Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
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Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#2Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies!
* Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned
__ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat.
* Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue
__ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not have to follow the same rules as the plebs.
* Outdoor sports venues - such as golf courses, tennis courts and outside gyms - must close
__ Yeah - let's take a game (golf) that's done outdoors, in groups of 4 or less, and ban it. Don't worry - you're allowed to walk around the exact same golf course for excercise (as that's one of the only reasons you can leave your home), but if you have to swing a club you'll catch COVID.
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#3One of the things that irritates me most is that Boris portrays the variant as a kind random piece of bad luck. Don't know much about genetics, but I guess such a variant becomes more likely when there are many infections (more of the virus to mutate), and the strategy has consistently been to run things "hot" and tolerate high case counts.
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#4What are the reasons why we can’t have a very hard 4-week long Chinese style total shutdown?
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#5Can someone elaborate on the differences between the numbers reported by the gov.uk website NOIDS[1] (notifications of infectious diseases) versus the numbers reported another gov.uk website[2] ? Looking at NOIDS's weekly reported COVID-19 cases from Week 52[3], I only see 85 new COVID-19 cases. Whereas when I look at the coronavirus.data.gov.uk website, the numbers soar and continue shoot through the roof.
What's going here? What's the NOIDS UK government website even reporting and why are the numbers significantly lower?
[1] NOIDS - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseas... [2] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ [3] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#6What are the reasons why we can’t have a very hard 4-week long Chinese style total shutdown?
Because UK is not a dictatorship. China is.
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#7Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies! * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned __ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat. * Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue __ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not h…
I agree with you on the football thing, although the players will be getting regular tests, and the sport generates a tonne of cash.
The rest of it make sense to me. Your example of golf: the sport includes the whole social aspect (the golf club rooms etc). Remember they have to keep the rules simple.
Also allowing people to order alcohol to be delivered within the hour probably isn't the smartest!
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#8Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies! * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned __ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat. * Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue __ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not h…
> * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned
Is restaurant takeaway alcohol even a thing in normal times in the UK?
In CA at least, the state temporarily removed the normal restriction on takeaway alcohol in order to help restaurants during lockdowns.
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#9Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies! * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned __ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat. * Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue __ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not h…
It does make sense imo to allow elite sports to continue while banning amateurs, there are relatively few elite players so the additional risk overall is low.
Re: Covid: New lockdown for England as cases surge
#10Woohoo - more inconsistent and unscientific policies! * Restaurants can continue to offer delivery for food, but takeaway alcohol will be banned __ So alcohol spreads COVID? Good thing restaurants don't count on alcohol sales to stay afloat. * Amateur team sports are not allowed, but elite sport such as Premier League football can continue __ 'Elite' athletes, as is the case for the rest of the 'elites', should not h…
I agree with you on the football thing, although the players will be getting regular tests, and the sport generates a tonne of cash. The rest of it make sense to me. Your example of golf: the sport includes the whole social aspect (the golf club rooms etc). Remember they have to keep the rules simple. Also allowing people to order alcohol to be delivered within the hour probably isn't the smartest!
>The rest of it make sense to me. Your example of golf: the sport includes the whole social aspect (the golf club rooms etc). Remember they have to keep the rules simple.
closing the clubhouse is hard?