Schools and colleges won't open until the end of September or early October. Maybe that's what they're on about.
SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)
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Schools and colleges won't open until the end of September or early October. Maybe that's what they're on about.
It will be interesting to see what they do with the pubs. The pubs will go broke if they are kept closed too long.
But then on the other hand, if you open them up, they would be a real beehive for infections.
Government is slowly changing its tune now, you had Johnson going on about them yesterday so think it will be essential for June when lockdown will likely be lifted.
True. Osterholm said that shutting down the economy would be worse than the actual virus.
His solution was to "thread the rope through the needle." I think what he implied by this is to do what South Korea is doing. Basically you have infections and possibly spikes but you try to control them as best as possible.
Whitty needs to make his mind up. There's some talk that wearing them might actually be *worse* for the wearer as they harbour germs. Think I'll give them a miss, like Trump Pence
Complete and utter horse-shit.
EDIT: Probably could have bolded your entire post. It’s drivel. All of it.
Open them but make it clear that social distancing still applies. Limit numbers in there, limit number of drinks, no bar - drinks ordered at table, have to book a table and, at the end of the day, personal responsibility
I would have imagined that doing the opposite of what those two numpties are doing would be the most sensible way to go.
Yea but if this is spreading by aerosols, just by being in the pub is going to be risky.
Maybe use the beer gardens outside.
Personally i dont think this road map will go to plan. We will see another spike and then i am unsure what the government will do because they cannot shut down the economy for too long.
Hopefully that vaccine in Oxford works or some other drug works wonders.
These measures kills most pubs anyway. A pub owner was on the radio a few weeks ago saying their pub would be at 1/8 capacity by following social distancing.
Imagine going out for a pint on your own and taking up a table by yourself with everyone 6 feet away. You may as well sit at home. You cant even join up with a mate to sit with you
I think this sort of thing will be relaxed soon.
I've been in many city and town centre pubs at 1-2pm on a weekday having a later lunch with 5-6 people sat close by in a seating area of 30-40. In those times of the day most that aren't a Nandos or Wetherspoons could comfortably implement a table service at least imo. The reality is all you do is a beer order at the table when you walk in and sit down.
There is actually a pub in Nottingham city centre called Squares which has been doing table service for years and is reasonably busy whenever I'm visiting there.
The problem would obviously be Friday and Saturday evenings but then that whole culture is going to have to be put on hold for 12 months as impossible to manage in the present climate so I don't know how many pubs could survive with a business model like that, plenty of those tiny street corner boozers don't bother with food.
Also many pubs rely on a football/sports crowd so that likely won't be an option for next few months and will probably be the same discouragement of showing games as was in early March if people can remember the advice that far back.
Yeah I think pubs are fecked to be honest with people being scared and the social distancing aspect that most pubs cannot adhere to apart from the big chains like Wetherspoons.
What do you guys think that will be the other big industries that will be affected most by the Coronavirus?
Its doomed to fail. As soon as the Labour leader asked for Boris to treat the nation as adults and explain the process going forward, I knew FG would wouldnt be slow to jump on the idea.
Its a bluff. We arent that forward thinking and admit we wsit for results of other countries actions before taking our own.
Would not go near a barber shop for two years. Wont be getting on a plane for two years either. Or public transport.
Reading today that the amount of people buying cars has decreased by 90 something percent. In two months time they will be throwing deals at people.
The new road map plan?
They will have to do something, our whole culture as a country is built around pubs. No Government wants to be the one that let that die.
Tattoo shops have to be very worried, right now.
Good call on barbers. A lot of people have been having their partners cut/shave their nut and with the close contact that comes with it also.
Surely gym memberships will fall with everyone using the same equipment unless you have staff sanitising it after every use.
Cruise ships and Airlines are surely fecked for the foreseeable as hundreds/thousands in a small space for hours/days upon end is surely unacceptable.
Restaurants that do buffets would surely be hit hard but on the other hand there will be more deliveries and table service if they can accommodate social distancing.
Luckily, i have my own hair clippers and just shave it off once every two months. I was looking for the fun of it on Argos at hair clippers and coincidentally they are all out of stock. That was the Irish Argos so i assume the Uk Argos is the same.
Yea i agree about gyms. With people breathing so heavily, it would be madness to go into one.
Michael O leary was saying he expects flights to resume in June/july. I think the numbers will be down significantly though. I dont think going on a three hour flight to alicante would be wise either. So that and like you say the cruise ships will take a hit.
How long do you think this will last? I think till perhaps Feburary or March next year we are with this. Some experts think it will be longer.
I think you’re underestimating the stupidity of a large amount of the British public. Just look at the Friday Boris gave us all advance warning.
There are pubs open now secretly, and as soon as they all open, a lot of people will flock to them.
Yep. I believe the phases are in good faith but the timetable hasnt a hope of being kept to.
Its something for the public to aim for, to have a finishing line in sight
I would say the list would be long. Dentists in Ireland have lost 90% of work.
In times of crisis people start hoarding money, like a war for example, so they stop spending. But this is almost worst than war. People are afraid to go into another persons house.
I agree totally. For one i cannot see them policing everyone correctly. And two, i expect another spike come late July, early August.
I think as well at that point the government will just say "feck it; what can we do."
I mean what is it, 600,000 people out of work at the moment. The economy cannot sustain that.
Good point. Even if we get very low levels of infections and deaths, people will still be very scared to start behaving as normal.
Hang on. We've done very well so far, and I don't see what's so wrong about learning from the experiences of other countries. Best practice is to analyse what has and hasn't worked for others in similar situations and to act accordingly.
We seem to have a logical plan and it's quite likely we'll have to take a backwards step here or there.
However, given each stage is set at three weeks then it's got that margin for error built in so we can gauge how the situation develops.
How you can say we've jumped on Boris's bandwagon when they've clearly been behind us on this thing at every stage is bizarre.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Pretty interesting with Wuhan and quite inventive
Sick and tired of how everyone reports it as well. They say the Government has met the target showing Matt Hancock saying it then inserting a brief mention about challenging the figures. The brain dead sheep will believe the figures have been met.
Australia imposed 14 days hotel quarantine on every single international and interstate travellers and banned non-Australian residents/citizens. It worked really well - under 100 dead in total and now only a handful of new infections daily with community transmission almost eliminated (only 1 case the other day). Cost a fortune of course.
What GB suggested was spot on. And the irony he pointed out re Brexit and our total lack of consideration for enforcing them during a pandemic is also on point.
Yeah, they dumb down the challenging in the article and yet the commenters say "this is proof that the Beeb are Labour supporters" whit you on aboot ya dafties
Great news from Le Var. It's in French, but the first day with no deaths since, I reckon, 28th February
https://www.varmatin.com/sante/aucu...-premiere-depuis-le-debut-de-lepidemie-504463
https://www.varmatin.com/sante/aucu...-premiere-depuis-le-debut-de-lepidemie-504463
What's happened to 25 to 64 year olds?
Yeah I'm not sure why they left this part out
And how do you stop drunks being drunks?
It's almost like they've deliberately asked the people who don't work if they want to go back to work.
