Coronavirus outbreak

[mjr]

If you look at the statistics clearly the most infections occur (as you'd expect) in those areas where the population density is at its highest, hence why London accounts for the vast majority of cases in the UK.

Prove it. I think it doesn't correlate as strongly as you're suggesting and even then correlation is not causation.

No UK Government could or would have reacted any differently, and that's the cold harsh truth.

Let them crack on.

They clearly could and we'll never really know if another government would, but I don't think it's completely preposterous to say another government might have followed WHO advice in early March and increased testing a month earlier than this one did.

Crack on? No, stop and fix before the advice-ignoring NHSX app becomes another act of this lethal farce.

 

[Rusty Nails]

It shifts responsibility to us,the public.They provide the app and pass the blame to us rather than themselves.

The responsibility has to be shared between us and the government. Neither side can sort it on their own.

I can blame the government for its response, but I can also blame the public for not fully accepting and sticking to the restrictions.

 

[Milzy]

The responsibility has to be shared between us and the government. Neither side can sort it on their own.

I can blame the government for its response, but I can also blame the public for not fully accepting and sticking to the restrictions.

I'd say this is pretty much the cold hard reality in a nutshell.

 

[Adam4868]

The responsibility has to be shared between us and the government. Neither side can sort it on their own.

I can blame the government for its response, but I can also blame the public for not fully accepting and sticking to the restrictions.

Your view,I think the public have done there part willingly.As for the goverment I think they've been a shambles.

 

[MrGrumpy]

Whilst I agree, lets see how good or bad the rest have the nations have done once this blows over, if and when it does.

Just to put another slant on current events, there were more deaths from suicide last month than Covid in my home county .

 

[Rusty Nails]

Your view,I think the public have done there part willingly.As for the goverment I think they've been a shambles.

All the public?

I agree with you about the government.

Of course it's my view, that's why I posted it. Do you post stuff that's not your view?

 

[Adam4868]

All the public?

I agree with you about the government.

Of course it's my view, that's why I posted it. Do you post stuff that's not your view?

So you don't think the public have done their part ? Wheres the mass gatherings,the disobedience ? We've done a good job as far as I can see.
Goverment late to testing,late to lockdown,open borders and looking like were going to have one of the highest death rates.

 

[vickster]

So you don't think the public have done their part ? Wheres the mass gatherings,the disobedience ? We've done a good job as far as I can see.
Goverment late to testing,late to lockdown,open borders and looking like were going to have one of the highest death rates.

It's really quite worrying even sad that anyone would expect a population to behave in such a way at a time of crisis (other than a very small minority)

 

[Rusty Nails]

So you don't think the public have done their part ? Wheres the mass gatherings,the disobedience ? We've done a good job as far as I can see.

Your view?

I agree most have. Both the government and the public failed over the attendance at football matches and Cheltenham just before the lockdown. There are many examples of breaking the regulations on self-isolation and social-distancing by the public every day, most of which are not highlighted because the police don't get involved.

We don't have mass gatherings and disobedience because that is not the British way, old chap. We prefer to bitch on the internet and letters to newspapers.

 

[Adam4868]

It's really quite worrying even sad that anyone would expect a population to behave in such a way at a time of crisis (other than a very small minority)

I don't get you sorry ?

 

[Adam4868]

Your view?

I agree most have. Both the government and the public failed over the attendance at football matches and Cheltenham just before the lockdown. There are many examples of breaking the regulations on self-isolation and social-distancing by the public every day, most of which are not highlighted because the police don't get involved.

We don't have mass gatherings and disobedience because that is not the British way, old chap. We prefer to bitch on the internet and letters to newspapers.

They let the football matches and Cheltenham go ahead,also have us one last night in the pubs ! So as I said we've done well,the goverment haven't.Glad that's cleared up.

 

[vickster]

I don't get you sorry ?

You seem surprised that it hasn't happened?

 

[mjr]

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/covid-19-reopen/ discusses unlocking. It doesn't seem like many in the USA fear discussing the end of lockdowns will cause the world to end, unlike gov.uk

 

[Adam4868]

You seem surprised that it hasn't happened?

No why would I ? If you read what I said it's that I think the public have done well.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Your view?

I agree most have. Both the government and the public failed over the attendance at football matches and Cheltenham just before the lockdown. There are many examples of breaking the regulations on self-isolation and social-distancing by the public every day, most of which are not highlighted because the police don't get involved.

We don't have mass gatherings and disobedience because that is not the British way, old chap. We prefer to bitch on the internet and letters to newspapers.

There was an article on the BBC the other day that said 9% of the public have resisted the lockdown. There have been (small) protests in Aberdeen and London. There have been thousands of fines issued and I'd bet that's only the tip of the iceberg as most would probably just be warned.

Before the lockdown it was said that we'd only have one chance at an effective lockdown because there was a limit to how long the public would co-operate. I think that's been borne out by the reality.