Lockdown easing in England

[KGarrad]

I disagree.
IMHO yours is NOT a balanced opinion!

(I thought RootsChat was a politics free zone?)

[Roobarb]

No mention of how it got to Spain, Italy and France.

[youngtug]

Some people do talk rubbish,

[Maiden Stone]

I was feeling optimistic after a couple of days with death numbers in two digits but I see we were back up into the 300s today, though I've thought for a long time that these statistics are so hit and miss as to be misleading and pretty useless as a measurement of what's going on.


Nothing this government has done in the last couple of months has made much sense to me - and now we have people coming into the country being asked to self isolate for 14 days when a) most of them won't do it ; b) its virtually impossible to police, and c) its 3 months too late.

Daily death numbers announced at press briefings give only a partial picture.  They are usually lower at weekends anyway. Scotland's was 7 yesterday after 2 consecutive days with nil deaths reported. Nicola Sturgeon explained that Tuesday's figure was usually higher because it was a catch-up from the weekend when fewer deaths are reported.
ONS weekly statistics are more reliable to see trends. There's a time lag with publication. Percentage of death certificates which mention Covid-19 has decreased.
Matt Hancock announced last week that total deaths had passed 40,000. That figure was reached in May by another method of counting.

Quarantine for arrivals: you left off d) when most countries have a lower number of cases than UK.

[Viktoria]

Youngtug, my post was intentionally daft,ridiculous, just to lighten things up a bit.
No intention of causing offence ,just a laugh, I hope others see it for what  it was meant to be.
I did not imagine anyone would take it seriously.

.Viktoria.

[Skoosh]

@ Kev, a breath of Fresh Ayre as usual! 

Skoosh.

[JenB]

(I thought RootsChat was a politics free zone?)

You can’t have been reading the postings on this board over the last few weeks then 

[sugarfizzle]

Surely it's impossible for a forum on this subject to be completely non political?

Other subjects maybe.

Regards Margaret

[jillruss]

Youngtug, my post was intentionally daft,ridiculous, just to lighten things up a bit.
No intention of causing offence ,just a laugh, I hope others see it for what  it was meant to be.
I did not imagine anyone would take it seriously.

.Viktoria.

Take no notice, Viktoria, some people just don't have a sense of humour!