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Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 11:23am, 8 Feb 2021 30,148 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Yes, sort of a personal choice, we had a space here in Manchester of about 7 or 8 weeks. Locally the cafes are quite small and cramped. Given my OH works for the NHS, we thought it best, for other people's health (the same reason as wearing a mask is for other people, not you), that we stayed outside at all times, as ALL summer she was still seeing covid patients, so choice and no choice really.
DocM Feb 2021 11:24am, 8 Feb 2021 39,841 posts	Quote Pin DocM should we lockdown harder and longer and get to a level of being able to realistically test and trace every single case
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 11:24am, 8 Feb 2021 30,149 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Incidentally the average age of people in ICU is currently 60 and falling.
DocM Feb 2021 11:26am, 8 Feb 2021 39,842 posts	Quote Pin DocM i think we are quite some way off any amount of relaxation with numbers we have hospitalised at the moment
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 11:27am, 8 Feb 2021 30,150 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens If the lockdown is continue dlong enough this time, as Porf Whitty has hinted, they'll be lockdowns next winter. Remember, the longer there are high infections rates, the more endemic the infection is in the population, the more likely it will mutate and the more likely the virus will escape the current vaccines and the more likely we will be back here.
icemaiden Feb 2021 11:29am, 8 Feb 2021 5,102 posts	Quote Pin icemaiden Press all saying lockdown has to last longer this time. Putting getting back to schools at risk now. Stable door still open for new variations and the SA one because travel without quarantine still not blocked, and won't be blocked entirely when it 'starts' next week.
Ocelot Spleens Feb 2021 11:31am, 8 Feb 2021 30,151 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens That's right DocM or at least should be. I stil don;t see the government talking seriuosly enough about what the situation will be come late next Autumn and what they are going to do, the vaccines are NOT a silver bullet, we can quite clearly see that now with the mutations.
icemaiden Feb 2021 11:44am, 8 Feb 2021 5,103 posts	Quote Pin icemaiden They don't put the older people in ICU, so as the virus spreads among younger people, the average age will drop.
K5 Gus Feb 2021 11:48am, 8 Feb 2021 4,357 posts	Quote Pin K5 Gus Who are all these thousands of people flying into the country ? They can't be holidaymakers surely ? So does that mean they must be people "on business" or UK nationals returning home. They really are screwing us all by not having clamped down on this months ago with enforced quarantine.
Fopp Feb 2021 11:48am, 8 Feb 2021 47 posts	Quote Pin Fopp I had a strange dilemma this morning, face coverings are compulsory in my children's school grounds at the moment, I normally remove it as quickly as possible as I leave but it was so cold that I found myself enjoying wearing it, it's a merino buff more than a mask. I took it off though before anyone thought I was joining in, oh the irony that I can't wear a face covering when I want to