drcarlos wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:12 am
Broccers wrote: ↑Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:33 am
So noone lives in tower blocks Zedleg..... tiresome fella.
He has made a valid point though. A lockdown in a country with a large area and realtively small population will stop it's spread to other areas quite effectively (much like Spain) and mean that certain areas can remain untouched with no infections (and any immunity at all). It only takes one or two people once the lockdown lifts to be asymptomatic and to visit a new area (such as a friend in a tower block) to start it all up again.
It won't go away quickly unless we get the herd immunity or a vaccine untl then we are likely to get flares ups in areas that were not touched in the main first wave.
People aren’t just going to go back to normal overnight, and maybe not ever back to the old “normal”. There’ll be lots of changes that would dramatically slow another spread. Little things like people not just “soldiering on and going into work/visit family” when they have any symptoms, and understanding what social distancing actually means.
At the moment there are plenty of people not following the rules, but even the most ardent rule breaker would still be actively avoiding people showing any symptoms and probably wouldn’t go out with symptoms. Sure, some won’t show symptoms, but that’s the case now and the numbers are dropping.