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Should restrictions be lifted on the 19th?

Should restrictions including wearing masks and social distancing be lifted on the 19th?

  • Yes

    Votes: 17 33.3%
  • No

    Votes: 25 49.0%
  • Don't know

    Votes: 3 5.9%
  • Banana

    Votes: 6 11.8%

  • Total voters
    51
  • Poll closed .
There have been many years where winter flu has caused chaos in the NHS.

It is usually a foot note in the news.

Corona is still a type of flu.
A very nasty one but still a flu.

The reporting that hospitals were near closed was the choice of the hospitals.

The nightingale hospitals that were built all round the country were hardly used at all.
So why weren't covid patients moved to the nightingales and the normal hospitals left to get on with normal life.
It's not a type of flu at all. "Flu" is influenza and covid is caused by a coronavirus. Coronavirus is not a type of influenza.
 
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Masks to remain mandatory on public transport in London. Because, as usual, it's only London that matters. :rolleyes:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57826331
Not just London:

UK Covid: mandatory face masks to stay in many English cities as regional mayors revolt; 42,302 daily cases

One of several:

Burnham says face coverings will remain compulsory on trams in Greater Manchester from Monday

Andy Burnham says he is joined at the press conference by some other Labour mayors from the north of England.


They all have concerns about the government’s policy on masks.

Masks protect others, he says. And he says one person’s decision not to wear them could affect the mental and physical health of others.

He says he is particularly concerned about the worries of vulnerable people.

He says in Greater Manchester he will continue to require face coverings to be worn on trams, using conditions of carriage.

He says, unlike the mayor of London, he does not have the power to require this for buses and trains.


https://www.theguardian.com/politic...n-keir-starmer-pmqs-politics-northern-ireland
 
It's not a type of flu at all. "Flu" is influenza and covid is caused by a coronavirus. Coronavirus is not a type of influenza.
Covid is a corona virus.
Coman cold is a corona virus.
Influenza is also a corona virus.

All different types of virus but all linked
 
I know, he's saying it won't dramatically alter it. We all know that most people aren't either A: wearing the right masks or b: using them correctly. They admit right there that it's more about 'the message' it sends out.

The other bit simply highlights that in the past many more people have been dying of flu, I wasn't terrified to go out of my house in the winter of 2017/2018 and I didn't walk around with a mask on and events weren't cancelled... The number of deaths wasn't on the news every night either.

That's the point I'm making and I don't think I'm misinterpreting anything.

Okay lets compare and give 50% of the global population flu and the other 50% Covid.
Would be the mortality rate for both be the same?
 
There have been many years where winter flu has caused chaos in the NHS.

It is usually a foot note in the news.

Corona is still a type of flu.
A very nasty one but still a flu.

The reporting that hospitals were near closed was the choice of the hospitals.

The nightingale hospitals that were built all round the country were hardly used at all.
So why weren't covid patients moved to the nightingales and the normal hospitals left to get on with normal life.
Cos there were no staff to man the Covid hospitals.
 
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