My bad. I’ve been whooshed on second reading.
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My bad. I’ve been whooshed on second reading.
The Wizard
Well-known member
- Jul 2, 2009
- 18,383
Why they don’t just announce the national lockdown in new year already I don’t know, we all know it’s coming and we’ve known since the November lockdown finished, stop lying to us.
If this super strain is 75% more infectious than an ALREADY highly infectious virus they should be locking the entire country down now, but they aren’t... why?
If this super strain is 75% more infectious than an ALREADY highly infectious virus they should be locking the entire country down now, but they aren’t... why?
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
Nothing much really happens over the Christmas week, schools are all closed, many non essential businesses are shut, why not just lockdown everybody until 4th Jan, then everybody will be the same
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,300
it was the weekend and they dont read their emails until Monday?
maltaseagull
Well-known member
No lodgers then?
Maybe they check them once over the weekend, step up from Johnson I guess.
middletoenail
Well-known member
Because he hasn't got the b0llocks. He's trying to sit on the fence and appease the minority of wet blankets who bang on about lockdowns affecting their mental health and civil liberties.
Pavilionaire
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 30,566
We need Tier 2 towns like Horsham left open so everybody can get the train down from Tier 4 London and Surrey to do their Christmas shopping.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
M2 being used instead but there is a problem, currently, owing to an overturned car at Faversham
What on earth did you do?!
Sorrel
Well-known member
Really the only thing that matters now is: will the vaccine work on the new variant? As is the way of things I expect the answer won't be a clear "yes" or a clear "no" but instead a solid "it depends".
Everything else is just appeasing various pressure groups, none of whom will get exactly what they want and will complain about it.
I fully expect a new parliamentary approved national lockdown in each of our nations by the end of December but I can also see why they are not doing it right now. Hopefully things will be looking better by mid-January - and by early February we will probably be much closer to knowing the answer to the vaccine effectiveness question.
Everything else is just appeasing various pressure groups, none of whom will get exactly what they want and will complain about it.
I fully expect a new parliamentary approved national lockdown in each of our nations by the end of December but I can also see why they are not doing it right now. Hopefully things will be looking better by mid-January - and by early February we will probably be much closer to knowing the answer to the vaccine effectiveness question.
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maffew
Well-known member
To put this number in perspective, 20 per 100k of population from ECDC data was the number generally use/d by the FCDO to impose travel restrictions on countries to go on the not safe to travel to lists. We are 50 x that number now. I cant see how the country can avoid a long national lockdown from January for some months
maltaseagull
Well-known member
I suspect that by February, we will see new targets set for vaccinations as the previous targets were way too optimistic.
Everyone done by 2023?
Romani ite domum?
Corrected for you.
OK so Covid is a seasonal flu. We need a new flu vaccine every year owing to mutations.
What we have here in North Kent is Covid-20.
You can guess the rest.
Motogull
Todd Warrior
- Sep 16, 2005
- 9,847
What, before being evicted the Orange bungle**** starts talking about the Medway Virus?
Sorrel
Well-known member
Yes, fairly depressing if that is the case. But we - by which I mean the science and organisation - will hopefully get better at things as we get more experienced.
I think even the most visceral detractors of our response would agree that the government and systems put in place have more scope for improving than getting worse.
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
- 5,125
