Quote Originally Posted by Witton Park View Post
I'm not advocating gallivanting about as normal.

You can probably go back months to when we had similar points made on here, around May/June.

The statistic the boffins at SAGE seem most concerned about is the number of contacts.

If lockdown was lifted in all areas, and guidance became voluntary tomorrow, the number of contacts would still be far below what they were back in February.

That's because workplaces now have covid measures in place, we have more home-working, some of the public will still isolate, and almost all of the public will self-assess their sitation and reduce in some way their potential risk by reducing their contacts.

Just as a basic example, I will not be in a queue of 8-10 in the local post office as I might have been back in February 3-4 times a week.
So what do you want to see happen now? With one hand I appreciate that the pub closing early at 10pm thing was bonkers but, with the other, I'm not desperately keen to go to the pub nowadays either. I do go to the gym a couple of times each week though where the covid set up (Skipton Crossfit) is superb - it would be completely disproportionate to impose restrictions on them again but you get the feeling that that might end up happening if things continue to get worse. I think this new traffic light system might at least be easier to follow and get rid of some of the confusion but it could be a harsh system, which still might end up penalising the innocent majority because of the stupidity the careless minority. I still think the major problem is still mixing households indoors at home and maybe that is the major big button to keep turning on and off to try and control things?