Lockdown should be lifted immediately anyone agree?

Awful news Lordtyke, condolences to you and your family.

 

ScandinavianTyke?

 

We should be very cautious. Look at Italy and other European countries. If We do not exert extreme caution then we will be having lockdowns at regular intervals vaccine or no vaccine. Covid needs to be kept under control.

We could have been in a much better place had we locked down earlier and for longer. As for the "eat out to spread it all about campaign" , I am sure landlords and restauranteurs would have traded that to have been able to open during the winter.

 

I was out on my bike on Saturday morning and it was complete chaos near our local Macdonalds. You'd think nobody had been fed for 6 months.

 

If the vaccine doesn't keep Covid under control then we will just have to live with it like our species has done with every other virus we have been confronted by.

 

I wouldn't open up everywhere with no restrictions. All the over 50s haven't been vaccinated yet and only just over one and a half million have full protection. I would speed some things up though such as with hospitality. March 29 two households or rule of six can meet outside such as in a private garden, but the same group can't go to a pub or restaurant for a relaxing meal in a regulated covid secure setting. The government aren't being held accountable for why we are still at number 4 when it's 3 at worst and probably 2 in much of the country and where 1 will never be achieved.



I think hospitality will be getting good news in the next few days. They already beat the government in court about the substantial meal rule that's not coming back and I think on April 12th they will get permission to open up inside.

 

You make the assumption that everyone accepts a vaccine. We know this to be far from the case. What I am saying is that we must remain vigilant and follow the guidance and the law until it is deemed safe. Providing incentives for people to congregate last summer was pure folly. There are still well over 100 people a day dying from this virus.

My view is that we must continue to exercise full caution in our contact with others until it is deemed to be safer. Less than half the population have so far had one dose of a vaccine.

 

Yes of the number of deaths reported in total not by date of death. Some of those from yesterday go back to dates in December.

The last 7 days there has been only two days where the actual figure exceeds 100.

They and a couple of other days will increase towards three figures over the next week or so but not in the huge numbers of mid January.

But again its hardly hundreds. Fatalities are dropping like a stone.