Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[Toast]

You still getting booze deliveries or they been binned yet?

Booze is steady and daily.

I've got a few weeks worth stashed already.

NEA before anyone starts !

 

[BlueToff]

They all remain open, families will be going out, yoofs will still be gathering. I will be happy to be proven wrong but no way are there enough police to disperse crowds at nature spots, beaches, parks etc all around the country. Let's see.

Right, but there's a park near me which is right next to a housing estate.

There's no fences. No way of closing it off. It's always open.

So even in a full lockdown, people would still go? It's exactly the same whichever way you cut it, mate.

 

[LinekersLegs]

That you can only guess at that shows what a complete failure the political media have been in this crisis. Why aren't we testing more is a question that I haven't heard once at these press conferences, even though its pretty bloody relevant.

Even the US media have had the sense to ask that question!

 

[peteblue]

If I go for necessities in the shop like food but also fancy a crate of lager or bottle of MD20/20 will that be ok?

Of course....

 

[BlueToff]

Are the homeless getting fined? Who is providing them with emergency shelter?

This needs sorting but Tories gonna Tory.

 

[peteblue]

many more cops in France and Spain than here though, and they already have ID

and they like throwing their weight around ......

 

[jayden28]

Takeaway shops shut too then?

 

[Kenshin]

Here in France, also in Spain I'm told, roadblocks on roads in and out of town. Have an authentic reason for being there, and ID or get a big on the spot fine.
Get used to it.

Highly doubt the UK will be having road blocks out , unless those measures were already in place to happen.

I can see it getting to that depending on the reaction to this news sure, force people to stay at home.

They cannot enforce it can they? So what if someone is out around midnight and they get stopped, they can just say they are on the way home from a late shift. God knows what they discussed in that meeting.

I mean if there was more than one in the car.

They'd have to put on the spot fines in place after a certain time because otherwise it would be a nightmare to control. Even if it's only an option , the police have to enforce that to make sure people don't take liberties with this.

 

[BlueToff]

S Korea looks like it will have a much smaller cost, both health wise and economy, than those countries that failed to ramp up/take it seriously did. Their testing program will not have been cheap and as you say thereare some privacy issues but ”shelter at home” is a much more severe loss of civil liberties.

Exactly, and a much worse impact on the economy.

I hate to go conspiracy nut but I really think there's something else afoot here.

Not as in that this illness isn't serious. It is. And it's scary and I do believe governments are now doing their best to save people.

But... the collective response. I think there's more to it than governments just not 'treating it seriously'.

It's crashing the western economy in one fell swoop with more impact than anything we've seen.

 

[Tigger]

Right, but there's a park near me which is right next to a housing estate.

There's no fences. No way of closing it off. It's always open.

So even in a full lockdown, people would still go? It's exactly the same whichever way you cut it, mate.

Just got to hope people are sensible, I have zero faith they will be.

 

[royalblue66]

I don’t think there will be many fines

lots of people lost their jobs and can’t afford them

only the real stupid constant offenders will be fined imo

Seen a bunch of youths outside a shop,laughing at this arl fella cos he was wearing a mask,

 

[LinekersLegs]

and they like throwing their weight around ......

On a lighter note, Spain is also deploying their army and some New Yorkers approve...

 

[Shevin Keedy]

I mean if there was more than one in the car.

They'd have to put on the spot fines in place after a certain time because otherwise it would be a nightmare to control. Even if it's only an option , the police have to enforce that to make sure people don't take liberties with this.

I know mate, I am just pointing out that this is a pretty limpwristed lockdown. Ask any bobby who will be asked to enforce this, the answer will be the same, they cannot.

 

[BlueToff]

Just got to hope people are sensible, I have zero faith they will be.

Exactly mate.

But thing is, short of having police/military on every single street in the country, there's no way to enforce people staying put in their homes.

People point to Italy, but people have been and still are going out there. They just do it in 1s/2s and go on a walk or whatever.

It's also easier to police with so many people living in towns/cities which are very cramped and contained (look at the streets).

Maybe there are heftier fines if people get caught but there is no chance an old fella in rural Tuscany isn't going out for a little walk around the village.

 

[BlueToff]

Seen a bunch of youths outside a shop,laughing at this arl fella cos he was wearing a mask,

Almost like they should be somewhere