Coronavirus

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Unprecedented circumstances we are living through and it’s easy to be critical at every step taken. Everyone seems to have an opinion but as things stand I’m putting my trust in Vallance and Whitty who both appear to have the qualifications, experience and skills to guide us all through these difficult times.

Just imagine, some poor devils will soon be under curfew in BS3. Can it be any worse ?

Funny how their opinion differs to most of the rest of the worlds experts though wouldnt you say? I reserve my right to be critical. I am very much involved and I can very much say that the strategy has been exceptionally poor.

What we do know is this very much unchartered water and I have massive sympathy for the experts trying to manage through this crisis with raw data.
No one yet knows the effect once the lock downs around the world stop ,will there be a 2nd/3rd wave as there will so little immunity in the population, my guess is yes and this virus will be with us until a vaccine is available.
DomesticallyI am at a loss as to why the Government did not just close all social venues as relying on the great British public to do the right thing will not work ,witness the 10% greedy panic buyers,I will sacrifice but will be mightily watered off if my neighbour carries on as normal.

I agree with Trevor and have sympathy for those trying to manage this awful situation. They are very much damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Everyman on the street is suddenly an expert on pandemics and this situation is being used by politically motivated individuals to attack the government.

My only expectation is that the key decision makers make the right calls with the information available to them and do so with the best intentions and with the best long term interest of the uk population. I obviously want the best possible outcome the same as everyone else but won’t rush to make any judgements, especially since the ‘final’ outcome of the measures won’t be known for quite sometime. I won’t be joining those calling for Whitty, Vallance and Boris to be hung, drawn and quartered.

One big criticism seems to be that we are not acting like sheep and copying select other countries. Imagine the criticism if all our highly regarded scientists came up with a model to follow or scientific based solution but we then decided to ignore it and blindly try and copy what others were doing and had an adverse outcome. The usual suspects would be calling for heads to roll for not following our own experts advice. Like I said damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

I had an email in work this morning. One of the major IFA’s we deal with has alerted all their business associates that they cannot guarantee that postal correspondence will be opened and actioned so instead want electronic correspondence - which most companies use as their preferred way of working in any case. Just made me think of all the items still sent by post. Should banks be instructed not to issue statements, if you want one go on line or call your bank. Likewise, how can junkmail being delivered by hand be allowed to continue? All these elderly and vulnerable people being told to self isolate having some stranger pushing unwanted bits of paper through their letterboxes!

I’m sure there are plenty of other examples.

I think they were balancing economic and morbidity impacts.
The latter then scared them when Imperial informed of the likely morbidity numbers.
It's a hard one.
I get why front line NHS Staff would find this frustrating, but we do have to consider the impact on the economy of a shut down. In a worse case scenario there would be much reduced funding capacity for the NHS.

You have to remember that not everything is black & white. Over 70's staying at home is just a guideline. I bet Roy at 72 is probably fitter that a lot of guys of 62! You have to use common sense in the current situation.