At the moment many, if not most but certainly not all, politicians are behaving very well. Including our own. They do seem to "get it" at the moment.

I expect that as the verification of a vaccine will be carried out by the WHO, prior to general release, that no one country will possess the rights to it, or indeed that there will be just one vaccine

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.

Who said it was a hoax? Why would I purposefully expose myself to a flu virus?

Oh and all this hand clapping for the NHS bulls*** sickens me. Also the disgusting attempt by the Guardian to justify yet more mass immigration off the back of it.

This anti white bulls*** sickens me.

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Has anyone paused to give any thought to the reality of furloughing?

From what I'm reading, it seems very likely that most people who have been furloughed will lose their jobs anyway at the end of the scheme. Especially if you work in the entertainment, physical retail, food and drinks industries. Screwed.

It can't be continued indefinitely, and similarly the longer we go without a vaccine, the more damage is being done psychologically and economically, leading to a far longer recovery period than some are still assuming is possible.

I even think that it could be as high as 50% overall, and much much higher for some industries (as mentioned above).

Delaying rather than solving unemployment IMO

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

Ouch. Pretty much my whole block of flats comes out and claps (social distancing) because:

- Most of us feel helpless and want to do something so this is as much for us as for the people we are clapping for.

- Not everybody knows their neighbours so imagine you live in a street where people don't know you work for the NHS. Assuming you are not at work this must lift you knowing that people care. It's also a way of meeting your neighbours.

- It takes less than 5 minutes and most of us have got nothing better to do.

One more point

You're definitely right on the delaying rather than solving unemployment.

I was on a Skype meeting yesterday and none of us on the meeting had had the virus ourselves, and I was the only one who actually knew someone personally who had had it. On a phone call this morning and the same thing....no one had had it, and only one case within a firm of over 50 employees being positive.

Even looking at the statistics every day, shocking as they are, the vast majority of the population have not had it.

So what happens when lockdown is scaled back? Almost by definition we will get a second wave even bigger than the first, which is why I suspect these Nightingale Hospitals are largely lying empty. Time has been bought to deal with what is still to come.

But I don't think many companies are ready for that.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

Fair. I'm not saying it's not a good idea, just saying that it will be very interesting to understand how they're going to manage significant amounts of permanent layoffs over time, once the furloughing becomes too expensive, unwieldy or simply impossible to maintain as a system of effectively, artificial employment. The jobs simply won't be there in the short/medium term once this has played out.

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.