What happens to extremely vulnerable after 12 WEEKS?

Is it likely the 'shielding' will have to go on until there is a cure or a vaccine... i.e. 12 months or more rather than just 3 months?


Possibly but hopefully there will be far fewer cases f the virus within the next month or so.

Indeed PP although the government still say they're committed to 100,000 tests per day by the end of April.

They still maintain they're on target to achieve 100,000 per day by the end of the month. We'll see.

Iirc, they also said there would be 25,000 per day by mid April. We're currently at around 18,000.

It will be better because there will be less people with the virus, so less chance of catching it.  I don't see why we can't get to a similar situation to South Korea, Japan and Singapore in 2-3 months, where the virus is managed, and life continues with far less restrictions than currently.

we,ll do roughly the same amount of testing til towards the end of the month ,whilst behind the scenes hancock to preserve his so called legacy will be putting in place,for one,two days only a massive rise in tests to his 100,000 figure,obviously the labs wont be able to cope and it,ll be weeks before everyone get,s a result ,but hancock will  say we tested 100,000 yesterday and tomorrow it will be back to under 20,000 for weeks but hancock will claim he,s delivered
same as him been on tv banging on about honda,dyson,mclaren etc making ventilators yet a month later not one has been given a .licence to manufacture them,
hancock who wanted over 30,000 in his words live on tv as many as you can make we will buy,now says we only need under 18,0000

we don't seem to be doing anything but reel out big numbers
we,re on track to be the worst effected country in Europe yet still have 2500 spare icu beds, we want icu beds unused because theres no cemand for them not refusing access to them for care home,home patients because hancock wants to keep spare capacity for who no,s what
any tv pics of patients going into London nightingale yet,top dr said yesterday great feat but not fit for purpose,tv .media ,ministers seem to have benched it along with the 20,000 ventilators we don't need

In the near future someone needs to come up with an idea on how to turn a 2nd hand ventilator into something useful.

Hancock has lied through his teeth all the way thru this. He began by saying the UK was well prepared for a pandemic and has lied at every stage since.

because hospitals will become overwhelmed and the death rate from all illnesses will rocket

hospitals would get overwhelmed when experts were predicting 80% of population would be infected ,the numbers are thought to be way lower than that now,
we,re supposedly at the peak the spread numbers in the community under the ration of one, 2,500 available icu beds, 5 unused nightingale field hospitals,if we had the ratio of spread at under one when this began we wouldn't have locked down
I agree with lockdown but even if you remove it now,the public are scared ,worried and like sweeden the public will police it thenmselves stray away from public teansport,big gatherings,pubs, etclong way back from here with or without government  intervrentions

just been on my local news building a field hospital in sunderland be finished by june but head dr in area just said they probably wont need it ,they,ll probably build another just in case, FFS

lurka. Overwhelmed by who exactly? The young and healthy are barely effected by this. Sure there would be a few unlucky people but i cant imagine its going to be many.

How many healthy under 40's have died so far. I think its less than 10.

overwhelmed by people needing treatment all at the same time. The virus spreads like wildfire if you don't lock down. Why do you think all of these Nightingale Hospitals are being thrown up in a week even with a lockdown in place?

1TP I don't think you are at the peak yet.

lurka. But once this peak is past and numbers fall back if you keep the vulnerable locked up and let out the young and healthy the vast majority wont need any treatment. Just look at the numbers of deaths in England so far. Its nearly all people with existing conditions or over 60.

I don’t think anybody should be locked up except the Government

Older people and vulnerable need protecting. I would shop for my mother in any case. We need to get the Country back to work soon.

An example of what could have been done is keep the garden centres and DIY open with social distancing and protection of the workers with latex gloves, masks and plenty of hand sanitizer

People need to be kept occupied and there are plenty of nagging wives around ensure the home jobs got done. It would have saved tax payer money, helped keep the economy going and kept the lockdown secure.

They would not have been allowed to keep the food kiosks and kitchens open like they did at a Richmond Park then blamed the punters!

Construction, Road and Rail Workers should be allowed to get back working too imho.

The Tube in London and buses in all urban areas would be a problem for me

I noticed today the Postie was not wearing latex gloves....why not?

Still too much dumfukkery going on and little leadership from the Government

Yes all my figures come from NHS england daily releases which you can see for yourself. On average in recent days its reported that 94% of all deaths had a pre existing conditions. It also shows only 95 under 40 have died and its logical to assume that a similar 94% of those had illnesses. Over half of all deaths were over 80.

Its clear that the risk to healthy under 40s is minimal.

Here are the ONS figures for England and Wales up to April 3 by age grouping.
Intersting that they don't compile these official figures within the same age groupings quoted by Dotchinite.

Age Group	Total	%
15-44	57	1.3%
45-64	529	11.7%
65-74	838	18.5%
75-84	1,596	35.3%
85+	1,506	33.3%
Total	4,526	100.0%

It is minimal but not if hospitals get overwhelmed and a lot of them would still need hospital treatment of some sort. When hospitals get overwhelmed people can't get treatment and relatively healthy and younger people die at higher rates and people of all ages can die from all sorts of illnesses for the same reason.

Also think there is a scandal brewing in UK care homes. Why are they not being open about the death numbers? In a few other Euro countries 50% of the deaths are in care homes. UK is still only disclosing hospital deaths.

obr predicts 2 million extra unemployed, will they include furloughed workers how does that work,if pubs,gymsleisure etc are allowed to open does furlough pay stop staraight away some of these loanbs etc arnt due top be given out for 2 months in june,if people police themselves for 6/12 months stay away either through choice  or lack of money the companies taking .loans will go anyway, cant see many interested in booking hols this year,
a lot of what the government money was supposed to try and stop will probably happen organically anyway

back down to un der 15,000 tests in a day ,10,000 under what doris promised 6 weeks ago and a mere 85,000 short of handjobs target for just over 2 weeks time