Did Boris change his mind about restrictions, are there more on the way?

[KetoPenguin]

A huge deal was made about the rising number of cases and I was all set for some really tough restrictions as were a lot of people who went back to panic buying toilet paper. So far it's just a curfew, and some stricter rules around mask wearing in shops, not even a ban on household mixing in England. Were they going to lockdown harder and decided against it? Are more restrictions on the way very soon? So many questions!

ONS reports that the biggest outbreaks are once more in care homes.

@Thanksitsgotpockets they currently believe one of the biggest transmission factors is households mixing in a home.

Unfortunately due to the shitshow which is track and trace they can't work out the other circumstances that cause increased transmission.

I think at this point, it doesn’t matter what measures they put in place, it’s not going to make a blind bit of difference, the virus Is already circulating in the community. It is far too late to suppress it, it’s s going to take it’s natural course. Sometimes, we have to accept that we humans can’t control everything!

If the government had used the time after the first lock down to properly sort out our ‘world beating’ test and trace system, we might have had some hope of minimising the impact. Even if we were to have a super strict lockdown now or some point as some people seem so desperate for, all we will do is delay the inevitable. People are still going to catch Covid in large numbers and some people aren’t going to make it.

Meanwhile the damage done to the economy and to all our lives trying to suppress or eradicate Covid will have a far longer lasting impact on people’s lives and probably end up killing more people than the virus ever does. People have or will be losing their jobs, their livelihoods in unprecedented numbers, people are dying from other health conditions because of treatment delays, our kids have lost months of their education, our young people are facing ever bleak features and we’ve got a mental health crisis brewing. How high a price are we willing to pay?

Given this, I think people are are weighing up and deciding for themselves what sacrifices they’re prepared to make. Just because they draw a different conclusion to you doesn’t make them selfish/reckless/dickheads or whatever other insult people love throwing out at people. The only people I blame for this mess is the government. The vast majority of people complied with the stay at home order in March at great personal costs for many of us. The government did not deliver on their end of the bargain and now they’re doing a smashing job deflecting the blame and some of us are falling for it.

My DF is terminally ill and he’s decided how he wants to spend his last few months; it’s not shut away from his family and grandchildren for the next 6 2-3 months. I don’t t give a flying fuck what anyone else thinks or what the law says, we WILL be spending as much time as we can with him.