COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Phil1]

I'm struggling to see any way in which UK death numbers won't be significantly larger than present.

They will, undoubtedly go higher, but a decision has been made by government that it’s an acceptable risk in order to get the economy moving.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

they will ramp the propaganda up a fair bit in the next few weeks.

it will be most people have mild symptoms, a lot won’t even know they even have it , mortality rate by age and where the virus really attacks. Social distancing is the most important thing and wash your hands.

it’s going to be a bit different to the last few weeks.

Which is ironic given how badly ill Johnson was with it, despite not having any underlying health conditions (that we are aware of).

Of course lockdown can't continue forever but the numbers are still alarmingly high. My concern is that the government are seeing other nations coming out of lockdown and the motivation now is not to fall behind them economically, which is an understandable concern but it should not be at the expense of people's health.

Talk of re-opening beer gardens seems a classic deflection technique. If the proles can go to the pub they can also go back to work.

Ireland's measures for coming out of lockdown has the health and safety of the public very much at the forefront. It will be interesting to see how ours compare.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Of course lockdown can't continue forever but the numbers are still alarmingly high. My concern is that the government are seeing other nations coming out of lockdown and the motivation now is not to fall behind them economically, which is an understandable concern but it should not be at the expense of people's health.

This.

We're a few weeks behind other countries who are fortunate enough to be in a position to begin easing their lockdowns as the numbers are a bit better (and I use that term loosely). We've seen that but instead of owning up to our initial failings and learning from it, we've immediately decided they can't be out there having fun when we're not allowed so we're just gonna go for it again anyway, to hell with the science.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Which is ironic given how badly ill Johnson was with it, despite not having any underlying health conditions (that we are aware of).

Except being a fat disgusting ****?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Sadly people take this stuff at face value though and will act accordingly upon reading it.

Indeed, otherwise bots wouldn't exist!

 

[paulchapo]

Unless I'm missing something the virus hasn't gone away, we have no cure or vaccine, so as soon as people start mixing more then it will spread again and deaths will rise sharply.

I'm guessing Sweden who have remained almost fully open throughout should give an indication how it might go.

 

[Mike N]

Wow. That really is incredible. What a ridiculous front page. No surprise as it’s such a wank paper but I can’t get my head around something like that.

Jesus wept. It's like no one cares that thousands and thousands and thousands of people are dead or that thousands more are going to die!

p.s. Like the 'hurrah for the blackshirts!' page further down on the tweet. That paper has got real history.

 

[BlueHammer85]

 

[mancityscot]

its pretty obvious whats going to happen when the restrictions are eased - cases will sky rocket

 

[twosips]

its pretty obvious whats going to happen when the restrictions are eased - cases will sky rocket

Guaranteed. We'll do hardly anything tactile and just 'ask' people to act differently, with little to no enforcement of any of it. Contact tracing will likely be a sham, businesses won't properly change their way of working, and if they do, it won't last, there will be pictures of crowded tubes immediately etc etc.