324 Covid Deaths Yesterday, And 2,095 Cases Are They Easing Lockdown Too Early ?

[Gromit]

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

[10ClarionSt]

Time for brekkie.

[Sqad]

No iluv it isn,t but the vast majority are or indeed have an underlying pre existing medical condition.

[Ken4155]

My problem with this easing of lockdown is that different parts of the country are in different stages of the virus epidemic. At the beginning of the C19 breakout, London was (quite naturally) the country's epicentre. However, they do appear to have flattened the curve down there. That's not the case for the rest of the country. I read a few days back that the North East now has double the number of cases than London. The Government set 5 tests which they say they have met. But have these 5 tests been met by the whole of the country?

[Deskdiary]

If lives are sacrificed for the sake of the economy, then so be it. There; it’s been said. I don’t like saying, but it’s what an awful lot of people are thinking.

It is the pragmatic view.

The economy is more important. It just is. Because if it becomes totally fubarred, then we’re all screwed.

Gromit’s 747 analogy is one of the most laughable I think I’ve ever seen.

[dannyk13]

Sqad //sacrifice a few more old trouts//
Hardly in line with the Hippocratic Oath?

[Sqad]

LOL.....no Danny it isn,t.
Doctors no longer take the Hippocratic Oath.

[tiggerblue10]

IMO the newly recorded infections may seem higher as we are testing more in the UK. I don't think other countries in Europe as testing as much.

I also believe that many other countries are not counting deaths the same way we do here.

[dannyk13]

Sqad, apparently some doctors do swear a modern version:-

https://patient.info/doctor/ideals-and-the-hippocratic-oath

[barry1010]

I'm fortunate in that I don't have to go out and nor does my immediate family. We are staying put until things are more 'normal'.

[Gromit]

// At what level of deaths or infections would you have started to relax Gromit? //

Double figures daily. That is still 500+ a week.

[woofgang]

I have just read the GMC good medical practice guide and am rolling on the floor laughing

[mushroom25]

https://www.memedroid.com/memes/detail/2943790/Red-shirts-die-first?refGallery=tags&page=1&;tag=star+trek

[Sqad]

Danny that is as it is decreed on paper, but in practice I have never known a doctor to swear allegiance to the Oath of Hippocrates in any formal ceremony.

[woofgang]

Gromit there is reporting lag to consider. The 7 day rolling average is a better guide than one day's figures.

[Gromit]

Woofgang

Wednesday 412
Thursday 377
Friday 324.

[ToraToraTora]

DD: "The economy is more important. It just is. Because if it becomes totally fubarred, then we’re all screwed. " - enough said.

[Deskdiary]

^^^In the scheme of things, numbers that are too small to risk the economy any further.

[Gromit]

// we are testing more in the UK. I don't think other countries in Europe as testing as much. //

Difficult to prove when the UK have not disclosed how many people have been tested, for over a week.
Boris promised 200,000 daily test by end of June (Now).
The suspicion is that the target has been massively missed, hence them hiding the figures.

[Gromit]

* End of May, not June.

[gulliver1]

Ease the lockdown , everyone happy ,takes your mind of Dom . As Boris told all you radicalised Cons, " now is the time to draw a line under the Dom Saga.
Do as Boris says, end of. Enjoy.