A SECOND national lockdown is inevitable, according to government health advisors.

John Edmunds, a professor and member of SAGE, the body advising the government on controlling the pandemic, appeared on last week’s BBC’s Newsnight.

He warned the localised measures - which he argued were not working - were merely delaying the inevitable.

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Rob Grey: “The government need to do it properly this time. Two weeks of hard lockdown with everything closed. All shops, all businesses, everything. If everyone stays home the virus can’t move and will die. Do it now Boris so we can all have a Christmas and get back to normal.”

Simon Batchelor: “It looks like it’s just an advisor’s medical opinion. He’ll be overruled unless the brown stuff hits the fan for financial reasons.

“The point is that we are entering a very testing time of year even without Covid. It wouldn’t take much extra to push the NHS over the limit. Let’s hope for a quiet flu season.”

Stacey Wilson: “It’s all very good going back into lockdown but they won’t be able to start furlough again, people still need to pay their bills so if places of work close what will happen then?

“If places of work stay open the non-essential places of work will be quiet as people won’t be able to go out.”

Maria Lynch: “It’s like sticking a plaster on, that’s all lockdown is. While I don’t have the answers, if I did I would let Boris know, it’s come to the point that we have too many different instructions.

“Lots of people are not wearing PPE when out and about and are still able to use public transport, go into shops etc.

“Lockdown has made just as many people ill and pass away. It’s like Joe public are being left to die, doctors, hospitals and dentists are not seeing people, consultations are being done over the phone and people are being told by doctors to google the symptoms.

“Hiding from the enemy as to say, that’s what lockdown is. The world needs to come together make a plan for the world not different rules for one place or the other. The virus is the same in any country.”

Jennie Wolfie Weatherhead: “If they do it now, sooner rather than later, to bring the rates down, it means we shouldn’t be in lockdown over Christmas.”

Helen Geddes: “Lockdown is not the answer, people need to take more responsibility and abide by the rules. If we go into lockdown then as soon as we come out cases rise again so, it’s just a vicious circle.

“We need to get on with our lives, be sensible and pray that a vaccine will soon be available. We can’t keep going into lockdown because the economy is damaged enough.”

Ron Bateman: “It’s difficult to take anything anyone says about it seriously anymore. It’s not just about our PM being impenetrably stupid. None of the ‘experts’ can agree either.”

Trace Kearns: “Not going to work nothing is going to work just face the facts we have got to live with it.”

Jo Carlton: “Lockdown will only work if everyone abides by it.

Sadly, there will always be hundreds of thousands of people who think the rules don’t apply to them and it’s because of idiots like that that the virus is still spreading.

“No one is above the rules, but I can’t see a second lockdown will achieve anything.”

Sandy JP: “They have too much invested in vaccinating us and know nobody believes the hype, of course they have to do another lockdown.”

Sheila Gibbs: “If people kept to what they are asked to do like wearing masks and using the hand sanitiser we wouldn’t have to have another lockdown.”