OT. Schools...normality and Coronavirus.

[Geoff Parkstone]

I'd love to have an answer to that question, but I dont have one. Seems to me that everything is a bit trial and error, suck it and see. But if we don't take calculated risks then the economy and so society will collapse with inactivity. As noted elsewhere people are becoming furlough addicts - and why not take 80% for doing nothing and staying in your little bubble.

This is what I said a couple of months ago - the key is managing unlockdown as that involves risk. Let's hope that risk has been adequately assessed, although I suspect you think it hasn't been.

I have a little more faith / hope / optimism but equally I can see how transmission rates might respike.

The point is we have to do something, we cannot just sit here and watch society walk off the cliff. Returning to work will be central to stopping the cliff being too high. If only women had not been integrated into the workplace, they could stay at home and let the menfolk work 😉😉

[Trickytreesreds]

It is crunch time as far as I can see.
We were put into lock down to make sure the NHS wasn't swamped.
We have succeded in that. We have how ever created a back log of other medical needs that we will pay for in the long run.
It has been suggested that over 25 000 cancer patients will now die as a result of reduction in care in the lock down.
Keep sitting on our back sides and the NHS which is public funded, is going to find itself seriously facing cut backs due to lack of cash. How many die then as a result for a variety of medical reasons?

Two things stop this now. A vaccine and natural immunity.
I have watched many reports lately, that the ones pushing for this lock down to continue are mainly the left/unions etc,
The ones that suffer the most are always the poorest in society and if they think the state is going to keep paying wages, they are deluded.

We should get back to normality with conditions. No big crowds/ social distancing/ get ill means isolation/protect the elderly.
If we don't get the economy going soom, your coronavirus deaths, are going to pale into insignificance.

It's harsh, but a reality. No one asked for this outbreak, but have it we do.
Nature will always throw these grenades at us. But sometimes you have to bite your lip and get on with it.

NB. As an example. A friend of mine lost her mum. Very sad and much tears and wailing has ensued about bloody corona etc.
I didn't have the heart to say to her, she was 92 dear! Anything could have killed her at that age. But we seem to have been whipped up into a coronahysteria fugue.

We need to get on with it now. For everyones sake.