We placed too much emphasis on trying to keep the elements of the economy linked to overseas going, whereas in reality if we’d done as you said above we’d have been able to open up our internal economy much quicker which would have had far less an impact. Hindsight.Well with the situation we’re in, I’m more suggesting the opposite, where we actually need to be testing every single person in the country at least once a week. Like the Premier League us. Otherwise T&T will never keep up with the spread and all that money is wasted.
What should happen/should have happened, is an eye-wateringly strict lockdown as early as possible. Borders closed, stay at home (which really means stay at home), workplaces apart from essential produce shops all shut (no exceptions), no international sports or things like the CL, nobody moving around the world or even the country, and a T&T system then brought in to get a grip of who’s got the virus.
Then slowly open things up, after it appears the R is at ‘0’. But borders should still remain closed (like in Aus and NZ) for a long time after while the virus is still around the world.
The T&T system would then work.
It might be hindsight to say we should have done that from March last year, but we saw what happened in March and should have done it ahead of the Autumn rise and again before this Winter rise. We had a chance to learn from March and didn’t learn and didn’t do it either time we needed to subsequently from March.
My 82 year old mum, registered blind, has received texts to her old crappy Nokia phone yesterday and today with a link to book her vaccine jab. Fortunately I visited her today with my 20 year old son, who checked her texts for her and managed to book her a slot via his phone. She didn’t even know she had any texts. I thought the oldies were getting letters?
I'm sure that in the briefing last night that Prof Whitty said that hospitalisations would probably peak next week with deaths 7 to 10 days after that.Looking at the England hospital only deaths here are the numbers since 1 Jan:
Date // Day 1 // Day 2 // Day 3// Day 4 // Day 5 // Total now
1 Jan // 32 - 196 - 262 - 338 - 394 // 477
2 Jan // 47 - 239 - 333 - 376 - 408 // 476
3 Jan // 33 - 244 - 352 - 391 - 418 // 457
4 Jan // 67 - 317 - 426 - 489 - 504 // 579
5 Jan // 71 - 347 - 493 - 536 - 547 // 583
6 Jan // 88 - 392 - 497 - 537 - 555 // 599
7 Jan // 90 - 381 - 498 - 522 - 557 // 621
8 Jan // 89 - 297 - 410 - 497 - 567 // 623
9 Jan // 39 - 294 - 450 - 544 - 601 // 627
10 Jan // 54 - 373 - 544 - 612 - 635 // 655
11 Jan // 103 - 463 - 625 - 672 - 694 // This is where it is now after 5 days.
12 Jan // 126 - 494 - 632 - 682 ......// This is where it is now after 4 days.
13 Jan // 98 - 459 - 628 ..............// This is where it is now after 3 days.
14 Jan // 108 - 460 ...................// This is where it is now after 2 days.
15 Jan // 102...........................// This is where it is now after just 1 day.
See if you can detect a hint of a slow towards plateau there as I do.
Though some 700 death days look certain from tomorrow for at least a few days.
The rapid acceleration has stopped though it seems,
Exactly the same happened to my old next door neighbour.My 82 year old mum, registered blind, has received texts to her old crappy Nokia phone yesterday and today with a link to book her vaccine jab. Fortunately I visited her today with my 20 year old son, who checked her texts for her and managed to book her a slot via his phone. She didn’t even know she had any texts. I thought the oldies were getting letters?
GPS are texting patients.Woah hold up champ, a text? I'm not 100% on how this is being rolled out but text sets off my Spidey senses
Edit: check ofcom and covid scams and texts, they have some images of scams
In England, so presumably the rest of the UK is roughly in line, daily rate is now exceeding the rate we need to go at for the Feb target.
will fluctuate but surely good news