No point in lockdown anymore

[LifeMatters]

All my neighbours seem to think that we are in a paid staycation by the government and social distancing are out the door.
Everyone around where I live has friends and family over, are having picnics together on the grass in front of their flats, the roads are busier than ever.
It's crazy! There's no point in making this country suffer any more so better all let's just go to work and what happens happens.

People are taking advantage of the paid time off and not staying indoors. What is the point of this lockdown if people are not following it anymore?

My next door neighbors had friends and family over all this week...it's crazy.

[VerticalHorizon]

30 year old code makes no difference.
Would it matter if I calculated it with an abacus?

How accurate a model is, is a different matter, but the age of the code is utterly irrelevant. Some of the code in your iPhone is 20 years old.

[Rebelwithallthecause]

714 flights in and out of the country this Wednesday just gone

They are making us stay at home but allowing this to happen

[TooTrueToBeGood]

Finally they are going to announce quarantine measures for people arriving in U.K. from abroad

I might be misreading the news articles but it reads like this will be advisory rather than enforced. That is, individuals will be trusted to self-isolate for 14 days rather than being held in official quarantine.

According to BBC News:

"People arriving in the UK would have to self-isolate at a private residence."

So unless they are going to be put on a tag it's entirely down to the individual. Call me a cynic but I expect a large percentage will just not comply.

[Rebelwithallthecause]

The telegraph says about it being enforced with £1000 fines of broken or deportation

Hoping it’s fully enforced

It needs to be!

So bloody late though

The news article also says it won’t happen until June!! WTF!!

[Rebelwithallthecause]

This part of the article seems rediculous to me

[Connie222]

@Rebelwithallthecause it’s far too late. They should’ve done this months ago.

And how will it be enforced?

And when I read that they are talking about doing it in June - what the fuck? The way it’s been handled in this country is a joke.

[Rebelwithallthecause]

Spot checks only

[Rebelwithallthecause]

@Connie222 I agree

Too bloody late
Then not putting it into action until June
Then only doing spot checks anyway

What a shot show

Yet no one can see their parents

FFS

[Connie222]

Spot checks my arse.

[Rebelwithallthecause]

A joke indeed

[Namechangednorth]

@VerticalHorizon
Suggest you read the rest then and the follow up. Makes frightening reading about how amateurish it all was. If the code was so good why did the government call in Microsoft to try and sort it out (unsuccessfully)

And why have they resisted releasing the actual model? Well we know why now.

[TooTrueToBeGood]

The telegraph says about it being enforced with £1000 fines of broken or deportation

Sounds OK in theory but how effective will it actually be in practice? Penalties are only effective if there's a reasonable chance of getting caught. Are the police going to to randomly stop huge numbers of people to check if they should be self-quarantining? Are they going to do spot checks on the residences where those self-quarantining are staying to check they are not mixing with the rest of the household? I am pretty sure they won't as they do not have the resources.

[Rebelwithallthecause]

Yes just spot checks it says

[VerticalHorizon]

The economy is a vital part of our healthcare. Striking the right balance between saving lives today and saving lives tomorrow, next year etc is tricky.

Sadly where money is concerned, a multitude of motives come into play... and therein lie the problems.

[VerticalHorizon]

Business flights ought to be reduced... unless they offer exemptions for 'legitimate' purposes.

[BobbyMo]

I'm in Glasgow and definitely everyone near my flat is taking it seriously as are my friends and family. When I cycle around for exercise it only seems to be teenagers who are breaking the rules about social gathering. But the pavements and paths in the park are busy... sometimes 2 metres isn't possible when passing folk. There'd be more space if people could sit around on the grass, ironically