A few good days of trade will not save many a much more targeted intervention over short to medium term. Would have been much more proactive. We can open things up but with right interventions in place backed up by effective track and trace. Back then we had neither. This is not a battle of health or the economy. It’s a public health emergency you can’t cut corners. That costs lives and much more to the economy. Plenty other parts of the world got it and now are in no way near a mess as we are.
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The government really do mean business with track and trace. Now Dido is getting a new mate.Key role been given to Mike Coupe ex head of Sainsbury's who famously got filmed singing “We're in the Money"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54345950
You can’t make this stuff up if you’d not laugh you’d cry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54345950
You can’t make this stuff up if you’d not laugh you’d cry.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
North Walians are more likely to say cachau bant.
Anyone in North of England totally confused about what you can or can't do. The whole legislation just covering areas affected has been published. It's all in here https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1057/pdfs/uksi_20201057_en.pdf
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Well that's clear.
Adam4868
Legendary Member
Can't see many people flicking through that this morning.
@raleighnut @Adam4868 that's the problem from the start and continues to be sadly.
matticus
Guru
The restrictions are due to OVERALL numbers going up. You don't know which relaxation has caused this, or if it was just people abusing existing regulations; maybe in parks, homes, factories ...
There is nothing binary about these things.
Adam4868
Legendary Member
As in Sharma on the news this morning...
"We can't be expected to know what the rules are every single minute, that's not fair," says Minister who makes the rules up as he goes along.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54346001
BBC survey of responses to 'what if you had to isolate?'.
At least two people I have spoken to (despite being what I would ordinarily call intelligent & rational) have said that they would not obey the rules if it meant not seeing other family members in person.
BBC survey of responses to 'what if you had to isolate?'.
At least two people I have spoken to (despite being what I would ordinarily call intelligent & rational) have said that they would not obey the rules if it meant not seeing other family members in person.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548
If true this is insane. Partying students at Uni.
If true this is insane. Partying students at Uni.
matticus
Guru
Do you remember the good old days, when we worried that a bike ride of more than an hour would threaten the lives of everyone in the county?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548
If true this is insane. Partying students at Uni.
roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
Sure, you can't isolate individual effects.
But we paid people to engage in high risk activities at a time of rising numbers. That was nuts. And now, as it takes longer to reduce numbers than they did to rise, businesses will net suffer more as a result.
This is the lesson of the last six months: it costs more in both economic damage and deaths to bring numbers down than it does to suppress them up front.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548
If true this is insane. Partying students at Uni.
Let’s not demonise students. The photos from many towns of people congregating outside pubs at 10.00 pm, going into off-licences, and on to house parties shows that non-students, of all ages, can be just as bad.
The specific problem in university cities is caused by having so many people in the same area (student accommodation) rather than any worse attitudes of students.
The last time I looked towns like Merthyr or Ebbw Vale, with high infection rates, don’t have universities.
