@Longpatrol you are correct in what you say, I am in UK in London, and Boris has caved in to pressure , it is now 1 metre distancing , and now no quarantine for 14 days from a lot of destinations , these companies and buissnessess put so much pressure on him to change them, and that is what he did

@FairyGirlGemma Too stupid to realise

@SW-User Yeah he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer

@FairyGirlGemma hes had it now so hes ok 🤷‍♀️

@LadyJ They are all dangerously incompetent, arrogant and stupid IMO.

@LadyJ Maybe 😀 but I would still rather have Boris in charge

@LadyJ too bad I wasn't born A British Citizen I could've of run for Prime Minister of Britian in the future LOL😂

@LadyJ There is no way we can know whether the lockdown helped or not, because there is no counterfactual. Some “experts” (actually, no-one is expert in covid-19, though knowledge is increasing) agree with you, others are very sceptical. The main governmental failings at the beginning were failure to close our borders, failure to have hospitals properly equipped and the discharge of vulnerable and infected patients into completely unprepared care homes.

I shall be extremely surprised if there is any general spike in the summer, though there will probably be isolated increases with specific causes. If there is to be a second wave, which I personally doubt, it is much more likely to be in autumn or early winter.

@MartinII Thank you for explaining it.

I don't know why the statistics for private hospitals (and home deaths?) were poorly or not represented. I agree they should have been.

What has emerged is that different countries have widely different ways of counting, for better or worse than each other. That must make comparisons really rather meaningless, and straight numbers are anyway unless you know the populations too. All this muddle cannot help the epidemiologists at all.

I don't know if you listen to the Radio Four programme [i]More Or Less[/i], which scrutinises published statistics from all manner of sources, but it has examined those relating to the pandemic.

One instance of misuse of numbers it highlighted, was that of Covid tests. It discovered the announced number of tests was really the number of test-kits sent out. It also found that the published numbers were further distorted by counting repeat tests - the ones scientifically right to make when the first attempt is inconclusive - as separate tests.

I suppose to be fair to the politicians and public-services of all parties and most countries, the world was taken aback by a desperately unfamiliar situation. Having said that though, epidemics and pandemics are historically fairly common so you'd think they'd have some sort of past experience to guide them.

The one thing we have to be grateful for is that Ebola, a haemorrhagic disease also originating in animals, had been contained, so had not escaped around the world as the Covid-19 species of the Corona virus is doing. A medical-lecturer friend told me the consequences of that would have been far, far worse.

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Dorset is not the only county to have suffered from the rampaging fools. I believe the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales have too.

I do hope things are easier in September, and you enjoy your visit here! I saw neighbours measuring their motor-caravan recently, planning to book a pitch on a site in Cornwall.

@ArishMell Yes, I had heard about the misrepresentation of the test figures. To save Mr Hancock’s bacon, I suppose.

@Amyrakunejo People aren't just statistics. They're loved ones who should never have died.

@Moonpenny I don't disagree.

I also don't disagree with the fact that making the numbers look worse than they actually are IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THOSE THAT ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN AFFECTED. IT'S A SLAP IN THE FACE!!

@Amyrakunejo Yes, I do agree with you there. It's highly disrespectful.
There are so many different ways of presenting the data, including time lapses, that globally there should be an agreement as to how to show the numbers a) so they can be understood in layman's terms and b) so that they're not skewed or misrepresented. Of course this won't happen because the data is being used as a political and economic tool.

@Ian123 That's hopeful news!

@ArishMell Must be the sea air 😀

@Ian123 Could be - but I live by the sea too, and we've had cases in this area.

@ArishMell You might catch it if you "copulated" with an infected person

@monkeysdevil007 Indeed! At least I am at no risk from that particular hazard!

@Beautifullyderanged I know that, but if they cause a second wave, all the last lockdown and the damage it caused to the economy is for nothing.

@FairyGirlGemma there was always going to be a second wave, look what is happening in China. There are too many people who didn't follow the first lockdown, even New Zealand couldnt stop it from being in their country again. The first lockdown saved people but it also showed that people arent going to follow rules, especially when the rules dont apply all the time, like the BLM protests etc.

@bigboyshaun Prick is a good word for him, considering how much fo a shagger he is

@FairyGirlGemma @FairyGirlGemma yep,thats very true.

@Gingerbreadspice While the rest of you get on with what, making passive-aggressive comments on the internet?

@Moonpenny Exactly.

@MrBrownstone all the tactics being used to divide the US are the same that the CIA used in Iraq to destroy their government and institute a government that would “play nice” with their own.
Gotta step outside the “us vs them” tactics and take a look... see what’s really happening. It’s all a facade, none of this bs matters...

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

@SW-User You familiar with Agenda 21?

Ah, the bit about globalization of energy?@MrBrownstone