Don’t Understand

[weecalf]

The people who know are saying easing the lock down may not be a good idea .Yet Boris is not listening but has said if there is a spike then he will go back to lock down . So that says to me the bold Boris is taking chances with peoples live to prove what .. dangerous game Boris won’t be able to avoid questions will he .

[bednobs]

he's done a pretty good job so far of not answering questions :) who are "the people who know"?

[Maydup]

I'm happy with the easing and us taking a chance in order to protect jobs and the economy. Although looking at the photos from the south coast this week, I'm pleased not to be there!

[weecalf]

Bed the medical experts Boris blames but relies on when it suits him .

[roopower]

Damned if you do and damned if you don't

[gulliver1]

Think Boris,s decision will come back to bite him in the rear. I hope I am wrong , we all want covid over and done with.

[bednobs]

which ones have specifically advised not to ease lockdown?

[jno]

there's one here, bednobs ... all to do with proxemics...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/24/boris-johnson-ease-lockdown-england

[jno]

(sorry, just to be clear, that was about the way of doing it more than whether it should be done at all, though it suggests it's the same thing in the end: do it wrong and you'll have to reimpose lockdown as weecalf says)

[New Judge]

//So that says to me the bold Boris is taking chances with peoples live to prove what...//

How do you come to the conclusion that the PM is taking chances with people's lives? He is not forcing anybody to go out or to do anything they don't want to. If you want to remain "locked down" you can. He's not relaxing the restrictions to prove anything. He's ding so in order that the country's economy can start up properly again.

//Think Boris,s decision will come back to bite him in the rear. I hope I am wrong , we all want covid over and done with.//

Frankly there is no choice, Gully. Of course we all want the crisis over and done with. But since the government chose to try to prevent the spread of the virus by suspending economic activity the crisis has become multi-pronged. There is no clear evidence that the cure is beginning to kill the patient and far more damage is resulting from the measures taken to fight the virus than from the virus itself. Anybody believing the country can continue in this state of suspension for much longer is living in a fools' paradise.

[New Judge]

^^^There is NOW clear evidence that the cure is beginning to kill the patient...

(Oh for an edit facility!)

[dannyk13]

The latest on future lock downs following a spike in Covid19 is that they will be done on a local basis.

[Zacs-Master]

Local lockdowns have been talked about for a couple of months now.