From the BBC today:
The big story for BBC UK today but not being considered by BBC Scotland:
The government is facing calls from Tory backbenchers to drop the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule in England. MPs, including former cabinet ministers Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Damian Green, say it is essential for the economy. The government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance. It follows the announcement of a further easing of restrictions in England, allowing single adults to stay at one other household from Saturday. No 10 said the change aims to help combat loneliness and that people are being trusted to observe the rules.
See that last line? Remind you of anything? It’s a cover, to try to persuade you that something callous that they want to do for their business friends regardless of the cost in lives or other misery is nevertheless worth the risk.
Like the bedroom tax to supposedly help young people with children get a house with two bedrooms?
Like disability cuts to give the disabled their dignity back by ‘encouraging’ them into work?
How dangerous might it be to reduce the 2 metre rule?
The findings showed a reduction in risk of 82% with a physical distance of 1 m in both health-care and community settings. Every additional 1 m of separation more than doubled the relative protection, with data available up to 3 m. This evidence is important to support community physical distancing guidelines and shows risk reduction is feasible by physical distancing. Moreover, this finding can inform lifting of societal restrictions and safer ways of gathering in the community.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31183-1/fulltext
Well, I’m clear. Only a cruel and heartless bastard would think of doing this before we have virus beaten.
Remember that once a baby rises from its crawl and stands then walks then goes fast
There is only 1 possible outcome
And that is end up flat on your face and cry for mummy
Then seek the breast milk of Scottish resources to soothe them
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The driving force in England during this crisis,right from the off,has been politics and the need to Get Brexit Done.
People were always expendable in that scenario.
Now they see their opportunity of being a global trading force receding into the distance and are desperate to promote measures which will resurrect that goal.
People have never really counted in Tory Britain,it is the structures of state and the maintenance of the elite that matter to the Tories.
Scots now see that we don’t count in the UK of E and that there is only one way out.
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John Beattie’s Drive Time has been pressurising the Scot. Gov. To drop the 2m Social Distance. For two programmes he brings on a stream of business people saying their biz. will fail if the 2m S D isn’t shortened. Whilst never brinning on a representative of Scot. . Gov. to state their position.
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