The argument about household spread is blatantly bullshit as it comes INTO the household from somewhere. So where? Pubs? Offices? School?
Why are we meant to be surprised about rates going up when people have largely (with government encouragement) gone back to normal? How would they not go up?
No masks in pubs, restaurants etc and no masks or distancing in schools. People back in offices who absolutely do not need to be there, sharing meeting rooms instead of zoom and group toilets instead of their own loos.
Exactly all of this.
Why are people shrieking about the fact transmission happens most in households as though it’s some big revelation? Of course it does - it’s hardly rocket science is it?!
But as has been said, the initial virus is being picked up somewhere and with life back to near enough normal and many, many places not requiring masks then of course transmission rates are going to climb.
The answer isn’t to stop people seeing their family, it’s to address the root cause which is socialising.....work, pubs, restaurants etc.
As a poster said earlier, if not socialising and masks are so vital then it needs to apply EVERYWHERE, not just where there isn’t a till. By saying you can’t see your family in a park, or even talk stop to talk to them in the street, but it’s fine to sit in a pub with them and other strangers, then the integrity of it all is lost.
Stopping us seeing our families and potential changes to education is not addressing the problem, it’s shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Whilst people are working unnecessarily alongside each other, and socialising in pubs and restaurants, then infection rates (and then deaths) will continue rising.
The answer is to close pubs, restaurants, go back to WFH and close non-essential places like hairdressers, beauticians, gyms, cinemas, libraries etc etc.
It won’t happen though because of the economic impact and the fact is such a drastic step backwards. And I genuinely do accept and understand that.
There is no real middle ground though is there.....the choice has to be made though: taking drastic measures or accepting that infection rates will climb.
Everything else the Government does, including rules like the Rule of 6 (which I think many are ignoring due to the reasons I said above) is just a short term solution and it means our lives are just going to be a roller coaster for the next 6 months as restrictions are put in place, then loosened, then put in place, then loosened, then put in place, then loosened again etc etc
I honestly don’t know how the Government are going to effectively deal with this.
I’m no fan of the Tory Party, and certainly no fan of Boris, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be in his position.
Plus......a virus is a virus, it has greater power than us and it’s just proving that as a species we are not immortal. It may be just a virus but it’s still slowly working it’s damaging ways throughout our species and maybe we are naive to think we can control it by masks and staying 2m away from other people.
As many threads have said in the past, until there is a safe and effective vaccine we will just have to accept that this is our life now and there’s nothing much we can do about it. Nothing we do will make the virus go away.
It’s a really horrible, difficult and uncertain period of our life and like I said, I wouldn’t want to be in Boris’s shoes.