COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[Bellamy's Caddy]

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

Johnson delaying his announcement to Sunday doesnt really have much impact when it's already been leaked to the press in advance of Bank Holiday weekend, the idiots who have been flaunting social distancing are going to be out in force over the next few days

 

[BlueAnorak]

There will be at least 3 more weeks of lockdown. Some restrictions will be eased, but the new case numbers are just too high to risk too much.
The government will; however tell us how we're going to get out of it.
It will take 3 weeks to get public transport fit for purpose for a start.
- Protective gear for staff.
- Temperature checks at stations.
- Rejigging major stations for one way walking.
- Sourcing zillions of gallonscof hand sanitizer.
- The provision of face masks.
- Sterilisation of buses, trains, tube, trams, concouses, lobbies and lifts.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Nobody in my immediate family has been off work all the way through this, and none of them work for the NHS. What percentage of the population are off work?

20% of the workforce are being paid by the state currently.
27 million people.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/05/04/half-adults-now-paid-state/

 

[Bazzmand Show]

There will be at least 3 more weeks of lockdown. Some restrictions will be eased, but the new case numbers are just too high to risk too much.
The government will; however tell us how we're going to get out of it.
It will take 3 weeks to get public transport fit for purpose for a start.
- Protective gear for staff.
- Temperature checks at stations.
- Rejigging major stations for one way walking.
- Sourcing zillions of gallonscof hand sanitizer.
- The provision of face masks.
- Sterilisation of buses, trains, tube, trams, concouses, lobbies and lifts.

Agreed, think people are getting way too carried away in here.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

There will be at least 3 more weeks of lockdown. Some restrictions will be eased, but the new case numbers are just too high to risk too much.
The government will; however tell us how we're going to get out of it.
It will take 3 weeks to get public transport fit for purpose for a start.
- Protective gear for staff.
- Temperature checks at stations.
- Rejigging major stations for one way walking.
- Sourcing zillions of gallonscof hand sanitizer.
- The provision of face masks.
- Sterilisation of buses, trains, tube, trams, concouses, lobbies and lifts.

I agree with this.
At the start Johnson said 12 weeks.
He came out of hospital and reiterated 12 weeks.
There’s still 5 weeks to go.
I think there will be some vacuous announcement on Sunday like you can exercise twice a day but otherwise it’ll be more of the same.

 

[Bazzmand Show]

Have to say, the front pages of the papers are an utter disgrace

 

[hgblue]

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.

I agree. I suspect we’re going to hear more about how much debt we’re going to be saddled with, how many millions of people are going to lose their jobs, the size of the recession that’s coming, what this all means for the public finances and paying for our public services going forward, and importantly, some modelling showing how many people are going to die due to the recession, mental health issues and medical interventions for non Covid issues that have been put back due to the lockdown.

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

600 + deaths reported yesterday and was it 6,000 new cases??

Why are we considering, basically ending lockdown with these numbers. The media are in overdrive to get everything back to normal and ignore what’s going on

 

[RandomJ]

Can see it’s all started now. You’ve got the papers declaring the lock down soon to end without any official announcement, you’ve got the online twats like Katie Hopkins riling up the idiot masses saying this is a “free country” and we should not “cower in fear” as if the whole thing has been a big hoax.

All of that and add a sunny bank holiday and people will be out and about like it never happened. Come July time we will have a second peak and thousands more needless deaths.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Does anyone actually believe any Headline in the gutter press. Unfortunately yes!

Those headlines will be read at a glance by, say, two million people, and that’s all they need to think; “right back to normal”... and they’ll all be surprised when their mother uncle and grandad die in July when we’re seeing 2500 deaths a day!