Kes
I'll Decide ...
The previous lockdown rules were nonsensical in places. What was the point of banning people from sitting in the middle of a park on their own at the same time as they could go and join huge queues at B&Q and be in much closer proximity to others.
They really need the antibody test quickly. I remain convinced that a significant percentage of the population will have already had it, especially in London. Right up until lock down people were crammed onto tubes and trains, in busy offices, in packed post-work pubs and bars, and all at a time that the R was incredibly high. I'm 95% sure that I had it in mid-March, but didn't think anything of it as the symptoms hadn't been mentioned at that time, and at least five of the people I sit close to in the office are convinced they have had it. We also had a team weekend away to Liverpool in mid-March, just after the Liverpool vs Atletico game that is thought to have contributed massively to the spread there.
Looking at photos of the tube in London today I do wonder if either the government have the same view as me, or they are going back to the herd immunity approach. Telling people to go back to work with just 12 hours notice, knowing that workplaces and transport providers wouldn't be able to react in that time, seems a bit fishy to me.
Politicians just simply reacting to media mood and covering their arses.
"People flapping? People think we've acted too late/not done enough? Let's lock it all down".
"People flapping? People flaunting lockdown already and complaining about the death of/damage to the economy already? Let's reduce lockdown and tell them all to get back to work".
Trouble is, when your country is largely controlled by the mainstream media with liberal socialist views and people are actually dying, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Whatever happens from here on, it'll all be Boris's fault.