Scrutable

From this news story:

The document, released by the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, informs councils that under the Public Health (Disease Control) Act 1984, they can ask a magistrate “to impose restrictions or requirements for closing off contaminated premises; close public spaces in the local authority area; retain a means of transport or a mobile structure; disinfect or decontaminate the premises; or order that a building, means of transport or structure be destroyed ”.

If the virus doesn't survive out of the body for more than a few days, why not just leave a building empty for that amount of time instead of demolishing? Or indeed why bother doing deep cleans of buildings, buses etc. - just leave them idle for a while.

Dead Cat

The "Public Health (Disease Control) Act 1984" obviously pre-dates covid and is general enough to cover all sorts of different diseases.

But "get your patrons to wear f.cking masks or we knock your f.cking pub down" might not have done anything about this demonstration of limited mental capacity to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information in working memory for rational decision making.

shpalman wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 9:19 am

The "Public Health (Disease Control) Act 1984" obviously pre-dates covid and is general enough to cover all sorts of different diseases.

Good point. I originally came across the news story via a fragment of a Telegraph article which I now cannot access at all except for its headline: "Councils can demolish contaminated buildings under powers to stop second coronavirus wave". Several other news outlets have the same story, such as this one which even more strongly implies that councils are being told they can demolish coronavirus-contaminated buildings. So I just wonder what got briefed by the government.

Anyway, I've been puzzled for a while whenever I read about councils etc. doing deep cleans in response to the coronavirus - surely pointless if you can just wait a few days.

This is only used for things like anthrax that form resistant spores. Even then I can find no record of any demolitions, even on farms where there has been an outbreak. Hysterical nonsense.

Boustrophedon wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:09 am

This is only used for things like anthrax that form resistant spores. Even then I can find no record of any demolitions, even on farms where there has been an outbreak. Hysterical nonsense.

Wasn't the Skripal's house demolished following the Salisbury poisoning?

But yes, in this instance a hysterical distraction