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The rules in my borough Sandwell now are obscene, through this whole pandemic theve said outdoors is the least risk of the virus spreading . But now they are saying I can meet up in a rammed pub with 5 other people but I can’t have my parents in my garden . The rules are that ridiculous now most people won’t follow them. 
 

The whole test system is an absolute shambles , the only way to get on top of this virus is testing , we weren’t prepared in March and we aren’t prepared now . The fools were saying they will be testing ten million a day by Xmas now they can’t even do 200k . 
 

is there anything theve done right during this whole pandemic? 
 

 

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I had a horrible thought earlier today.

This mess of handling Covid-19 restrictions, numbers going back up, regional lockdowns being introduced; it’s not going to be able to go on for long. People are already going, “These rules are stupid, I’m not going to pay heed to them”. If enough people take that attitude, then it’s going to make these “lockdowns” useless.

Does this then play into Boris Johnson’s hands and give him scope for “I told you so” over the Tory’s “herd immunity” plan?

“We’ve spent months going in and out of lockdown, it’s not worked, so now it’s time to get on with life, and let the virus take its course…”

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A friend of mine said the Tories re just trying to privatise socialising. You can meet all the people you want as long as somebody turns a profit from it. 

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42 minutes ago, quote the raven said:

How far are we lagging behind the likes of Spain and France, Germany in our testing?  
 

It’s fast looking like they didn’t have enough lab techs to process them. Something that must have been known about surely 

It’s almost irrelevant for a number of reasons, but we are counting the number of tests sent out/applicants for drive thru tests, not the actual number of tests being done. So as an example our daughter had a temperature last Monday. No appointments so tests sent in the post. Later on we were told via the helpline as her temperature was 37.3 it wasn’t Coronavirus because it wasn’t 38. When the tests arrived it was clear it was just a minor cold as her temperature had gone and no other symptoms at present. So we have, but not taken the tests. That’s 4 tests counted last Monday that haven’t been used as yet. So the numbers from the Tories are over inflated. 
 

Also, the schools stance was keep her home until she’s better or tests negatively.

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9 hours ago, Guy Bifkin said:

Not disputing but curious where you are hearing that from if you are able to say?

From work. I'm a journalist that works in broadcasting. We've had a briefing from local Public health.  Midnight Friday into Saturday for much of the North West. Same restrictions as the North East.

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