Page 76 of Coronavirus, anyone starting to get worried?

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bandicoot says...
" can see the PMs reasoning for not wanting a national lockdown again, as it messes up the economy, loses jobs, and as he said that could end up, off and on, like a yo-yo, till the covid situation is solved, most likely by a working vaccine. So a national lockdown ain't going to happen, due to cost. (famous last words by me :D)."
I'm going to keep repeating this way past the point where people are sick of me saying it: there isn't a toss-up between supressing the virus or saving the economy.

If you don't control the virus by, for instance, not having a lockdown and leaving the nation to work on as usual, the economy will still implode because of the number of sick and dying will skyrocket and the remaining healthy population will automatically limit their economic activity by not buying s***, selling s***, going out, filling restaurants etc. out of fear of the now unchecked pandemic.

Saving the economy relies on aggressively supressing the virus to the point where a working (i.e. not what we have) track and trace system can attempt to eradicate it. We really should have had a zero covid approach like NZ, but that's so hard to do now because we didn't act quickly enough.

I don't know whether we should have national lockdowns, local lockdowns or whatever - that's for the experts to decide. But either way, the govt. should be fully financially supporting those affected by locking down and not penny pinching. Firstly because we CAN afford to do it (read up on the countless economists who say spending/borrowing will not risk the financial armageddon many assume) and secondly because it absolutely makes economic sense. Do we actually save anything by having 1m people on unemployment benefit as opposed to furlough?

Yes the govt have coughed up a lot of dough, but they need to keep doing it and being more generous because ultimately we'll emerge from this crisis a lot healthier than if we don't.

How stupid is this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-54648194?at_custom3=%40WalesPolitics&at_medium=custom7&at_custom4=707247D2-147F-11EB-AE4D-56664D484DA4&at_campaign=64&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D

"First Minister Mark Drakeford said it will be "made clear" to them they are only able to open parts of their business that sell "essential goods"."

"There is no precise list of non-essential goods in the law coming into force on Friday, but any business selling goods or services for sale or hire in a shop will have to close.

But there are exceptions for food retailers, newsagents, pharmacies and chemists, bicycle shops, petrol stations, car repair and MOT services, banks, laundrettes, post offices, pet shops and agricultural supplies shops."

What am I missing?

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I've just been reading that.
I think as someone commented they're going power mad.

If they are going to try and list what is essential that is a long dark road which will swallow them.
Preventing the spread of infection is one thing trying to govern peoples entire life style is quite another and if they're going to try and make everyone tea total there could be a riot.


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Snaps says...
"I've just been reading that.
I think as someone commented they're going power mad."
What's worse in my book is that both Wales and Scotland have devolved assemblies but not fiscal responsibility.  This essentially means that they will be making decisions of a harder nature than England but expect the Chancellor to pick up the bill.

This is not sustainable.

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Snaps says....Preventing the spread of infection is one thing trying to govern peoples entire life style is quite another and if they're going to try and make everyone tea total there could be a riot.This was my big worry from the start with Big brother being brought in by Covid 19 rules affecting our life style. Policing of parks was pure madness (seen them on horseback patrolling, getting people to move off park benches), also trying to get us to stop using 'dirty money' and use cards instead to move towards controlled cashless society, informing on neighbours of having garden parties and not inviting us in, turning us into nazi informers, etc. Crazy stuff. 

We accepted controls in the first three months full lockdown, which was needed to help the NHS, but people in this country, will not accept much more of this control and policing, as it goes on into the next year. We are not russians or chinese under the control of the party leadership. Well not yet!

Maybe slightly off topic but you have to take meal breaks.



Snaps

You forgot the sausage in a pig’s head...
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Jitendar Canth says...
"You forgot the sausage in a pig’s head.."
I can't claim authorship, I nicked it off twitter.


Snaps

Our Isle of Wight MP was involved in Sausage-gate, seems to be a party theme.

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