Covid Spreaders

[Monty]

It's going to be way past Easter, it's going to be September before things are eased in any meaningful way, IF people start to take things seriously. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/coronavirus-lockdown-wales-what-needs-19588982

I think you’re very much mistaken that the current restrictions will be in force until September when the cold weather will start to come in again. Vaccine immunisation or not the restrictions have to ease moving into the summer

The virus doesn't care if it ruins your summer

I can't see them easing anything until after 'everyone' is vaccinated

https://twitter.com/WelshGovernment/status/1348656591713820675

 

[Monty]

1 year ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXk71JfcbU&feature=emb_logo

 

[Dr. Winston]

There's no reason to keep most restrictions in place once the clinically most vulnerable have had their vaccination, especially as that will be done (maybe not in Wales at the current rate) by Spring. No way on Earth should they still be in place come the Autumn.

Governments may try it but there will be massive pushbacks, especially if the mortality rate starts dropping significantly, which it should otherwise vaccination is pointless.

 

[Professor]

There's no reason to keep most restrictions in place once the clinically most vulnerable have had their vaccination, especially as that will be done (maybe not in Wales at the current rate) by Spring. No way on Earth should they still be in place come the Autumn.

Governments may try it but there will be massive pushbacks, especially if the mortality rate starts dropping significantly, which it should otherwise vaccination is pointless.

I would expect the current level of restrictions to ease in March, with most gone in June. I can see restricted numbers in shops/workplaces/restaurants for the rest of this year. Masks to remain in shops and on transport until Spring 2022. Some crowds back at sport for the end of the season, with perhaps levels rising to 33% capacity for the start of next season. Can't see 'full normality' this year and some restrictions (perhaps on a local basis) until 70% levels of vaccination and clear evidence of the absence of vaccine escape. Trying to rush back was the biggest mistake made last summer.

 

[A4Jack]

I think you’re very much mistaken that the current restrictions will be in force until September when the cold weather will start to come in again. Vaccine immunisation or not the restrictions have to ease moving into the summer

The virus doesn't care if it ruins your summer

I can't see them easing anything until after 'everyone' is vaccinated

https://twitter.com/WelshGovernment/status/1348656591713820675

Just because some of us don’t want to get back to some sort of normality doesn’t mean the rest of us are like that. So sorry if you see that as selfish

Please see the above two posts, put far more eloquently than mine

 

[Dr. Winston]

Trying to rush back was the biggest mistake made last summer.

Disagree with you there. Think we dragged our feet too much in reopening lots of things, especially outdoors activities. Had the rules been more sensibly relaxed rather than enforced well into the summer then more people might have been more compliant when they were reintroduced at the start of the Autumn.

Covid seems as seasonal as any other virus of its type.

 

[dickythorpe]

How do we tell the great British public to take it easy and not overcrowd and rush about?
How do you tell a landlord to 100% enforce social distancing after they've lost so much income?
How do you tell idiots not to order a 16oz mixed grill they couldn't possibly finish just because it's 50% or £10 off?
Some British people are selfish and won't take to be told and think they now the law inside out.
Ironically the Tories haven't been anywhere as strict /"nasty" as I think they would have been had Maggie been on charge.
I hated the bitch but she'd have had the army on the streets.

 

[Dr. Winston]

Ironically the Tories haven't been anywhere as strict /"nasty" as I think they would have been had Maggie been on charge.

They've bolloxed a lot of things up (almost all if we're being honest), but there is a small part of me slightly encouraged by the clear reluctance to lock people down as much as has been demanded in some quarters.

 

[dickythorpe]

It's impossible to give exact advice as so many will try to suit the rules to their circumstances.

Look at the amount of people still travelling miles to exercise.

Some woman in North wales drove 17 miles from Colwyn bay to Aber falls for a walk.
Surely Colwyn bay is nice enough?

https://www-walesonline-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/angry-mum-claims-ambushed-fined-19606665.amp?amp_js_v=a6&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walesonline.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fwales-news%2Fangry-mum-claims-ambushed-fined-19606665

 

[Professor]

Trying to rush back was the biggest mistake made last summer.

Disagree with you there. Think we dragged our feet too much in reopening lots of things, especially outdoors activities. Had the rules been more sensibly relaxed rather than enforced well into the summer then more people might have been more compliant when they were reintroduced at the start of the Autumn.

Covid seems as seasonal as any other virus of its type.

From a NW perspective, it was at least 2-3 weeks too soon. Levels of transmission were too high which led to the later summer and early autumn up here. This seeded the rest of the country prior to the ‘Kent’ variant.
Seasonality was always likely, though of course we would need to see this over a few years to be certain. The things I work on have summer peaks.

 

[PSumbler]

Half the issue comes about from the fact that as soon as some people hear "lockdown restrictions eased" their brain (loose term) computes that as "proceed as per 2019"

In the same way that people don't understand the very basic rules we are currently operating under which are clear enough to understand