Isn't Boris Wonderful?

[10ClarionSt]

First press briefing after being ill with CV, determined to beat the virus. He won't let it win. We will all come through this. Even if it ruins the economy and wrecks the country. We will beat it! I wonder if he's had a bet with somebody about who blinks first. But determination and strength are the requirement. He reminds me of The Black Knight from Holy Grail. This is how the country will end up. Defiant to the last!

[emmie]

he's just back after a serious illness and will understandably be a bit off kilter, but i believe
what he and his government are trying to do.
I don't think the economy will be wrecked, have you
anything to say as to what they should do?

[douglas9401]

And we're off for another day. :-)

[10ClarionSt]

Yes. Allow people back to work and open schools and colleges. Concentrate the effort against the virus where it's had the biggest effect i.e. hospitals, care homes and ethnic minorities. Concentrate the effort towards those most affected, ie, 91% of deaths have been people who suffered from one, or a combination of, heart disease, diabetes or dementure.
Look at what's happened so far. Which group of people has probably been nearer to lots of others? Supermarket workers, yet there has been a reduction in sickness absence in those companies.
But it's ok, Emmie. You can be the squire to Boris' Black Knight.

[waterboatman]

Boris is a canny lad.

[murraymints]

I think he is being very generous to us at this time and is doing a grand job !

[emmie]

i don;t wish to denigrate you, but have you the answer, after all if opening the schools is a good thing why hasn't the government done it. They think that the lockdown should go on for a while longer and i agree with it. social distancing is working.

[tomus42]

I'm happy for him to continue to base his decisions on the advice of his medical and scientific advisors rather than the opinions of random people off the internet.

[diddlydo]

It appears from what I have read that some of his Cabinet colleagues want some indication of when restrictions will be eased. There are a number of people on this site who claim to be compliant with the lockdown but who go against the rules when it suits them e.g. going food shopping on an almost daily basis, sitting in the park, visiting a friend etc etc

[emmie]

i think an hour is allowable to visit as long as one is several metres away, i have proved that can be done. as we sat on my balcony quite a distance apart, it isn't all bad.

[dannyk13]

Diddly, // visiting a friend etc etc//
You have proof of this how?.Just another flight of your vivid imagination.

[murraymints]

I go out once a week in order to food shop for myself and another 4 homes and to get cash from ATM for these folk that's it !

[emmie]

i mostly shop on line, though that is proving to be quite costly in the longer term...

[diddlydo]

Well done to Murraymints - that's how it's supposed to work. Danny - read Emmie's post above where she admits to having a friend visit her on her balcony - we're not supposed to be visiting another house except to deliver goods or otherwise look after a vulnerable person. It's not time for a cosy chat however well distanced.

[dannyk13]

Diddly , That is just one person and how has this anything to to with the OP?

[emmie]

this person helps me with some food shopping and getting my medication....

[emmie]

as i am not so mobile as i once was. I have sat in the local park as have others but many of those people had masks on whilst doing a daily walk, which is allowed.

[fiction-factory]

diddlydo- were you also thinking of the poster who enjoyed telling us of how they went for a drive, followed by a 3 mile walk in the country, then a 3 hour picnic, then made the return journey via the shops.

Anyway, back to the OP. I wonder if 10CS has noticed that every comparable economy has done pretty much the same- in fact when you look at some like Spain, Italy, Korea, our lockdown was far less restrictive.

[diddlydo]

Danny - if you really want an answer to the title question - no, he's not.

[murraymints]

folk sitting down in parks here are being moved along a lot of benches are upturned to discourage and folk lying sunbathing are being shooed away !

[diddlydo]

FF - thanks for reminding me of that poster - just one example of many infringements of the lockdown. Minty - looks as if they've got it sussed where you live - we don't want people sitting down on benches when you're supposed to be out only for exercise (or shopping, which you can't do while sitting on a park bench!)