Seems like a lot of people have ended the lockdown themselves this weekend....

[Smithtylater]

I went to work today (am on maternity but returning on Monday) to meet my manager (NHS, working an on call weekend shift). I drove past Hampton court for the first time since i have been on maternity leave. You would have thought it was a normal sunny weekend day? Ice cream vans, hoards of people all close, hundreds of people on bikes, people sitting with their feet in the river, kids running around.
There is loads more traffic, more people around and even my own brother has gone 3 hour drive up North for a 40th birthday party?! I was angry at him and he said that the host said that the lockdown is 'ending tommorow so what is an extra day'?

I have seen on twitter about London Fields today (literally 1000s of people sitting there) and lots of people are under the impression its all ending on Monday ?!

But can you really blame people when you look at the headlines of all the papers? Boris should have adressed the nation before the weekend imo.

Great. We're doing marvellously then. Let's get on with lifting lockdown and see what the numbers look like.

@rawlikesushi
"" study virology? Which side do we take, Chris Whitty or Neil Ferguson?""

One follows the guidance, the other doesn't, as haven't many top people, including our prime minister. Just before we thing that the general public is too stupid to decide and risk assess for themselves.

@seltaeb, the explanation has been given of poor air quality (which is why Liverpool has a high rate of lung diseases) and deprivation.

It's partly been fueled by austerity and a lack of interest in clean air.

Er ... Milan is not the capital of Italy - Rome is - and its population is 4.25 million.

And Milan's population is 3.1 million.

When we went into lockdown we were told it was to protect the NHS from getting overloaded with Covid patients, and to get ready for people getting it!! you remember that why they spent millions on but these nightingale hospitals the are basically sitting there empty!!

You say this like it's a bad thing...?

And Milan's population is 3.1 million.

Hmm...

City of Milan is 1.4 million. London is just under 9 million.

Province of Milan is 3.1 million. The latter is more comparable to the London metro area (London + commuter belt) which has got population of 14.4 million.

the figure you need is the number of deaths per million of the population.

The worst country is Belgium
Then Spain,
Then Italy,
Then UK
Then USA

But there is no correlation between figures. Some countires are not including care homes (Spain, Italy, Germany) some are (UK) seeing as the levels are so high in care homes, this is highly sgnificant.