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Originally Posted by jfman
There’s one lockdown, there’s three tiers of varying restrictions that work to varying degrees despite your scepticism.
I don’t, at all, wonder about the impact of restrictions on case numbers. It has always been the case that if restrictions aren’t strict enough case numbers can continue to rise and that inevitably leads to lockdown.
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But we don’t know for sure that the restrictions did work, or whether any perceived beneficial effects would have happened anyway.
The lockdown was clearly effective in lowering the numbers, but the later ‘four levels’ approach - we cannot be absolutely sure about that. I’m sure Andy Burnham would have something to say about that - his area had severe restrictions for many months and those figures just wouldn’t comedown.
Anyway, the situation now looks much brighter and the scientists are even predicting that the infection rate would be better with Plan A than Plan B. I’ll drink to that.
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Originally Posted by papa smurf
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He’ll cause less damage at home.
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Originally Posted by Carth
Which means . . I guess . . that there could be at this moment in time 1,000,000 people walking around with very mild Covid symptoms (or no symptoms at all) that they're putting down to just a cold or mild flu, and not bothering to get tested.
Therefore the number of 'reported' cases could well be the tip of a very large Covid iceberg.
Convenient . . does this mean he's now had Covid 5 times . . or just 'tested positive' 5 times?
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Absolutely correct. He probably has no symptoms at all.
I would expect the virus to continue to circulate like this, but fortunately it can no longer wreak havoc. We must get used to it now and drop any remaining restrictions.
If they tested for flu, the population would doubtless be panicking about that now.