Have You Been Watching The Downing Street Briefing ?

[Bobbisox1]

With Boris,
Might be a happy Christmas after all

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-live-updates-lockdown-uk-22369885#409787

[Gromit]

NJ and DD

Well done Boris Johnson.
We have had only 5 times the number of Corona deaths as Germany.
But without the PMs brilliant leadership we could have had 10 times more deaths.

[emmie]

still too depressing, i switched off a while back.

[10ClarionSt]

I haven't watched a one. Tis true! Just the same as I haven't listened to anything on the BBC. How they keep broadcasting about CV-19 all the time is beyond me.

[Deskdiary]

Gromit - I’m not for one second defending Johnson, my point is I feel it is important for perspective reasons to provide context, and it is an undeniable cast iron fact that if you’re under 45 and in reasonable health, the chance of you dying from Covid is so slim as to be negligible.

If you’re over 80 and you catch Covid, there’s a much higher chance of you dying, and therefore it is this age group that we should be concentrating our efforts on, instead there’s been an unnecessary broad-brush approach which is screwing the economy, and I find it infuriatingly nonsensical to do so.

[TonyV]

I've given up, Leicester town centre is still in total lock down for the next 2 weeks at least, Mayor is making it up as he goes along, perhaps been on phone to Boris.

[douglas9401]

Local councils given sweeping powers to shut stuff down.

What could possibly go even more wrong?

[iluvmargie]

^ Personally, I think that's one of the daftest decisions Boris has ever come up with.

[TonyV]

And he has all those "advisors" Make what you will of his decisions, I just think he offloading his duties and responsibilities, so it will not be his fault. Leicester now has the highest death rate in the country.

[ichkeria]

“if we don't keep some sort of control over it, or take action to keep it in check, then it will become even more deadly”

As a matter of fact there’s a very good chance that that is incorrect. The history of previous viruses tends to show that they tend to become less deadly as people develop some immunity to them and in fact are more likely to mutate into something more deadly as a reaction to vaccines. If people are catching the thing through total lack of immunity then there’s generally no need for them to try to fight back.

[New Judge]

//What the numbers tell me is that we have a new virus unlike any other,//

They also tell you how likely you are to catch it. And that's where the requirement to "lock down" needs to be assessed.

//Well done Boris Johnson.
We have had only 5 times the number of Corona deaths as Germany.//

As I said, the number of Corona deaths is not the entire picture. You also need to include the number of "lockdown" deaths that occur - i.e. deaths that were not from (or with) Coronavirus but were a result of the lockdown, There have already been some and there will be many more.

//if we don't keep some sort of control over it, or take action to keep it in check, then it will become even more deadly//

As above, that is almost certainly incorrect. Viruses mutate over time and they tend to mutate into versions that do not kill their chosen hosts. If it's kept "in check" (whatever that might mean) such mutations are less likely to occur. All that keeping it in check does is spreads out the casualties over a longer period. If keeping it in check involves crippling they economy as well (and we're also seeing serious symptoms of that) then that lasts longer too.

[Deskdiary]

Teacake at 11.17pm.

The way your post is worded it appears to me you’re referring to the UK, that being the case, your assertion it could wipe out millions is so incredibly wrong I don’t even know where to start - so I won’t.

I’m not trying to look clever by posting the stats (although it’s easy to look clever next to you) I’m merely posting freely available numbers, and those numbers speak volumes.