Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
I suggest,whatever the differing views on "the science", what has been lacking in this crisis is any sophistication regarding different human behaviours - the message for a 17 year old who believes they will live for ever is different to that for a 70 year old who knows that they will not.

I appreciate with 60,000,000 people the message needed to be somewhat simple and crude but "one size fits all" was never equally applicable to a sheep farmer in Cumbria and the youth of an inner city area.

When people cannot personally identify with the message, they ignore it.
I'm not sure any other UK Government or political party would have done better, but there has been so much confusion and contradiction. A few weeks ago the Government were pleading with people ( especially the young) to return to pubs, shops and restaurants (Eat out to help out, etc.) in order to 'save' businesses. There have also been pleas to return to using public transport and working in the office. However, more recently the Government seem to be attributing blame to the young for the upsurge in infections!

Some honesty is needed. More socialising, even with social distancing, masks, etc., is clearly going to increase the infection rate. Why don't they, the Government, come clean with people and explain that we're all going to get infected and they are trying to manage the number of people becoming seriously ill, so that it's not everyone (or unmanageable numbers for the NHS) get infected all at once.