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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You only need one person to come in from abroad whose infection had been undetected to be in direct contact with someone in this country who had not had the virus, and until herd immunity is built up it would start all over again. You are seeing how uncontrollable this perishing virus is when you look at what has happened in Germany as soon as they relax their stiff controls.
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That’s why we need controls on who comes in from abroad. Testing before they travel, quarantine and testing after they get here. Contact tracing. It’s tried and tested science for controlling the spread of viruses.
If it’s no longer economically viable for someone to come to the UK under those conditions then tough shit for them. We’ve a population to protect in the short term and an economy in the longer term.
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My point is, you cannot control the virus effectively without strict lock down measures, and if you open your eyes, you cannot fail to notice that people are already getting restless and flouting the rules after 5 weeks of lockdown! How do you suppose we can continue to control this if we extended lockdown even by another six weeks, let alone six months?
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Confidence in the lockdown and the Government remains high. A confidence that will only increase as infection figures fall over the next couple of weeks and testing ramps up for key workers.
There will always be low level criminal activity Old Boy. We can’t run a country by lowering ourselves to their standards.
If you are confident it’ll die out over the summer by itself what’s the rush?