Rubbish, The more you keep out it lowers the spread of infection. You either keep it out or let it in and lockdown to slow the transmission. What is best? !0 people carrying the virus or 100? Bleeding obvious.

Originally Posted by: bledur 

Proves what I have been attempting to state all day - we are trashing the economy and keeping people locked down to protect (primarily) those over 75 years old. Rather, we should protect the at risk (especially the elderly at risk) by isolating them, whilst allowing the rest of society to keep functioning.

On that topic, there was a care home on the BBC news tonight which has not suffered a single case of COVID-19 - it achieved that by having its care staff sleeping on the premises and isolating themselves along with their charges - a tough regime, but it has worked so far.

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

You are a true disciple of Nick Ridley, Richard. Everything - including the mental wellbeing of your fellow pensioners - must be sacrificed for the free market.

Originally Posted by: Justin W 

As I tirelessly point out Justin, without a free market and private enterprise, there would be no economy to speak of to fund the public sector.

Trashing the economy is not a sensible thing to do, even for public sector workers, since they rely on the wealth creators to generate the income which pays the taxes which funds them.

We have spent the 21st Century thus far, crippling the young to favour the old - it is time to introduce some inter-generational fairness and if that means granny and grandad have to be isolated for a few months, so be it (and I speak as a grandfather myself of 65 years of age).

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

Matt Hancock today said this 

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

We have spent the 21st Century thus far, crippling the young to favour the old - it is time to introduce some inter-generational fairness and if that means granny and grandad have to be isolated for a few months, so be it (and I speak as a grandfather myself of 65 years of age).

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

Remember when he was running for Tory leadership last year and he said proroguing Parliament would be illegal and anti-democratic?

When Boris prorogued Parliament, the little weasel did a 180 and said it was fine. He is an utter piece of slime

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Given the deflationary headwind, we can lockdown and print money for months. 

Originally Posted by: Justin W 

That would not save the myriads of small businesses which rely on customer footfall to keep the cashflow up to speed.

We should come out of lockdown, but with proper shielding for the vulnerable and proper testing, track and trace in operation.

There is no earthly reason why a young woman should not be able to visit the hairdressers or why a healthy chap like Beast should not be able to go down to the boozer for a pint or two.

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

If we can’t afford to get the kids to school, that probably settles the whole “should we reopen the schools” issue https://t.co/5lyLgUo7Zg

— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) May 15, 2020

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

Meanwhile, in Holland
Find lockdown ‘sex buddy’, Dutch singles advised
From the BBC news ticker:
"The Dutch government has issued new guidance to single people seeking intimacy during the pandemic: find a "sex buddy".
The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) says singletons should come to an arrangement with one person.
But couples should avoid sex if one of them suspects they have coronavirus, the advice says.
It comes after critics argued social distancing rules have complicated intimate relations for partners not living together".

Originally Posted by: Phil G 

The government have done a land grab on the mayors office.

They now have someone sitting on the TfL board. They have successfully spun this as his fault. However, he had to cut services after the stay at home message. You can’t run a full service if no one is travelling. Equally, the message meant their revenues dropped. 

I am no fan of Khan. But the tories have spun this appallingly.

We now have the following:

1. The government to sit on the tfl board


2. Fare increase of 1% above RPI


3. Free Travel for Kids removed


4. Congestion charge increases by 30%
   
   

The thing is, now they’ve been removed, I bet you any money they won’t bring them back and the CC charge will stay the same. Poorer kids and family’s are now hit with another cost of the schools do open. 

I suspect Cummings hates the idea of a mayor and power being decentralised. Who is really running this country. You have to ask.

Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 

Rubbish, The more you keep out it lowers the spread of infection. You either keep it out or let it in and lockdown to slow the transmission. What is best? !0 people carrying the virus or 100? Bleeding obvious.

Originally Posted by: bledur 

This should be a much bigger story. The govt have totally shafted Khan and got their media acolytes to attack him as well. Its all very sinister and Cummings all over

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

That would not save the myriads of small businesses which rely on customer footfall to keep the cashflow up to speed.

We should come out of lockdown, but with proper shielding for the vulnerable and proper testing, track and trace in operation.

There is no earthly reason why a young woman should not be able to visit the hairdressers or why a healthy chap like Beast should not be able to go down to the boozer for a pint or two.

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

And what exactly is the relevance of that comment?

I am not a great fan of Hancock and would prefer Hunt in the role, but cut the guy some slack - he has been under the most severe pressure imaginable for the past couple of months.

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

As I tirelessly point out Justin, without a free market and private enterprise, there would be no economy to speak of to fund the public sector.

Trashing the economy is not a sensible thing to do, even for public sector workers, since they rely on the wealth creators to generate the income which pays the taxes which funds them.

We have spent the 21st Century thus far, crippling the young to favour the old - it is time to introduce some inter-generational fairness and if that means granny and grandad have to be isolated for a few months, so be it (and I speak as a grandfather myself of 65 years of age).

Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum 

Didn't Xioni post a link to a study that showed Corona was found in spunk  and fanny juice? 

Pure poetry 

Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 

You really need to think about what you just wrote

Originally Posted by: Devonian 

Didn't Xioni post a link to a study that showed Corona was found in spunk and fanny juice? So it should be classed as an STD as well

Originally Posted by: The Beast from the East 

I'm not sure about this study. Gives an infection rate overall of 10% in the UK and 20% in London which sounds way too high to me. Would explain the massive drop in London cases compared to rest of the country though. London has been recording far fewer cases than the rest of the country every day for the last 10

Originally Posted by: Chidog