New Covid-19 rules announced by UK Prime Minister

[b][b]12:30 BST Prime Minister addresses Parliament[/b][/b]

1. From Thursday Pubs to have 'Table service' only
2. Pubs to close at 10 PM
3. Take-Aways to close at 10 PM
4. Retail staff. Hospitality workers and taxi customers required to wear masks immediately.
5. If you are caught without a mask fine of £200 for first offence.
6. More Police Officers on the streets enforcing proper procedures to be backed by the military where necessary.

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adorbz · 26-30, F

Do you think when cases start to decrease again they’ll reopen early again and we’ll be in a constant cycle 👀

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@adorbz I think their desperation for a Buck is what got us all into this in the first place !
I think we're beginning to suss that out and they know they've been rumbled !

Threatening to put [quote]troops on the street to work alongside the Police[/quote] is pretty much 'last-ditch' attempt to stave off a mutiny from the masses !

SW-User

@Picklebobble2 Agreed.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/16/coronavirus-messaging-britain-operation-moonshot

SW-User

@adorbz

From a document on imperial college website from late January where they were modelling likely outcomes.

So yes expect this cycle to continue until a vaccine or a level of herd immunity determines we no longer worry about the deaths as they are no longer "excessive".

adorbz · 26-30, F

@SW-User urgghhhhh I hate everything 👀 this is never gonna end

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Excellent article. And i worked it out myself yesterday that if they continue to put so much faith in this current testing procedure, it'll take a year for them to get around to everybody !

SW-User

@Picklebobble2 which is pointless. The moonshot program is I'm afraid to say built on a total fantasy the technologies simply don't yet exist.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User No longer a political liability you mean.
Johnson's comment from a couple of months ago that "I think we should start looking at this as if it's part of our lives now" shows that the government want the 'element of surprise of this thing accepted as the 'norm'.

When it shouldn't be. And should be roundly rejected as so.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User Stringing people along.

SW-User

@Picklebobble2 you can't ignore that the little bugger that is SARS-CoV-2 now exists and is prevalent across the globe. It can't and never will be put back into some cage. We do have to learn to live with it like, to a lesser extent, we've done so with hiv, SARS, Mers, ebola etc.

Problem is our modern way of living is good for SARS-CoV-2 and bad for stopping pandemics of infectious diseases.

Frank52 · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2 I really want to dig deep into what people mean when they say we have to learn to live with it. What are we doing without FOREVER and what needs to be slightly adjusted? I've written elsewhere, that there's no way I'm learning to live without natural human interaction, singing, crowds and expressions of love.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@SW-User But by not suggesting we should do everything possible in an attempt to fight it means that those who 'let the Genie out of the bottle' eg: Trump and his flat refusal to stop planes from the KNOWN SEAT of the infection area from flying into the U.S and it's passengers beyond, you're effectively sanctioning mass murder of your OWN citizens for the sake of a $.