The government speaks with a forked tongue

[Mistlewoeandwhine]

I live in one of the ‘high risk’ areas with a very large number of people with the delta variant. On my Spotify I’m getting government adverts every half hour telling me to minimise travel in and out of the area, work from home, meet friends outdoors, think about the 2m distance etc. All in a doomy official voice.
How can they be telling me that on one hand and on the other tell us that it’s ‘personal responsibility’?
My husband is being recalled to work (with young adults) in the city centre, I’m being pressured by parents to revert from online tuition back to face to face (they tell me other tutors are doing it).
I mean, I get the vaccine/hospital numbers correlation but how can both ideas that the government are selling me be correct?

It’s disgraceful. This way they can say they opened up the economy and it’s our fault it’s not picking up, and they can say they told us to keep the measures so it’s our fault that Covid is rampant again.

They speak of responsibility but they don’t know the meaning of the word.

I don’t see why adverts rob you of choice. The government isn’t compelling you to do anything they are trying to persuade you to make the right choice in their eyes. They can still point out the difference between a bad and a good choice.

We don’t want or need to be controlled by government legislation for ever. But a government can give people guidance and information when necessary

It's a case of damned if they do and damned if they don't. Continue with restrictions and they'll be complaints, Labour will say they got it wrong. Ease restrictions and they'll be complaints, Labour will say they got it wrong. If by some miracle the economy improves and there isn't a surge in cases and deaths, there will be complaints that they kept the restrictions too long.

Some people think one way and others don't. That's fine as long as people don't resort to using hindsight to prove they were right.

BTW I think it's laughable that they expect the British public to show personal responsibility, best of luck with that!