To me it feels like they have completely misjudged the public mood on this one (The Sun as well).
At the moment there is no vaccine, so I can’t see anything changing once lockdown restrictions are eased, except infections/deaths increasing again.
We don’t even have a contract tracing solution up and running yet.
Yeah, it’s going to be grim. Like you say the current situation is a bit unreal. A lot of people are at home with their families with money in their pocket, enjoying the sun but expecting a return to normality over the next few months. Reality is going to bite hard.
You could well argue that deciding this is more important than what will happen with the lockdown, we’ve seen people are just about ok with staying in, it’s not ideal but manageable. Not getting this furlough money however would be a whole other level altogether.
I think it’s wild for us to think about opening up when we’re so far behind the curve compared to other countries. Makes so much sense to watch what happens when those further ahead (Italy, Spain, France) and get learnings from them.
My wife’s uncle contracted it in a cancer ward he had been in for 4 months…
Good update though he fought it off and recovered all while battling Bowel Cancer.
Get that man a medal that’s awesome
Superhuman stuff ennit
I completely missed this but apparently all of those cases in S Korea where recovered people got reinfected have proved to be false positives in testing
People with on going conditions already still have to isolate till the 30th of June. I’m guessing they’ll be saying the same to OAPs too. So a lot of people won’t be going anywhere just yet.
I thought you could just add another household to your ‘permitted to see’ list and not just meet up with loads of different friends all the time?
Mother in law has got it. She had already been ill for 2 weeks before they tested her. I’m unsure on how they decided to test her. Came back positive and has to isolate for a further week. So she’s had it more almost 3.5 weeks now. She’s in her 50s and previously had cancer so in the at risk group.
how bad did your symptoms get? sorry if you’ve talked about this somewhere else feel free to point me
Got a testing centre 5 mins from my house, Army but could be cadets doing it all young kids I their teens or early 20s. Only fabric face masks. Horrible sight. One ambulance with crew pretty much locked in. Looks like a maccers drive through the amount of cars waiting
When the closure was announced, my clients started emailing to ask for a hold on their accounts, but maybe about ten percent of those emails were clients saying it was over, and they weren’t going to reopen. So many of these places exist month-to-month, and missing St. Patrick’s Day and Mother’s Day at such short notice was a massive spanner in the works for how they operate, from bar/restauarnt to supplier level.
And nobody wants to have to open at 30% capacity, because it still costs 100% of operating costs to do that. The logisitics of having your staff ready to work, to be stocked from all your various suppliers and to somehow compete with every other place in the town/city which will be opening on the same day are going to cause so many more hospitality businesses to just give up.
I’ve been in ‘hospitality/retail supplies’ for 12+ years now and never imagined these clients could be so humble/honest about the situation.
It’s truly fucked.
Any talk of easing the lockdown needs to be quickly put to a stop, I really hope that we can in a month or so but it’s getting worrying. The numbers just don’t seem to be coming down very much at all.
Rent, mortgages, business rates and utilities across the board need to be stopped for the next 6 months or so.
Nothing screams “I am a proud, Brexit-voting gammon” than red white and blue bunting. I loathe that shit.
Honestly driving about and seeing these VE Day parties just felt odd. One whole street was just England flags, not a Union Jack in sight and everyone looked like a Tommy Robinson clone. Coincidence?
Your usename is entirely justified in that single image.
