They want the daily infection rates to drop every day, yesterday infection was 6000 the day before that 4000, we will be in another 3 week lock down regardless of the “exit lockdown” strategy 
5 Things that need to happen before lockdown restrictions are eased:
- making sure the NHS can cope
- a “sustained and consistent” fall in the daily death rate
- rate of infection decreasing to “manageable levels”
- ensuring supply of tests and PPE can meet future demand
- and being confident any adjustments would not risk a second peak “that overwhelms the NHS”
Before yesterday we had been dropping daily since the 24th though!
It comes down to the average numbers, i would imagine we will need to see consistent drops for a period of time without any increases for anything to be considered.
Guess what happened 2 weeks ago… Easter.
We were all told to stay inside and not be tempted, and were patted on the back for apparently stayin in, but in all likelihood people did break the rules across the country, I’ve noticed that people are becoming increasingly bold with the good weather.
My neighbour has come back to his London flat and now has multiple people over for parties every night.
I suspect if the government doesn’t find a way to scare the shit out of these idiots again they’re going to kick of the second wave.
Just the sort of stupidity we don’t need. 
Unfortunately no one is really enforcing these things as far as I can tell.
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Too right.
We just don’t need another peak. Starting all this again? 
Starting it all again, probably not, but realisitcally we’re going to be on some degree of the last 3 months for at least a year or two.
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I’ve been told I won’t be going back to the office for “months”.
When lockdown ends/is eased, anyone currently working from home will stay at home to make room on site for furloughed workers to return to work and to keep people spaced out across the office.
Remote workers will be one of the last groups back.
Refer it to the Police
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Unless it bothers you personally because of the noise or hate them for another reason I suggest you leave them alone. Ratting on each other is not nice.
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Unless the neighbour is in a flat which a shared entrance, in which case it could affect you personally, but I’d start with a conversation before involving the police.
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The peak of deaths was April 8th so the peak of infections was 2.5 weeks before that (about the time lockdown was announced).
With antibody testing becoming available we’ll find out over the next few weeks how much longer we’ll be.
Antibody testing is still very unreliable
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Neither is the spread of a deadly disease in a densely populated area. Which one comes first ? life/death/permanent issues left by the virus or a ‘party’ ? It’s this mentality which lets the virus spread even faster.
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If we’ve got to wait for that it’s going to be a while
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At this point I kind of feel like, companies won’t be able to force people to go back into an office if it’s not critical that they do so.
If a worker has reservations about having to travel when there’s still a virus out there and no vaccine, how can anyone argue with that if they are still fully capable of getting their work done?
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Probably the same argument they are going to use when the schools reopen; the government say it’s safe so if you decide it’s not then you get a fine
Not sure you’d legally be able to refuse
Test and contact trace(high coverage) and the lockdown will be over…Although the other argument is the seroprevelance testing and what those results yield.
In summary it may still be a little while before we have a tiered release
EDIT: in terms of returning to work, I wonder if it’ll all come down to interpretations of the health safety act at work
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37/contents