Is Covid plan B about to be enacted?

[Workingman]

Of course I can search my own figures. What I cannot do is get into the head of a person and find their workings out from numbers that don't appear anywhere, as Ctrl + F on both sites shows.

Meanwhile the last thing any of us really want is another lockdown as they really do hurt the economy, put us under control and curtail our freedoms, unlike plan B, so Business Minister Kwasi Kwarteng tells us that: 'I don't want to reverse to a situation where we have lockdowns'. And the Johnson says there is 'Absolutely nothing to indicate [a lockdown]' despite the last week's figures.

That probably means one is on the horizon.

We also get the latest from a meeting of SAGE calling for more restrictions, and now, including working from home and Covid passports - 'Lockdown Lite'.

It's all ramping up from what was a relatively mild plan B proposal.

[Suff]

That probably means one is on the horizon.

I get the humour in that...

I think the most important statements were that there are as many beds free in the NHS as there are Covid people in beds and that the growth in Covid cases is not creating the same growth in beds in use or serious cases.

In fact it was followed up by "The number of covid cases are not a threat to the NHS because it is not resulting in a number of admissions which would stress the NHS".

Until those messages change I doubt there will be a revision of whether we are going to enact plans B,C or D.

However they have nailed their colours to the mast on "protect the NHS" and the NHS is not at risk. So, therefore, the justification goes away.

Here in France we have "Lockdown-Lite" with Covid passports. We also have masks and masks have remained since the last lockdown. The numbers in France are far lower than the numbers in the UK, mainly because they test half as many people in France as they do in the UK. In Germany they are testing round 1/5th of the people we test in the UK. It is an excellent solution to the problem isn't it? If you don't test, you don't get cases, because around 90% of the cases testing positive in the UK would never have been detected as the kids are not becoming ill with it.

I have also noticed a significant reduction in the amount of testing both France and Germany are doing. The UK has less serious/Critical cases than either Germany or France, yet has up to 5 times the number of new cases.

If you don't look you will not see.