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Originally Posted by Cherie

Jonathan Van Tam confirmed in the briefing yesterday that a circuit breaker makes no sense for people in areas of low infection, so for people living in parts of Norfolk and Cornwall, Pembrokshire and other areas like that, it makes no sense at all

He did say the offer was still there, he said they had to be fair to Liverpool and Lancashire and offer a similar amount of funding, it was superseded by the tweet showing Andy getting the news on someones phone, so that seems to have been what stuck rather than what was actually being said

ICU bed capacity in Manchester is at a dangerous level that is the takeway we should have from this, and yes that will unfortunatley translate to unnecessary deaths

Sorry, you and I will never agree on that.
Way over half of England is in restrictions.
If more areas go in as they will as the government is looking at other areas to do the same now.

The science called for a circuit breaker, Chris Whity stated there was no certainty tier 3 restrictions would be enough either.

The Country is either all in this together or it's not .the virus knows no borders.
Those areas aren't hit YET.

The attitudes of them in we're alright jack, the rest of you get on with it and suffer.
Sounds frankly awful.

What figure did Johnson state in the press conference.
When asked if the offer of 60 million was still there, he DIDN'T answer.
No way did he.
All he revealed was 22 million.
Why, if it was still there.
I say again.
He took over, he imposed tier 3 without agreement, he could have announced that 60 million at the same time.
He didn't, WHY,??
He would be imposing the tier 3, giving 22 million but NOT the 60 million.
Pure deceit in my view, not yours, certainly my view however.

Liverpool has a vastly lower population than the 2.8 million residents of Greater Manchester too.
Anyway, I know who I'd trust.
You can rust Johnson's word.
That's your right but I never ever will.

Even if I'd lost no one to this virus, his handling of this and the Greater Manchester issue too.
I'd have thought catastrophic.