Following the science

They said there was no evidence that it's a winter virus but it clearly is.

 

Interesting use of the word 'Clearly'.

 

No I didn't. If you're meaning the "half baked" comment, I meant the curfew and meal thing was poorly communicated and didn't go far enough

 

How far should it have gone and for what scientific reason?

 

Read my earlier post, which Tyketical Masterstroke misinterpreted (probably deliberately).

 

I'm not being deliberately awkward but that post didn't say what you meant by it not going far enough did it?

My personal opinion throughout the entire pandemic has been that we didn't need new silly and nonsensical laws to stop people being pissed in pubs whilst allowing them to trade, we already have a law that makes it illegal to serve alcohol to someone you believe to be drunk. Strict enforcement of that pre existing law combined with a table service only system was all that was required to stop people being drunk and disorderly in pubs.

 

It's not as if you don't already know my opinion on this...just like I know yours. Shut them altogether...like what eventually happened...but there should have been adequate compensation so that they could be properly mothballed. Hanging around for too long in any public indoor setting simply hasn't been a good idea and no-one really knows for sure where someone has caught the damn thing. Aerosols hang in the air longer and travel further than was previously acknowledged. The thought of using any public toilet during this crisis literally makes me shudder as well. You can't really avoid that if you're drinking.

 

Fair enough, obviously we won't agree on them having to close or not but I appreciate your explanation and can understand your reasoning and logic

 

Hang on a minute, how much time are you spending in public shitters...

 

Pubs & venues closed on the 4th November. All those irresponsible drunk folk who then carried on infecting everyone else for 2 months. Amazeballs.

 

I'd add that although the figures are clearly falling, that particular tweet is misleading with its numbers because the Monday's figures are likely to increase for at least 5 days. NHS England's own dataset explicitly states as much.



For a comparison the figures for the 22nd February, released on the 23rd February give total deaths as 41. Roughly a week later those numbers had increased to 189.

 

For anyone wanting to see the hospital only deaths in Yorkshire going back to the 19th January.... Again, dont pay too much attention to the latest 5 days of figures as they will most likely increase....

Note: the week before the 19th Jan the weekly deaths were 302, but I couldnt fit them on the screen. Also they're Tuesday to Tuesday figures as I ran them from 1st December onwards, which wasa Tuesday.

 

If you think it’s a winter disease why did so many get infected and die last spring and summer. The testing wasn’t there but research indicates cases were equal to winter and probably higher.