Boris about to give an update

I'm interested to hear from any bar/restaurant/pub owners who voted for this clueless bushy haired idiot who is now making them dig their own graves by not outright banning place from opening. These places can't claim on the insurance at the moment.

Boris only care about the financial sector and it's people and people still voted for him.

As for this crisis I will be continuing to support and help out my local community as best I can. Loneliness will be a massive thing over the next few months.
 
I think people need to accept that the virus is everywhere and these moves are simply designed to try and cope with the infection and treatment of those who will need medical intervention. It will also importantly buy time until respirator capacity increased and/or we get an effective vaccine.

I thought of an analogy that might help.

Imagine you have two bins, one full to the brim with rice grains of various types to signify those of us who are uninfected, infected and vulnerable be that by age or medical condition (the population), the other one empty. You also have a funnel (the health and social care system) that all rice grains must pass through as you transfer the rice from one bin to another.

If you simply attempt to pour all the rice into the funnel at once it will become overwhelmed and you won't get any rice through.

These distancing methods are the equivalent of slowly pouring the rice through the funnel. It will take longer, but the flow through the funnel will continue.

It is vitally important that people adhere to these guidelines and sometimes exceed them so as to keep the "rice" flowing within the capacity of the "funnel".

If these social distancing methods work out then it's akin to sorting out the rice into different piles before passing them through the funnel if they need it. It is also entirely possible that once you've completed this exercise that you'll have to do the same again because we don't have an effective vaccine.
 
And, in that analogy what if the person pouring the rice through the funnel ignores advice and just pours it all in one go.
Wouldn’t it be better torigorously control the the flow rather than say something like
‘Can you please control the flow, but its up to you’?
 
That's one of the variables finny and as I've said plenty of times on here in the past few days, we need leadership even if that means being brutally honest about things. I actually think we are being moved forcibly to that point as circumstances overtake the opportunity for spin. It is terribly sad for me to say that, but as I also said yesterday, this will be the making or breaking of the nation.
This is an existential crisis and it should, once we've done as much as we can to ensure the health of the nation, look at how easily our society can be dismantled by a natural phenomena that will be greater than any earthquake, tidal wave or volcano.
That people can work all their life to create a pension and then have it potentially wiped out at the whim of a stock market panic is criminal. Those moving those markets won't be affected in any way as much as those in the bottom 99% who'll have their pension devalued or will lose their jobs.
We live in a house of cards.
 
The Chancellor has just said those with appropriate insurance will be able to claim on it.
As I said above, circumstances are forcing the doing of the right thing.
 
dooderooni said:
The Chancellor has just said those with appropriate insurance will be able to claim on it.
As I said above, circumstances are forcing the doing of the right thing.
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That sounds good but is it up to the Chancellor or the insurance companies? How many businesses will be insured for non forced closure?
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
That sounds good but is it up to the Chancellor or the insurance companies? How many businesses will be insured for non forced closure?
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Give it time BBG, they say 24hrs is a long time in politics. In an existential crisis like this it is an eternity.
 
BlindBoyGrunt said:
That sounds good but is it up to the Chancellor or the insurance companies? How many businesses will be insured for non forced closure?
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A tweet from a spokesman for insurance companies on Politics live said most policies don't have forced closure in their cover. So this may be a pyrrhic victory.
 
bear66 said:
nteresting that 19000

A tweet from a spokesman for insurance companies on Politics live said most policies don't have forced closure in their cover. So this may be a pyrrhic victory.
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A businessman said the same on Radio 4 this morning.
 
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