Obviously, it's better for everyone's bank accounts to minimize damage to the mainstreet economy and not close down every service business that has face to face dealings (and many that didn't).
But on top of the obvious economic benefits, there's the physical and mental health crisis that comes from lockdowns. There's the horrible trading of young lives that miss crucial school time because of the stupid decision to close schools. And most important of all (to me) is the government locking away healthy people and fining them for being the social animals we are meant to be for an indefinite period.
Lord Sumption has it right. I hate the lockdowns and I wish to God the government had the balls to follow what they started. But here we are.
the fact that we are pretending people can just be apart for literal months without serious longterm harm (aside from the harm to our lives after this) is the definition of madness
I don't think anyone understands what sweden has done, there has been a lockdown but it is not heavy handed. There are government furlough schemes and unemployment is expected to jump over the summer when it is unwound
there's no swedish miracle of dealing with covid, it's more that the UK has shit the bed by relying on "(in)beeding" to pick its leaders and has suffered accordingly
there is not a lockdown in the true meaning of the word in sweden
the awful things here are not the schools and pubs and cafes closing (although personally I would choose to live in a world where they stayed open and the dentist thing is INSANE)
it's the fact that neighbours are calling the police when a daughter visits her recently widowed mum AND THE POLICE ARE ATTENDING
that is what lockdown means
we won't recover from this - we are now one of those countries that knows what it is like when neighbours turn against each other in the most treacherous ways
No one in Britain will go to prison over breaking lockdown. The government will just use it as a reason for the economy failing and blame you the people for your own poverty, while claiming it’s being nice to you. The usual characters whingeing about muh hughman rites, when the only ones they exercised regularly before COVID resulted in the spread of communicable diseases.
I am tbh quite happy for the masses to stay at least 2 metres away from me, and for the melts to stay cowering indoors until 2021. Normal life now tho pls
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q1 is such a weird quarter tho
no one will be happy in q2 not even the brave and noble swedes
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They probably flattened their curve, though.
The economic one where at the bottom large percentages of the population are using food banks.
Sorry - in the UK, a greater percentage of the population.
FFS.
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i know, raddy, i know
people think they can just order a replacement economy on amazon at the end of august
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I saw .3 down on Q4 2019 (Q4 was .2 up on Q3)
unemployment about 7.5% contrast denmark which was in the region 4.5? I think
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think denmark has made an excellent and subtle u turn on policy
my money says they will do ok
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I wish we had followed Sweden. SO badly.
Obviously, it's better for everyone's bank accounts to minimize damage to the mainstreet economy and not close down every service business that has face to face dealings (and many that didn't).
But on top of the obvious economic benefits, there's the physical and mental health crisis that comes from lockdowns. There's the horrible trading of young lives that miss crucial school time because of the stupid decision to close schools. And most important of all (to me) is the government locking away healthy people and fining them for being the social animals we are meant to be for an indefinite period.
Lord Sumption has it right. I hate the lockdowns and I wish to God the government had the balls to follow what they started. But here we are.
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agree, canadian, with every word
and I think most people could have been nudged in that direction if leaders were competent
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the fact that we are pretending people can just be apart for literal months without serious longterm harm (aside from the harm to our lives after this) is the definition of madness
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I don't think anyone understands what sweden has done, there has been a lockdown but it is not heavy handed. There are government furlough schemes and unemployment is expected to jump over the summer when it is unwound
there's no swedish miracle of dealing with covid, it's more that the UK has shit the bed by relying on "(in)beeding" to pick its leaders and has suffered accordingly
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Bloomberg reporting data from today apparently as 0.1 growth.
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Agree Canadian.
The fact that the government can threaten us with the threat of lockdown-flaggelation because we break the rules is fucking sickening.
Behave or... you'll go back to prison.
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there is not a lockdown in the true meaning of the word in sweden
the awful things here are not the schools and pubs and cafes closing (although personally I would choose to live in a world where they stayed open and the dentist thing is INSANE)
it's the fact that neighbours are calling the police when a daughter visits her recently widowed mum AND THE POLICE ARE ATTENDING
that is what lockdown means
we won't recover from this - we are now one of those countries that knows what it is like when neighbours turn against each other in the most treacherous ways
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agree with the swedenfans
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No one in Britain will go to prison over breaking lockdown. The government will just use it as a reason for the economy failing and blame you the people for your own poverty, while claiming it’s being nice to you. The usual characters whingeing about muh hughman rites, when the only ones they exercised regularly before COVID resulted in the spread of communicable diseases.
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everythung humans do results in the spread of communicable diseases
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Well indeed laz
I am tbh quite happy for the masses to stay at least 2 metres away from me, and for the melts to stay cowering indoors until 2021. Normal life now tho pls
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Am booking spa break for august and looking forward to having jacuzzi entirely to self as everyone else too scared to use it (fingers crossed)
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