Another national coronavirus lockdown is a possibility and we have to do what we can to avoid that at all costs, a leading UK scientist has said.
Prof Peter Horby said the UK was at a "precarious point" with Covid-19 cases, with the number of people admitted to hospital rising.Minsters say their local approach to restrictions is the right way forward.In a statement to MPs, the prime minister will outline plans for a three-tier local lockdown system which would see every region in England placed in one of three tiers, depending on the severity of cases.
Across the UK, the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus onto - is now estimated between 1.2 and 1.5.Prof Horby, an expert in emerging infectious diseases and global health at the University of Oxford, said the "critical mission" now was to protect the NHS to avoid all non-essential hospital services being cancelled, as they were when the UK went into its first nationwide lockdown in March.
"We really need to provide care to everybody - those with Covid and those without," he said. "The way to do that it to keep the numbers down." He warned some hospitals in the north of England were already coming under pressure and it might not be long before intensive care beds fill up.
Wrong argument. Stop talking about lockdown being good or bad. All this is only occurring because of the shambles that is test and trace.
A World Health Organisation doctor has backflipped on the organisation's original Covid-19 stance, calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.
My Pa did 57 raids in France in 1944 WW2 in the RAF Lancaster Pathfinder force, dropping heavy bombs,gunning + laying flares for the planes behind to bomb the Jerries. He faced ground + air attack all around him n survived miraculously. All we need is 2 stay in. C'mon peeps!!!
IT IS REAL ..PEOPLE!! 3 OF MY FRIENDS HAVE HAD IT AND ANOTHER 2 HAVE IT NOW. BELIEVE THAT WE ARE FACING A MEGA DISASTER IF WE DONT STAY IN. WE HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL IT NOT THE GOVERNMENT. PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND DO WHAT IS NEEDED. WE ARE THE LUCKY ONES.
They'll go at it for 3 - 5 years, according to the pandemic papers.
'Possible' is a word to frighten the public, to try & control the public into doing something that certain people want, like herding animals together, in the end its made to control, to be fearful to be aware, We are all aware 2nd Lockdown will happen, If no logical thinking
I’m calling it now. Not popular but a national lockdown NOW, or a very stringent local one assuming there’s enough data to know which areas are above R1, is the only way of preventing exactly this for a longer, more painful period in a few weeks time. Same as it was in March.
If you don't enforce lockdown 10 % of your population gets infected ( W H O analysis ) & if you enforce lockdown 100 % of your population gets economically affected. Isn't that so?
My nerves won’t stand it.
The people won’t stand for this one.
More bbc propaganda typically
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The only truth to come out of this virus situation is that the people who are running this country are clueless of any way forward, let the population speak.
I don't remember there ever being a first 'lockdown', the pubs closed? That's it
Brainless scientists
I hope they do it and get over with we both know it coming so let get it over with ok
Bring it on.
I CALL FOR PEACEFUL CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN NORTHERN ENGLAND !!!
The people will rebel sooner or later
People aren’t going to do it they’ve had enough of this nonsense
Lol
The scientists can say all they want but it comes down to Boris making the decision
I believe a lockdown won't have much of an effect. We need to fight this virus smartly.
No thanks
You post this every few days
Lock down again and there will be riots
You misspelled ‘inevitable’
How did the first one go? Wake up
Man in Mars probable, life in other planets probable yet this fool only gets to possible with all the data in front of him.
Possible or inevitable?
a post from reddit today!!!!
These bastards have got hidden agendas. You've only got to look at 600 grand of pharma shares vallance, and lockdowns my idea but I'll break it to shag my fancy piece Ferguson.
Fuk that.... BorisJohnson
When you have Boris running the country don't expect anything of sense any time soon
Too many idiots not wearing masks
Will schools close?
Do they actually mean 'probably' since it is quite obviously possible? Perhaps the government can then start saying/writing about what you must/mustn't do or should/shouldn't do since the current can/can't do messaging is incorrect - 'can' refers to ability not the law
Until people start taking responsibility then it won't go away. We know how it spreads so there is no excuse. Unfortunately we seem to have bred idiots where 'the government must do something' rather than 'let's do something'. The Gov doesn't spread it. YOU DO. COVID19
Doomed!
Sick of it now, getting a bit boring hearing all this speculation and seeing no action all just reactions fro. The governement to public opinion...pathetic
shawsroland CShelemay wish they would stop this scaremongoring
Good grief... THERE IS NO WAY THE UK COULD SURVIVE ANOTHER NATIONAL LOCKDOWN!!!!!!!!😡STOP with this insane drivel now!
Yeh it’s also possible I’ll win the lottery. It doesn’t make it a fact. Bloody guessing games
Only if the Uk remains out of touch. Start pushing this news guys
We are being conditioned to accept the mark of the beast in revelation 13.
Boris announces covid passport DO NOT CONSENT
Possible. But not likely.
Please no more lockdown. It’s killing businesses!
Some of the comments.. I don't think people understand how dangerous and contagious this virus is.
Equation= pubs open + restaurants open + pissed millenials + pissed Welsh + pissed Geordies + ignorant selfish families non spacing seen in towns & parks + pissed self important twats + up their arse politicians + school kids on school buses= 2ND LOCKDOWN WELL DONE ALL👍
And is this scientist employed by the govt?
ENGLAND. COVID-19 DEATHS. NHS England has announced 32 deaths of patients who have died in hospitals in England and have tested positive for COVID-19. Announced on Sunday. coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) COVID19 England
Sooner government get shot of Gill Bates puppets the better only they will benefit from another shutdown,globalist insurrection.uksciencechief Will BorisJohnson completely contradict himself once again and destroy Britain for profit with no protection from sadists.Churchill
And they’ll be getting told to fook right off as well 👍
Yeah because the last one was so successful 🤔
Possible is a word like Might or May or Should or Maybe or Could or Would any other words used by the UK Government Ministers MP PMs !
BBCPolitics It will come to that. Why are young people out partying, raving etc, stupidity in the first degree. No doubt grandparents will die over this. Disgusting behaviour BBCPolitics RobertSyms MattHancock steelwatch1 AtkinsonObe
JackieVear oh I have no words
Easy answer for him. He gets paid anyway. Thank goodness he’s not the PM. Although it’s much worse in wales. We have drippy Drakeford and his band of despots clinging on to control before they are voted out in May
He knows better than the World Health Organisation does he? They condemn lockdowns.
The time has come to tell the cock sucking scientists and our government to go fcuk each other remember Edwina Curry telling us eggs are bad for you!! If COVID 19 can be caught again what’s the point of lockdowns unless we’ve not been told truth!!
I think everybody at least a little bit thinks that a second national lockdown could be possible so why do we need this expert telling us what we already know! What a pointless interview, duno why im suprised BBC are a laughing stock!
People who are vulnerable and older should take extra measures. Others who are very low risk should follow the more simple rules and life should go on. Govt need to sort out testing.
Softening us up one headline at a time.
And people wonder why the government slow to lock down some people revolt. Luckily most don’t.
7000+ other scientists and W.H.O would disagree.
A sensationalist misleading headline based on the overall context of what he actually said.
This is insane. You have more chance of dying in a car accident. Average age of those killed by Covid ? 82. We are trashing our economy. I just can’t work out why ?
Who'd of guessed it? Two weeks of bollocks from the main media re 'cases' from the flawed testing system and corrupted and created polls to push the controlled narrative. Entire system needs taking apart, piece by piece. FakeNewsMediaClowns corruptgovernment
Good get on with it might shock a few people back in to seeing how serious this really is
Ha can fuck right off
Can't f*cking wait, maybe if Britain had B*lls, and took a look at Australia who have Closed Borders, have strict Lock Down measures, then may be we'd have 15 Cases a Day and not 15000.....
The only thing a second lockdown will achieve is to create the conditions that will need a 3rd lockdown and on and on it goes.
How many autopsies were performed on covid victims in the UK? Likely NONE!
Could, might, possible, may. Not news.
Show me, if it's true, the data that it's due to a rise in covid admissions and not seasonal flu etc 'He warned that some hospitals in the north of England were already coming under pressure and it might not be long before intensive care beds fill up.
We are what is known as 'between a rock and a hard place.' No lockdown - Covid runs rampant, thousands die. Lockdown - economy crashes, millions lose their jobs. What would you do?
Stop dilly dallying and get on with making clear lock &PE rules instead of doing bits and bobs confusing the shit out of everyone across the country
Is the good Professor going to tell us how to reconstruct a devastated country, a shattered economy and a population terrified by scientists who get paid handsomely whatever happens? No. So fuck off and leave us alone! sciencemyarse
Well the last one didn’t work did it !!!
And then no vaccine so follow this with a third and fourth lockdown just making it last longer and longer and longer.
Anyone knows why Wuhan has got back to normal So strange 🤔
of course not. People just need to follow the rules
One thing we can be sure of, is the UK has no top scientists! Time for a new approach
Senseless idiots...
And then a third? nationallockdown
BBCPolitics Marr the critical objective is to SavesLives - saying ProtectNHS or protect in general makes one thing ‘sacred’ and others ‘profane’. This is why socialcare was overlooked etc., we not taking a systemsperspective leading to gross marginalisation leading to unnecessary deaths
Which top uk scientists would this be then ?
That worked well last time 🤔 So like NicolaSturgeon , BorisJohnson plan is to continue COVIDhysteria for 1-2 years in the hope vaccine is widely available? LeadershipFAILURE
Well it’s not impossible so, yeah, well done. Nonsense as usual.
Excludes virus riddled MPs
It's not going to be a 'national lockdown' as the Tories aren't imposing restrictions on their constituencies... Just an opportunity to impose further hardship on Northern areas, especially Labour constituencies! OneRuleForThem CorruptTories
Always on the cards...achieves zilch. There is nothing there to control: more testing achieves more cases but of what? False positives? Media never breaks down “new cases” into groups, specifies if people ill, have underlying health problems or compares with other illnesses.
Only on the north of England. So it's only spreading in the north. London is apparently clear. Utter crap .
What the fuck do they know? There just told by the people above! Truth is there lying about the covid numbers to justify the lockdown!
Because they're fucking gormless and aren't learning
No no no
can I go fishing this time ?
If you want us to become a third world country sure keep doing lockdowns they don’t work
That'll fuck the country up completely
And the first one worked so well!!!!
Well at least it won’t be sunny 😎 it was a nightmare when the sun was shining
It’s obvious that it will happen
If we all lock ourselves inside our homes, we’ll all live forever.
Meanwhile, in Sweden, it is another normal day. No masks. No gloves. No queues. No dividers. Business unaffected. Soletraders happy. SME's happy. No increase homeless No furlough No excess drop in GDP No closed companies No weak government. 10DowningStreet
And then what? Third, fourth? Probably at least 12 months before a vaccine.. Hope the government are putting extra funding into mental health care because they're going to need it!
Yeyyyy lets all lose our jobs and die of starvation
Top brainy scientists would have advised This national lock down years ago
Total and abject failure by UK government. SE Asia gave us a blue print for suppressing the virus and the UK gov just ignored it. Now we are in both a health and economic crisis. Johnson and his cabinet of incompetents need to go.
Haha great. Watching the extroverts lose their mind is hilarious.
We need to stop listening to scientists, 1% shield and the remaining 99% get on with their lives and prevent massive mental health, economic and other life threatening diseases take hold for years to come.
We can’t afford it because we’re really suffered and still suffering bad economic problems. I’m a self employed private hire cab driver and I’m in really bad situation for my earnings.
Perhaps we should reverse this. Those over 50 who are most likely to follow the rules mainly because they are more at risk should be asked to isolate. Trouble is those other groups unwilling to follow the rules will kill NHS staff trying to save them.
Can everyone please check StopArmenianAgression and see the armenians real face!! they’re terrorists!
Say something new BBC, of course there will be a second lockdown as it was always a part of the plan to lockdown when flu season kicks in , Scamdemic !
No. It will not run , it was the correct tactic in March, it gave the country several months to get a working T&T. The gov and SERCO/DELOITTE have failed spectacularly in doing that.
Resolve and discipline displayed by British people and govt during this pandemic is exemplary. Wish other democracies were less chaotic.
Your over paid top uk scientists don’t know what they are doing lockdown do not work !
BBCPolitics MSM looking to score political points against the government are playing a dangerous game with the country. They simultaneously push for lockdown and criticise lockdown. No one, even the WHO, has been consistent on the best Covid strategy.
Can somebody tell me what exactly did the 3 month lockdown achieve? Apart from lost jobs missed vital hospital screenings, lost education and mental health problems. If there is another lockdown how is it going to stop the virus, it isn't. Lock ppl away the virus lies dormant
One death is too many...I get that. But there has been no significant rise in deaths so why more restrictions? Can’t we be trusted to use our own common sense? How many people died yesterday from suicide, cancer, heart disease, stroke, stillbirth and neonatal death, dementia...
Fast! use China to shift public focus
Get back in your cages
10 cases per 100,000 of population in the South, why lock it down?
Sky and BBC manage to get a scientist to support the view that want so suit the headline they want.
The English are really bad.They spread covid all over, trying all kinds of sneaks to travel across infected Europe. I live in Bulgaria temporarily and will stay there for the time being.The English don't,they ask how can I enter Bulgaria,then I will go back to England next month.
Why? The first one didn’t work.
BBCPolitics Stop listening to scientists!!! These one dimensional experts care not one jot for the financial catastrophe resulting from their opinions - and that’s all they are.
We NEED a second lockdown, we can easily revive an economy, we can't sadly revive a dead person :-/
Why? The Gov downgraded Covid on March 19th to being no worse than influenza. Info still available on the Gov website today.
Yep on Monday bojo will shut us down with the latest 3-Tier lockdowns format except for essential businesses & retailers & education establishments which are closing an extra week for half term anyway. Yep the human 🦠s are winning by spreading the joy, fact, period 💭. 👀🤔🤷♂️🤔
Hope everyone sees that big government is not the answer. We need more personal accountability and less of gov in our every day lives.
BBCPolitics Happening all over Europe. We were warned this would happen so stop moaning & follow the guidelines!
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