COVID-19 — Coronavirus

[dronefromsector7G]

Can’t compare Europe to Australia, there’s nothing there. Can take a day or 3 to get from one city to another, never mind another country. not 30 minutes or an hour like most of europe.

Melbourne and Sydney have populations of 5 million. On a local scale I wouldn’t class that as ‘nothing there’.

 

[Cityfan]

Priorities all askew in this country, if I drop litter on market street I am pounced on and fined . Walk into a shop with no mask and no exemption card to explain it snd nothing happens.
need to be like Isle of Man send them to prison

Judging by the amount of litter I see that is fairly heavily ignored as well.

 

[inbetween]

Our local Tesco and even the bigger supermarkets in Dumfries are horrendous. Worse of all is seeing most of the staff with no fucking masks on!

I will obey the law and rules up to a point. Once its patently obvious its a fucking ridiculous rule and i feel i and the family can ignore it safely then ignore it i will and being socially distant in a garden seeing family once or twice a week to ensure they are ok and to give us all a mental health boost is one of them.

I think many people are making these kind of decisions from a risk point of view and to be honest it's perfectly acceptable. It's the people who don't factor any risk into their actions that are the problem, for example younger people going out on the lash with 10 mates and then going seeing their parents or grandparents the day after.

Regardless of whether the rules say we can or not, I think our Christmas plan is to have our lot self-isolate the week before and then have Christmas as normal within our 'isolation bubble'. I'm working from home so it's just a case of finishing early on the 18th and staying in doing nowt for a week.

It isn't feasible to lock people up again until spring and it isn't feasible to not have Christmas but we also can't accept that the price of this is 2000+ people dying per day in swamped hospitals.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Judging by the amount of litter I see that is fairly heavily ignored as well.

There are days when I confuse Manchester with Ferentari

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Come the 3rd December there will be a massive rush out to do Xmas shopping etc, it will be carnage.

You think it’ll be lifted then?

 

[Elbow beards]

And now they're talking about it lasting longer than 4 weeks. WTF. this is obscene.

 

[blueparrot]

Melbourne and Sydney have populations of 5 million. On a local scale I wouldn’t class that as ‘nothing there’.

I know, but when one area is locked down, like Melbourne was, there will be very little spread to Sydney. Where isolating say Manchester from Liverpool or Leeds or Belgium from Northern France Holland is a very different proposition when trying to prevent spread. So is a bad comparison to make.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Melbourne and Sydney have populations of 5 million. On a local scale I wouldn’t class that as ‘nothing there’.

16 week lockdown in Melbourne to get from a tiny 700 positive tests a day to zero. 1200 jobs lost EVERY day, 30% increase in the demand for mental health services, a spike of over 30% of other healthcare since September, a huge increase in alcohol consumption and domestic violence. The economic recovery will take years, if not decades, and Covid will be back in Australia sometime in the future. Worth it? You wouldn’t imagine so.

 

[Out on blue 6]

I know, but when one area is locked down, like Melbourne was, there will be very little spread to Sydney. Where isolating say Manchester from Liverpool or Leeds or Belgium from Northern France Holland is a very different proposition when trying to prevent spread. So is a bad comparison to make.

800 miles between Melbourne and Sydney so I agree would take some spreading

 

[Blue Maverick]

You think it’ll be lifted then?

We will see pal, it wouldn’t surprise me if they do it until 2 Jan