Coronavirus

Quoted from toontown

A couple more weeks won't eradicate the virus, thousands are infected every day even in relative lockdown. Even 2 more months of lockdown would not be enough to eradicate it altogether.

Fair point, and a much more informed view than mine, but it would surely reduce numbers/R rate. At present I don't see a clear link between political decisions regarding easing and the science that has been presented over the last few weeks. I fear a long tail and a resurgence in autumn/winter but I would be really very pleased if I am wrong (not uncommon!). Take care all

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

I utterly refute this. The government's handling of this has been slow, indecisive, inconsistent and unclear. It could have been handled much better.

By who ?

This deadly disease has yet to record 0.1 deaths of the entire UK population, and yet there's people who still want us to remain in lockdown and quarantine fit and healthy people. It's completly ludicriuos that 99.9% of the population are perfectly fine, and yet sane people are prepared to crash the economy by 10-15%. I do wonder if these same people, if asked to pay 15% of their annual salaries, to compensate, would still feel the same!

If it's a political decision to deflect from Cummings then Johnson is a flipping idiot. A big second spike and another wave of deaths like the first and surely he'll be gone within the year?

So who has the lockdown easing of restrictions correct, as all the 4 home countries have, different days when you can start meeting other people, different numbers, or is is that other  leaderships will not do the same as Boris even if what he’s doing is right.

Quoted from Grimbiggs

This deadly disease has yet to record 0.1 deaths of the entire UK population, and yet there's people who still want us to remain in lockdown and quarantine fit and healthy people. It's completly ludicriuos that 99.9% of the population are perfectly fine, and yet sane people are prepared to crash the economy by 10-15%. I do wonder if these same people, if asked to pay 15% of their annual salaries, to compensate, would still feel the same!

Not enough dead for you yet then?

It will be interesting to see how the government manage to get the cork back in the bottle when the second wave arrives as it surely will (probably a month or so after bow to pressure and open the pubs and clubs) and another lockdown is needed

Quoted from Ipswin

Not enough dead for you yet then?

It will be interesting to see how the government manage to get the cork back in the bottle when the second wave arrives as it surely will (probably a month or so after bow to pressure and open the pubs and clubs) and another lockdown is needed

Not enough to justify the crashing of the economy!…last time I walked outside I didn’t need to step over the hundred’s of thousand's of dead bodies that this plague was supposed to have been bestowing on this nation! ….Most of those dying have a relatively small number of QALYs left. But the direct health effects of lockdown and economic downturn have a disproportionate effect on younger people with many more QALYs left. Also, we should not forget that there is more to life than death. One year with depression e.g. is not one QALY. When you factor in all the lockdown-attributable mental and physical health effects short of death, as well as the deaths, it is clear that lockdown is having a huge impact on QALYs across the population that far outweighs those caused by Covid. The effectiveness of lockdown in this situation is minimal, and the approach has been mainly based on modelling. Please let’s get a sense of reality, 99.9% of us are going to be fine.

Grimsby and scunthorpe telegraph did a survey - 67% said kids should still have summer holidays - the other 43% said they should go to school instead to catch up. I wouldn't send my kids to a school this guy went to

Quoted from golfer

Grimsby and scunthorpe telegraph did a survey - 67% said kids should still have summer holidays - the other 43% said they should go to school instead to catch up. I wouldn't send my kids to a school this guy went to

What he lacks in maths skills he makes up for in effort. He always gives 110%.

Arrrrrrrrh Scunthorpe, a Town with too many people but not enough different surnames (like Boston).  😁😁