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Old 05-05-2020, 17:36   #76
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Re: Relieving COVID-19 lockdown boredom

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Why? Once we have a vaccine and people have been vaccinated, the need for social distancing will disappear.
Tell me OB do you think a vaccine is suddenly appear overnight because the clear fact is we are just at the start of the road to to a vaccine and that road is hard and long with many bumps along that road.

Of course all of us want a vaccine but social distancing is likely to be needed in some form for for a long time to come whether one likes it or not.

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It won't be back to complete normality for a while, though, because the measures that have been in place will lead to widespread unemployment. Look at BA and Virgin Atlantic, for a start. There will be many more companies, large and small, that will go under, I'm afraid, taking a huge number of jobs with them.
The chancellor had no choice pure and simple as he is one politician who has come out of this with a enhanced reputation imo.

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That is but one reason why we need to get people back to work asap.
As Winston Churchill said in 1942 after El Alamein: It won’t be the end – not even the beginning of the end, but it will hopefully be the end of the beginning.
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Old 05-05-2020, 19:40   #77
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Once we have a vaccine and people have been vaccinated, the need for social distancing will disappear.
If only it were that simple.

First of all, vaccines are never 100% effective, the flu vaccines, for example, are estimated to be around 30 to 50% effective each year.

Secondly, the media and government have successfully managed to instill complete fear of the virus.
People are now paranoid about contact with anything. That fear and paranoia is not just going to vanish overnight.
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Old 05-05-2020, 20:39   #78
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Tell me OB do you think a vaccine is suddenly appear overnight because the clear fact is we are just at the start of the road to to a vaccine and that road is hard and long with many bumps along that road.

Of course all of us want a vaccine but social distancing is likely to be needed in some form for for a long time to come whether one likes it or not.

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The chancellor had no choice pure and simple as he is one politician who has come out of this with a enhanced reputation imo.

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As Winston Churchill said in 1942 after El Alamein: It won’t be the end – not even the beginning of the end, but it will hopefully be the end of the beginning.
No I don't, but eventually we will get one, and that's when things will return to normal, minus the damage that has been caused by the measures that have been taken by the government.

Joglynne said we will 'never get back to normal'. That was the basis of my comment.

As for the chancellor having no choice, I agree, given the government's decision to impose the lockdown. The government had two main choices. Either let the virus take its course, risking the collapse of the NHS, or impose a temporary lockdown and slow the virus down. What concerns me is that relaxing these measures will allow the virus to get to the people it has missed, sparking demands for a second lockdown, which this country cannot afford.

However, one thing the measures would have succeeded in doing is avoiding the huge peak that was originally feared. The number of deaths overall, however, will probably be about the same. Thus, the original objective of achieving herd immunity will have been achieved, but over a longer period.
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Re: Relieving COVID-19 lockdown boredom

Back on topic, please - general discussion on Covid-19 should be in the main thread.

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