully convey just how busy it’s been. We’ve stayed inside and in our garden pretty much the whole weekend.
It's old news now, given that they were seeing this just as lockdown was kicking in. It'll be brought up again in the endless enquiries that will come in the next 1-2 years after this.
Would love to know where on earth you get that idea from? Virus has not gone anywhere.
The excess deaths have started going up again all around the country except only Scotland according to FT data.
I think that the government have dug themselves into a hole, they've already said it would be bad for the economy to come out of lockdown too soon. Like you say though people are tired of it and due to recent events are less likely to follow the rules. They've obviously handled it so poorly.
Very much so.
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Yes - I'm expecting to be us course for a second shut down within next two months and I have no idea how they are going to sell this to the nation.
It will get worse enough to constitute such measures but I'm convinced that they won't shut everything down again. There seems to be zero logic behind any of their decisions.
But people that were shielding and self isolating have been told they can go out , beaches are packed , Countries all over Europe are lifting restrictions , Americans are breathing all over each other , why aren`t people becoming ill?
as clearly we were all sat in the queue with full bin bags for the fun of it!The virus is still spreading although the rise of the spread has slowed down considerably. Let's not forget that virus can take up to 2 weeks before people show symptoms. The virus may well be dying off but I'm not going to take that leap off faith until there's more evidence to show that this is happening.
It’s complete shit. My mum works in a care home. Spoke to her last week and they had two new people coming into the home. One of them is being forced in without a test and the other has ordered three different tests, two didn’t turn up and they lost the third. That person is now just being forced in as they can’t wait.
According to the latest clinical advice the average chance of getting the virus is now 1/1000 (was previously 1/40).
give it a few weeks then we will see.
There is a time lag due to inefficient reporting of numbers, the manner in which this spreads in clusters, and the delayed manifestation of symptoms. It is too early to say what you are saying with any authority, and besides in some places in America that opened up early cases are still rising.
There is zero chance that the risk is 25 times less now in UK. The death numbers would have to be a lot lower for it to be possible.
That's a serious risk everywhere.
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Add to that the fact that R is apparently at or very close to 1 according to scientists. None of it makes any sense.
They have made it a political decision rather than scientific. Making a total disaster much worse.
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Sadly common sense isn’t taught in schools, so not many know anything about sense.
Exactly right, but many people equate "you can go out" with "there's no problem now", because it's what they want to believe.
If people see we have jumped from alert level 4 to 1 overnight theyll think theres no problem.
Excellent post. Sadly there are idiots throughout the world who are not phased by the pandemic and never will be. So at the end of the day all countries are/will have to grit their teeth in an attempt to limit the severity of the recessions. It’s no good pontificating and wringing hands about the need to look after the poor, disabled and disadvantaged if the money continues to dry up. Me and mine will probably not help the situation either. My wife and I are in the at risk category but like a lot of our generation we are lucky to have disposable income but be buggered if we are going to want to fly in a tin coffin for 3 or more hours any time in the future. Similarly sod shopping in the high street. We will get by with online. As for walking into a Starbucks or Costa.....forget it. Now many will adopt the same attitude. For every idiot there is a sensible person that will act with caution in the future. The world has been and will continue to be hit hard. I really do have enormous sympathy for the younger generations. Even a decent left wing government is going to be in desperate financial straights for years to come. The only thing I shall really miss is goodbye to the United season ticket. My days of going to Old Trafford are gone and I don’t think I will be the only one.
Unless you work in a school. Or you cannot work from home and your boss decides that you are not shielding anymore so you need to go to work. Not everyone can work from home.
