Secretary of state for Health Matt Hancock issues new guidance including 'No socializing' rules

* Those refusing to self-isolate to be fined up to £15K.
* Crackdown on employers refusing to lay staff off.
* Extra £500 available to those forced to self-isolate
* Tests currently at 253,000 per day. (with a population of 67 million, that would take 265 days to test everybody once !)
* Tests to be prioritized. Acute care workers/Care homes/NHS staff/Teaching staff showing symptoms/General public.
* Lancashire; Merseyside; Wolverhampton and Bradford can no longer socialize.
* Exemptions to certain rules for those who are caring for either children of those working or caring for vulnerable adults

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-54231625

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revenant · F

I do not like the guy. He looks so shifty. Not that here is any better anyway.

This is tyranical

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@revenant the reaction of a government realizing what a screw-up the 'return to work' instruction was.

revenant · F

@Picklebobble2 all countries are going in the same direction

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@revenant Maybe their thinking is if they can kill off the right number of 'baby-boomers' that in itself, economically will fill a pensions hole.
And if enough 'Generation x-ers' get it that would lighten the 'burden on employers' to up wages and pension provision and so lessen unemployment numbers.....

I know i'm a cynic at the best of times, but these morons just keep giving you reason to mistrust them.

revenant · F

@Picklebobble2 I wonder what the long term thinking is about. If a year ago even people could have predicted what was there to come, they would have been looked at like lunatics

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@revenant I heard something disturbing from Boris Johnson a few weeks ago when he publicly stated that 'Living with the Coronavirus is something we're going to have to get used to'.
Which made me think they're thinking this is more of a statistics game than a major health problem !

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Picklebobble2 Every major health problem is also a statistics game.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@QuixoticSoul Means nothing to folk trying to ensure their kids and their parents are safe while trying to cling on to their job.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Picklebobble2 Avoiding social situations is how you do that.