Originally Posted by
paulscnthorpe
To be fair, 90% are complying with the regulations, there's actually a train of thought from some 'sources' that it's being better observed than the government initially thought, and in turn the economy has taken a bigger hit than expected as they believed shops like b and q may stay open and believe would get jobs done, amongst other things..
It's difficult to trust some of sources however the government are said to think the economic impact may result in around 150,000 deaths in the long run..
All the measures are purely to slow the strain on the NHS, not to stop people getting the disease and ultimately dying. For all the deaths it'll be interesting to see how much the death rate is in comparison to a similar period to say the last five years. Looking at the hospital admissions and ICU admissions, the figures do tend to point to a leveling out, however we're probably at least a week from knowing for sure.
On the economic impact a number of countries have introduced very few restrictions, and it'll be interesting to see their death rate in comparison