Lockdown / public compliance

The Government can be blamed.

The majority of scientists are saying it is too early, we are still at 8,000 plus new infections a day. However, they have built expectations that should not have been encouraged.

I was out yesterday and social distancing was clearly not a concern for many people. Then schools will open further and the number of interactions will grow exponentially. I might be wrong, but I think in early to mid July we will be in a very difficult place.

 

I agree with that.

There were 200-300 people out in Salford yesterday, blatantly ignoring any social distancing and there was no way the police could do anything about it safely.

I get that there is a fatigue factor with compliance and coming out is going to be exceptionally difficult to manage. However, by keeping it tighter, with less room for activity, until new infections had dropped further would have been better.

 

The government have failed to take into consideration the selfishness and idiocy of a lot of the general public, most can’t be trusted to social distance which is why it will fail.

 

Do we have an exit strategy or was it a nice document and PowerPoint we produced to stop the media asking the question?
We had shielded people being allowed out at phase 1, we are currently at phase 4 based on the R rate yet they can go out? It’s a total mess and even the public health website still said 2 days ago they should continue to shield until 30th June.

I posted on here a while ago that the majority of the general public are moronic in this country and I still standby that. However the slow lockdown, the piss weak enforcement of the lockdown, the lack of clarity, the lack of quarantine people coming into the country, the clear non-existence of a track and trace system despite it being promised by today, is the reason the government takes full blame for this. They are slowly switching the narrative on social media to public’s fault. If we let them get away with it, it’s criminal.

 

Well, after all the stuff going down with covid, I was dues to fly out tomorrow but Delta finally notified me just over a week ago that my flights are all cancelled. Unfortunately the newly introduced quarantine rules mean I almost certainly will not now be coming over. (Unless I can convince the airline to fly me to Ireland instead). Hopefully all the quarantine and lock down issues will be sorted by October when I would next be coming over.

 

August 2022 looking good if you want to take in a match...!!

 

The Lock down had to be lifted, The Tory Grandees and upper classes were desperately worried the general public would get used to the same lifestyle they enjoy getting paid for doing nothing and enjoying a life of leisure

 

Slavery never went away. They just paid the working classes a bit more to stop them complaining