AIBU to be pissed at the UK government?

[Ladynada39]

I'm Irish, live in Ireland. We CURRENTLY have had 2 deaths from Covid19 and our government have effectively closed down the country to help slow the spread of the virus. Our schools, universities, child care services, pubs and many many clothes and no essential shops are closed. We are practicing social distancing (staying 1-2m from other people). No visiting our parents, grandparents, friends or neighbours. We are staying in our own very small family cells (those people who we share a house with). We are scrubbing our hands and faces after being outside, disinfecting door handles and shopping trolley. We are really trying to save our country and it's people and not make the mistakes Italy have made. We even cancelled mass, weddings, confirmation, christening s!!!!

It is so so so annoying to watch our nearest neighbours proceed as normal... School open. Cheltenham races open... Football matches being played... Concerts going ahead!!! Crazy!!! Look at Italy!!! 1000's dead!!! The healthcare staff have to choose who to safe! If it is between a 53yr old and a 47yr old, they many old save one! In italy people died alone and medical staff had to find phones/iPads so that they could say goodbye to their families! They are then cremated!!!!
Do not let this happen in the UK. It is boggling that the UK government is putting not just it's people at risk but also my country as we share a border!
Tell me this is madness??? Why are the UK government getting away with this and it's people letting them????

@HelgaHere1 regardless of their reasons, at least we can say they're thinking of the people and not hoping most of the vulnerable or the old magically disappears as they are a burden to the state.

Trust me, no-one wants this virus to get to the townships. So far it's not, which is a good thing. But at least we are aware of it and working on plan B.

To be honest, I can't see how our economy can survive this, or the small businesses like the one I work in. We're just doing what we can to minimise the spread.

* China, medical staff, were becoming re-infected*

No. Chinese doctors have already said it was a combination of faulty testing at the beginning with people with serious cases being released early from hospital while they still had the virus (in the mistaken belief that new milder cases needed priority). That has been fixed now.

Well I’m definitely in the minority as I don’t support mass lockdown. It won’t work. It would initially slow the spread but we can’t stay on lockdown forever, as China have seen, and as soon as we come out of lockdown the numbers would start to increase again. Realistically, we could only go into lockdown once.

I’m fully supportive of measures to slow the spread in an effort to stop our hospitals being overwhelmed at once. Those who are in a position to work from home should. Other workplaces could look to stagger shifts so that fewer employees are working at the same time. We should try to protect the most vulnerable, not travel unnecessarily, avoid concerts, sporting fixtures etc. But the fact is that this will spread, and I believe the long term impact on jobs and the economy will be far worse than the virus itself if the measures taken are too extreme.

The response by the UK government is shocking.

They are willingly gambling thousands of lives on the theory that getting this virus confers immunity. That is unknown.

It IS known that all viruses mutate and change the virus enough to make you susceptible again, because your immune system thinks it is a new infection that it has never seen before. That is why there is a new vaccination available each year for the flu, and why the annual vaccination will be for three or four new strains.

Taking a 'herd immunity' strategy in the absence of any vaccine is accepting that thousands of people will die. I know thousands will die anyway.
But it's not acceptable to allow that to happen without even trying to prevent it and taking the containment measures which have been taken in the past and proven to work (eg- SARS in Asia).

What happened to keep calm and carry on - running around like headless chickens screeching it's the government to blame is hardly improving the situation.
If you want to self isolate just do it. Don't go to public gatherings if you don't want to. Advise those at risk to stay home. And cross your fingers for luck.
But get a grip fgs.

Ryanair have now said they will ground 80% of their fleet and have not ruled out grounding their entire fleet!

@ladynada39

Ah, NOW they ground 80% of their fleet. Now Cheltenham is over and done with. What good timing! Mind you to be fair I don’t think O’Leary travelled over himself this year

@Ladynada39 I agree. I'm Irish, living in Ireland too. I've closed my business. I'm at home with my ds and Dh. We wont be seeing our parents. We're just doing jobs around the house. Tidying up the garden etc. We live in the middle of nowhere and probably won't see another person until this is over.

I cannot believe that UK schools are open, that Cheltenham went ahead. That people are going about their normal daily routines. Ridiculous.

I don't think you're being unreasonable but I'm Irish living in Ireland. I'm genuinely baffled by A-the UK government response and b UK citizens response. The Irish government make a speech about trying to protect the vulnerable, working together to save lives and yet all Boris Johnson seems to be concerned about is the economy. I've been following threads on here and on Irish forums. The Irish forums are all concerned about grandparents, protecting the weak, protecting the vulnerable and all the English posts are concerned about is economy, jobs, how are people going to survive the boredom of self isolation etc etc. You can revive an economy, you can't raise the dead.

Why were pubs in Dublin teeming if everyone is so worried about schools in the UK? And why did so many Irish people come to Cheltenham?

You are entitled to close your border with NI. As other EU states have done with one another.

all the English posts are concerned about is economy

You haven’t been reading very carefully, have you?

The mass hysteria is unbelievable - off the scale. If you are worried then stay at home and don't mix socially.

Just wondering ......

Is the WHO guilty of hysteria do you think now given today's developments?

I personally don't think so...... but each to their own of course.

There was major backlash from the pubs being full in Temple bar Dublin. As a result, all pubs in Ireland have closed!
I know personal of people booked to go to Cheltenham that did not attend... It was ok here until Thursday morning when in was announced that schools would close, medics posted videos telling us how serious it was going to get. All I can say is it was like a light switch! People in the space of a few hours changed there attitude and the country reverted indoors to protect itself! As far as I can see, the UK government are saying it is survival of the fittest! Feck the rest!