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Needing cases under 1000 day before lifting lockdown

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Gruffaloandmouse · 08/02/2021 10:23

I just saw an article which had this as the subject matter.
Surely we’re nowhere near lifting lockdown in that case?
I feel so sad about it all and how much my children are missing out on.

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ILookAtTheFloor · 08/02/2021 10:24

This is the Covid Zero plan- the moving of the goal posts.

Do you have a link?

Rosehip10 · 08/02/2021 10:30

Jeremy Hunt said this hence it is of no relevance.

faerin · 08/02/2021 10:31

It was Jeremy Hunt who said this and the media ran with it becase they know it'll scare the shit out of people and make them click the article.
It isn't a fact. Please don't take it as gospel.

KevinTheBird · 08/02/2021 10:34

This simply can’t happen. Lockdown is still in place to stop the NHS becoming overwhelmed. If they can’t cope with this then they are not fit for purpose. CV has a hospitalisation rate of 20% for those over 80. By the time it gets down to 1,000 cases a day it will be far, far lower than that due to the vaccinations.

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Gruffaloandmouse · 08/02/2021 10:39

metro.co.uk/2021/02/07/covid-19-cases-must-drop-to-1000-a-day-before-lockdown-lifted-14037478/

It is the metro I know. Not a reliable source I guess

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frozendaisy · 08/02/2021 10:45

Lockdown won't be lifted it will be eased gradually. Everyone has said this.

We are getting closer to some lifting of restrictions.

RedToothBrush · 08/02/2021 12:02

What pisses me off is talk of reopening schools BEFORE the over 50s have been vaccined AND hospitals have dropped to a level of covid cases below last April's peak.

I wish there was more of a focus on this rather that an arbitrary 1000 cases per day nonsense.

starfish88 · 08/02/2021 12:38

Shocking article. It says Boris Johnson has said that but nowhere is he quoted as saying that in the article. Only someone said it to him.

starfish88 · 08/02/2021 12:40

@RedToothBrush

What pisses me off is talk of reopening schools BEFORE the over 50s have been vaccined AND hospitals have dropped to a level of covid cases below last April's peak.

I wish there was more of a focus on this rather that an arbitrary 1000 cases per day nonsense.

Yes. If we had 10,000 cases a day and all of them including the elderly and vulnerable were mild or asymptomatic due to the vaccine it wouldn't be a problem.
notevenat20 · 08/02/2021 12:49

We will hopefully be down to 10,000 cases a day by early next week. Getting down to 1000 new cases will take around 8 weeks from now if nothing guess wrong. So early April.

Blaggingit123 · 08/02/2021 12:55

What pisses me off is talk of not providing children with an education using the excuse of some arbitrary number of cases or number of people in hospital which has very little relevance to the ruinous affect of lockdown on the next generation. The only reason the measure was necessary was to prevent overwhelm of the NHS. That was avoided and reopening of education must happen as soon as possible.

Reopening of rest of economy is completely unrelated to this. When Jeremy Hunt said this, he absolutely was not talking about schools.

RedToothBrush · 08/02/2021 13:07

@Blaggingit123

What pisses me off is talk of not providing children with an education using the excuse of some arbitrary number of cases or number of people in hospital which has very little relevance to the ruinous affect of lockdown on the next generation. The only reason the measure was necessary was to prevent overwhelm of the NHS. That was avoided and reopening of education must happen as soon as possible.

Reopening of rest of economy is completely unrelated to this. When Jeremy Hunt said this, he absolutely was not talking about schools.

If there hospitals are full of 50 - 55 year olds yet to be vaccinated who have caught covid from schools, how EXACTLY does that help kids? There are a huge number who have parents in that very age group.
notevenat20 · 08/02/2021 13:46

March 8 seems like a realistic date for school opening at least as that is three weeks after practically all groups 1-4 will have been vaccinated.

There are all sorts of complications about opening everything else while case numbers are still high. I wouldn't want to have to make those decisions.

Snowsnowglorioussnow · 08/02/2021 16:46

Blagging, opening schools and the NHS being over whelmed, goes hand in hand.

Katie517 · 08/02/2021 17:32

The media don’t seem to like to differentiate between restrictions and lockdown. We will not be in this level of lockdown past March but there will still be restrictions for a whole after.

Poppyliveshere · 08/02/2021 20:12

@RedToothBrush

What pisses me off is talk of reopening schools BEFORE the over 50s have been vaccined AND hospitals have dropped to a level of covid cases below last April's peak.

I wish there was more of a focus on this rather that an arbitrary 1000 cases per day nonsense.

Absolutely this 👆🏻
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