paul moy 235 Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, Beefy is a legend said: Some very interesting post from Bonzo - thank you for the info. Paul Moy - I understand you pointing out several cases of breaches of distancing rules etc but I think you are missing a key point. Humans as a large population have very predictable behaviour. When you allow large groups of young people to leave home and congregate in halls of residence, then guess what, some percentage of them will have parties. In the general population, some percentage of people will be Covid deniers, criminals, or simply selfish and won't really care about adhering to distancing. The government should know this and they should factor it into their calculations as to what can and can't be safely opened up. It is far more useful for the government to do that and tailor their policies than to not do so, see their policy fail, then blame the public. They've had a difficult hand to play have the Tories, but christ, they've played it woefully. In hindsight mistakes have indeed been made such as late night opening of pubs IMO and the initial non-mandatory use of masks and of course the original delayed cessation of flights from COVID areas into the UK. There seems to be an absence of basic commonsense not just with some government rules but also with human behaviour in the current pandemic. There is no perfect answer and in any discussion there will obviously never be complete agreement. Anybody following the videos coming out of China as I did in January will have surely realised the seriousness of what to expect but very few in the UK were taking it seriously at the time and sadly many that think they will never be seriously affected are still not. Edited September 29, 2020 by paul moy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beefy is a legend 224 Posted September 29, 2020 Don't disagree with any of that. One would hope that the government would carefully consider policy changes though. Take the 10pm curfew for example. Who could have predicted that turfing everyone out of pubs at the same time would lead to masses of people congregating in streets and supermarkets/off-licenses and public transport all at the same time?! Not only is the policy damaging the licensed trade economically, it's also potentially not having a positive impact on reducing reproduction rates too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
paul moy 235 Posted September 29, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Beefy is a legend said: Don't disagree with any of that. One would hope that the government would carefully consider policy changes though. Take the 10pm curfew for example. Who could have predicted that turfing everyone out of pubs at the same time would lead to masses of people congregating in streets and supermarkets/off-licenses and public transport all at the same time?! Not only is the policy damaging the licensed trade economically, it's also potentially not having a positive impact on reducing reproduction rates too. Not ideal obviously but here people should be taking some personal responsibility for their health by avoiding these risky situations. Pretty typical that everybody stays until closing time but daft in the current circumstances but that is their choice. People should adjust their drinking times and maybe start socialising earlier. For instance I met people at 5pm and left at around 9pm on Saturday from a Wetherspoons that had everything very well organised with tables with maximum of six and waitress/APP service only. There was no 10pm rush at all. Edited September 29, 2020 by paul moy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
