Yep, had nowt so far, I'll wait and see what happens over the next fortnight, not great for those falling through the cracks, especially when businesses that have profited from this are getting a wedge of sorts as well.
We'll have hope teachers and such like don't see a significant lift in their wage packet, this shitstorm will have to be paid for once it's over, hopefully we'll all be in it together this time round.
How many weeks was that 50000 spread over?
How many excess deaths would have happened in week 20 or so with no lockdown, a lot more than the worst week in any of those flu outbreaks you mention by a long chalk.
I know next to nowt about all this but I know you're starting to look stupid.
This virus hardly had time to build up a head of steam before we went into lockdown, I don't need to read what Ferguson wrote, I'm capable of looking at numbers and deciding it's not worth the risk to myself, another 2 or 3 weeks without lockdown and people like myself would have been overlooked for ICU over younger and or healthier individuals(quite rightly IMO).
I thought 'a bad flu season' had been safely put to bed, as far as I'm concerned this is not a bad flu season, there's no way I'd be locked away if I thought this was just a bad flu season, nowt Sturgeon or Johnson could say would keep me in if I thought it was just like a bad flu season.
Maximum transmission rate will fall as more are infected but I'd think it will need to rise until it reaches its new maximum after lockdown.
I'll certainly not be rushing back to normal in 3 or 4 weeks time.
Yes, R0 rate would be even more of a guess as we're not party to their figures but we can use data from elsewhere to work out an approximate infection rate, the R0 rate appears to be taking at lot longer to plunge than I thought.
Nah, can't agree with that nonsense, I'd be highly offended if my loved ones death was swept under the carpet, luckily for me I've no oldies to worry about now.
Don't think the situation in care homes will have much bearing on lockdown restrictions.
Just get ICU capacity up to a level that allows us to get this over in done after one complete easing of lockdown, those in vulnerable groups can without penalty carry on as is if they wish.