Second Wave - Yes or No?

[MysticMeghan]

So the papers are now full of warnings about a "deadly second wave" but if you ditch the articles and look at the comments 99% of people don't agree. People want lockdown over, they want to get out, they want things back how they were. Look at the beaches today.

Most people I know think it's going to peter out in the next few weeks. The tabloids seem to be going with this, but then they print whatever sensationalist crap sells newspapers, it's not necessarily true. Even my own friends think that in a worst case scenario few people might have mild flu like symptoms, it's not worth going crazy over, we're all over reacting and we've stuffed the economy and everyone's businesses and jobs for nothing. Just so the government can flex its muscles and control us. Many even think it's a conspiracy.

Justification for the "overreaction" theory seems to be that the Nordic countries haven't really locked down and only a few have died. Many European countries now opening up again with few ill effects and many tourist destinations in Spain etc.now looking to have a late tourist season.

In the UK we are constantly being reminded that deaths are going DOWN. Therefore it's ok.. "It's over" seems to be the prevailing theme. McDonalds and Burger King open again, people in England allowed to travel and taking full advantage, going to the beach, the park, hanging out with their mates. Prevailing theory seems to be that the experts over reacted and got it wrong, we all self isolated for nothing and the same experts warning of a second wave just want their 5 minutes of fame. Ignore them and lock them up. Most people don't know anyone who has had it or died of it and therefore the risk is small, it's just a bit of flu and people die of flu all the time.

Or....there might be a very deadly second wave after all, this is being glimpsed in China but is being covered up. Governments and companies are desperate to re-start economies so are taking the view that if a few more die who cares, they were probably old people who would have died anyway. And young people aren't affected so just put things back the way they were and if a few oldies die then just collateral damage.Oldies can stay at home if they're worried.

Which is it? I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. It IS a deadly disease, it's being desperately underplayed now in the interests of preventing economic ruin. I certainly think the British Media is being manipulated and that's why we have one story one day and a completely different one the next.

Am I the only person in the world who thinks that pubs and restaurants re-opening and global travel re-starting for the sake of keeping a tourist industry alive is a really bad idea?

RainBow12e

I do hope you are wright, I am going to see what happens in Italy in three weeks time if there rate stays down then hopefully ours will.

I’m keeping my legs and fingers crossed

I wish people would stop saying "look at Spanish flu".

The two situations are so different

We might just as well I look at pneumonic plague or any other pandemic

I don't think there will be a wave .....I think at worst we might get some localised small swellings

Ripples.

Was pleased to read that Bristol still doing well just now but then saw Weston Hospital down the road has just closed A and E due to Covid:

www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/outbreak-of-coronavirus-at-weston-general-hospital-1-6669079

This is their first closure since it started and apparently loads of staff off sick with it at end of last week, hence today’s decision.

I suspect we may see the smaller holiday towns hit hard this time round. Hope not, time will tell.

I think we can expect to see continued isolated hotspots, and they might often be hospitals, but the likelihood of those hospitals being in seaside towns may be elevated by seaside towns often having a higher proportion of elderly residents.

There will be a second wave and it's probably already started, it wont be noticeable in the early stages though. I'm really hoping it will be less often fatal thanks to the impact of higher vitamin D levels.

If enough of you are daft enough to believe there isnt a second wave and get it now perhaps we can also avoid the NHS being overwhelmed this winter.

Having a second wave doesn’t mean we cannot have a third or a fourth one, at the end of the day, it seems not enough immunity is built up by fighting the illness and there is no vaccine in the near future.

But let’s hope it doesn’t get that bad, especially now that so many are rightfully feeling the itch to bin the lockdown after Dominic Cummings’ actions even when they are still convinced the right thing is to stay at home.

This wave will drift off with a few minor hiccups that will get people exited once things start reopening.
July and August will be virtually back to normal.

Then big question mark over the winter/ Autumn which is a 50/50 as I see it, I don't think we will get another peak now but another wave is more if a worry.