RE: It's nearly Christmas23 Dec 2020 17:10
Yes it has Treetop, nothing to do with hindsight. How can you have tiers of lockdown against a killer invisible pandemic, if you don't stringently monitor each border, each county, each town, to keep the population static. A severe lockdown from the beginning, uniform thoughout the country, to get the R rate right down to 0.2 or thereabouts and staying locked down until then, would have been apt. We came out of the first general lockdown with the R rate just under 1, almost touching the danger zone, which to me was completely asking for trouble and the height of idiocy. Now the tiered system implemented is harder to manage and it's messing with the mental health and wellbeing of people. We should also have all been wearing masks as soon as we learned of the pandemic, but the Government waited until months later before making it compulsory to wear them in shops etc.
It has been too slow to react to the problem. Now it is a more complex and dangerously worse situation to deal with than it could and should have been, because the virus is rife.
Proper planning to save lives, the economy can take care of itself, with Government support. It always has. We should have had one clear run at this pandemic, not in and out of numerous tiered lockdowns. That uncertainty and forcing businesses to jump through hoops at the drop of a hat has been destructive. The furlough pot could have been implemented without an end date, because the virus itself isn't concerned with time. businesses could have closed and received aid until the coast was clear, until society safe as possible from the virus, which unfortunately is still killing as many people over here daily now as when it all began. If not more.
Boris talks too much, sounds good, heartfelt, but he has bungled this.
All my opinion only Treetop.
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