The Government will review the lockdown next week. What should it do? Keep it as it is? Remove it entirely? Reduce it? Strengthen it? For the last two options it may be good if people give examples.
As sad as I am to say, it should remain in place for the remainder of the month. By then we will see with Spain and Italy (2 weeks ahead of us) and warming temperatures whether we will be on the downward curve. From May I think there will be some relaxing of rules but I think were possible employers should continue with allowing people to work from home.
Shouldn't have done it this way in the first place. But now we have it needs to be seen through to the end.
I’m certainly against further strengthening. There appears to be no need to up the pressure on people who have plenty of other things to worry about right now or the majority who are not flouting the requirements.
Should be strengthened. People are taking the absolute pish. Yes I know it's a nice day. Yes I know it's boring indoors BUT when you pootle along the middle of the road on your silly bicycle whilst dressed in full tour de France lycra OR when you go jogging or walking and decide to suddenly step out into the road to give suitably wide berth to another similar berk coming the other way down the pavement THEN you are holding up key workers and (unlike some) we've got a bloody job to do and you're holding us up! It's supposed to be essential journeys ONLY. So how come there seems to be nearly as many cars on the road as normal? How come a large number of them are white Range Rover Evoques or other luxury personal number plate middle-class-mobiles? We know you're not key workers. In fact, we know you're not any kind of worker at the moment. Are these really essential journeys? I highly bloody doubt it. Get off the road! I would have armed police roadblocks all over to stop every car and interrogate them about where they're going and why. Except for Range Rovers which would have their tyres shot out on sight, occupants tasered and then hosed down with neat Domestos to denature their stupid cell structures. If I seem hard line on this, I've not long finished today's 15 (fifteen) visits. Commencing at 06:45 this morning and terminating at 20:30 tonight. With zero breaks and nothing to eat all day. Nada. But cooking breakfasts, lunches and teas for the people I look after. Only my flask of (Cuban) coffee in the car to keep me going. I've changed light bulbs and stoma bags and catheters, cooked and cleaned, rinsed and wiped and disinfected, 'prompted' bucketloads of meds, washed and creamed and wiped up more shitt than in the entire L*ton first team. I heard the clapping and the fireworks. Thank you very much. Very nice. However we can't eat that. Give us a pay rise.
The idiots who live opposite us have already turned the NHS Thursday clap into a look at me exercise. Playing the ******* macarena and similar crap from 7:45pm at full blast and dancing about. I'm done with it. It was a nice one off but now it's gone down the predictable virtue signalling route.
So far I've seen videos/heard reports of DJs, fireworks and a man on his roof playing a bass drum (all in separate incidents) in Northern Ireland during the applause.
Someone leant on their car horn for a full minute near us, there was also a full five minutes of what sounded like someone banging a frying pan with a wooden spoon. It’ll be a #clapchallenge by next week. See who can make the most obnoxious noise for reasons that aren’t clear other than getting attention from social media.
Yes, but we have to reduce it to the kind of base level they did and then have the testing infrastructure/mitigation tactics in place. That should definitely be the future, but it couldn't be our present because the Government didn't act and then was too busy playing clever with its nudge team.
Just heard that 'nice' Mr Hancock on R4 berating those clinicians using too much PPE - was that directed at you @Clive_ofthe_Kremlin?
Not quite as simple as that, Moose. South Korea was way better prepared for a respiratory outbreak because of its relative failures in the way it handled MERS a few years ago. Since then, the country has overhauled its response to respiratory infections so was “good to go” in a way that no European country was.
Well the South Korean response to the MERS outbreak was not a secret. It’s exactly the kind of incident the Government’s chief medics are paid to look at. If other European Countries (but not Germany, Denmark etc) were equally lax, that doesn’t excuse the UK. But in any case, the Government has been at pains to stress that it has been working on its response since January, when Boris wasn’t simply having a long holiday. So what was it doing? It wasn’t looking at testing or PPE supplies for sure and then why did it drop the ball mid-March here by inexplicably delaying lockdown measure until after Cheltenham and not before others like the FA had seen fit to do what the Government wouldn’t? Even then, it showed its initial lack of seriousness by failing to instigate the social distancing it had recommended, leading to illness across the top team. Looks like a shambles. And we know why. We are ruled by privileged populists who do not consider the rules apply to them.
Now now, Boris is watching Lord Of The Rings in hospital while the public die all around him. Like a man of the people would.
You sir, along with the many others who do likewise are what makes Britian Great. A sterling, unwaivering devotion to getting done what has to be done. People befote pennies. Bravo, well done Clive and I really hope you and the other front line workers are given the upmost gratitude when this is all under control. I respect you and all your co workers. Thank You.
The Government will be judged on their response when the final numbers are compared to other countries. What it isn't to do with is if someone is privileged or posh. You are obsessed and continue to use a global crisis to push your old fashioned dogma.
Thank you Skyla. It is nice to find that people do appreciate us. Hopefully they will remember when this is over, but I fear things will go back to the same. Michael Gove has already got his "lots more austerity to pay for all this" comments in and it won't take much Daily Mailing for us to suddenly become the resented enemy within of the hard done by gammon types. "It's alright for them, they've been working all through this. They've done very nicely for themselves. I've been laid off for X weeks and have been the real victim in all this and if it means freezing benefits and tweeking the rents for the scroungers to compensate me for the dividends and losses on the stock markets and the loss in rental income, well it'll be for the good of the NHS because us high wealth individuals pay a lot of tax. And that helps the NHS and so on and so on...
To be fair, Clive, there are far fewer cars on the roads in the mean streets of Snorbens and no preponderance of posh cars. But a pay rise for you and others like you, yes. Hopefully the definition of 'key worker' has changed a bit.
It has. After this is over, workers like @Clive_ofthe_Kremlin will be key to clawing back to cost to the public purse.
Exactly this. Time to crack down on us feckless lazy underclass! When you think about it, the poor are actually the ones to BLAME for all this. Them and immigrants. It's only right that they should pay. It's for the NHS after all.
What could be more old fashioned than your dogma? The worst paid and protected are the people we need most. You still want to support a World of spivery. Do you really believe that the response of the Johnson Government has nothing to do with his upbringing and character?
I saw two cars being badly driven today, aggressive overtaking or speeding in 30mph zones. Both Range Rovers. Clive is right, shoot the bastards.
Sadly I think they're only publicly celebrated as key workers for this crisis. Once the world is back to relative normality there'll probably be a one-off national day of celebration for them but after that they'll gradually but subtly be 'put back in their rightful place' by the likes of Gove and the Daily Heil.
