At the end of July, Chris Whitty said that we had just about reached the limit of what could be opened and that in future if we wanted to keep some things open, we would need to close other things.
There was a lot of debate in the media about closing pubs to open schools.
Other countries, such as Ireland, are impressing on the population the importance of everybody continuing to restrict contacts outside of school so that the virus will not spread out of control despite children's contacts increasing massively. We have simply had the message that schools are safe.
Even more things are re-opening even though cases are rising. Johnson is going to force civil servants back to the office as some kind of example to the rest of us.
It was asserted that for schools to re-open, we would need our world-beating track and trace system to be in place by September. I'm not sure what world-beating technology is capable of, but I'm pretty sure it's capable of more than a poster with a QR code on it when you go bowling.
And the testing system has already fallen over. So many posts about people being directed ludicrous distances away for testing. How will that keep schools and workplaces open over winter if people can't easily test negative to get out of isolation?
What is the plan here? Is there one? What happened to the science? What happened to careful re-opening?