(12-10-2020, 06:50 PM)Baggie_Nick Wrote: Yes listened to Hancock who's seems terrified about London and its plummet into tier 3 and is desperate to get all school kids tested there as he stated that they won't close schools.
Wish he'd have done that around here in Sandwell when our cases were shooting as many have been forced to close for weeks on end.
We were also promised mass testing a we are in tier three - no sign as yet.
From early September infection and mortality rates began to climb again; four weeks of partial lockdown doesn't appear to have had significant impact.
Schools remaining open - however desirable as an objective - obviously plays a big part in transmission rates. The politicians could at least be honest about that, except there would then be a reasonable expectation that they would have a strategy for mitigating the effects.