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Old 21-06-2020, 20:51   #4141
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Spreading to that many people in what must be the space of a week, is not good.

Going to be fun for them tracing the contacts of the 7,000 employees and their families.
It might not be fun but it's necessary to any effective response. Throwing their hands in the air and saying it's too hard = national lockdown in weeks.
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It will be interesting to hear if the UK science is gagged.
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Old 21-06-2020, 20:57   #4143
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Germany's R number up to 2.88 mainly due to an outbreak at a meat factory. Be interesting to see their response in action - testing, tracing, isolating. Does it lead to an increased regional/national outbreak or do they get it under control and new infection rates reduce to the low levels of the 11th-15th June.
That's why we need to get herd immunity.....

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Spreading to that many people in what must be the space of a week, is not good.


Going to be fun for them tracing the contacts of the 7,000 employees and their families.
It shows how infectious and virulent the virus is. It also shows why it is far too early to compare deaths between countries. As I keep saying, all we are doing is delaying these cases.

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It might not be fun but it's necessary to any effective response. Throwing their hands in the air and saying it's too hard = national lockdown in weeks.
Next time, the restrictions should concentrate on the 'at risk' and vulnerable groups. There is no point in shutting down the whole economy again.
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Old 21-06-2020, 21:06   #4144
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That's why we need to get herd immunity.....
Simply not an option unfortunately - the cost in terms of human lives is too great, it'd be politically unacceptable. Equally, there's guarantee of long term immunity at all and the long term health effects on those who do survive is unknown.

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It shows how infectious and virulent the virus is. It also shows why it is far too early to compare deaths between countries. As I keep saying, all we are doing is delaying these cases.
You are assuming that we don't get better at treatments and that a vaccine wouldn't be developed.

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Next time, the restrictions should concentrate on the 'at risk' and vulnerable groups. There is no point in shutting down the whole economy again.
The economy won't recover until the health crisis has been resolved. Your proposal to let a deadly virus pass through the population doesn't bode well for consumer confidence.

Until people believe they can go around their daily lives with little/no risk the economy is going to go down and unemployment up.
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Old 21-06-2020, 23:28   #4145
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That's why we need to get herd immunity.....
As originally planned, until the modelling showed the social and economic cost of having that many people sick so quickly was unbearable. HMG dropped it pretty quickly and won’t be going back. Herd immunity will now only arise from a vaccination programme.
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As originally planned, until the modelling showed the social and economic cost of having that many people sick so quickly was unbearable. HMG dropped it pretty quickly and won’t be going back. Herd immunity will now only arise from a vaccination programme.
That simply is not true. The aim was always to time a lockdown so that the NHS wasn't overwhelmed. You just have to accept it's not going away in a hurry and the cases will continue whatever.
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The government noted that “in the coming weeks, we will be introducing further social distancing measures for older and vulnerable people, asking them to self-isolate regardless of symptoms” but said that “if we introduce this next stage too early, the measures will not protect us at the time of greatest risk but could have a huge social impact.”
We need to time this properly, continue to do the right thing at the right time, so we get the maximum effect for delaying the virus. We will clearly announce when we ask the public to move to this next stage. Our decisions are based on careful modelling. We will only introduce measures that are supported by clinical and scientific evidence,” it said in a statement.
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Re: Coronavirus

A viral expert said on today's Andrew Marr Show that the virus was spreading more than ever, that he doesn't expect a vaccine until at least 2021 and that we will be impacted by an even worse pandemic (though it's not known if this will be in 1 or 100 years).

Looks like people like myself have a stark choice of staying inside until whenever a vaccine is found or going outside and risking death.

Been told that if we get the virus, we had a 50/50 chance of survival, but that that new drug found to help the other week has increased our risk of survival to 66%. It's like being told that if we go outside we will probably be ok, but that there is a sniper about and we stand a good chance of being killed.

There's no way that i'm going to risk my life just to go out and spend to help the economy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kc2h It's a guy about halfway through with a foreign accent.

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Old 22-06-2020, 00:19   #4148
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That simply is not true. The aim was always to time a lockdown so that the NHS wasn't overwhelmed. You just have to accept it's not going away in a hurry and the cases will continue whatever.
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There’s no need for us to be so defeatist, given the progress that we, and other countries, have seen to keep the numbers down. With a number of vaccines in development.

Herd immunity has been binned. The reality is that fully easing of restrictions fully leaves us no more than a few weeks from a March 23rd type situation - national lockdown.

This is not politically or economically sustainable.

I’ve no real idea why some persist in going against the established position that our Government has taken by continuing to push the discredited herd immunity theory of letting the virus run through the population. What are you trying to achieve? Are people that desperate for the FTSE to go up 500 points they think hundreds of thousands (Current death total has taken us to avoid 14% of the population - less than the 60-80 required for herd immunity) of lives are a price worth paying?
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That simply is not true. The aim was always to time a lockdown so that the NHS wasn't overwhelmed. You just have to accept it's not going away in a hurry and the cases will continue whatever.
March 16th
That absolutely is true.

The best estimate of community exposure to COVID-19 so far was just 7% of the population by the end of April, based on a study done in England. At that rate it’s safe to conclude that we can’t have sufficient natural exposure to bring about herd immunity without overwhelming the NHS. Too many people need to be seriously ill at the same time.

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About 7% of people in England have been infected with coronavirus, antibody tests on a random sample of households suggest.
"Herd immunity is not worth worrying about" at that level, say experts involved in the Office for National Statistics study.
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Temporary tax reductions for the leisure sector sound sensible. I don't know how much capacity there is for public spending cuts though. Now is a time to be inventive and not same old, same old.
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The Treasury is first considering a temporary cut to value added tax and specific reductions in the rate for some sectors, according to those close to the chancellor, following significant pressure from industry and Tory MPs. A lower VAT rate for the tourism sector — including pubs, restaurants and hotels — is one option being discussed.
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Temporary tax reductions for the leisure sector sound sensible. I don't know how much capacity there is for public spending cuts though. Now is a time to be inventive and not same old, same old.

https://www.ft.com/content/b6cc50e8-...e-a825ec865b69
With borrowing costs at record lows now is the time to commit to public spending. Especially infrastructure projects that will reap long term economic benefits.

It’s been proven that austerity gives you a slower recovery. Tired, outdated economic policy running the state like a household budget isn’t going to save the economy now. It should be dismissed for what it is - a simplistic trope to sell the idea of a small state to the economically illiterate while the profitable arms of the state were sold off.
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Simply not an option unfortunately - the cost in terms of human lives is too great, it'd be politically unacceptable. Equally, there's guarantee of long term immunity at all and the long term health effects on those who do survive is unknown.


You are assuming that we don't get better at treatments and that a vaccine wouldn't be developed.


The economy won't recover until the health crisis has been resolved. Your proposal to let a deadly virus pass through the population doesn't bode well for consumer confidence.

Until people believe they can go around their daily lives with little/no risk the economy is going to go down and unemployment up.
Protecting the vulnerable is all that's required. Shutting down the economy is not something that can be sustained, repeated or enforced.

In comparing the number of deaths in this country with that of others, I stand by my statement that it is too early to make those comparisons. Not only will there be future waves, but we are all counting differently.

Most people accept that we have to get the country back to work now, and if we have to mandate that masks be worn and proective screens erected to reassure those who are scared, so be it. But the economy must be working effectively again without delay.

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It strikes me that in the UK with 1300 new cases or thereabouts per day, if we allow too much assembly too soon it is a given that our R number will rise in such localities.
Doesn't it depend on what further measures are put in place?

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As originally planned, until the modelling showed the social and economic cost of having that many people sick so quickly was unbearable. HMG dropped it pretty quickly and won’t be going back. Herd immunity will now only arise from a vaccination programme.
Had they simply protected the vulnerable, the numbers would not have been anywhere near as high as they have been and the economy would still be in good shape. There was no need for this global over-reaction.
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With borrowing costs at record lows now is the time to commit to public spending.
All down to The Bank of England doing a lot of Quantitative Easing. But who do they borrow from? And at what rates?

The very low Base Rate means the banks can get income for almost nothing, so they don't need to attract Depositors any more. Hence large drops in Depositor interest rates.

So the Capitalist System demands we "Spend! Spend! Spend!" to support the economy, rather than save for leaner times.

Unfortunately, many have noticed during lockdown that we used to spend far too much money on frivolous things. The missus, for example, sorted out all her clothes and footwear and announced "I never need to buy more ever again!"

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A viral expert said on today's Andrew Marr Show that the virus was spreading more than ever, that he doesn't expect a vaccine until at least 2021 and that we will be impacted by an even worse pandemic (though it's not known if this will be in 1 or 100 years).
Sadly, I think he is right, but I anticipate that a resurgence will be sooner rather than later. And indeed, if anyone thinks we will get everyone vaccinated in the near future, they are deluding themselves. No effective vaccine has been discovered yet, although I am told it won't be long before one is found. But then it needs testing on animals, testing on humans, it then needs to be mass produced, distributed to hospitals and doctors' practices and then inoculations will commence. This process will not have been completed until 2022 at the earliest, I would have thought.
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