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Obviously this isn’t going to happen but if each household was given a cheque/payment of say £1000 to stay at home?
That also means some people will use it to buy £1000 of drugs or gamble it away, and then complain that they are starving, but would have been cheaper than the furlough scheme I think?
I think they are on schedule currently to get most people above 65 vaccinated by end of March?
Acliff-
I'm all for a universal citizen/basic income.
Of course you can't have everyone at home. Supermarkets need to open so you need transport for goods and staff and food production and a whole load of other things.
I think they are on schedule currently to get most people above 65 vaccinated by end of March?
Mr Johnson wouldn't commit to numbers the other night. Originally the UK was expecting 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine this year but that has fallen to 4 million for some reason. I think AstraZeneca also has productions delays or difficulties. My confidence in 20 million people having two doses by Easter is low.
jellybaby
I like your plan but I think too many people don't have enough savings to buy food etc for 6 weeks or formal evidence of earnings to get furlough payments. I'm also not sure vaccine availablity will be high enough.