UK Lockdown

[Oldsmobile-88]

What was the point of all the businesses putting safety measures in at huge cost In hospitality etc when they are now being shut again in the North of England ?

You would be more at risk in a Supermarket..Frigging madness.

 

[Hermann]

A man in the US has been confirmed to have caught the virus a second time. Puts a few question marks on the herd immunity strategy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54512034

 

[Mr Jinx]

A man in the US has been confirmed to have caught the virus a second time. Puts a few question marks on the herd immunity strategy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54512034

A complete outlier. Just like the 13 day old baby that died of it.

Strategies should not be taking 1 in a million anomalies into consideration when being formed and pushed out.

It is possible to catch chicken pox twice, but over 99.99% of the population don't.

 

[Hants_red]

If this doesn't work then we can expect some sort of circuit breaker in a couple of weeks. Which won't be good for the economy, but we can't continue with the rise in infection rates.

 

[denzel]

What was the point of all the businesses putting safety measures in at huge cost In hospitality etc when they are now being shut again in the North of England ?

You would be more at risk in a Supermarket..Frigging madness.

Yep.
August - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
October - SHUT IT DOWN.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Yep.
August - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
October - SHUT IT DOWN.

January - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
March - SHUT IT DOWN.

June - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
August - SHUT IT DOWN.

...noticing a pattern? Except by the time it comes round to number 3, there will be no economy to help.

 

[elginCity]

January - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
March - SHUT IT DOWN.

June - Go out, eat out, help the economy.
August - SHUT IT DOWN.

...noticing a pattern? Except by the time it comes round to number 3, there will be no economy to help.

Agree it hasn't been good in any way for the economy, but let's keep it in perspective. The hospitality industry is but one sector - produces around 4% GDP.

Everyone I know (exception being a pub landlord pal, another previously furloughed but now back in the office part time) is still doing their job, or moving house, still spending their money. The economy has been winged - but has not broken down completely just yet. If what you suggest happens next year, however, you could well be right !

 

[Hermann]

A complete outlier. Just like the 13 day old baby that died of it.

Strategies should not be taking 1 in a million anomalies into consideration when being formed and pushed out.

It is possible to catch chicken pox twice, but over 99.99% of the population don't.

It is indeed. Nevertheless it's indicative of the fact we don't know much about covid immunity. Basing our response on an assumption seems to be a bad idea to me.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Basing our response on an assumption seems to be a bad idea to me.

Why so? It's what they've been doing up to now.

 

[Hermann]

Why so? It's what they've been doing up to now.

Current policy is based on transmission, which we have buckets of evidence about. We know nothing about long-term immunity.