Wisbech identifies some commendable human traits, such as perseverance, tolerance, taking care of others. This virus has brought out these traits in large numbers.
However, it has also highlighted the c u n t ish behaviour of the few, who won't wear masks, crowd into supermarket aisles with their children running around, and fundamentally put others lives at risk.

I have to take precautions, as I care for my vulnerable household, but however careful you are, there are always morons ready to invade your space, not take precautions and are ignorant of the risk to wider society they present by their behaviour,.."Because I'm alright"

Winter is likely to be devastating, to many. Because the infection rate is now above the predicted "Worst case scenario" (how can that be ?), and we have (at least) another 3 days for people to spread the virus with their recklessness before they are told to stay at home.

A further lockdown is to get on top of the surge in cases and prevent an exponential rise, which would be catastrophic for the NHS and the Country. It is not intended to be the complete answer to the virus or the pandemic, which when the first lockdown was introduced it was hoped it would be.

And look at Spain with heavy enforcement and Sweden with none.

The problem we now have is that the government have been so selective with the worst figure at the time, ignoring the rest, inflating and exaggerating the numbers, changing the recording of admissions, using a faulty test, countries experiencing worse Covid with masks after the expert opinion was that they can actually be worse than not wearing one (that saving the NHS supply was ridiculous as well. They could’ve still bought all FFP3 masks and don’t use cloth or t-shirts)

If we had been treated like adults and measures at the right times then compliance would have been higher. Why no queues to begin with in supermarkets during the bundles in March and April? Why ditch queuing because masks became mandatory? Why wasn’t the hand hygiene as well as distancing still a big government push then as well instead of everyone having a false sense of security in face cloths?

I’m not actually surprised Surrey doesn’t have a problem relatively speaking. I personally know when I could put someone at risk or not, even though I see the government or opposition leadership on this as pretty pathetic or extreme in the wrong ways. Around me I see people not giving a fvck and actually can’t blame them because there’s no honest straight talking. Just another daily scare tactic. The worst being the SAGE flat line of deaths over a seriously long time and then it’s now Imperial College’s 2nd bell curve with 4,000 deaths with no restrictions or 2,500 with whatever restrictions they haven’t even a clue on anyway.

And look at Spain with heavy enforcement and Sweden with none.

Hopefully also on many future occasions,

Amen

Did you miss my response to your post Rudi or are you just very selective about the bits you reply to?

I will leave the comment on anything theoretical to experts and those qualified to make it but I do find the Official figures from the most recent ONS release to be of huge concern.

The latest release from the Office of National Statistics (on 27th October) provided the latest Official figures for Covid related deaths for week 42. The excerpt is as follows.

‘The number of death registrations in England and Wales involving the coronavirus (COVID-19) increased by 232 deaths, from 438 in Week 41 to 670 in Week 42 (a 53.0% increase).’

Without knowing your definition of ‘steep’ I would say a 53% increase in deaths week on week is huge and is cause for real concern.

The next release from the ONS is due on November 3rd and I suspect the figures for more recent weeks (as yet not officially released) will be extremely serious, which is why the Government are taking further action.