Posted on 04/25/2020 9:56:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
At the end of last week, the Prime Minister was beginning to wonder if the country was taking his advice too much to heart. He asked us to stay at home - and we have. At each daily press conference, medical and scientific advisers talk about the plunge in use of transport and how well rules are being observed. What they don’t say is that this was not quite in their original plan. Government modellers didn’t expect such obedience: the expected workers to carry on and at least a million pupils to be left in school by parents.
The deaths caused by Covid-19 – up another 881 today – are shocking. But so, too, are the effects of the lockdown. “Our message was supposed to be: keep working, but work from home if possible,” says one minister. “But that message has got lost.” The Treasury expected three million claimants for its “job retention” scheme. Nine million are now expected. The plan was for about one in five school pupils to stay in class: not just the children of key workers, but those regarded as vulnerable or with special needs. Instead, it seems, just 2 per cent of pupils turned up.
This was troubling Boris Johnson during his initial Covid self-confinement. He’d started to discuss this with colleagues. Had they overdone the message? The stay-at-home exhortations were issued with such vigour because it was assumed - wrongly - that Brits would not really listen. Instead, we’ve become as obedient as Swedes while the Swedes - in their collective refusal to lock down - are behaving like Brits. But it’s hard to soften the lockdown message with the Prime Minister, the main messenger, out of intensive care - but, until he fully recovers, out of action.
Other options are, now, being discussed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
There are only three options:
* Print * Borrow * Tax
Tax? Who do you tax? The poor bloke who has no income?
Borrow? From whom? Every country in the world is in lockdown and all need the money themselves.
There is only one option -- PRINT. Guess what that causes....
It’s worth repeating again and again, “The Cure cannot be Worse than the Disease”.
If these Lockdowns continue much longer it most surely will be.
It seems very obvious to me that the people willing to continue Lockdowns for “as long as it takes” are people in a position to continue to collect a Paycheck for as long as it takes. And, they couldn’t care less about everyone else.
Apparently these are not the same people who toughed out the Blitz, Buzz Bombs, and V2 rockets.
Has this become a global financial crash yet or is that just around the corner?
If the UK has the same fraudulent counting method that the USA has, it is not shocking at all.
With less than 2000 cases detected so far out of a total population of 1.2 million here in my English county, they could keep the lockdown going for another couple of hundred years at least.
One suggestion I suppose would be to plan for general testing/screening which might discover just what proportion of that population has already been exposed to the virus. But that doesn’t appear to be on the government’s agenda...
UK based its policies on the whacked forecasts of the leftist Imperial College, which said 500,000 would die in Britain.
Obviously, the forecasts were hideously wrong
the lockdown was based on fake Imperial College/Neil Ferguson models.
end the lockdown, Boris.
Read the article again.
The people want to be locked down—as long as they are paid on time.
Money talks—and the “lockdown message” will be irrelevant if the dole stops.
If the dole continues folks will be more than happy to stay home.
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