The thing is with a service economy like ours, it can take on new forms pretty quickly. Many High Street retailers will never fully recover, but online sales have boomed. If I was currently furloughed and not sure if I had a job to go back to, I’d be looking for work as a delivery driver. Although that’s not been a great sector to work in recently, because of relatively recent labour market phenomena like bogus self employment, zero hours contracts etc.
57 coronavirus free days, in Beijing, now 137 new cases in a week. Selected areas in lockdown and flights being stopped. We have to remember that they didn’t ease the lockdown until after it was more under control than here, so I am expecting the worst here in a couple or 3 weeks time. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53074076
People were saying that at Easter ... then when the beaches started getting busy ... then when we started easing the lockdown. None of them have led to an increase in cases, even with an increase in testing!
Yeah true enough. Would be nice to be able to get a haircut soon. Think I read somewhere the other week that the virus might be weakening, warm weather perhaps? I've had a couple of mild symptoms today (don't think it's it though) which is frustrating as I'm supposed to be moving house this weekend
you and me both. Five months without a hair cut now as was overdue before the lockdown... genuine hairband time now
Does depend on your metric, though. "Worse than peak"? Nope. "More deaths on a continuing basis than anywhere else in Europe"? Yeah. It has proven more possible to not merely flatten the curve but crush it using precautionary measures (mask-wearing, avoiding indoor gatherings) than most public health agencies expected, but the UK has done less to accomplish that than anywhere else on the continent, with the possible exception of Sweden. 184 new deaths were announced for the UK on Wednesday. The ten largest EU nations (with a population of 376 million) had 109 combined. I don't think that's really an indication that the UK's approach to the lockdown or easing thereof has been a success, if the aim is to get back to genuine normalcy. The more community spread remains, the more difficult it will be to relax restrictions over time.
Our barber shops etc opened this week and I get a cut next week. It will take him a while to hack through the sides and back. Unfortunately the top still looks empty. No number of months will help that at this age.
Yeah. My thinning hair is a bit curly at the back but I can’t see it, so it’s not bothering me. The bushy beard though ..... great at keeping social distancing rules from the ladies
I look like Robin Williams when he first emerges from Jumanji. Or Forest Gump when he just keeps running. Currently on a beard PB. ...and yes, I'm very single
And also with the doctor in Paris who confirmed a patient in December had covid 19, when both these countries first believed their cases started in Jan/Feb. Is it possible that the covid like illness that was here in December could indeed have been the first wave? And our possibly 2nd wave was much more deadly in March/April?
I know quite a few people who have said they think they had it really early on. Like Dec/Jan time scale. Really bad flu like symptoms which knocked them out. But my question would be, how come we didn't see it spread through the care homes really early on. There would be no hiding those deaths.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7810129/Flu-cases-EIGHT-TIMES-higher-point-UK-winter.html Found an article from The Mail (I know, I know) from December that reported flu case were up 8 times.
Maybe it was weaker on wave 1 (just like Spanish flu was) then boom wave 2 much stronger. How many people were prescribed as having the flu or phenomena instead at the beginning?
