Makes you wonder why all these countries didn't ban flights from the UK? They could see the Kent variant as much as we could.
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UK Lockdown
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Alistair20000
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Not much rearing up on here from certain factions on that.
Or that we now have a mere 4.7 million people waiting for hospital treatment....
So Hancock here's an idea now hospitalisations are under control. Take Covid patients out of at least half our hospitals and get them back to doing surgery. Put the wards back and get the surgeon's back doing their day job.
Don't wait, do it this weekend. You've got 6 months before you'll be locking us down again for the winter third wave so get knifing.
IndoMike
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We knew 6 months ago that Rapid Testing was unreliable, yet Bonking Boris wants to scale it up... 
Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few as 2% to 10% of positive results may be accurate in places with low Covid rates, such as London.
Boris Johnson last week urged everyone in England to take two rapid-turnaround tests a week in the biggest expansion of the multibillion-pound testing programme to date.
However, leaked emails seen by the Guardian show that senior officials are now considering scaling back the widespread testing of people without symptoms, due to a growing number of false positives.
In one email, Ben Dyson, an executive director of strategy at the health department and one of health secretary Matt Hancock’s advisers, stressed the “fairly urgent need for decisions” on “the point at which we stop offering asymptomatic testing”.
On 9 April, the day everyone in England was able to order twice-weekly lateral flow device (LFD) tests, Dyson wrote: “As of today, someone who gets a positive LFD result in (say) London has at best a 25% chance of it being a true positive, but if it is a self-reported test potentially as low as 10% (on an optimistic assumption about specificity) or as low as 2% (on a more pessimistic assumption).”
Senior government officials have raised “urgent” concerns about the mass expansion of rapid coronavirus testing, estimating that as few as 2% to 10% of positive results may be accurate in places with low Covid rates, such as London.
Boris Johnson last week urged everyone in England to take two rapid-turnaround tests a week in the biggest expansion of the multibillion-pound testing programme to date.
However, leaked emails seen by the Guardian show that senior officials are now considering scaling back the widespread testing of people without symptoms, due to a growing number of false positives.
In one email, Ben Dyson, an executive director of strategy at the health department and one of health secretary Matt Hancock’s advisers, stressed the “fairly urgent need for decisions” on “the point at which we stop offering asymptomatic testing”.
On 9 April, the day everyone in England was able to order twice-weekly lateral flow device (LFD) tests, Dyson wrote: “As of today, someone who gets a positive LFD result in (say) London has at best a 25% chance of it being a true positive, but if it is a self-reported test potentially as low as 10% (on an optimistic assumption about specificity) or as low as 2% (on a more pessimistic assumption).”
Alistair20000
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Lock everyone and everything down harshy harshy for a couple years. That should wrestle this Covid fecker to the ground.
The #Covidfeckeriscontrolled islands of New Zealand and Taiwan could be excused from your extreme measure, surely ?
Alistair20000
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No no no no. A thousand times no. Until Covid has been eradicated the whole world must follow this policy.
Until we are all locked down none of us will be safe.
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iscalad
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Lot of holes in that argument