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**Hugh** · 09-05-2020, 09:57

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a...cbb3825b6981f9 (Readable link)

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All travellers coming to Britain will be quarantined for a fortnight in an effort to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, Boris Johnson will announce tomorrow.

The prime minister will say in an address to the nation that passengers arriving at airports and ports, including Britons returning from abroad, will have to self-isolate for 14 days.

Under the measures, which are likely to come into force in early June, travellers will have to provide the address at which they will self-isolate on arrival.

The authorities will conduct spot checks and those found to be breaking the rules face fines of up to £1,000 or even being deported. However, the aviation and holiday industry has warned that the move could be catastrophic for business. It is likely to end any lingering hopes that Britons could take their summer holidays abroad this year.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Yes, that plays to my mindset.

In particular:

Measures to flatten the curve might have an effect, but a lockdown only pushes the severe cases into the future —it will not prevent them. Admittedly, countries have managed to slow down spread so as not to overburden health-care systems, and, yes, effective drugs that save lives might soon be developed, but this pandemic is swift, and those drugs have to be developed, tested, and marketed quickly. Much hope is put in vaccines, but they will take time, and with the unclear protective immunological response to infection, it is not certain that vaccines will be very effective.

Nice to have my view of this confirmed in 'The Lancet', but of course that won't impress jfman who will undoubtedly find someting obscure to rubbish the whole idea!

Oh, look!

Man who’s behind scientific advice in Sweden continues to say his advice was correct (shock horror).

Even though the death toll in Sweden is higher in total than the surrounding countries of Denmark, Norway, and Finland.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-...ronavirus.html

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Sweden's virus death rate of 291 per million inhabitants is far higher than Norway's death rate of 40 per million, Denmark's rate of 87, or Finland's rate of 45.