National Lockdown Next Week

[phild]

Stock up them bog rolls

[viaductbaggies]

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...kdown-12119314

[WBA1955]

And when the lockdown is lifted, Coronavirus will still be here.

[TipperaryBaggie]

And when the lockdown is lifted, Coronavirus will still be here.

And your solution would be??

[mickd1961]

And your solution would be??

You have to build the health provision to cope with Covid, other than a vaccine there’s no other way back to normality!

My mates wife is a sister at a local hospital, I have heard from her and from someone else in the health system that normal seasonal flu and other viruses are almost non existent this year, deaths from influenza are minuscule.

Covid is mopping up those that would in the main, die from these other winter illnesses.

In the main it is old people and obese people who are dying from this and often they are both.

I’m staying close to home and being more careful again just because it’s autumn now and disease is more prevalent.

Bottom line is we are doing all this to try and save 0.01% of the population who would mostly die of other things.

[Dubbag]

You have to build the health provision to cope with Covid, other than a vaccine there’s no other way back to normality!

My mates wife is a sister at a local hospital, I have heard from her and from someone else in the health system that normal seasonal flu and other viruses are almost non existent this year, deaths from influenza are minuscule.

Covid is mopping up those that would in the main, die from these other winter illnesses.

In the main it is old people and obese people who are dying from this and often they are both.

I’m staying close to home and being more careful again just because it’s autumn now and disease is more prevalent.

Bottom line is we are doing all this to try and save 0.01% of the population who would mostly die of other things.

The after effects are been over looked. Everybody looking only at the death column. I know of at least three work colleagues who have not returned to work months after contracting SARS-COV2 virus. It is the hidden economic cost of this virus. We are talking people in their late 20s early 30s. Been over looked cause not enough scientific evidence....YET.

[Dubbag]

And when the lockdown is lifted, Coronavirus will still be here.

An analogy..
The lockdown is to try and avoid a Leppings lane end scenario, where lots of people are funneling into an area that can't cope with the volume...

[DaveP67 is back!]

The after effects are been over looked. Everybody looking only at the death column. I know of at least three work colleagues who have not returned to work months after contracting SARS-COV2 virus. It is the hidden economic cost of this virus. We are talking people in their late 20s early 30s. Been over looked cause not enough scientific evidence....YET.

My mother in law is quite a young 70 year old, doesn’t smoke or drink, she had Covid back in May, wiped her out for about a week similar to the effects of catching the flu. However she still has no sense of smell and is not the person she was before, gets tired very easily and is now quite forgetful. We shouldn’t underestimate the long effects of this disease on the relatively healthy..

[Leicesterbaggie]

I put the predicament that we find ourselves in fairly and squarely on the shoulders of those morons, of all ages, who completely ignore the rules and regulations implemented. You only had to witness the scenes in Nottingham on Thursday night. I'm not singling out Nottingham as it could have been any city. What have these individuals got between their ears? Certainly not a brain. I cannot find a single excuse for their idiotic and selfish behaviour. In this case it has to be said, from the footage on TV, that they were all roughly in the 18 to 30 age bracket

The most worrying thing of all is that I can't see their behaviour altering. Short of sticking them in front of a firing squad that is! It's no use blaming the government as they can only do so much. To be perfectly honest unless we find a vaccine I don't see a way out of this mess.

[DaveP67 is back!]

I do now think that given a vaccine may end up being like the flu jab and needed each year without providing total immunity that Mick is correct, provide enough winter Covid capacity within the NHS, would seem the only way we can really get back to normal, we would need to continue to shield the vulnerable particularly over the winter months but ultimately we have to try and get back to living our lives. As I said earlier the long Covid symptoms worry me but I’m not sure how else we do things? Either way the NHS can’t just he turned on like a tap so this would be some way off.. wouldn’t want to be a politician now, damned if you do damned if you don’t..