Westminster wrote:Scott wrote:Priorities all wrong at the min. As much as we all want to eventually get back to normal, opening stadia when we still have so many people dying every day from the virus is just reckless.
Between this and the "well they won't stop me seeing my family at Christmas" brigade, it's just as well there's a vaccine on the horizon or we'd be utterly battered by this pandemic come February.
I agree. Over 600 hundred deaths reported today - ie. deaths are still rising.
How anybody can think it's a good idea to get crowds back into football grounds is beyond me. Or to allow social mixing over Christmas. I wouldn't be surprised to see us go over 1,000 deaths a day in January/February if they do that, which will be worse than when we started out.
People are talking about these vaccines but it'll be a fair time until they're widely available, I suspect longer than some of the dates that are being bandied about. We should be keeping things restricted until such time as we can get everybody vaccinated. Never mind going to the football.
The increase in deaths reported today is primarily due to the weekend lag in data reporting, and these deaths are as a result of our actions 4,5 and/or even 6 weeks ago, as the virus takes a while to manifest itself, lead to hospitalisations and death etc.
The figure to look for at the moment is the number of new infections, which has been coming down over the last few days, and significantly reduced today, this in time will lead to much lower numbers in hospitals and eventually fewer deaths.