Open up the country completely for 2 weeks

completedit

Give people 2 weeks of freedom. Protect the vulnerable in that period. Then inact a radical no compromising lockdown. Would boost morale and people might actually buy it and adhere to it

MarkR

Reminds me of that film, The Purge. Would help with overcrowding, traffic, and parking in the long term. On account of all the dead. Cemeteries and crematoriums might get a bit full. Any suggestions?

Lurching

Great way of completely wasting the last 6 weeks of lockdown.

completedit

MarkR wrote: »

Reminds me of that film, The Purge. Would help with overcrowding, traffic, and parking in the long term. On account of all the dead. Cemeteries and crematoriums might get a bit full. Any suggestions?

2 weeks would boost cause a huge spike in deaths at all. People will die sadly. But this way we could eradicate the virus. We are an island. This is our advantage. It's just an idea. We give the economy and people's sense of hopelessness about the situation a jolt to keep us going.

In that 2 weeks people expected to have supplies for the complete shutdown. No casually strolling to the shops.

rom

completedit wrote: »

Give people 2 weeks of freedom. Protect the vulnerable in that period. Then inact a radical no compromising lockdown. Would boost morale and people might actually buy it and adhere to it

It would all be pointless if that happened.

completedit

As I understand it 2 weeks of isolation and the virus dies as it can't find a host. My logic is based off the position that our lockdown has been restrictive but half assed.

sydthebeat

Humm, open up completely for 2 weeks and risk total lockdown for the whole summer....

Or phased lifting of restrictions so risks are minimised and life can get back to some kind of normality.

Option 2 please.

hmmm

2 weeks wouldn't be enough with this virus - Wuhan basically did this for 2 months, and even then they found the odd few cases popping up.

You might think the lockdown was "half assed", but we've managed to get control of the virus spread, with public support, without having to impose a severe lockdown which has been a fantastic achievement. It was never realistic to think we could eliminate the virus.

This thing is so difficult to deal with because everything you do or change takes weeks to have an effect.

rom

completedit wrote: »

2 weeks would boost cause a huge spike in deaths at all. People will die sadly. But this way we could eradicate the virus. We are an island. This is our advantage. It's just an idea. We give the economy and people's sense of hopelessness about the situation a jolt to keep us going.

In that 2 weeks people expected to have supplies for the complete shutdown. No casually strolling to the shops.

Giving people 2 weeks now could mean an extra month or two in lockdown.

The whole illness takes about 3 weeks. About 85% of people that are spreading it have zero symptoms. So if you spread it more taking the avg family size it could take 3 times the illness period for it just to make it's way through the effected families to get back to the exact same place. So 2 weeks now would be at least 9 weeks of effort lost.

Much of the details about the virus are coming out weeks and months later than they are elsewhere.

seamus

Every step forward in dealing with this virus is breaking new ground. It's unknown territory; an experiment.

That doesn't mean we should throw caution to the wind and just do whatever "to see how it turns out". None of us signed up for this experiment.

Charles Babbage

completedit wrote: »

Give people 2 weeks of freedom. Protect the vulnerable in that period. Then inact a radical no compromising lockdown. Would boost morale and people might actually buy it and adhere to it

Only eejits would buy it. Most people have no Interest in getting this dose.