Pm's briefing - 5pm

[Kinky Gerbil]

My apologies, I was trying to do a 'funny'.

My bad. I’ve been whooshed on second reading.

 

[The Wizard]

Why they don’t just announce the national lockdown in new year already I don’t know, we all know it’s coming and we’ve known since the November lockdown finished, stop lying to us.

If this super strain is 75% more infectious than an ALREADY highly infectious virus they should be locking the entire country down now, but they aren’t... why?

 

[Gazwag]

Nothing much really happens over the Christmas week, schools are all closed, many non essential businesses are shut, why not just lockdown everybody until 4th Jan, then everybody will be the same

 

[beorhthelm]

Faisal Islam is reporting Europe is pissed that the U.K. didn’t alert them via the early warning systems in place and thus the shutdown, why would he not have done this?

it was the weekend and they dont read their emails until Monday?

 

[maltaseagull]

Perhaps that France has shut the boarders and no lorries can escape from Kent..

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No lodgers then?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

it was the weekend and they dont read their emails until Monday?

Maybe they check them once over the weekend, step up from Johnson I guess.

 

[middletoenail]

Why they don’t just announce the national lockdown in new year already I don’t know, we all know it’s coming and we’ve known since the November lockdown finished, stop lying to us.

If this super strain is 75% more infectious than an ALREADY highly infectious virus they should be locking the entire country down now, but they aren’t... why?

Because he hasn't got the b0llocks. He's trying to sit on the fence and appease the minority of wet blankets who bang on about lockdowns affecting their mental health and civil liberties.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Nothing much really happens over the Christmas week, schools are all closed, many non essential businesses are shut, why not just lockdown everybody until 4th Jan, then everybody will be the same

We need Tier 2 towns like Horsham left open so everybody can get the train down from Tier 4 London and Surrey to do their Christmas shopping.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

M2 being used instead but there is a problem, currently, owing to an overturned car at Faversham

What on earth did you do?!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What on earth did you do?!

Just reporting the news.

You stick to the weather, OK?

 

[Sorrel]

Really the only thing that matters now is: will the vaccine work on the new variant? As is the way of things I expect the answer won't be a clear "yes" or a clear "no" but instead a solid "it depends".

Everything else is just appeasing various pressure groups, none of whom will get exactly what they want and will complain about it.

I fully expect a new parliamentary approved national lockdown in each of our nations by the end of December but I can also see why they are not doing it right now. Hopefully things will be looking better by mid-January - and by early February we will probably be much closer to knowing the answer to the vaccine effectiveness question.

 

[maffew]

Covid-19 case rates are now above 1,000 cases per 100,000 people in eight local areas of the UK, PA reports.

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To put this number in perspective, 20 per 100k of population from ECDC data was the number generally use/d by the FCDO to impose travel restrictions on countries to go on the not safe to travel to lists. We are 50 x that number now. I cant see how the country can avoid a long national lockdown from January for some months

 

[maltaseagull]

Really the only thing that matters now is: will the vaccine work on the new variant? As is the way of things I expect the answer won't be a clear "yes" or a clear "no" but instead a solid "it depends".

Everything else is just appeasing various pressure groups, none of whom will get exactly what they want and will complain about it.

I fully expect a new parliamentary approved national lockdown in each of our nations by the end of December but I can also see why they are not doing it right now. Hopefully things will be looking better by mid-January - and by early February we will probably be much closer to knowing the answer to the vaccine effectiveness question.

I suspect that by February, we will see new targets set for vaccinations as the previous targets were way too optimistic.
Everyone done by 2023?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Poppycock. And then something in Latin.

Romani ite domum?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I suspect that by February, we will see new targets set for vaccinations as the previous targets were way too optimistic.
Everyone dead by 2023?

Corrected for you.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Really the only thing that matters now is: will the vaccine work on the new variant? As is the way of things I expect the answer won't be a clear "yes" or a clear "no" but instead a solid "it depends".

Everything else is just appeasing various pressure groups, none of whom will get exactly what they want and will complain about it.

I fully expect a new parliamentary approved national lockdown in each of our nations by the end of December but I can also see why they are not doing it right now. Hopefully things will be looking better by mid-January - and by early February we will probably be much closer to knowing the answer to the vaccine effectiveness question.

OK so Covid is a seasonal flu. We need a new flu vaccine every year owing to mutations.

What we have here in North Kent is Covid-20.

You can guess the rest.

 

[Motogull]

OK so Covid is a seasonal flu. We need a new flu vaccine every year owing to mutations.

What we have here in North Kent is Covid-20.

You can guess the rest.

What, before being evicted the Orange bungle**** starts talking about the Medway Virus?

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

What, before being evicted the Orange bungle**** starts talking about the Medway Virus?

Swale. It's Swale. Medway is borderline cockney

 

[Sorrel]

What we have here in North Kent is Covid-20.

You can guess the rest.

Yes, fairly depressing if that is the case. But we - by which I mean the science and organisation - will hopefully get better at things as we get more experienced.

I think even the most visceral detractors of our response would agree that the government and systems put in place have more scope for improving than getting worse.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]