As I said that might have helped before everywhere got to the point it is now. As in 3 weeks ago. But there is no way to really slow this down now it has spread everywhere, bar a full lockdown that will never be obeyed well enough to matter. Not even sure that would help much now given we are having millions catching it every week.
Tha kind of rate cannot be sustained for long. And how much really would a lockdown now stop cases from spreading beyond what they have over the past 2 weeks.
They could try piecemeal measures like banning crowds at football or closing theatres but they have to balance that against the harm that would do.
I would have supported a locdown bwfore Christmas. In fact I psted in here saying we should do and got hounded off the thread if you recall.
That told me how well it would work. As in not well.And that was then. When it could have worked. Its too late now imo. Or we would be doing it. We just are hoping it will burn fast and over quick.
Which is a gamble. If he was not going to do it tonight he will not later.
My friend has spent both Christmas and New Year with family in North Wales. Back today.This is only anecdotal of course but I was back in work today and I visited one of my customers in North Wales. They were saying that over the Christmas and New Year period (they worked every day except Christmas and New Year's Day) they had around 20% of the production workforce off. They had to submit proof of a positive PCR test so they weren't faking it and they had a few more at home awaiting results after positive LFTs.
This appears that the additional restrictions in Wales are now making little or no difference compared to England and unless some sort of draconian lockdown was imposed then we have to ride it out. As @Healdplace posted earlier, the vast majority of people probably wouldn't abide by any such restrictions anyway so they effectively would be as pointless as all current ones.
I doubt it was a plan as such just a consequece of circumstances. Not sure anyone could have stopped this tsunami but it would have taken a full on lockdown over Chrstmas and New Year to have some kind of shot enacted well before Christmas as spread took off the week before then.I'm not arguing for more restrictions, just making the point that there is no argument for a deliberate fast burn.
You'll not that a deliberate fast burn is not govt policy either- just for instance testing all pupils on return to school and keeping isolation in place are specifically designed to reduce spread.
Pretty similar to the UK cases based on population I'd say.Anything we can do....
US is the first nation to record over ONE MILLION cases on one day - 1,080,211
Glad I am not working out THOSE numbers!
Wonder how many were in Evanston, Illinois where I (briefly) lived long ago.
Yes it is and I suspect there is not going to be much difference anywhere in a populated area when Omicron arrives it will rip through it.Pretty similar to the UK cases based on population I'd say.