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Your Method Of Easing Lockdown
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Some people here seem to be in a permanent state of confusion over what I think are quite simple guidelines for the gradual easing of lockdown and for getting people back to work….so here’s their opportunity to shine. If you were in charge, how would you do it?
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Expanding on the OP slightly, I would be more adventurous. Since the A levels season is upon us (whether the exams are sat or not). Year 13 will not be in school/
12:13 Thu 14th May 2020
Has I said P. Morgan for the job, he needn't bother standing, we've not got the time for that. Anyhow I wouldn't have even considered any easing of the lockdown at this point. The government said they themselves wouldn't consider such until they had reached their five goals, they haven't even reached the fist one, on a day to day basis of one hundred thousand tests.
Boris allowed the media to pressure him into a road map, and easing the lockdown, and he did, with a very rushed and poor plan.
Any PM who allows himself to be distracted by the media is in my view very weak.
I also believe that while he was ill, someone, or many, made some very serious wrong decisions, so what you have now, is him and his cabinet spending more time covering up those decisions and mistakes than time spent on trying to sort this problem out has much has one can, telling even more lies is not going to help any, or defending past ones.
But I certainly wouldn't have sent thousands back to work on the tube network, and buses without at least providing basic face masks like they have in other countries, a lot less poorer than us.
What they should have done was throw a few million to the manufactures in this country weeks ago to make millions of them, to at least give us a fighting chance. I still maintain Boris is the best we've got, but he has a weak cabinet behind him apart from one. His cabinet is a very new one, and at the start of this virus was still in party mode after wining the election, and hadn't got their eye on the ball, and still haven't.
Boris allowed the media to pressure him into a road map, and easing the lockdown, and he did, with a very rushed and poor plan.
Any PM who allows himself to be distracted by the media is in my view very weak.
I also believe that while he was ill, someone, or many, made some very serious wrong decisions, so what you have now, is him and his cabinet spending more time covering up those decisions and mistakes than time spent on trying to sort this problem out has much has one can, telling even more lies is not going to help any, or defending past ones.
But I certainly wouldn't have sent thousands back to work on the tube network, and buses without at least providing basic face masks like they have in other countries, a lot less poorer than us.
What they should have done was throw a few million to the manufactures in this country weeks ago to make millions of them, to at least give us a fighting chance. I still maintain Boris is the best we've got, but he has a weak cabinet behind him apart from one. His cabinet is a very new one, and at the start of this virus was still in party mode after wining the election, and hadn't got their eye on the ball, and still haven't.
But if they hadn't eased lockdown you wouldn't have been able to go on full day picnic trips.
But fair enough, if your answer is " there should have been no easing" and you think the vast majority of people would have stuck to it and the economy will survive another few weeks of inactivity then that's an opinion shared by many others including the Scottish and Welsh governments
But fair enough, if your answer is " there should have been no easing" and you think the vast majority of people would have stuck to it and the economy will survive another few weeks of inactivity then that's an opinion shared by many others including the Scottish and Welsh governments
First of all I never rely totally on other peoples advice, has regards to my well being. The WHO gave us all notice about a pandemic, and how contagious it was, that was enough for me to take a common sense action, (stay away from other people). The economy has already taken the hit, another 3/4 weeks is not now going to make that much difference. They are now just destroying the gain they have made in the lockdown, the one thing they said they wouldn't do. You have taken this picnic much to seriously :0)
It's quite easy really:
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Expanding on the OP slightly, I would be more adventurous. Since the A levels season is upon us (whether the exams are sat or not). Year 13 will not be in school/college now anyway. I would, therefore, certainly allow 6th form colleges to open, since they will only have the Year 12 students in college and "double" the space available to safe distance.
Likewise any small business (hairdresser/nail salons/barbers etc.) that can work safely with social distancing, and the use PPE, should be allowed to open. My chiropodist is still open, she obviously can't keep 2m away, but does wear a mask and face shield.
This virus is going nowhere soon, even if we can manufacture a vaccine, people need to start "living with it", the more people out and about (2m apart when they can be), the more "herd immunity" will be acquired.
Hospitals etc. are learning on the job how best to manage/treat Covid 19, on a daily basis. Certainly the use of ventilators is being re-thought, other (less invasive)methods of getting oxygen into the lungs are being trialed by some hospitals, by using equipment re-purposed for other conditions (sleep apnea). Drugs normally used in the treatment of Ebola, have also had some success in managing this disease.
I realise I will probably get shot down by some on here, but we can't hide from it forever (in the hope of a safe, reliable vaccine being discovered), we need to start living with it (and the unfortunate outcome, for some, if they do catch it) on a day to day basis.
As i stated on another thread I am a key worker, and have been in work throughout the lockdown, I certainly don't feel afraid or frightened by being possibly more exposed to Covid 19, because I haven't been able to stay in doors.
Likewise any small business (hairdresser/nail salons/barbers etc.) that can work safely with social distancing, and the use PPE, should be allowed to open. My chiropodist is still open, she obviously can't keep 2m away, but does wear a mask and face shield.
This virus is going nowhere soon, even if we can manufacture a vaccine, people need to start "living with it", the more people out and about (2m apart when they can be), the more "herd immunity" will be acquired.
Hospitals etc. are learning on the job how best to manage/treat Covid 19, on a daily basis. Certainly the use of ventilators is being re-thought, other (less invasive)methods of getting oxygen into the lungs are being trialed by some hospitals, by using equipment re-purposed for other conditions (sleep apnea). Drugs normally used in the treatment of Ebola, have also had some success in managing this disease.
I realise I will probably get shot down by some on here, but we can't hide from it forever (in the hope of a safe, reliable vaccine being discovered), we need to start living with it (and the unfortunate outcome, for some, if they do catch it) on a day to day basis.
As i stated on another thread I am a key worker, and have been in work throughout the lockdown, I certainly don't feel afraid or frightened by being possibly more exposed to Covid 19, because I haven't been able to stay in doors.
I have just read about that on the BBC news website. I am so pleased that New Zealand is regaining some sense of normality. My son's best friend, and his family emigrated to New Zealand at that very beginning of March, it must have been quite worrying for them under lockdown, with no real support system, and his dad only weeks into a new job.
Yes, some natural advantages, but it still seems likely that without the early action the virus would have spread a lot further. And it also seems that they've more or less got no community transmission at all.
It may be that we do have to just live with the virus, for the time being at least, but I'd be wary of taking that as a motive to ease lockdown too fast. Maybe we have to live with it but the entire purpose of lockdown was to control the spread and avoid overwhelming the Health Service. Any easing has to take that into account, otherwise what was the point?
It may be that we do have to just live with the virus, for the time being at least, but I'd be wary of taking that as a motive to ease lockdown too fast. Maybe we have to live with it but the entire purpose of lockdown was to control the spread and avoid overwhelming the Health Service. Any easing has to take that into account, otherwise what was the point?
Jim, I've just been reading about Kerala
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Half Britain's population, but greater population density. Four deaths.
The key, as in Australia and NZ and other countries, was quick action. We didn't get that and so we're still playing catch-up. In particular, we're weeks behind in quarantining new arrivals.
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Half Britain's population, but greater population density. Four deaths.
The key, as in Australia and NZ and other countries, was quick action. We didn't get that and so we're still playing catch-up. In particular, we're weeks behind in quarantining new arrivals.
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