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What does acting accordingly mean? Attempting to wash with bleach everything that comes into your home? How long will you keep that up for? Years? because the virus probably isnt going to have disappeared once the end of isolation is announced.

The principle underpinning all vaccinations. Vaccinations use weakened live, dead or man made elements of viruses / bacteria to generate an immune response without getting the full blown disease. Obviously vaccines are very carefully structured to be safe and deliberately exposing yourself would be risky - but there are almost certainly many people who have effectively received a vaccine type dose accidentally. https://vk.ovg.ox.ac.uk/vk/types-of-vaccine https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-questions-about-covid-19-and-viral-load/

Not necessarily a bad thing. Being exposed to a low dose of virus or bacteria can mean you develop immunity without developing the disease or only an attenuated version of it. A lot of the people who have developed no or only very mild symptoms probably received very low dose infections or weakened virus that was dead or almost dead from hanging around on a door handle or somewhere for a period of time.

Yep. Its much better and easier to keep the genie in the bottle than to try and stuff it back in after its escaped

No idea, but agree with you, seems unlikely to be effective. Maybe its a public reassurance thing.

Why the **** would he ask Raab to deputise for him? Can’t think of a worse choice.

Many peoples living standards have sky rocketed in one generation. Its like Russia - people dont like many aspects of the Government but they put up with it because the economy is good.

I've been to Mong La. In Burma but controlled by China. Disgusting place, massive trade in endangered animals, child prostituition and drugs.

You wouldn't even need to boycott. If there was a tax on aviation and shipping fuels and a carbon tax based on the amount of carbon released in manufacturing that would overnight transform the economics of producing locally rather than importing from China. At present the Carbon Emissions tax penalises UK production without an equivalent charge on Chinese production. There is an inconsistency though in GM's position which has been very anti EU tariffs on Chinese imports. A friend of mine used to run the Russel Hobbs factory, now gone. The entire toaster and kettle factory was closed down because it was around 30p per unit cheaper to make in China than here. Not much on a £20 item.

You're missing the point. The people you are talking about, mates in their 20s and 30s and women of child bearing age are highly unlikely to die from lack of exercise for 2 months. However, just as with COVID-19 those who are older and or with pre-existing health conditions are much more at risk. For a small percentage it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. A small percentage of a huge number is still a huge number.

Inactivity 'kills more than obesity' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439

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Whether you like it or not if you divided the UK population into two equal halves and one group stopped their normal exercise for two months and the other half carried on, there would be more deaths in the non exercising group. Not just a few, probably thousands. Its not just heart disease anyway. Same is true of diabetes, asthma, COPD and many others,

Meh. 7 million people in the UK live with heart disease and about 170,000 die. It's obvious what the effect of pushing those numbers up by even small percentages would be.

Absolutely. I used to have my blood analysed almost every week - simply because my office was in the clinical trial building and I was a handy calibration source. You could tell from my weekly bloods how much I'd been exercising and what my diet had been like. Just by drawing my blood the nurse could tell if I'd had a fatty breakfast or not. You're a runner no? Imagine the difference in your levels of fitness if you did nothing for two months - and then extrapolate that to somebody who is already unfit.

Cant understand why there hasnt been testing of a random sample of the population to gauge true infection levels. You could get an accurate idea with 10,000 tests.

I used to walk for an hour a day up including up and down stairs on the tube as part of my commute. Now I'm a couch potato. Blood pressure and pulse already up. I'm fine but there will be people for whom staying home will make the difference between a heart attack or not.

"TB or not TB, that is the question".

Haha. There is more (infinitesimally small) chance the dolphins are being affected by 5G. It's known they can be disoriented by sonar and side scanners used for seabed surveys.

Mobile phone masts in the UK have been set on fire over “baseless” theories linking 5G to coronavirus. Masts were set alight near Birmingham on Thursday and in the Merseyside area on Friday. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it was aware of inaccurate information being shared online, adding that there was “no credible evidence” of a link between 5G and coronavirus. wtf? No limit to how dumb some people can be. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-52164358

Hopefully by the time the election comes around again the era of personality politics exemplified by Trump and Johnson will be over and people will be ready for a serious thinker again.

The size of his win suggests the party is ready to align behind him. I think any members or MPs sniping from the sidelines will get little support. At least for the first six months...

According to BBC was in hospital with heart failure following a heart transplant 15 years ago.

If someone passed a test and then got infected five minutes later they are unlikely to be an infective danger to others for several days afterwards because it takes time for the virus to replicate. As a general rule of thumb you are infectious when you have symptoms and a couple of days before. With this corona virus symptoms seem to emerge 5-11 days after infection. So potentially you could safely test only, say, every three days.

The tests the Gov have ordered supposedly will test for both antibodies to COVID-19 and live virus - ie both those currently infected and those previously exposed and now likely immune. To your point the alternative is what? only allow those NHS staff who have previously been infected and now have antibodies to work? Not sure you cab cope with a pandemic with only say 10% of staff present