Billy Balfour wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2020 2:02 pm
Sorry to blight the positive story with this post. There's just no way we should be relaxing the rules.
Deaths yesterday across Europe:
Spain 2
Italy 87
Germany 24
France 52
Turkey 28
Belgium 42
Sweden 84
Portugal 14
Ireland 6
Poland 13
Romania 13
Hungary 8
Netherlands 28
UK 324
Blimey i didn't realise the difference was so stark,as sad as every death is it's more the fact that the R rate is remaining stubbornly high that concerns me, and that's with the lockdown in force.
To put this into perspective I've just been speaking to my neighbour who's an NHS nurse and he said initially he was working on a covid free ward and it was OK, however he soon got moved to a ward with confirmed covid cases, and all he was issued with was a pair of gloves and a mask with a gaping hole in it, and he was expected to work on that ward for several hours, is it any wonder he's disillusioned with the government.
He also mentioned that the families of NHS staff have been offered hush money(his words not mine) in the event of them dying in service 30k was the figure mentioned, and he's adamant that the NHS trusts will attempt to bring manslaughter claims against the UK government once all this is over, so if i was a UK minister i wouldn't get too comfortable in your post.
Now regarding those numbers let's say there's unaccounted deaths and double them to be generous,they're still roughly half what the UK figure is, i'd say we're 2-3 weeks early in lifting lockdown measures, the coming weeks will tell who's right or wrong, but in a health crisis i'd always err on the side of caution.
A recent YouGov poll doesn't make good reading for Boris Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon is vindicated in her strategy though
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-p ... 9643.html