Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
I don't under-estimate the changes at all. BUt there was a long time before we made any changes.

We had the virus here for over two months before anyone made any changes other than a week or two's hand washing in mid March prior to lockdown.

No one has yet give an inkling to how an R=4 ish virus has free rein in a population for up 10 weeks and hasn't infected more people, and that's before we get to add those that have caught it since lockdown.

I can only speak with certainty about myself and those I know - but my partner and I started changing our behaviour quite dramatically in early March, and I was advising those I know - club members, B+B owners, yoga attendees - to do the same; there will have been plenty of others doing this I'm sure. Of course there were those who refused to change their ways except where they had to, but they will have still been reducing their risk, even if they tried not to do so.

The situation in the US shows what can happen if you let it.