Posted on 03/29/2020 7:40:49 AM PDT by david1292
London (AFP) – The British government admitted on Sunday that the coronavirus lockdown could last a “significant” time as a leading expert warned it could be in place until June.
“I can’t make an accurate prediction but everyone I think does have to prepare for a significant period when these measures are still in place,” cabinet minister Michael Gove told the BBC.
Britons have been told to stay inside wherever possible to limit the spread of COVID-19, joining millions of people on lockdown worldwide.
The measure was introduced amid warnings that infection rates were spiralling, and new figures Saturday revealed that more than 1,000 people with coronavirus have now died in Britain.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially said the shutdown would be for three weeks.
Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, one of the epidemiologists advising the government, told the Sunday Times the lockdown could last months.
“We’re going to have to keep these measures in place, in my view, for a significant period of time — probably until the end of May, maybe even early June. May is optimistic,” he said.
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insane
They are in full panic mode now. The prime minister and the heir to the throne are both infected. Nobody is talking about building herd immunity anymore.
Agreed. This is absolute insanity. All because of the flu.
To wit, in a typical year 20 million US citizens get the flu and approximately 80K - 100K of them will die, but we don’t shut-down because of that. Yet here we are with a new strain of the flu and everybody loses their sh!t over it.
Again, absolute insanity. We are a nation of idiots governed by idiots. (Present company excluded.)
Sounds like Johnson will have the same problem Trump is having. An entrenched deep state using this to put it’s foot in the throat of the country and leave it there as long as possible.
in the United States, Mike DeWine started all this. The only thing he’s principled on is abortion. That’s it.
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