How long and how hard should a lockdown be?

[siousxiesue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > Then we can really party like its 1999

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> My Hair will be down to my arse by then..

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> Foxy

It's good that you can get a hair cut from 12th April then, isn't it

[TheCat]

siousxiesue Wrote:

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> It's good that you can get a hair cut from 12th

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What are the styles permitted? As some will involve longer periods of close contact than others...perhaps just unisex crew-cuts for all?...I imagine the government will publish that guidance when we also get the update of what is acceptable pub grub...fingers crossed the scotch egg still makes the cut....

[siousxiesue]

...I imagine the government will publish that guidance when we also get the update of what is acceptable pub grub...fingers crossed the scotch egg still makes the cut....

He's already said they're not repeating the food in pubs debacle..

[Blah Blah]

I think it is a sensible roadmap, allowing time to measure the impacts of each stage on the R number. This is the only way to go if we are not to repeat the mistakes of last year. It is not about stopping all deaths either. It is about getting things to a manageable level with a reopened economy. The monitoring for mutations will be ongoing just as is the case with influenza.

Repairing the economic and mental health impacts however is going to be a different challenge. And that is where normal party politics will return, over who bears the true burden of the borrowing etc etc.

[Earl Aelfheah]

How are people feeling about the ?Freedom Day? (as the government seem to be calling it)?

Watched this video today which worried me somewhat:

[TheCat]

I believe its spelt 'Freedumb Day'....

[KidKruger]

The whole concept and messaging is bent out of shape.

We live in one of the free-est societies in the world but somehow it?s being painted that we?re not free - because some of us adhered to pandemic regulations.

Tbh - the Govt has little to make slogans out of but this distraction (and momentary punch-the-air populist opportunity) really does take the biscuit.

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> How are people feeling about the ?Freedom Day? (as

> the government seem to be calling it)?

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> Watched this video today which worried me

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[JohnL]

Over a year ago this thread mentions Australia and NZ pursuing an elimination policy - and they still are.

Another short sharp lockdown in Sydney starts after cases went up to 44. They're still going for a total elimination policy. This totally conflicts with our policy and shows the world has no consistent policy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57773917

[Earl Aelfheah]

It does feel like we're almost inviting new variants. I am worried we're going to end up in a very bad situation. But you're right, it's the messaging above everything that gets me.

[RoundTable]

Elimination will only work whilst they are in lockdown. The minute they open a window??

Billions of years of evolutions have taught us that elimination doesn?t work. Even polio is no longer eradicated (which is what a lot of folks say when told to explain their understanding of ?eradication?.

It is more realistic to go for a ?manageable? policy.