Oct 15, 2020, 6:45 pm
Local lockdowns in the UK
Jan 20, 2021, 4:02 pm
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I feel for you with the UK lockdown. It is useless and is doing nothing to knock down numbers. Too little, too late while your merchants' shops are closing left and right.
The new new infection case rate (per 100,000 people) in Florida (open) is the same, if not LOWER than California (closed).
All experts agree lockdown early in the game would have made a difference (which explains why SFO is way lower infection rates than LA county) but now the virus is everywhere.
The UK lockdown is utterly useless and meaningless.
The new new infection case rate (per 100,000 people) in Florida (open) is the same, if not LOWER than California (closed).
All experts agree lockdown early in the game would have made a difference (which explains why SFO is way lower infection rates than LA county) but now the virus is everywhere.
The UK lockdown is utterly useless and meaningless.
Jan 20, 2021, 4:06 pm
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I'm wondering what people's thoughts are regarding travel restrictions when lockdown measures start to ease. We all know lockdown measures will ease slowly, however, what do people think when it comes to the travel restrictions regarding those lockdowns. Will they be one of the first or last measures to be eased? Furthermore, what about, as an example travel to Europe. Do you think European nations will allows Brits in if our numbers (both deaths and cases) are low? Vaccinations in Europe are moving really slowly, and it seems like it will be a while before their populations are protected.
Jan 20, 2021, 4:45 pm
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Lockdowns force people to bring the interaction to their household where that only further worsens the problem.
Jan 20, 2021, 4:47 pm
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Jan 20, 2021, 5:01 pm
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Jan 20, 2021, 6:10 pm
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Jan 20, 2021, 6:26 pm
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Sorry, I am just following from what you posted. You said the numbers were higher because of the brief Christmas relaxation where households could mix. So there is a correlation in your mind between mixing households and higher case numbers.
Jan 20, 2021, 11:47 pm
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I'm wondering what people's thoughts are regarding travel restrictions when lockdown measures start to ease. We all know lockdown measures will ease slowly, however, what do people think when it comes to the travel restrictions regarding those lockdowns. Will they be one of the first or last measures to be eased? Furthermore, what about, as an example travel to Europe. Do you think European nations will allows Brits in if our numbers (both deaths and cases) are low? Vaccinations in Europe are moving really slowly, and it seems like it will be a while before their populations are protected.
Also, from the Telegraph, a snippet of news that might be the final nail in the coffin for those wishing to travel this year.
Last edited by 13901; Jan 20, 2021 at 11:52 pm
Jan 21, 2021, 12:36 am
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Jan 21, 2021, 1:13 am
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Let's get cases down to Australia levels before adopting the Australian quarantine measures. Also Australia has no road links to foreign countries.
Jan 21, 2021, 1:58 am
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Jan 21, 2021, 2:03 am
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I read the article on the paper and it seems still far from a done deal. No. 10 seems dead against it. I'm no corporate-wage-slave, whom I imagine sitting at the head of the table in Cobra meetings, but I'd hazard a guess and think that Priti is playing the bad cop, Shapps and Sunak the realistic ones and Boris is the adjudicator.
Jan 21, 2021, 2:11 am
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I read the article on the paper and it seems still far from a done deal. No. 10 seems dead against it. I'm no corporate-wage-slave, whom I imagine sitting at the head of the table in Cobra meetings, but I'd hazard a guess and think that Priti is playing the bad cop, Shapps and Sunak the realistic ones and Boris is the adjudicator.
Jan 21, 2021, 2:21 am
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