Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Loz]

It’s neither nonsense or pointless.

Limiting to two people is to reduce the total number of people gathering in these green spaces.

Again, common sense. Just because you are permitted to go the park with somebody doesn’t mean you should automatically do it, never mind doing it every day.

People need to take personal responsibility.

If it is something that "shouldn't really be done", then it should either be expressly permitted or prohibited. If people use common sense then you wouldn't enter, say, a park if there were already a lot of people there. But limiting you from seeing, say, both parents at a time isn't going to change the risk of spread of this infection is it, because if you are a carrier and pass it to one person from a given household then that person will pass it to anyone else in their household, whether or not you saw those other people yourself.

If common sense was being utilised here, then you would be allowed to sit in your own garden with a friend or family member from a different household. Why only allow people to meet in public places? How does that reduce infection risks? It doesn't...all it does is allow the police to wander around handing out penalty notices to recover the revenue that they are losing from less people committing road traffic offences because it's far easier for them to do that in a park than it is to check everyone's gardens.

 

[roydo]

Fond memories of Mevagissey, and the environs... Gorran Haven, St Ewe, Heligan etc... Do you know if the Ship Inn is still in Meva? Like the idea of folk meeting up (socially distanced of course). Hopefully at some stage we will all be able to get together more....have no idea when that will be, unfortunately. Certainly don't trust the shower of incompetents in charge atm to guide this country towards this aim.

No idea mate. Havnt been down there for years.

 

[Kurt.]

I agree it will always be a phased relaxation but I dont think its clear enough. People are thick, they need it literally defined exactly.

Still you can play basketball, with members of your family.

TAKE ME TO THE HOOP MICK !!!!

 

[tsubaki]

We NEED antibody tests but the idiots are whelping out for these daft swabs which does nothing for the majority of us.

We need both - antibody testing for those who think they’ve had this and to establish how many people in the population have had it, and the proper tests for establishing if people have it now and to get them to self isolate.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I agree it will always be a phased relaxation but I dont think its clear enough. People are thick, they need it literally defined exactly.

Still you can play basketball, with members of your family.

What else could they have done though? All considered, how could they have been more clear? Global pandemics are messy and not convenient, it's all conditional isn't it and moving?

There has to be a degree of personal responsibility and common sense - you always get your morons, did you see the congas and street parties for VE Day when the government advice couldnt have been any more blunt.

 

[duncs pigeon]

It’s a uk government in name alone pete.... Scotland, wales and Ireland gave all given different instructions nationally ..... all johnson is worried about (or Cummings and the Erg should I say) is the financial implications...... what’s a few thousand more deaths when you can make millions profiteering from this ?

Agree mate. Whilst the Welsh goverment havnt always been right, they are doing a much better job of it than what they are in England.

 

[peteblue]

Oh I get it.... we don’t matter.

Of course you matter, but you have limited financial effect......if Wales collapses financially the rest will bail you out, if England collapses financially then every single person in the U.K. is screwed. So if Boris needs to make the hard decision to get people back to work, he should be supported....

 

[PhilM]

Police across the UK have had a nightmare bank holiday weekend trying to police the lockdown, particularly in tourism hotspots — and are now frantically trying to work out what the relaxation of restrictions means for enforcement.

In Cumbria, more than 100 fines were dished out from Friday to Sunday, assistant chief constable Andrew Slattery told the Guardian. “That’s more than we have issued in the entire rest of the lockdown period,” he said.

“That comes down to a number of factors. One, I’m sad to say, is the newspaper headlines on Thursday last week, which very much gave the impression that lockdown was over and set the tone for the weekend. Then we had the hot weather and VE day on Friday, a lot of street parties and people drinking in the street. Our number of incidents doubled on Friday. Then into the weekend we had a large number of people who decided lockdown no longer applied and that they were free to drive the length and breadth of the country and had spurious reasons for doing so.”

He said his force was trying to work out what Boris Johnson’s “soundbite” meant for policing, when the prime minister told the nation on Sunday: “You can sit in the sun in your local park, you can drive to other destinations, you can even play sports but only with members of your own household.”

The College of Policing and ACPO have received little or no prior warning with regards to what is going to change, and certainly not enough to allow change.

You can't say to all the cops around the country, "These are the new rules... off you go for morning parade" and expect it all to be rosy the next day.

 

[Brisan123]

That depends though, if it had become clear that there was zero percent tolerance from the start, it would have likely cut down a lot. Telling an elderly woman to move from a bench might seem extreme, but she shouldn’t technically have been out and reduces the spread, checking the shopping would of cut back on the number of spurious visits and potential spread. People demanded a lockdown then when they got one seemed to be rather uncomfortable with it.

I want a lockdown for everybody else
That seemed to be the attitude of a lot of people

 

[davek]

It is not his call, nor is it Sadiq’s call, nor any other mayor.....

Well it looks like it's Burnham's call to defy it. Hats off to him.

Rotheram just on Radfio Merseyside and not taking up that stance, just bellyaching.

Typical Kopite.

 

[davek]

The College of Policing and ACPO have received little or no prior warning with regards to what is going to change, and certainly not enough to allow change.

You can't say to all the cops around the country, "These are the new rules... off you go for morning parade" and expect it all to be rosy the next day.

The plan is that there's no plan on safety.

It's now a matter of pacifying big business (especially the financial institutions) and getting the furlough ended and managing the national debt.

 

[royalblue66]

I want a lockdown for everybody else
That seemed to be the attitude of a lot of people

As long as it involves the R/S next door,at least it's stopped his farting in chapel.

 

[peteblue]

Well it looks like it's Burnham's call to defy it. Hats off to him.

Rotheram just on Radfio Merseyside and not taking up that stance, just bellyaching.

Typical Kopite.

Burnham gets very little if any media attention outside of Manchester, it’s just his ego playing up. He will be slapped down by the home office and told to behave. He needs to remember, what positions the government have created, the government can take away.....

 

[Joey66]

She only works part time (she was still at school) but has been on the payroll for 18 months.

If the hours are set in stone the norm etc she will be ok, and it is paid by the school 80 percent monthly of her salary.....
If it's not gone in to her account she needs to telephone her employer ....

 

[COYBL25]

Fond memories of Mevagissey, and the environs... Gorran Haven, St Ewe, Heligan etc... Do you know if the Ship Inn is still in Meva? Like the idea of folk meeting up (socially distanced of course). Hopefully at some stage we will all be able to get together more....have no idea when that will be, unfortunately. Certainly don't trust the shower of incompetents in charge atm to guide this country towards this aim.

The Ship is still there mate and going strong.
We go once every year for lunch when down that way.
One of my favourite places in the U