(30 Aug 2020, 12:39 am)streetdeckfan wrote The issue is the stores just aren't designed for organised queue lines, they end up blocking aisles. If they have a limit of 50 people in the store, but they all want to leave at exactly the same time, you're still going to have an issue. Which goes back to what I said further up about one way systems, if the stores are designed from the ground up for 'social distancing', then it's all great. But in stores like ALDI and LIDL where space is limited, literally half the store is inaccessible once more than 4 people are waiting!

My point about the numbers of cases wasn't necessarily about the number itself, but the fact you can't really 'trust' the statistics. Back then the exponential rise was, in my opinion anyway, just as much caused by the lack of awareness as the R rate itself. With the amount of tests they're carrying out now, spikes can be found early, whereas at the start it wasn't until you were literally at your death bed that you could get a test and find out if you have it. Now, you can literally get a test done in a matter of minutes. A couple weeks back, my mother and younger brother both had a temperature so went online and booked a test, within 20 minutes she was at the test site having the test, and by the next evening she had the results back (which both came back negative).

Plus, I'm still waiting for all those second peaks we're supposed to have had by now, there was those times everyone went to the beach, the 'protests', the opening of the borders, the end of the shielding program, the reopening of pubs.

Now, I'm not downplaying the fact it can rise exponentially, it's happened before, but the fact the deaths aren't increasing but the cases are suggests either COVID is becoming less deadly, or it was never /that/ deadly in the first place and a lot of people who had it weren't ill enough to even realise they had it. I suppose only time, and mass antibody testing will tell

It was more the point there isn't any limit at all now in most shops, it's just a free for all especially in ASDA stores. Shops like Morrisons etc have more than enough space to do a single queue for the tills it's better than blocking the whole shop up with people queuing everywhere. Time will tell though I agree there.

(30 Aug 2020, 9:16 am)Rob44 wrote STORX you mentioned John Dobson street in you post on page 1...... I'm assuming you mean the bus lane that Stagecoach praised to the hilt????? You moan about what NCC have done in Gosforth as its delaying buses but in the same breath bring up the Bus Lane on John Dobson street which has made keeping time  easier???

These councils cant win with some people

No no, the absolute farce that it was when they first done it. It took about 2 years to build something which should have took 6 months max, it's literally just a glorified path and a narrowed carriageway. Plus then the absolute farce with the bus camera with bad signing which is still ongoing today on whether they're going to be refunding people or not with court cases etc. Oh and it comes to an absolute standstill at christmas every year now which never used to happen (guessing bad traffic signal timing for that as is the same outside of Haymarket / Eldon Square bus stations).