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100% agree. Although with several stores reopening even takeaways and DIY type stores it was obviously going to lead to the increase in traffic for both workers and shoppers. Even my own community Facebook chat page is full of folk driving everywhere for bloody fence paint. People can't seem to gst their head around what's essential and what's not.
It is incredible. My next door neighbours are an old couple and I would have said pretty sensible. Still doesn’t stop them having three generations of their family in the back garden every weekend. Well into their seventies so they would really not want to get this.
 
There was a piece on Ch4 News last night - those ones they closed in Thailand have now reopened (same with many in China too I believe)...all those animals (live and dead) back in the same confined spaces.

Few images that might upset on there btw (it's not a shocker, but just a warning):

https://sentientmedia.org/firsthand-look-inside-asias-busiest-wet-markets/
Watched that last night, couldn’t believe how expensive it was too! Thought it’d be peanuts but the money they were paying for the animals, considering it was in the far east was quite an eye opener. Sick stuff.
 
Another problem with locking down so late (apart from letting the virus spread like wildfire) is that people are seeing and hearing what's going on in other countries in terms of relaxing the restrictions and are thinking they can follow suit. I hope the behavioural scientists factored that into the equation.
Yeah I think people forget we are behind the likes of Italy by about 3/4 weeks
 
Watched that last night, couldn’t believe how expensive it was too! Thought it’d be peanuts but the money they were paying for the animals, considering it was in the far east was quite an eye opener. Sick stuff.
Exactly what I thought. For breeding or keeping as either pets or posh nosh for the weekend?
As someone has already mentioned on here...we can't be too supercilious here...after all, remember BSE?
 
Yeah I think people forget we are behind the likes of Italy by about 3/4 weeks
What did your computer modelling say about the downsides of an earlier lockdown? Did you make this evidence available to the CMO Karen? ;)
 
wasnt from eating a bat,close contamination from animals on the wet markets with low immune systems,then prob by handling them,,hope that helps
I heard some bod, on Marr I think, say that if any money went into tracing the source, he'd start with raccoon dogs. I think they may farm them over there for the table.
 
I guess with Boris leading the briefing today we will get a clear message that any lifting of restrictions is going to be well and truely fucked off.
 
It is incredible. My next door neighbours are an old couple and I would have said pretty sensible. Still doesn’t stop them having three generations of their family in the back garden every weekend. Well into their seventies so they would really not want to get this.
Report them, it's that simple
 
Can't believe how busy the roads are this week compared to previous weeks.
Looks like people aren't bothering with the isolation anymore, a couple of friends in different parts of the UK say it's the time where they live
 
Boris sounds like he’s delivering this speech immediately after getting a PB on a 10km.
 
Daily briefing

Tests to date 901,905

Tests last 24hrs 81,611

Positive tests 171,253

Patients in hosp 15,043

Deaths in all settings 26,711

Challenge we have never seen before,the sacrifices are working

NHS not overwhelmed

Past the peak of the disease
 
Why, just before the press conference, do the BBC quote a figure for the daily deaths (today they said 321?), then Boris comes on and it is different (674 today).
 
So next week he will map out how we look to restart the economy and get people back to work.

Worth noting there was no mention of leisure, social interaction or recreation, pretty obvious the restrictions are going to be in place for a long, long time.
 
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