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So it looks like financial Armageddon then, unless no one has to pay any significant bills for 18 months.

It'll not only be a different country in two years time, but a different financial landscape.
The first paragraph of the Imperial College report demonstrates the urgency - the numbers of cases and deaths have each increased by 11% since yesterday.
Although I’m an old person, I wonder if the cost of postponing the death of mostly old or unhealthy people is worth the delayed cost of increasing the death via future economic hardship of many more people.
Also having had 10 weeks to prepare, why can’t we make face masks etc?
TIME TO DECLARE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY: SET-UP CRUISE SHIPS ALONG THE COAST AS FIELD HOSPITALS. STOP ALL INBOUND FLIGHTS. ADOPT A 3-DAY WORKING WEEK. INTRODUCE RATIONING.
I don’t understand this fixation with the second peak. Surely you wouldn’t suddenly relax ALL restrictions? And even if you did, people wouldn’t forget about the risk and revert to exactly their prior behaviour? And in the meantime you would build capacity for quick and widespread testing / contact tracing.

Yes the second peak could definitely happen. But worse or as bad as the do-nothing-now approach? Unless the lockdown approach is misrepresented as lockdown-and-do-nothing.
I don't believe messages in capitals will help. I also don't believe that cruise ships are much of the answer, unless we can somehow find people to do the nursing. Nursing is no longer the sort of thing that can be left to volunteers with 30 minutes training.
The poor will undoubtedly suffer the most. More likely to have underlying health conditions. Have been crushed under the pressures of austerity (many could now do with that extra bedroom that they would have been "taxed" for), are reliant on food-banks (which are now under added strain) and generally have no back-up in times of (national) crisis.
Just ordered some face-masks. From China! Wondering if they been handled by people that now presumably have immunity if i can pick it up and avoid catching the virus?!
Mandate loan/credit-card, rent and mortgage holidays for the expected duration of the situation (5 months looking at the graph, but then a month or two back then another one, so might as well make it 18 months), keeps these places alive.

3 Day Week - your days of work will be assigned Mon-Sat, the other days you can go shopping, one day allotted for pub/restaurant visits (social spacing restrictions, table service, spreads the load over the week (every day is a friday for 1/6th of the population).

Wages pro-rata to protect business - your rent/mortgage has been removed, and your travel.

Use the time NOW granted by this lockdown to expand hospital beds and intensive care facilities, and train nurses for these, for the expected winter peak.


But probably these ideas have major flaws.

Almost certainly the government will have to borrow a huge amount of money that makes the last decade look successful.
Btw an odd thing i've noticed is that to get to the comments link on a work vpn/firewall i have to inspect the page source to get the link (and then approve it, as it's on a different domain) - it's hidden on the page, it must do something to get the comment count and inject the text, and that rest call is blocked.

Dunno if this affects a lot of people, but it might explain lower comment counts.
Plenty of face masks in Vietnam. Also hand wash at every hotel and restaurant, even in ATM kiosk and on a couple of lamp columns here in Hue. Vietnamese, unlike the British do not filtch them. Why is everyone buying toilet rolls? It is a flu, not food poisoning.
Might not be able to get home next week, but the beer is cheap, and climate warm, so no drama.
Just for the record - 6600 died in UK of flu last year, and nobody batted an eyelid.
Surprised that there's no mention of regular prescriptions. For example, high blood pressure meds used to be for six months' worth, then two, now one. For 70+ they should issue at least three months' worth now to avoid collection issues, especially as there won't be any loss of revenue.
ALL CINEMAS CLOSED. ALL LIBRARIES CLOSED. go home, stay home and lock the door.
Um, so we’re supposed to compare the 6600 flu related deaths last year (a number that has been pretty stable over a long time) with a similar number today, ignoring the fact this was
0 last year and is growing by several hundreds per day in Italy alone, and could be in the hundreds of thousands in the UK if left unchecked. Talk about reading data selectively.
Where does where the figure of 6,600 flu-related deaths in the UK come from? According table 7 on page 51 of this report by Public Health England, there were 28,000 flu-related deaths in 2014/15, falling to 12,000 in 2015/16, 18,000 in 2016/17, and 26,000 in 2017/18 (only 15 weeks of data for 2018/19).

Each year, very much the majority (around 80%) were aged 65+.










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