So why is it just Leicester that has had to go back into lockdown then?
You tell me! Perhaps they've conducted more tests than other areas?
I think it's a stupid response. It will achieve little other than further economic misery and a brief slow-down of more cases.
Indiana that is blatantly ridiculous. NZ eliminated it! Scotland could do.
Nope. NZ currently has 22 cases that they know of. And yes - they will have to keep their borders closed for the indefinite future. That's going to be tough to manage.
As a PP said - if we all stayed indoors completely for four weeks, globally, we might be able to eliminate it for good. Might.
There's no way to enforce that though. Plus, it would have to be unannounced, otherwise there would be mass panic buying and mass transit just beofre the four week lockdown, which would serve to spread the virus very nicely, then shutting carriers in with potentially vulnerable people. This lockdown would need to be TOTAL - so no emergency health services, no emergency plumbers, no fire services, etc. The people locked in with COVID would need to stay in and take their chances. Same with fire - no fire service etc. If your house gets burned down no one else would be allowed to take you in.
Of course - this just wouldn't happen. Human nature doesn't allow this to happen.
When people talk about others 'breaking the rules' - it's not always a bad thing. Can you imagine that a mother whose baby stops breathing during the total lockdown is going to watch her child die rather than to the street and beg for help? Do you imagine that the doctor living down the street isn't going to go out and help her?
Thousands of incidents would occur over those four weeks, all needing human intervention. And humans would intervene.
Why anyone thinks that lockdown would ever do anything other than slow the virus, I cannot fathom.