I thought the lockdown was the right thing to do. Still do. But.
First it was necessary to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed Northern Italy style. All right, that was horrific, let’s avoid that. Then that worked and I thought great, success!... and then lockdown continued and everyone was cheering it on.
Then the government started talking about testing and tracing. So I thought okay, fair enough, keep it going long enough to get cases low enough for that to work, that way we can come out of lockdown and not ever ever have to go back in. Then result, testing and tracing system set up! And yet it’s STILL going on. And loads of people shave decided they don’t want test and trace after all and want this instead?
And now it’s dragged on for months, we’re talking about part-time education for our children come August, and my 70+ relatives get to go out shopping, garden centre, tennis, golfing, nice walk round National Trust properties, while my children are shut up inside getting sadder and screamier and my friends who live alone are apparently not supposed to hug anyone until... WHAT? Until there’s a vaccine? What are we waiting for at this point? Fine fine take slow and cautious steps back to normal life but we do actually have to GET back to normal life.
We have 2000 contact tracers in Scotland and today there were 14 new cases of covid. I am not an expert in contact tracing myself but I am fairly sure that 2000 of them can manage that. And yet we still can’t expect full-time schools in sodding August?
I still think they’re gambling on the vaccine coming sooner rather than later (and I think it probably will myself) but if governments or the public or whoever want the population to live in hellish limbo until then then at least SAY so. So we can disagree.