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But, as I asked above, I think we're still waiting to learn what the new stricter rules will be in each tier.

I think most decent folk, should they be intending to mix households over Christmas, will do their utmost to limit contact with others ahead of that. I only caught a brief snippet on the 5Live breakfast show this morning, but they seemed to be suggesting a sentiment that a lot of families will...

Do we know if "rule of 6" will be in place in the new stricter tiers that are being announced sometime in the near future?

What is your proposal for Christmas? And, assuming you are advocating tighter restrictions, how much adherence do you think there would be, particularly amongst the "No one is telling me what to do at Christmas" crowd? (Again - I'm not backing what is being proposed, specifically, but I'm...

All fine and dandy here, but thanks for the concern.

Sorry, clumsy wording on my behalf. I meant that, currently, Germany's death rate is the highest it has been - higher than the first wave, or whatever term you wish to apply to the spring. The relevance of mentioning that is that you referenced the UK's current death rate in connection with...

Because I believe all governments are facing the same tricky decisions around the time of year when families get together, often in large number and often across many generations that include those most vulnerable. And because the German discussions caught my eye on the Guardian coverage last...

Yet in Germany, now suffering record deaths across the whole pandemic, there are suggestions of similar loosening of restrictions over the Christmas period. As I said, I believe governments are damned if they do and damned if they don't. And as someone else said, most people will do the right...

Unfortunately, there are a lot of kids, year 9 and upwards, who do not have the tools, nor the parental support, to study from home and would soon fall massively behind where they could and should be. Additionally, many of these same kids are from vulnerable households where they may not...

It's really not odd though, and Weststander has already broadly covered this in his excellent post on this thread. "The science" says everyone keeps the **** away from everyone else until such time as there is a vaccine. At the very extreme, as the Chinese implemented in Wuhan, that just...

Death is a lagging indicator by a good 2-3 weeks. Recorded deaths was always going to continue to rise through much of the lockdown period, due to the infections and hospitalisations that took place before. The good news is that new hospitalisations now seem to be on the decline, which is what...

Damned if they do, and damned if they don't once again IMO. The mental health and, horribly, suicide outfall of inflicting isolation over Christmas could be pretty considerable. Give a strict set of no-mixing measures and a load of people go "**** that - it's Christmas and I'll do what I...