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Author	meepmeep13
Comment	while I agree on this article, note that of the countries with the top 10 number of cases, 5 are currently in national lockdowns (China, S Korea, Italy, France, Spain). 3 others (Iran, Switzerland, Germany) are in partial lockdown. We are #10. We should be in lockdown by now, as we have far lower ICU capacity than any of those countries. And as for it being several hundred miles away, Greater Glasgow and Clyde has the 3rd highest number of cases of any local authority in the UK, meaning that even if it isn't a national lockdown, we are still likely to follow London. So, yes this isn't happening yet, but I'd put good money on it being in place by the end of the month. The Coronavirus Bill giving the government emergency powers to do this is currently going through Parliament.
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Created	Thu 19th Mar 2020 12:52am
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while I agree on this article, note that of the countries with the top 10 number of cases, 5 are currently in national lockdowns (China, S Korea, Italy, France, Spain). 3 others (Iran, Switzerland, Germany) are in partial lockdown. We are #10.

We *should* be in lockdown by now, as we have far lower ICU capacity than any of those countries.

And as for it being several hundred miles away, Greater Glasgow and Clyde has the 3rd highest number of cases of any local authority in the UK, meaning that even if it isn't a national lockdown, we are still likely to follow London.

So, yes this isn't happening yet, but I'd put good money on it being in place by the end of the month. The Coronavirus Bill giving the government emergency powers to do this is currently going through Parliament.