"Is there a way to really make people stay at home other than lockdown."
A government official announcement that anyone resident in an urban area who goes on holiday in a rural area and who subsequently needs hospitalisation for respiratory failure will be at the back of the list for treatment.
I am absolutely sickened by this selfish behaviour.
When I work in HIV prevention many years ago in the time of the "don't die of ignorance" campaign and some subsequent years my hospital project was visited by an Indian epidemiologist.
She told me that the spread of HIV in a large part of India resulted from the following situation;
The sex workers in a slum brothel were discovered to have extremely high rates of HIV.
Over 100 sex workers were put on busses and driven off to various other distant locations and just dumped there with no medical, financial or other support.
Of course the punters in the original outbreak infected the new unfortunate women and eunuchs who took the place of the ones who had been forced to leave.
The forced evacuees, with no money and support, had no choice but to earn their living in the only way they knew how, thus spreading the virus into new areas.
This is the way that plagues and diseases have spread since time immemorial. People fear the disease, they flee or force others out and the infection spreads.
I fear that social order will break down if this is not stopped. Lots of people in rural areas possess firearms, many legally, some not. Feelings are already running high.
It is hard enough for someone like me who has lived in a rural area for 2 years and whose family have lived here for generations. I have faced hostility since I moved here and things are unlikely to get better given the current situation.
A friend whose family have lived here for generations but who has a deep tan, dark hair and brown eyes was told by some locals to "go back to where you came from" and that was just with the heightened feelings around Brexit.