More mixed messages from Hancock https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ueue-forms-outside-burger-bar-MEATliquor.html
My son said there are too many people wandering aimlessly around the city centre. The store he works in is open as they sell essential supplies but people are coming in and browsing non-essential things. He tries to keep his distance but customers still come up to him to ask advice and they pat him on the arm and stuff.
It now seems warnings were given last year, not least by Sir Patrick Vallance, who is often at the 5.00pm tv briefing, about the need to stockpile PPE ( and have domestic suppliers) and to be prepared for mass testing.. A public inquiry, once this epidemic is at least contained, is required. Now of course we must press ahead with the lockdown... I would also appreciate knowing the true number of deaths attributed to covid 19
Not having a car and therefore using public transport to do essential shopping. Car owners do not come into contact with others inside their own car, bus passengers must share the bus with strangers.
I would of thought living in Sunderland there will be shops within walking distance or has it changed since I lived there.i could walk anyway from our house and reach shops within 2 or 3 hundred yards.
I am lucky in that many shops are within easy walking distance as you say, others are not. If money is no object then you can shop at the local corner shop and not worry about prices being 2-3x what they are in Heron's, B&M, Aldi, Lidl, Home Bargains et al. If you are on a very low income that is not a luxury you can afford as every penny counts. Also many oap's cannot physically carry heavy bags of shopping 2-300 yards and would catch a bus using their free bus pass.
I would guess at there being a number of factors. One of those would certainly be available finances. If you've got 5 quid left to feed the kids are you going to buy food or hand sanitiser? Add in public transport, shared accomodation etc it's understandable. Very similar to how it's affecting African Americans in the poorer parts of the US
Well my son who works for a so called essential service, has now been given a laptop and is working from home. The only problem is he needs internet, we are with BT and in our village they do not support the use anywhere in the house tech. So the big lanky bastard has to use my room...where PC and my TV is. Also how we keep kids away...no chance!
I think the supporters of Trump are trying to point out that this is more spin by the lefty democratic media. He didn't say inject disinfectant, he said the his highly paid scientific advisors should investigate whether injecting disinfectant is a solution. Now that you have that clarification, I hope you can see that Trump is the victim of fake news and in fact a genius
The herd Immunity approach really doesn't sit well with me. At the moment there's no credible answer on what percentage of the population need to contract the disease to achieve herd immunity. Even if that number is 50% (it will probably be a lot higher), Sweden need 5m people to get the virus. At they minute they have over 2,000 deaths from 17500 cases. Extrapolating the numbers using the 50% needed, about half a million people will die. Even if you completely dilute it and accept that 1% will die, it's still 50,000 people, which is huge for a country so small.
I can see what you're saying but apart from herd immunity, how do we actually get out of this? We can't just stay in until a vaccine becomes available as there will be nowt left of the economy so I think we're having to come out of lock down and accept there is an element of risk attached to it. Inevitably, that means people will catch it and some of them will die but I can't see that there are any other options available at the moment.
Are you Phillip Hammond https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ilip-Hammond-says-time-Britain-gets-work.html
