It was finished when Boris and that crowd of tory bastards were elected in DecemberCountry is finished and boris has lost the plot
Schools, weddings, funerals etc all exemptwhat about schools?
And sports activities that are Covid secureSchools, weddings, funerals etc all exempt
he has lost the plot, next it will be another lockdown to finish the country off it’s an embarrassment
Forgive me for being old fashioned but I remember when to be the BoE's Chief Economist you had had to understand basic economic concepts like mass unemployment is a bad thing.
Let’s not forget all the people losing their livelihoods, not being able to get treatments in hospitals and so on when the hospitalisation admissions and deaths are very low nowSo thousands more people dying is so much better.
Fuck off you sick c**t
Let’s not forget all the people losing their livelihoods, not being able to get treatments in hospitals and so on when the hospitalisation admissions and deaths are very low now
Shut up you stupid c**t talking shit as usual thousands more aren’t going to die
Predictable but depressing.
Hospitalisations still fuck all. Thats what we have to protect. And dont start at me with the 'yea but that happens a few weeks after'.
It didnt after the pubs opened, packed beaches, V.E day etc.
Soul destroying this is
It does happen a few weeks after, you cannot let cases build up exponentially because eventually the bubble around the vulnerable bursts.
Forgive me for being old fashioned but I remember when to be the BoE's Chief Economist you had had to understand basic economic concepts like mass unemployment is a bad thing.
Bank of England's top economist warns against furlough scheme extension
Andy Haldane says extension to job retention scheme risks delaying ‘inevitable’ shake-out of firms hit by Covid-19www.theguardian.com
Reports that the Oxford vaccine trials have been halted as someone taking part has fallen seriously ill. Not the news anyone wanted to wake up to.
Isn’t the point of testing elimination to stop the spread?Here we go, blaming people again:
UK coronavirus: PM confirms 'rule of six' to apply in England from Monday; Whitty warns of rapid case rise – as it happened
‘Rule of six’ and Covid marshals to be brought in; Whitty says ‘huge’ expansion of testing needed before Covid-free passes can be introducedwww.theguardian.com
I assume you only 'need' a test if you find out your positive afterwards.
Would it have been ever thus?Here we go, blaming people again:
UK coronavirus: PM confirms 'rule of six' to apply in England from Monday; Whitty warns of rapid case rise – as it happened
‘Rule of six’ and Covid marshals to be brought in; Whitty says ‘huge’ expansion of testing needed before Covid-free passes can be introducedwww.theguardian.com
I assume you only 'need' a test if you find out your positive afterwards.
2300 daily cases around 23 March albeit with I think about a quarter of testing taking place now. Pretty much all of the testing then was Pillar 1, i.e. sick people in hospital so the infection rate was clearly degrees of magnitude greaterWould it have been ever thus?
What was the number of cases when we locked down initially fp?
Forgive me for being old fashioned but I remember when to be the BoE's Chief Economist you had had to understand basic economic concepts like mass unemployment is a bad thing.
Bank of England's top economist warns against furlough scheme extension
Andy Haldane says extension to job retention scheme risks delaying ‘inevitable’ shake-out of firms hit by Covid-19www.theguardian.com
Yep that's the evidence from places like Spain and France. Cases rise in the young and seemingly stay in the young but then after a while it spreads into the rest of society.
Clearly many industries need further support & extending the furlough scheme for businesses that are not yet allowed to open or cannot function effectively due to restrictions appears to be a must. I'm thinking mainly arts, music venues, theatres, small hospitality etc.
That said, he has got a bit of a point in that there are now clearly jobs that no longer exist in reality, so to continue to pay folks a couple grand a month to sit at home doing nothing, suspended in limbo & unable to look for new employment etc is not a productive use of taxpayer cash. Its just a very expensive & unfair way of delaying the inevitable. Harsh, but true.
That said, he has got a bit of a point in that there are now clearly jobs that no longer exist in reality, so to continue to pay folks a couple grand a month to sit at home doing nothing, suspended in limbo & unable to look for new employment etc is not a productive use of taxpayer cash. Its just a very expensive & unfair way of delaying the inevitable. Harsh, but true.
While you have no other plans in place it is economically illiterate to just accept mass unemployment. This is the same kind of thinking at turned the 1929 crash into the great depression as the demand shock to an already demand starved economy would be massive.
If you want to remove the furlough scheme you need widespread job creation schemes to be in place or the rot will spread to "good jobs" and you'll end up in a downward spiral.
Yep....its a tough balance to strike though, and to be fair the this fella, he hasn't just proposed they "wind it up & fuck the lot of 'em".....he has said the govt. need to move on the next stage of support.....
....what that entails is anyone guess of course.....
...We're doomed.
There is no such thing as 'taxpayer's cash'. Tax does not fund public spending, tax drives demand for the currency.
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