How Long Can the Nation Tolerate This?

[vim_fuego]

Its seems to be a go-to topic of conversation where I work...

How long can we hack this for? How long can the Chancellor prop up the economy? How long will people behave before unrest creeps in (whether that i actually out on the streets or more widespread fraternisation)?

What could help us hack it for longer?

 

[Kryten]

I'm not sure there is anything that could help us hack it for longer to be honest; in my humble opinion I think as a nation we have to accept that this virus has changed the way we behave and interact, and even if the death toll and rate of infection starts to drop its going to be a long time before things get back to the way they were...

 

[Rocket_Ronster]

Oh look, another Corona thread.
Bring back Brexit.

 

[Downsizer]

I don't think it will be much longer before most businesses are reopened.

I'm excluding entertainment businesses and pubs/restaurants.

 

[Tin basher]

I reckon there are some cracks showing now after only 4 weeks. People are very good at moving out of the way, crossing the street etc when approaching others. However it seems, to me at least, there are more cars around this week than last and certainly more folk walking around. Not sure how long the majority will stick with it, I can't see us demonstrating the same level of stupidity as the red neck elements of the USA, but eventually even the most placid and docile citizen will start some push back on the restrictions. One topic that keeps coming up in other social media settings is how long before Covid cases and deaths show a marked decline. To paraphrase "if the incubation period is 5 to 14 days then why after 4 weeks have the numbers not yet dropped dramatically". If the numbers do plummet then the calls for lifting or altering any and all restrictions will only grow louder.
Oddly around here some households seem to consist solely of around 6 young adult males who all carry out their daily exercise session on bicycles at exactly the same time and they all own vapes, phones and carry tins of lager in rucksacks. Most peculiar

 

[vim_fuego]

I reckon there are some cracks showing now after only 4 weeks. People are very good at moving out of the way, crossing the street etc when approaching others. However it seems, to me at least, there are more cars around this week than last and certainly more folk walking around. Not sure how long the majority will stick with it, I can't see us demonstrating the same level of stupidity as the red neck elements of the USA, but eventually even the most placid and docile citizen will start some push back on the restrictions. One topic that keeps coming up in other social media settings is how long before Covid cases and deaths show a marked decline. To paraphrase "if the incubation period is 5 to 14 days then why after 4 weeks have the numbers not yet dropped dramatically". If the numbers do plummet then the calls for lifting or altering any and all restrictions will only grow louder.
Oddly around here some households seem to consist solely of around 6 young adult males who all carry out their daily exercise session on bicycles at exactly the same time and they all own vapes, phones and carry tins of lager in rucksacks. Most peculiar

Under the surface down here there is a sh1t load of socialising going on due in part to the outstanding weather. They are mostly clever enough not to post it on social media but its going on...and the level of new infections plateaus and endures.

Another 2 weeks for me and the cracks will start to appear. It'd be nice of t'Government expanded on their thinking a bit more...I think we are able to take it. Fella yesterday started to prepare that ground with his 'measures in place for a long time/year' comment and I'm the sort of person that likes to know up front the state of it. Also they have fallen into the same groove as Theresa May did with her incessant 'strong and stable' sound bite...We get it...we need to stay in...stop saying it whilst staring into camera.

 

[ninjarabbi]

The more our economy falters, the more people out of work and becoming desperate for money, the faster things will kick off. People need to know an ‘end date’. One of the scientists stated that this may have to continue until December. Yeah, good luck with that!

 

[busby1971]

If the plan is just to keep a manageable amount of sick in the hospitals then it should be lifted soon, I’m just getting very very Board and daren’t turn on the news as it’s a stress multiplier.

 

[muttywhitedog]

Perhaps a gradual release by age, but with the condition that if the under 40s are allowed to freely get back to work and get on with rebuilding the economy, there is a more stricter control on those at the opposite end of the age range, who are clearly more vulnerable.

I'd be confining the over 70s to their houses at the same time as the younger folk are allowed out, or perhaps have a OAP curfew from 0800 to 1800 every day.

In terms as how long the UK can sustain subsidising everyone - I'd say 31 May is about as far as we can sustain this lifestyle, although I fully expect some gradual return to normality before then. Our workplace management are desperately trying to eek extra people in by whatever means possible. The thought of home working and associated loss of micro-management is hurting them too much!

 

[ninjarabbi]

If the plan is just to keep a manageable amount of sick in the hospitals then it should be lifted soon, I’m just getting very very Board and daren’t turn on the news as it’s a stress multiplier.

All I want is to be able to go to a gym. That’s it, nothing special. I’ll happily spend the rest of the time locked away as long as I can go and lift some weights.

 

[Tin basher]

They have sown the seed that there will be a delay so that when it is announced we already have an inkling that it would happen this will soften the blow. At some point though a big grown up is going to have to decide which is most important our lives or our livelihood, tough call glad it's not me making it

 

[E Flammis]

Perhaps a gradual release by age, but with the condition that if the under 40s are allowed to freely get back to work and get on with rebuilding the economy, there is a more stricter control on those at the opposite end of the age range, who are clearly more vulnerable.

I'd be confining the over 70s to their houses at the same time as the younger folk are allowed out, or perhaps have a OAP curfew from 0800 to 1800 every day.

In terms as how long the UK can sustain subsidising everyone - I'd say 31 May is about as far as we can sustain this lifestyle, although I fully expect some gradual return to normality before then. Our workplace management are desperately trying to eek extra people in by whatever means possible. The thought of home working and associated loss of micro-management is hurting them too much!

 

[E Flammis]

[QUOTE="E Flammis, post: 1016255, member: 8304"

Muttywhitedog is taking the p*ss. I will be 75 in two months. I run around Cheltenham racecourse every day approx 5 miles. I also walk round with my wife in the afternoon. I am not an old age pensioner stinking of p*ss and am fit and healthy. I'm entitled to go out for food, prescriptions and physical exercise for one hour daily. OAP curfew from 0800 to1800 hrs, get a life

 

[muttywhitedog]

Sorry to break this to you fella, but 75 year olds are more vulnerable than 40 year olds, and unless you are volunteering to work a 50hr week in some factory, or something similar, then your presence outside when the country is getting back on its feet is not welcome.

 

[E Flammis]

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Sorry to break this to you fella, but 75 year olds are more vulnerable than 40 year olds, and unless you are volunteering to work a 50hr week in some factory, or something similar, then your presence outside when the country is getting back on its feet is not welcome.

 

[E Flammis]

Bollocks !!! Wander down to Cheltenham and I will discuss this with you. The country will not be back on its feet for a long time. Another Donald Trump supporter.

 

[GD on Wheels]

I'm over 50 and have been working all the way through this crisis. If my understanding is correct, I can still go to work but can't rejoin society and go out shopping in town or go down to the pub.it smacks of a kind of day release from an open prison.

 

[muttywhitedog]

[QUOTE="E Flammis, post: 1016255, member: 8304"

Muttywhitedog is taking the p*ss. I will be 75 in two months. I run around Cheltenham racecourse every day approx 5 miles. I also walk round with my wife in the afternoon. I am not an old age pensioner stinking of p*ss and am fit and healthy. I'm entitled to go out for food, prescriptions and physical exercise for one hour daily. OAP curfew from 0800 to1800 hrs, get a life

So, by your own admission, you are flouting the current rules by going out twice per day for exercise instead of once.

 

[busby1971]

Technically, only in Wales does the law say only once per day. English law doesn't specify. The question is it reasonable to leave the house more than once per day to exercise....

Cheltenham is pretty close to Wales, don’t want all those buggers coming over the bridge with their diseases, just for an extra walk per day, could bring back the Tolls to keep people out.

 

[justintime129]

Bollocks !!! Wander down to Cheltenham and I will discuss this with you. The country will not be back on its feet for a long time. Another Donald Trump supporter.

So where do we draw the line. Is it you who's the Trump supporter btw.