It couldn't actually be that our policies are making things worse could it?
Ha! Can't believe you could think that youcannot!
That could be part of it, definitely, given that masks etc do seem to be pretty pointless, especially given their only partial and declining use in scotland. I suppose its possible that insisting on them could be pushing some people away from relatively "safe" public activities (in large, ventilated public spaces, with some degree of distancing etc, and maybe even air filters...), and back into meeting with people in private, in small, unventilated rooms? In the main, I'm back to thinking that whatever we do (or don't do) in terms of restrictions is pretty pointless... The virus is going to spread regardless, and sometimes cases will be higher in Scotland, and sometimes in Wales, and sometimes in England, seemingly pretty randomly! There may be some innate vulnerabilities (the usual that Scotland isn't great at, as we've discussed before.. . Vitamin d, poor diet, generally poor health etc etc) and there may be some things we can do personally if we feel we really mustnt catch it (avoiding unnecessary contacts etc). But beyond vaccines, and addressing actually potentially useful things like air filtration in unventilated spaces, I think it's probably just random...