This isn’t even local to me, but it typifies the mentality of some of the people in this part of the UK.
Government will review the Lockdown rules at Easter according to Conservative mp on question Time
They said 3 weeks from lockdown, which is roughly easter
I’m not saying that at all (please read what I wrote). I’m saying if you had even the most basic of understanding that wouldn’t be a design criterion for several obvious reasons.
They have:
Both are increasingly exponentially and will do so for a while before slowing down.
But you are clearly an expert of designing bio weapons so please give us your expert opinion.
That’s a very small part of the point I was making there. The point being that yes lockdown will contain the virus, but the numbers would continue rising beyond the dates in my post due to infections within households. Weird that this was brought up because I’m pretty sure we don’t even disagree on this 
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They might review the rules at easter but not a chance in hell they’re lifting it that soon.
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No we don’t 
I was just making a peripheral comment because it still seems some people don’t realise that staying at home is intended to keep the spread within the home.
It was also a small part of my post where I was pointing out that it most certainly is exponential growth.
I didn’t want anyone to get the mistaken impression that it’s remotely likely you’ll avoid intrahousehold spread.
Got it.
Swiftly moving on then…
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Word-of-mouth advertising not effective when everyone is locked up at home not interacting with others?
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When do companies tend to release their quarterly results? I imagine that will show a lot of the impact of covid
No! (Sorry…) Rather, it’s Lots of businesses that have not been told to close and whose employees cannot work from home. Under what’s been said to date a definition of ‘Essential’ does not come into this at all.
(Not commenting on the goodness of badness of the policy, just on the limits of the restrictions themselves.)
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Absolutely. The government need to clarify this. I understand that they don’t want to economy to collapse, but this is more important.
EasyJet aren’t in the best position to push for a government bailout, as they paid out a huge dividend to share holders recently (including Stelios). I would hope the government would expect easyJet to ask their newly enriched shareholders to support the company in the first instance.
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This episode of More or Less is excellent in explaining the risk of Coronavirus and what it means on both an individual and population level. Highly recommended listen (and less than 10 min):
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Any takers for a sumptuous silver lining?!
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Good riddance!
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It might just be me being cold hearted but I always struggle to empathise with people who feature in articles like this.
Like the guy in there that paid £2k for a £400 TV 
- Was he not aware, or did he not do the math on the repayment amount?
- Currys would have been miles cheaper, or any catalogue like Argos, Very etc. Why not use one of them? Or absolutely anything else like an overdraft, credit card and so on.
Ultimately, Why was he in such desperate need for a TV of that size or even one at all?
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