Originally Posted by
Smooth Airperator
We are just delaying the inevitable. Boris accused anti-Brexiteers of dithering and delayiing, and I know it's hard but the same thing is being done in order to maintain short term harmony during this virus outbreak. This harmony won't last in my opinion. The food stockpiling and empty shelves issue is not being taken seriously enough. 3rd day in a row we can't find any flour, bread or eggs. The queue at the butchers was an hour long and we're down to the last pack of loo roles with not a single one to be seen in the 3 supermarkets within a 2 mile radius. Forget anything fancy like anti-bac wipes and gels.
There is no water-tight solution and someone somewhere will be massively inconvenienced or have their well-being seriously impacted. I'm happy to be ridiculed but here's what I think will work. For 4 weeks, we should close every office, factory (except for those related to food), school, club, venue, shop, outlet and restaurant (allowing takeaways). Only supermarkets, local grocery stores and pharmacies should remain open and therefore only those workers should be out. If it's not related to food or health, it needs to close. Activate the army to support and strengthen the logistics and supply chain by ensuring food deliveries are getting through to the supermarkets. In fact, get them to help stock the supermarkets and provide support to the staff at supermarkets to deal with any ****. Registered volunteers, the army and police can also help ensure food is delivered to the sick and lonely.
The population must stay in doors with only one designated person allowed to go out once a day to buy food. This can't be enforced in the UK though it was in China thanks to AliBaba and Tencent apps tied to people's IDs.
All bills, mortgage and loan repayments and rents should stop for a month. Each week, advise people to spring clean and disinfect every inch of their house and if they haven't already to wash every clothing item, bit of cloth and linen they've used that week.
Councils should disinfect streets and public places (visiting the same spot once a week). Garbage collection should continue and even be doubled if possible.
First we ridiculed China's measures and felt sorry for those poor people kicking and screaming as police picked them up to take them to hospital and as entire apartment complexes were boarded up. Now we marvel at the fact that outside of Hebei (Wuhan) there are literally a handful of cases in each of other provinces according to Johns Hopkins. Fine that's probably a BS figure, but even if you multiply it by 10, it's still a marvelous accomplishment. It seems deeply worrying we are not prepared to replicate this strategy because we are "liberal" and "free". Those concepts, whilst truly wonderful, will become meaningless as panic grows even more and riots take place (Riots in city centers happened because some druggy roughneck got shot by the police, that pales nothing in comparison to this).
Agree with everything you’ve said
