I'm fed up because so many people flout the rules with no consequences. I suspect that the lack of consequences is intentional. If everyone flours the rules, the economic hit will be smaller and Bojo can claim he did something and its not his fault no one listened. The government have created a situation where the only logical action for normal people is business as usual, that means large excess deaths, and the government has plausible deniability. Whoops.
/RantAndParanoia
Been that way since Barnard's Castle.
The latest decision that says MPs can see their siblings for Christmas Dinner on the 25th, but a Nurse working on the 25th can't see their parent with terminal cancer for dinner on the 26th, will hopefully be ignored.
I can't believe it hasn't made headlines yet...
Only assuming that there's no economic hit to a rampant pandemic spreading death, hospitalisation and illness. Which is a barking mad assumption. It never was "illness vs economy" you either have both good, or you have neither good. They can't be separated.
Depending on long term health effects if covid runs wild you can see as many benefits to average people at the end of it as you did after the black death.
It's not that simple. It's never that simple: i.e. you have simplified to the point of being flat wrong.
> Depending on long term health effects if covid runs wild you can see as many benefits to average people at the end of it as you did after the black death
I don't know what you mean there, for one thing prevalent Long COVID is really not going to be net benefit, for another you should perhaps rethink your economic argument for genocide / decimation. And your assumption about who is "in groups" / "average people" vs out groups. Your whole line of thinking is lacking in both logic and human decency.
And yet that didn't stop you from moralizing.
Sadly the rules are laxer than they should be but the government can’t enforce the rules effectively so are putting in enough grey-area that people can sort of decide for themselves.
Sadly people are very short term focussed and unable to make the most of the situation and instead complain and go about their normal lives with just enough changes that they “feel like they’re doing their bit”.
I love the gym but the move to “keep gyms open” was the best example of people not really getting it and being sad that their toys had been taken away.
The moto in our hose at the moment is “just because you can doesn’t mean you should”
I don't know your situation, but I have lived a very isolated existance for the last 9 months because I am able to. MANY people I know are not in this position.
However, if you look at the graphs the dynamic of virus growth did seem to be significantly changed by the intervention.
It's felt like this with all of the tiers to be honest.
They just don't go far enough and the populace is fed up with taking much heed of the rules too.
The November "lockdown" felt very, very different to March when the roads etc were quiet - and it actually felt like people were taking this seriously.