I've been at work right the way through. As everyone should have (except those shielding).
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Coronavirus
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Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
I see so a wave is only a wave if it is huge. What will Brtain's second wave look like under this government then? Beggars the imagination.
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
I think you were talking about the likelihood of first, second waves etc NOT how they were managed?Yeah, because they managed it properly. Sheesh!
Parklaner81
Steve Hodge
My interpretation of the term would be that it would have to be relatively substantial to be called a 'wave'. So substitute the word 'huge' for say, something like 'substantial', and yes. In my view.
Legohamster
Ian Walker
You have to reach a level of serious communal infection, which they did not have.
You tell us as your convinced we are going to have one and all die.
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Because this is their first spike/wave
Viruses by their nature kill off the weakest and most vunerable first which causes a forward stacked numbers until you protect those it is killing or it kills the majority off. Australia have blatently not protected those most vunerable because without checking the stats i doubt their death tollmis the 20_45 age range.
If its their elderly and ill that are dying of covid it folows the exact trend globaly
Grays_1890
Chris Jones
Whats the % death toll versus infection?
Legohamster
Ian Walker
21k cases and 300 deaths
Legohamster
Ian Walker
is that recorded cases ?
if so it’s flawed as way more have had it and not been tested/realise
LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
I find it incredible that this issue is so political now. Be happy we are flattening out and that the bastard virus may be going away. Let the data talk and follow the guidance. But we absolutely need to re-open when safe, otherwise the impact will be catastrophic, especially for the most poor people.
LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
I would also say some risk needs to be taken now, a second lockdown would cripple the system.
Hear hear. Sadly it feels like virtually everything is political these days. Indeed the thing I find most irritating about the modern world is people's angry, close-minded, binary tribalism on what seems like every single political, social or economic issue in existence.
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Mikey10
Jimmy Neighbour
I agree, to a point. I absolutely backed a lockdown. We knew nothing about the virus, we were ill-prepared as a nation and, globally, we needed to buy time to develop therapeutic treatments and vaccines.
My only hesitancy now is that I still feel we have a PM completely unsuited to deal with the situation we find ourselves in, and we have a government which has PR as its highest priority. I think the winter will be very difficult and it will be interesting to see how it is dealt with.
Without a proper system of track and trace we could very quickly find ourselves in a terrible situation. It beggars belief that we are so far into this and we don’t yet have an effective one.
We do, though, need to keep trying to get back to something resembling normal.
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ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
It may kill 'way more than flu' now, but will it kill a % every year like flu, lets hope not.
LutonSpurs
Eric Dear
He is a fukin cretin
johnola
Jermaine Jenas
I think we have the right way forward now. Ingrained Social distancing, local lockdowns, masks and super sanitary public spaces allied to trust in mother nature’s own limited tolerance of covi like viruses.
The overwhelmingly sensible majority will Embrace track and trace , even if they manage it themselves, and will not wish to be a source of transmission.
So we have seen we can check the virus at every turn -there is no need to fear subsequent uncontrollable waves of infection. But the individual risk remains, so carry on washing those chris Whitty hands.
What is clearly foolhardy is to overimpose quarantine and rely on a vaccination - that’s a moonshot.
The overwhelmingly sensible majority will Embrace track and trace , even if they manage it themselves, and will not wish to be a source of transmission.
So we have seen we can check the virus at every turn -there is no need to fear subsequent uncontrollable waves of infection. But the individual risk remains, so carry on washing those chris Whitty hands.
What is clearly foolhardy is to overimpose quarantine and rely on a vaccination - that’s a moonshot.