What do you think will Boris say tomorrow?

[coffeecoffeegoose]

I think it will be interesting to have him back and see what he has to say after experiencing Covid himself.. will he extend lockdown?

Haters have got to hate. Let's hope it's never your child when they grow up who gets verbally ripped to pieces every day the same way you do with Boris and others on here.

I thought it was good. I think, love him or hate him, we need his energy and enthusiasm right now.

I thought he still seemed breathless. Guess it takes a while to fully get over.

I intensely dislike Boris and nearly 100% of what he stands for.

I didn't hear his speech.

But I'm relieved he's back.

He won't say anything major until after May 7th

That was a sensible statement
(and I'm not a Boris fan)

Lockdown has to stay as long as necessary to avoid a 2nd peak, which would wreck the economy anyway

Measures will be lifted gradually, as and when safe

He wants maximum transparency
and to involve the opposition parties more

He won't say anything major until after May 7th

I thought this but wondered why we were having a special speech rather than him just appear at the daily briefing

Let's hope it's never your child when they grow up

I reckon ds2 will make an awesome politician, he can do the pointing with your thumb thing and can make the answer to a simple yes no question Last 20 minutes and its only later you realise he didn't answer the original question

RufustheLanglovingreindeer DD2 is the same. She also finds a way to blame everyone else for everything that goes wrong. She’s born to be a politician!

Great speech.I'm glad he said that we are not ready to lift lockdown yet, hopefully people who are relaxing their social distancing efforts will take note of him.
Good to have him back at number ten, he is our elected leader after all. Though many don't like him we still need that focus.

Lockdown has to stay as long as necessary to avoid a 2nd peak,

Genuine question because maybe I've misunderstood something somewhere, but unless we lockdown until there is a vaccine that has been administered to large portions of the country, isn't there going to be a second peak whenever the lockdown is lifted, whether its tomorrow or in a year? I'm not saying the lockdown should be lifted tomorrow, there are obviously things that need to happen first (adequate ppe supplies would be one example), I just dont really understand what the likelihood is of avoiding a second peak? When they say avoid, do they just mean reduce the size of a second peak?

Rufus

Poor man can't win; he makes an appearance and it's not good enough. Had he have not appeared, there would have been an uproar ( namely from the left) that he needed to be seen...

It's bullshit

LittleMiss74

We said the same

@Meredithgrey1, As I understand it, it's all about the reproduction number (R). So, if they can see after a period of time, that the R is well under 1 (which means you infect less than one person) and it stays there, under lockdown, they can slowly, very slowly, start to lift a few of the measures. This is what Spain are doing, yesterday, for the first time in 6 weeks kids under 14 were allowed out for an hour with an adult. They've been stuck indoors for 6 weeks. Next weekend, Spain are going to allow adults out for exercise. Then a week after that they will relax a further restriction.
All the time, the focus will be what is happening with the R number. If it rises, they will reintroduce measures again.

This is basically what Boris said - keep the lockdown, make sure the R number gets to where it should be and stays there, before moving into phase 2.
If we all went back to normal tomorrow, the R number which is currently going down, would shoot back up, and we'd have a second peak before we're out of the first. If enough people continue the flout social distancing, it will go up, and lockdown will be extended, and possibly more restrictive.

Whilst under lockdown, the R number will decrease to a point where transmission chances are very low.

Whitty said last week that some social distances will stay in place for up to a year, or when there is a vaccine. Those measures will mean life is different to how it was in February, but life will not be as restrictive as it is now. As long as people do what we need to do now, then this lockdown will end earlier but if people flout the advice, the R goes up, the lockdown extends.

That's how I understand it, anyway.

dodgy

Well like i say I was expecting Him to be there at the afternoon briefing

I thought he was going to tighten it so the fact that he said ‘nothing’ is somewhat of a relief

driving

He is actually studying politics at A level...i may have created a monster

Reading the Boris Fan Club gushing over nothing is giving flashbacks of the Corbyn Fan Club - both determined to find the deep and meaningful in the shallow and vague utterings of the Dear Leader.

Are we due a re-run of Life Of Brian?

God, he's useless.

@SophieB100 Right but my understanding was the the R number was lowered by the lockdown, and will therefore rise when it ends, however slowly that's done? If the lockdown ends slowly, the R number will rise slowly, but it will still rise. I guess I'm just struggling to see how this will end if you have to reintroduce measure everytime it rises when I can't see how it wont start to rise once schools are back, tubes are rammed, gyms are open etc etc.

I think the idea is to test and contact trace to limit the rise which is easier with lower numbers.