COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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Pablo1 said:
To balance that out though your lockdown was already more relaxed than many in Western Europe. You were also about 2 weeks behind the likes of Spain and Italy so would make sense that those who’ve had serious restrictions before you would start to ease before you.
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What lockdown? We had lockdown lite.

Pablo1 said:
I suppose the easiest way to control it is to only let those wearing stripy jumpers, a beret and carrying a baguette with a string of garlic around their necks. Riding a bycicle is not compulsory.
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Does garlic ward off the virus?
 
sir baconface said:
Most people should be able to work out something suitable with their employers and, to me, that’s why the word “encouraged” was used. We need to start getting people back to work and into that frame of mind. Furloughing can’t last indefinitely.

But not at any cost. As always, a few bell-ends on both sides will behave in a cavalier fashion and I’d like to see some sort of fast-track whistle-blowing and resolution process introduced immediately.
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I do accept that where people CAN work safely we need to get people working again. But we need to be aware that there are a lot of unscrupulous employers out there. And some people who can work from home will still be compelled to go in if their employer thinks it's easier. And for those who can't work from home, their employers won't accept a drop in activity/profits which may be necessary to ensure social distancing.

A fast-track whistle blowing/resolution process would be brilliant I agree. It's not going to happen though. We've seen workplaces on the news that aren't implementing social distancing and nothing has changed in those places. This isn't a government that has ever really had workers rights high on their list of priorities. In fact a lot of their backers would like to see workers rights eroded further after we leave the EU. I can't see the government clamping down now even though it's probably the best way of moving forward sustainably, minimising spread and getting the economy moving again.
 
paulchapo said:
Yes those buggers and wasps love beer and wine. Always check your drink especially when drinking outside, I have come close to swallowing one on more than one occasion.
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Many years ago I used to frequent a pub in Congleton called the Moss, never known a place like it clouds of the bastards inside and out, we actually renamed the the pace The Wasp. Nothing more annoying than going for a piss only to find a wasp in your pint on your return.
 
purplenose said:
Many years ago I used to frequent a pub in Congleton called the Moss, never known a place like it clouds of the bastards inside and out, we actually renamed the the pace The Wasp. Nothing more annoying than going for a piss only to find a wasp in your pint on your return.
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Yes bastards.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
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And already this is no longer the advice.
The current one , on the BBC says construction and engineering to start on Wednesday. It has been moved from Monday.
13.06 on here.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52612438
 
Government seem to be deliberately vague in these interviews now to put the onus on the general public, you need to be concise and clear in every point if you give our population an inch they will take a mile.

I think the next few months are going to be devastating even worse than it is now.
 
Scottyboi said:
Government seem to be deliberately vague in these interviews now to put the onus on the general public, you need to be concise and clear in every point if you give our population an inch they will take a mile.

I think the next few months are going to be devastating even worse than it is now.
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While I understand your thinking, some things at the margin are best left to discretion. It’s a trait of many people (not you) to ask nit-shit questions instead of using common sense. Then certain government reps - either because they are poorly briefed or just not very nimble - swallow the bait and fcuk up the answer.

You can’t legislate for every last detail. If you try, you’ll almost inevitably fall foul of the law of unintended consequences.

Although they’ve made some boo-boos, I also believe the government have bent over backwards to be non-dictatorial and non-confrontational, and to treat the public as having some intelligence. Not a popular view on here but it’s something I go along with. Personally, I don’t like to be micro-managed.

Having said all that, there is some middle ground here.
 
Not seeing as many articles on how research into treatment & vaccines are going of late (and there’s probs my a multitude of reasons for that).
Are we generally looking at going over the trenches now and taking as many hits (but with careful dodging) as we can to enter that herd immunity?
What the latest on those who’ve had the virus being free of secondary infections?
 
johnmc said:
May have been addressed but what’s to drop anyone who wants to come here and avoid quanrantine travelling through France?
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Or if I fly to Nice, get the train or hire a car go around Italy for a bit, fly back from Nice. Is it no quarantine. But fly to Milan drive around Italy a bit fly back fromMilan 2 weeks quarantine. Can’t see any sensible reasoning to a French exemption.
 
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