I bet you wear blue overalls and shave your own back and sides grade 0 anyway.

COYP

The January lockdown was implemented to ease the strain on the NHS and to stop it becoming overwhelmed - now the narrative to remove the lockdown is about significantly reducing transmission and a move towards “zero Covid “ and not the NHS.

Now the R rate is well below 1 it does not get a mention..

Goalposts moving again...

Any excuse to keep people locked up. They love it for some reason, not sure why. I presume it’s under instructions from big business who are patiently waiting until all small businesses have been wiped out. Can’t be far off now.

I missed out business ‘opportunity’. Many people haven’t got a hope without tourism coming their way and their politicians know it.

COYP

At the moment you’re accurately describing the situation seeing as hospitals are still very full, what with wards split into 3 different Covid positive, negative, unknown wards and blanked off beds, and there being the lag from infections and better treatments keeping some alive who’d have died. But not long from now we’ll be out of the seasonal disease/bell curve and in the position we were last summer.

I expect it’ll arrive earlier this year because Covid got going naturally later last time in Feb/March 2020. But this won’t stop talk of strains, mutants, double masks because single ones lo and behold don’t do what they guessed and hoped, stay in all year and the expectation of some that others should ruin themselves permanently and unnecessarily.

I understood this lockdown was necessary, and this one has proved that lockdowns work on only limiting transmission in the short time they’re policy. But that’s because there’s a vaccine in front of the virus after the lockdown. And with these vaccines and Covid being seasonal these lockdowns and restrictions should not be long term or aiming for zero Covid or 1,000 infections. May as well put everyone who doesn’t work full time right now on UBI indefinitely and close every business.

COYP

It's a compelling idea for sure but you will have to tell that to all the people who have lost friends and family.

I rather feel like there is a similarity to holocaust denial about these kinds of theories.

I agree that the big corps cannot be entirely unhappy about the way things are turning out, but for this idea to be true, they would have had to have released Covid 19 themselves. The deaths of thousands of loved ones cannot be denied.