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Cheg Jan 2021 5:00pm, 20 Jan 2021 2,353 posts	Quote Pin Cheg Yeah definitely got their estimates wrong. So what is absolute worse case scenairo? 1% death rate x 70million = 700,000 UK deaths.
Little Miss Happy Jan 2021 5:03pm, 20 Jan 2021 4,193 posts	Quote Pin Little Miss Happy If I recall correctly the impact of the proposed lifting of restrictions was predicted by the scientists - but BoJo didn't want to be the bad guy. That worked.
icemaiden Jan 2021 5:08pm, 20 Jan 2021 5,084 posts	Quote Pin icemaiden It could have been less than 20K. Politicians lacked the cojones to do what was required.
larkim Jan 2021 5:19pm, 20 Jan 2021 13,285 posts	Quote Pin larkim LMH - definitely some (maybe a lot of) scientists were saying that from as early as early November. But not Whitty etc, at least not in public. There's a failure of their leadership too, though of course Bojo et al carry the overall responsibility.
CStar Jan 2021 5:30pm, 20 Jan 2021 8,020 posts	Quote Pin CStar On the running with masks debate: Interestingly in Italy where masks are compulsory anywhere outside, the exception is for running and cycling, though a reasonable proportion of 'leisurely' cyclists wear masks anyway. When running round Milan, there was no reaction at all to my not wearing a mask.
larkim Jan 2021 5:32pm, 20 Jan 2021 13,286 posts	Quote Pin larkim We're on track to exceed Italy's deaths per 1m population in a few days. Very few countries have a worse picture than the UK does.
sallykate Jan 2021 5:34pm, 20 Jan 2021 7,445 posts	Quote Pin sallykate Greenhalgh's Conversation article didn't advocate mask-wearing at all times - only when physical distancing isn't possible. I'd have thought there might be some kind of observational study which could be done - e.g. do infection rates increase when gyms are closed (and therefore more people exercising outside)?
run free Jan 2021 5:38pm, 20 Jan 2021 4,636 posts	Quote Pin run free Ice maiden - Will be more than 20K. Germany is nearly 50K dead. France with a similar population size is 70K. This is a disease affecting the West more than the East. Maybe lack of vit D!
It’sBeginningToLookALotLikeFleecy Jan 2021 5:39pm, 20 Jan 2021 51,775 posts	Quote Pin It’sBeginningToLookALotLikeFleecy Gyms are shut because infections are sky high, that would be a non starter as a study. Why are people not banging on about estate agents spreading covid? I went past one the other day and there were 4 estate agents in there without masks. Quite surprising. As a group of people to hate you’d have thought estate agents would be much better than runners to pick on.
Little Nemo Jan 2021 5:41pm, 20 Jan 2021 11,742 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo Terrible figures today Why couldn't the government have had some backbone when the new variant was found and cancelled Christmas?!? So angry that we have a PM pathologically incapable of being seen as the bad guy.