pierrot 14:
Yeah right, everybody in the UK is strictly adhering to the rules aren’t they ■■?!!! NOT !!
Easter weekend ■■
WheelNut you’re giving it large , but you really should look at all the figures. I’m not having a go with my OP,
I just think that the regime in GB is not harsh enough , too many people just don’t give a s{it
I look at the figures in the UK and I see on the news on “”“” UK TV “”“”" reports of idiots just flouting the advice given to them,
The problem with relying on media reports, is you get a distorted view of what goes on, I’ve been to work in places in the World and had worried messages from people because they’ve seen a report in the news about problem there, this is because the media reports magnify the issues, the same is also true of anecdotal reports from people on things like social media, they’d rather tell you about those breaking rules than the vast percentage obeying them.
Of course there have been those who’ve flouted it, but despite despite the media headlines of thousands flout UK lockdown, when you read on, it seems to be not some major national disobedience, but isolated incidents spread around the country,
Apparently Essex Police said they spoke to 1600 people over the Easter weekend for breaches of the lockdown, that’s 1600 out of a population of 1.4m and not all they spoke to were from Essex and across the country about 1000 fines were issued to a population of 66m.
I was in my garden over the weekend and although some distance away, I can still just about hear traffic on the A11, however this weekend the traffic noise wasn’t just quieter, it was eerily silent.
And when I’ve been out to my local towns going shopping, I haven’t seen crowds of people and busy roads, its all very quiet and civilised. even the queue at the supermarket, well behaved and good humoured, helped by the store manager playing queue Bingo and giving away Easter egs,
And from what I saw of a video of drone footish of England’s beaches over the weekend, it didn’t show crowds of people, just a few people waking along beaches.
My many friends who live in various parts of Europe, including France, have said despite the restrictions imposed on them and the heavy fines, people are still flouting them, but I’m sure they’re also a small minority of people.
Considering the freedom we’re all used to across Europe, I’m sure the various governments can’t really believe the level of complacence, I believe the UK Government were planning on a figure of 75% complying with the restrictions. I personally am both pleased as I feel it was necessary action, but concerned at the precedent it sets.
Whether this level can be kept up in the longer term I doubt it, I think there will be a point where people just start returning to normal, so before that happens we need another plan, for me, without an effective treatment or vaccine, the only way out seems to be mass testing, but it would have to be in the millions a week and the UK seems to be struggling with the 10 of thousands a week at the moment, I think France has ramped up a bit from a poor start, but nowhere near enough to pin this thing down.
So in France an old vulnerable family friend not relative can be left to starve or in pain having fallen down the stairs because the Vichy zb’s say so.Obviously plenty of experience, in enforcing a possible ■■■■ takeover by CCP, in France.