Coronavirus (2021) thread

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worsleyweb said:
I stopped reading at you can see two sides. We are doing well at the moment as you well know and let’s hope well out of this in a few weeks time. Need a huge vaccine push for the rest of March. I need my life back!
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Well there you have it.
I agree with your last three sentences of your post and have given it a 'like'!
 
roubaixtuesday said:
A tempting response.

And with some logic in maintaining emergency capability.

But we should beware of protectionism - it has a long history of proving to be counterproductive on wealth. Trade actually increases the output of both sides in a transaction, it's a genuine win/win.

The politics of protectionism have a long, dangerous and inglorious history too.
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Dont understand your problem, they are making it as difficult as possible for us to trade with the EU and for us to import goods from the EU, so doesn't look like we've got much choice the rest of the world still wants to trade with us
 
It was a really good day for both the North West and Greater Manchester by the way. ::Lowest numbers for both in around six months.

And North West not top. Yorkshire well ahead today.

GM also had a borough with a single number of cases (9) for the first time since wave 1.

No prizes at all if you guessed it was Trafford!
 
frothy said:
Dont understand your problem, they are making it as difficult as possible for us to trade with the EU and for us to import goods from the EU, so doesn't look like we've got much choice the rest of the world still wants to trade with us
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I wasn't making a point about the EU or Brexit. Just that trade generally is economically beneficial to both sides, so a "Buy British" campaign is likely to end up being counterproductive, counter-intuitively.

That applies whether the trade is with EU, US, China, or Antarctica.
 
Tonster said:
You’re not quite getting it are you. German GDP shrank 5% in 2020 UK shrank 9.9% in 2020. So twice as bad in UK
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Well that is one way of looking at it, but currency fluctuations usually front run GDP figures.
 
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