The problem I have with all this is the oft repeated fact that flu also kills an average of 17,000 a year in Britain. If a section of the population is kept indoors for a year and then the flu comes in is this exclusion continued? By which time Covid could well have mutated and come back rendering any vaccine moot.

I think the flu vaccine will be given this year as normal. Local surgeries are already organising themselves into clusters and it could be done by the nurses travelling to community halls and people given appointments. District nurses could visit the very vulnerable in their own homes.

If my understanding is correct, although the flu mutates each year everyone who has ever had flu, or a vaccine, retains some immunity, even to a mutated strain. So the assumption is that this virus, although significantly more infectious than flu, is likely to be the same, thus the impact will gradually be reduced.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Or maybe not. What self respecting respiratory bug wants to inhabit a tar filled pair of lungs.
TIC being a smoker myself. I did ask in a post as to whether lifestyle and habits were a factor in how bad you reacted to this if you got it.
Ie drinkers, smokers, eating habits,drug users etc.
I would like to think if certain people with certain vices were less in the cross hairs that info would be given. I'm sure all hospital admissions must be analyzed to a degree as every doctors visit has a script. Time will tell I suppose. If smokers were a small amount it would be strange for HM government to tell us as why would they want us all to start smoking. We've all got it coming though tbh.

Depends on how it is managed. Low income jobs, and self-employed profit are protected.

The problem for all businesses is going to be how to cover rents. I'm not sure if landlords of commercial properties can apply for mortgage holidays, but they are normally wealthy organisations who probably can take a hit...

Also, during the lockdown, they won't be able to physically evict and tennents or move new ones in.

That gives property landlords/breweries two choices

1) Issue notice to renters/pub landlords to evict them. Incure eviction cost, leave a property empty for potentially months with no income.

2) Negotiate a rent reduction/break for renters, potentially to be paid at a later date, and have a chance of recovering some losses.

The sensible ones would have proactively chosen the second option.

Aditionally, this is likely to change the working and shopping culture to lead to less demand for office and shopping spaces, which will make it more important to landlords to keep the tennents they have as finding new ones is going to be increasingly difficult.

Small breweries may struggle, a lot of them have adapted already. Hogs Back are doing drive throughs and deliveries to keep going. Advantages of being a small business is that they can react quickly to change.

You’re probably right but the deaths from flu are still very high.

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You are welcome. Enjoy your week.
It is quite amusing when you read some of the claims though, 10 claims under £1, including a claim to Banner for 1p! Would it not cost more to process this claim?