All shopping that comes in my front door gets wiped with a anti bac wipe (I know it isnt bacteria but not many anti viral ones around) fresh stuff all comes ready bagged potatoes mushrooms etc. As still working I go in small stores early morning so less crowded. Minimum effort to wipe over packaging. Bags go in landfill and gloves thrown along with hands washed. Just doing that should limit the risk even a small amount.
Awareness will limit risk as well.

A balance. That’s his succinct viewpoint. There’s been some logical callers and some very bizarre ones. The best was a doctor saying everyone was going to die because most people in this country have underlying health conditions. She couldn’t counter the presenter’s points or answer his questions and just made her side of the argument less credible. ‘You aren’t even a medical spokesperson and won’t ever be’ was the best put down before putting the phone down, even though she’s probably risking her own health at work.

For me this is King Canute trying to hold back the tide.

It might be true that the spending of vast amounts of money..might not make that much difference to how many die. I suspect that the amount of deaths will be decided by cultural practices and inter-generational housing and contact. That said I supported an initial lockdown and good hygienic implementations and reasonable social distancing is just sensible anyway.....We might be seeing the phasing out of hand shaking.

Once this is over and the stats and practices from various countries are analyzed hopefully a consensus can be reached.

But for me the government were correct with what they said at the start long term and are being unrealistic now.

Though I hate the term, 'herd immunity' will probably reduce the affect of this far quicker....Perhaps by the time we actually get a vaccine it'll already be greatly weakened.

Edited by Stirlingsays (05 Apr 2020 2.59pm)

The problem with herd immunity is that many 1000s will need ventilators if left to garner an immunity in that way. That wouldn't be realistic from a moral point of view let alone how it would play politically. Imagine young fit people dying because it was decided by a lottery if you got it bad or not. Tbh if young kids and young adults started dying in numbers because of a lax attitude and lack of nhs space and equipment how would you feel personally. You yourself have two young children, surely you would be taking a chance with their lives god forbid.

If the Police take a more robust approach they will no doubt be accused of "Police brutality" by Civil Liberties groups.

I do get the impression that there are many who believe that if they go to a park, or seafront as a household and adhere to social-distancing to their destination whilst they are there and on their return home they are not blameworthy.

Could we not bring back the army sniper, positioned on the cliff overlooking the beach, after taking a couple out on the beach, it would surely solve the problem whilst giving said sniper some practice, in case some chinese or soviet gets ideas that this is a great time to seize some land as one and a half billion people will need extra space in a post corona world !

Edited by Willo (05 Apr 2020 1.40pm)

Would