The longer this lockdown lasts, the further down the list folks will get…
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So, local farm shop do telephone orders where you give them a couple of days warning of what you need and you turn up and they put shopping in the boot of your car for you.
Great, you just need to use some common sense quarantining to keep safer.
I do the collection and deliver to the garage with strict instructions to leave alone for at least 24 hours, preferably longer.
So on Wednesday I delivered her order at 5pm.
Thursday morning MiL is at my 11 year old daughter’s bedroom window (while on allowed exercise time) delivering a bag of sweets that she has bought from the village shop, best bit is she used the bag that i delivered her shopping in only 17 hours earlier.
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not sure I saw any dressage on that list?
Re- check required.
That list must have taken a while to compile 
Fucking repetitive strain injury must be accepted and encouraged in lockdown.
Edit and fingers are incompetent.
Ooof… Memeshamed. Fucking 40YO Millenials 
Kwality 
Not far off.
The oldest Millennial will be 39 this year
Atb to Marianne Faithfull hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus. “She is stable and responding to treatment,” says singer’s rep
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oh god … somebody shoot me
Is it a random killer, or is it just that there is still a risk of severe disease developing for those under 70 and/or without underlying health conditions, it’s a greater risk than for e.g. flu, and it’s now getting widespread enough that your chance is much higher now than it was before of knowing someone younger that is severely ill?
Regarding the Welsh icu beds filled with <50 year olds, does this mean there are even more >50 year olds being left to die without being given the chance of a ventilator?
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There is some evidence that there is more than one strain of Coronavirus, one seems more deadly and the other seems to be less deadly but more contagious.
paywall
As with all ft articles you can Google the headline and get to see it. I don’t subscribe to the ft. In this instance if you click on that link and wait a couple of seconds the article appears anyway.
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This.
There are some real inconsistencies in the story. Early on no-one was disagreeing with the Chinese data which claimed that the threat increased quickly with age - it was noticeable for the over-60’s, significant for the over-70’s and serious for the over-80’s. OK, there are lots of differences between China and the first world. But we have had 4000+ UK deaths, 12000 Spanish deaths and 15000+ Italian deaths. There can’t be a problem with statistical noise. Deaths reflect infections which reflect social and family contacts, and those do differ between the countries. But surely not enough for us to be unable to tell the difference between a random killer, or one that focuses on the aged, or one that strikes at something else.
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I still can’t work out what the government’s plan is regarding ending the lockdown and getting life back to normal. It seems like they are working day to day, which is not a good look. They should be telling us how they see things going forwards, so we can plan and sort work etc out. I know that we do not fully control the timetable - it’s the virus that does. But there should be a broad plan, with an indication of what might cause changes to the plan.
As I see it, the lockdown should cease at some stage, but there will still be some high risk activities that are not allowed - there needs to be some kind of balance between allowing some virus spread and allowing increased economic activity. This may not be fixed - depending on how much the virus spreads, the extent of the lockdown will vary. But I think that this will require widespread testing, sufficient to ascertain the extent of virus spread by region. I’m not sure that even 100k tests per day will be enough to prevent localised outbreaks. It’ll also probably require contacts tracing, on which the government has been entirely silent.
The Dutch government has decided on a herd immunity strategy, and actually been explicit about it. I have some respect for this - as long as they have in place systems for protecting the vulnerable, I think it makes sense, although I do wonder how many lower-risk people will die from the high load it will put on healthcare systems. At least they are levelling with their people about what they are intending to do.
As things stand I feel like we’re being treated like children, kept from the bad news and difficult choices being made. The concern I have is that if people are treated like kids they might start behaving like kids, breaking the rules for fun or just having a riot because why not? If we don’t have any insight into the end-game and the present is all there is, then people will simply live in the present, and not take the actions we need to safeguard the future.
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