Just saw the French figures

[medsec222]

I just assumed they were handling cash as my son was a bus driver here for several years and that was the norm. He is now working in London and I am so glad he doesn't drive a bus.

[Workingman]

Something else kept under the radar; the latest figures show that the daily patients who have died in the UK after contracting coronavirus surpasses Spain and Italy's worst recorded daily totals. Stay home, stay safe. Please.

[Workingman]

I see that Prof. John Ashton, the former president of the Faculty of Public Health, is also concerned that we are not getting the true figures. Deaths in care homes and in the community are not being logged in the published figures and so we really don't know the full picture.

Massaging the figures is the wrong thing to be doing. It might be well intended, but it opens the door to conspiracy theorists who will question the motives behind it and come up with answers that could cause more problems that just giving out the raw figures.

[cruiser2]

There have been screens on our buses for a long time. I was for security so passengers could not reach the cash box.
Buses including double cecker only have one door at the front. Not many passengers on the ones I have seen. Also altered time table
as there are fewer passengers.

Not been on a bus since lock down started.

[JoM]

Our buses all have contactless payment set up now, or you can pay online and download a virtual ticket onto your phone so Arriva are urging any paying passengers to use one of those methods.

[TheOstrich]

Not many passengers on the ones I have seen. Also altered time table as there are fewer passengers.

Our local bus service to Shaftesbury has been reduced from half-hourly to just 7 trips daily, and ENCTS free passes are now valid all day, not just after 9:30 weekdays.
The Exeter - London Waterloo train has been reduced from hourly to 2-hourly, but then that's the same timetable as they operated during the strikes .....

[Suff]

Today France free corded over 17,000 new cases. Shortly after extending the lock down for another month.

Something tells me these figures were already known before the figures were released and that is what the decision was based on.

[Workingman]

Do any of us remember the apocalyptic media panic when Italy, Spain and France burst through the 10,000 total deaths figure?

Well the UK has just gone over 14,000 deaths. Our average daily case rate has been around 4,500 for two weeks, and our daily death rate has hovered around 750 over the same period. Neither shows any sign of slowing and we could "officially" hit 20,000 dead by this time next week.

We are going to be locked down for some time yet.

[Suff]

We are indeed.

Not helped by the 7 day lag on death figures.

[Workingman]

It looks as though I was right last week ... the massaged figures show that we have hit 20,319. The real figure is much higher.

Earlier in the week Hancock claimed that we had reached the peak; well there are two types of peak. There is the Everest one where you go up the side till you reach the top but on the next step you are going down the other side. Then there is the Table Mountain one where you go up the side till you reach the top but your next step takes you on the flat, then the next, and the next, it is known as a plateau ... Hancock wanted us to think "Everest" and as with most things he was wrong, we are on Table Mountain and we don't know how far away the down side is.