Cabinet meeting Monday

[cromwell]

So what will it be?
Will the incompetent doom mongers of SAGE get their way and plunge us into lockdown?
Will our PM do his deck chair impression and fold again?
Or will a cabinet revolt save the day again?
Interestingly enough Alison Pearson wrote Last week that the latest rumour was the 28th and that the supermarkets had already been told.
We'll see.

[Workingman]

The last dashboard update was on Friday, so we plebs cannot know. The numbers are always lower on weekends and BHs due to reporting problems then they shoot up on Tuesdays, so Pearson is probably right.

We really are at the mercy of TPTB and all the caveats they will already have in place. I am not expecting any let up, put it that way.

[Suff]

Yes but you need to define "numbers"

Cases are going up, yes. Serious cases are trending down but, as you say, we are missing the last 2 days data.

Also the rise of cases amongst people who are already in hospital are self limiting if new Covid specific admission cases are not growing.

Until Friday the meteoric rise in the number of new cases had not filtered down into stress on the NHS.

That should drive the decision process.

We will see.

[Workingman]

My simple bet is that we will be told that there are a few "temporary" measures being introduced but that there will be "another" review next week - Tuesday.

[cruiser2]

I live in a small crescent and there have been no real changes since before te pandemic started. Relations and friends are still coming to visit as they
used to do.

It is in the big cities and towns with large gatherings where the infections can easily spread. That is why I only go food shopping.

And it will be the anti-vaxxers who will moan if tighter restrictions are introduced.

[medsec222]

We are in a similar position. We live on a small estate on the through road, so cars mainly just go past. I am still doing almost the same as the beginning of the pandemic, just shopping once or twice a week. It was nice to lose the masks for a while but they are now back on. My son lives in London so he keeps in touch daily by phone. He has been up once or twice to visit during the year and he came up just before Christmas.

[cromwell]

Hopefully there will be no change.

SAGE have cried wolf so often that to me they have lost all credibility. You cannot continue to base government policy on a group whose predictions have been so consistently and wildly inaccurate.

[Suff]

Well you can.

Whether you can survive the next election whilst doing it, another matter.

Something the Tory MP's have finally worked out.

It does occur to me that there is another avenue to this which I didn't think of.

Boris keeps doing what the think tanks say, which doesn't change anything but is wildly unpopular.

Labour supports him when his party rebels.

The Torys take the blame and nobody blames Labour.

Now That is a scenario in which Boris could fall and be replaced with someone who is far more likely to ignore SAGE.

I wonder when that will emerge.

[Workingman]

Pretty much as I predicted.

The PM couldn't be arsed to speak to the people so he sent us one of those Birdie messages then put up Mr Potato head.

There are not any 'temporary' measures, but Javid urged us to be more cautious, to have a jab, take tests, open windows, stay away from crowded places and only meet outdoors - sort of plan B+ - and also that the government will be closely following the data hour by hour. That would be the partial data on the government's dashboard would it, the one with huge gaps? And, yes, the next 'update' will be next week: sometime.