And you knew before that they were a vulnerable group?

Its confusing? When are companies allowed to take back employees part time ? Where they share cost of employees. July or August as both seem to be mentioned in latest statements.

You did sir.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

A biology professor put it well in the Telegraph:

SIR – Science proceeds by putting forward conjectures or hypotheses, collecting empirical data to test them, and accepting, rejecting or modifying them on that basis. The implication is that our scientific understanding is not fixed, but changes as evidence accumulates.

In the United Kingdom the initial decision to impose lockdown to control the effects of COVID-19 was based on a conjecture or model that has now been tested against real data and is found to be wanting.

The model predicts that, under the sustainable public health measures taken by Sweden and in the absence of lockdown, there should now be 60,000 deaths in that country from Covid-19, whereas there are currently only about 3,000 there, with deaths now well past the peak and declining.

Given the failure of the model to make useful predictions, there is no justification for using it to guide future policy. In contrast, large amounts of empirical evidence have now been gathered which demonstrate that for a very large fraction of the population the virus poses a very low risk, while a small fraction – whose immune systems are compromised – are vulnerable.

Therefore, to follow the science, an appropriate policy is the targeted shielding of those who choose to be classified as vulnerable, rigorous screening of their carers to prevent transfer of infection to the vulnerable sector, and release from lockdown for those outside these categories.

Continuing the blanket lockdown cannot be justified on the basis that it is 'following the science'.

Professor Richard Ennos, Edinburgh

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I think what is interesting in this report is that there were no deaths related to ICU. Of course every death is a tragedy but it does seem that the doctors and nurses treating the most seriously ill have been protected so the NHS is working on that point.

One journalist reckons that the death rate for NHS staff is 0.5% which is a lot lower than other groups of course it depends on how he arrived at that number.

We don't know how they got infected it may not have been job related and of course NHS staff like the rest of us can have underlying health problems.

Doreen Lawrence is calling for a Royal Commission into the number of BAME deaths which I don't think we need however as white men are by far the biggest victims perhaps Labour should also call for one into that. I suspect that when the dust settles there will not be an obvious answer how do you separate out lifestyle choices, underlying heath issues, genetic issues, poor hygiene bad judgement and so on.

Salford is now a big hot spot outside of London a researcher who knows the area tells me it is because they are poor. Perhaps, it may also be that they don't pay attention to the advice about social distancing judging from the pictures I have seen in the media.

Anyway I hope we can drive the numbers down asap.

Keep safe evrybody

Edited by Badger11 (12 May 2020 5.52pm)

One more point

It's obviously because Covid is racist, just like the fire brigade, police, the government and every White person ever.
It's all our fault don't you know.