I've just got off the phone to my Auntie. She's reasonably healthy and not in a vulnerable category, but she has followed every rule to the letter since lockdown, which is fine. I have too near enough.
However, she's just gone on a massive rant to me on the phone about how football supporters last night and people going to beaches are willfully killing people and protesters don't care about the health of their own families and blames the police for not arresting people breaking rules to set an example. A long diatribe about selfish kids who should be staying at home and need to be taught a lesson.
Now, i've complained myself about the scenes in Bournemouth yesterday and some of the scenes at protests, but how long are they expecting bored and restless kids and younger generation to stay at home for? I ask because we were never sold lockdown on it being an indefinite thing, it was a temporary measure 'to save the NHS'. Covid is far from gone but what recent scenes have shown is that many people have reached the end of their tether with lockdown/restrictions. 3 months seems to be beyond the limit for many but there's a lot of people like my Auntie who expect everyone to be staying indoors indefinitely and it's just not realistic.
I don't want to turn it into a government bashing thread but this could have all been avoided if we weren't asleep at the wheel in February/March. Other countries were able to recover quicker and have now opened up with still lower infection rates than what we have now before opening more things up.
I just think expecting people to stay indoors now with what's left of the summer and with summer holiday season approaching, you're fighting a losing battle. We risk a summer of social unrest as it is. It's expect people to carry the can for the bad decisions that were made in Feb/March time.