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like with all advice/guidance given by this atrocious government during this pandemic everything will just be ignored & they've cut police numbers by so much, noone to enforce any of it. All a farcical debacle. Life goes on that is it. people will not be cooped up against their will simple as. The stuff these politicians are spouting now is just lip service, nothing more. mini rant over!
I hear you. All I would say is that there seems to be almost no active conversation on the numbers that will be killed by austerity that will undoubtedly follow. It will be impossible difficult to prove but we all know that a squeeze is coming. So, we lockdown again, and follow advice, building significant national debt and an inability to service future provisions such as health services, only to get a rather different wave of deaths, just postponed. My personal view would be to take a more pragmatic approach than at present. That would be to seek to spin up the economy using those least at risk, the under 50s (perhaps) and the least vulnerable. Divert as much financial support and choice to shield those that need it, should they wish to. I wholly accept that there are only imperfect solutions but to be fair the current stop-start approach is failing (partially for the reasons you highlight) and worse still is losing the support which is so essential to underpin it.
It is going to be interesting for a number of reasons. A full lockdown is off the table no matter what any minister says publicly. Even if they attempt to enforce it it won't be followed.
The big question is what is going to happen this winter now public trust in the government and its measures is at an all time low? Will cases and hospitalisations/deaths get so high that the public are spooked into an almost self-imposed lockdown or will it turn out to have been overblown somewhat and be containable without strict measures? No country yet has faced a winter of covid so we simply don't know what we're in for...
What will be interesting in the next few weeks is public reaction to new Covid measures. Anecdotally you can see across newspaper comment boards, social media etc that the government are fast losing support for new containment measures. There is an increasing view that it is not within governments gift to control Covid by strict measures but rather should simply be a framework of mitigation measures and education. I genuinely think they are heading for a fall on current path as most now prefer a “personal responsibility” approach. Bumpy few weeks ahead I suspect.