| The argument is heating up on easing restrictions 23:10 - Feb 4 with 15263 views | StokieBlue |
So it looks like the Tory backbenchers and the Chancellor are applying pressure to try and get the government to bring forward the dates for considering easing the lockdown in England.
This is against the advice of SAGE who Sunak has stated are acting too conservatively. You also have Hunt coming out and saying lockdown should be continued until cases are to 1000 per day and Starmer saying we shouldn't open up too early like other times.
Then you have Chope on Newsnight saying that the 8th March should be "lockdown freedom day" when the public get their "liberties" back and other evidences showing that only 20% of people are following isolation orders.
The issue here is that if there are 20,000 cases a day, even if the R is low (say 0.6) then when you open up that is still a high baseline number of cases which can start growing exponentially again and it won't take long to get to high numbers. Counter to that, if you wait until cases are 5,000 per day it will take longer to reach higher cases and it will also allow more time for vaccinations before those cases reach a high level.
Interesting Chope refused to say what an acceptable number of cases were to open up, he said that isn't the point and that people should be able to exercise their freedom and even referred to the public as "prisoners" so that might give an indication where a number of Tory backbenchers are at the moment.
You also have Damien Green on Newsnight saying that this has to be the last lockdown for both economic and mental health reasons and in order for that to be the case we need come out in a cautious and pragmatic way due to the new variants.
So it seems there are two very solid blocks of opinion but very little agreement between the blocks.
What are peoples thoughts?
SB
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| The argument is heating up on easing restrictions on 13:12 - Feb 6 with 237 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| The argument is heating up on easing restrictions on 12:28 - Feb 6 by Funge |
That's literally what happened tho, BL's initial post stated that:-
'As I pass I get told / shouted at for being "A selfish prick" by the old lady and "A moron" by the old man.'
As often is the case, I don't really know what your point is here. |
It's not "screaming." He's added an adjective to make it look worse. But whatever, we've come to an agreement now. I accept they were OTT. |  |
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