To think easing lockdown on Monday is allowing a second peak to happen?

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Exactly that really. Still 4,000 odd infections a day, 600 deaths a day and there easing up on Monday.

Also i didnt watch the press con but gather they said the r has gone up a bit because of infection spread in care homes and hospitals. Would we in that case be better off focusing on throwing everything at infection control in care homes and hospitals rather than continuing with the rest of the measures?

I realise it will be very difficult and very expensive to do that (taxis for care workers, ppe, daily testing), but then so is a 14% fall in gdp and a significant increase in unemployment very expensive. And it seems, if this is the case, the lockdown hasnt protected the elderly in care homes as much as it might have anyway - although they are probably amongst the more vulnerable.

They haven't even met the 5 criteria they set themselves! It's an absolute joke!
A press briefing on a Thursday to tell people the situation will be eased on Monday but people are to stay in for 3 days in between!

Honestly people will die because of this! This Govt is incompetent!

The reason why Germany's death toll is so low is that as soon as symptoms start people are tested by their GPs who aren't hiding in their surgeries like ours are.

Yes of course it is. I just wish they'd come out and say it. "Thousands more of you are going to get sick and die but we don't really care enough to try and stop it. We know if you end up in hospital 1/3 won't come out alive. Suck it up and clap."

We know if you end up in hospital 1/3 won't come out alive

Except that's blatantly not true.

Probably be a big increase in infections in about two weeks time after all the drunken loons have spent VE day breaking social distancing rules.

Totally expecting this...even in our "respectable" village they're all having street parties. Unbelievable.

It was fairly obvious there would be a spread of infection in hospitals. What was the point of the Nightingale hospitals? Covid patients shouldn't be anywhere near other patients. No wonder people don't want to go to A & E.

Raab wasnt clear at all on the extensions he just said we're still carrying on and pm will speak on sunday-it was a very wishy washy statment

i think he could have said lockdown is extended and the pm will make a statement

like isaid the media hasnt helped at all with their headlines

How is 'lockdown until you're told otherwise' so hard to understand?

And as for taking news and instructions from the headlines in the tabloids, words fail me. They print nothing but untruths and speculation, spun to suit their own agenda.

If it's not on gov.uk, the NHS website or similar, it's fairly meaningless.

@Smilethoyourheartisbreaking,

So what you're saying is that the Imperial model is crap but actually we don't know that any model is less crap? Yet we have to make decisions anyway. These quotes come to mind.

Interesting discussion on newsnight lastnight about the use of models To make such decisions (not about the coding, but interesting nevertheless!)

This is a very interesting timeline of events.

We're in Wales, so we've already had our "easing announced". It doesn't amount to much. We are allowed to exercise outside more than once a day, and this must be in our local area. Garden centres are allowed to open if they can support 2m social distancing, and local councils have been instructed to make plans to safy reopen household waste sites and libraries. That's it. Schools will not be opening on 2st June in Wales. They won't be in Scotland or Northern Ireland either. I would be surprised if England does much more than this. It absolutely won't be a compete easing.

Let's wait and see how much actual 'easing' happens on Monday. We've had rumours before.

Second peak is already starting in mang areas