Lockdown 2

We?
Boris lost the public empathy when his puppet master drove up to County Durham and he hadn't the balls to discipline him.
Now people just do what suits them, but are careful.
The whole Rule of 6 thing is an unenforceable guideline at best.
The family in my street where the guy is recovering long Covid have regular large gatherings with many different family members. The woman opposite gives regular private lessons to schoolkids. Life just goes on as normal.
 
The covid restrictions remain in place because the economy and our basic social structure is not yet sufficiently damaged for us to accept the changes that will be brought in.

This is not and never was a real public health issue. Look at death rates, compared to recent years they are bang average, sure a nasty peak when those in care homes were deliberately culled back in the spring but pretty much back to 'normal' now, this despite the fact that the sainted NHS has been largely inoperative for 6 months.

There will be some extra deaths in the months ahead, mostly patients who have been denied early treatment for 'real' illness by NHS closures, and many with mental health issues of various kinds. Suicides are already up, in my area the increase in the numbers are greater than the numbers of covid deaths.

Don't worry about the masks guys, it's the blindfolds that need to come off first!
 
So, as a major part of their argument to lock down Manchester, the Government claimed that by, I think it was, mid November, all Manchester's hospitals would be full as a result of the spiralling rate of infection, if there was no lockdown. Manchester's leading public health expert claimed there would still be plenty of capacity and that they were talking out of their arses. Hmmm, the Johnson, Kendrick and Hancock dream team or a local public health expert who might just know a bit about what's going in in her area of responsibility ? It's a tough one.
 
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