UK world beating again

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6634 new cases today. Highest ever recorded in UK for the pandemic.
AIBU to think that the government should bring some tougher restrictions now instead of letting the virus spread.

Yes. More testing = more cases. Until deaths start rising, there is no need to destroy the economy any more than it already is being destroyed. After all, how do we fund an NHS throughout flu season with everyone on lockdown?

But lo! Deaths are rising. 40 today.

I think we recorded close to 8k at one point during March.

I think the big danger is that the numbers in the community affect number of key workers off sick/isolating. And higher risk of it getting to care homes

@SqidgeBum deaths are rising!

Hospital rates and death numbers are rising again, as pp have said. The number of cases recorded is very high but not remotely equivalent to what we would have seen had we had the same testing capacity back in March.

deaths ARE rising.....takes 2 weeks for them to start to happen. looking at the chart it looks like the first few days of covid back in march!

yet we have more cases now than we did back then

its worrying

Nowhere near the same rate as the cases, or in comparison to what we saw in lockdown months.

It's definitely rising (proportion of people testing positive is going up) but more people are being tested now than at the peak so it's not really the worst day.

We have to do something and we probably haven't gone far enough but I would like to see them give measures a chance to have an impact. I want to feel like there is method to this madness

Whitty said that cases are not rising due to more testing. It was because the positivity rate was increasing.

We shouldn't be in the same situation as March where the govt just came up. No data on people positive and letting it spread through the community. Overseas travel same factor as March.

Not sure what your title means, world beating at what?

Rising, so what? The infection is here to stay. What kind or lockdown do you expect that would reduce the number to 0?

What sort of measures are you thinking?

Don’t forget, every time we lift any measures the infection rate will rise - it will be impossible to avoid this unless we live eternally in full lockdown... which isn’t feasible.

Well Singapore, nz and aus are doing pretty well at keeping infection rate low and opening up cautiously I think.