(12-08-2020, 09:00 AM)Protheroe Wrote:(12-07-2020, 01:44 PM)baggy1 Wrote: No he doesn't, that is just a lie. What I don't understand is why you would make a statement that you know is false.
After 9 months of this virus you are still not getting it, this is about reducing the spread until we get a vaccine.
I am getting it. I simply don't want to burn the whole economy on a pyre of sanctimony.
I'm doing my bit staying away from Merry Hill, wearing a mask when I buy the paper, studiously ignoring my neighbours and watching my business's revenue drop by 40% with no government support. On the bright side neither of my modern classic Italians have ever been in better shape.
The government have provided support based on self employed profits, once we are out of this will your revenues get back to where they were? If so then I'm not certain what is the ultimate problem here. Should the government have done more around business rates etc - yes I believe they should have done. But ultimately we have done this to save lives - your 'pyre of sanctimony' line make you look a right dick based on that (No offence intended). You'll survive a downturn in revenue and profits, some won't survive this at all.
That's not being sanctimonious, it's just being realistic.
And on that note week 48 figures (to 27th November) are out and unfortunately again there are another 2k deaths more than the 5YA and 1.5k more than 2019. I had a look back at the last bad flu year and at this point the deaths were around the 5YA figure so this is an exceptional year whichever way you look at it. Also it needs to be remembered that these deaths were at a point when we were in lockdown and suppressing the spread.
Overall for the year now we have 64,737 more deaths than the 5YA and 69,148 more than 2019 - All of the figures are just for England and Wales.
Let's hope that the vaccine that is being administered from today works and we are heading towards getting back to normal.
One concern that I have is the numbers in hospital which peaked at 13,767 on the 23rd but has only dropped to 12,241 as of yesterday. If the virus starts to spread again and hospitalisations pick up then it won't take very long before we are up to the peak of April/May which was 17,172. And as much as this is becoming used as a political football I'm hoping the lockdown wasn't too late again.