Everyone calm down.
Yes, everybody knows it will have to spread through the population. But if the UK government wanted it to happen in slow motion, they would lock down London. But they won't. Most supermarket shelves around London are already empty. Many people particularly in the Gig economy are carrying on regardless.That is everybody's strategy. We just want it to spread in slow motion.
Makes a change from reading about the pestilential virus threatening civilised life. He's a completely different shape and size. :wink:
Yes, everybody knows it will have to spread through the population. But if the UK government wanted it to happen in slow motion, they would lock down London. But they won't. Most supermarket shelves around London are already empty. Many people particularly in the Gig economy are carrying on regardless. — Punshhh
Housing is most people’s biggest expense and there isn’t suddenly a dearth of that. People can keep living where they are, if only they are allowed to do so.And you know that how? — Janus
What does any of that have to do with cronies?
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