At present testing for Covid19 is limited to hospitals in the United Kingdom a large number of those who died outside the hospital were not included in the statistics. The government has decided to take legal action to impose fines on those who violate the isolation system in the UK. There were guidelines for adhering to social distance to prevent coronavirus infection but many do not agree that the infection is increasing.
in march the testing was mainly in hospitals. but now it has expanded.
but now if one kid is tested positive. his whole school year can be tested if they even have the mildest of symptoms. which means that what was say 30k testing of severe patient admissions. is now 300k of random people that think they might have it
yep when hospitals were seeing 20k and nursing homes were seeing 10k of severe symptoms. we are now at the same scale of 'asymptomatic' that were not tested and with the same mild syptomatics. but with less hospitalisations
because social distancing/masks resulted in less severe cases per asymptomatic/mild
we could if everyone were to social distance/maskwear actually complied with the rules. could have even less hospitalisation per asymptomatic/mild. meaning less change of needing to raise the alert level. less chance of tightening the rules. because the hospitals can cope.
i can understand boris doesnt want to go into full lockdown again unless all hospitals were at/over capacity.
i can understand the regional rules so that low spread southwest is more relaxed then high spread north england
so he doesnt want to trigger a full national lockdown unless its unavoidable to prevent hospital overflow.
and he doesnt want to trigger full march-april rules again regionallyunless the hospitals are at critical levels
but that does not mean people should not reduce the risk of it climbing to that point. and the only option to avoid it getting to critical peaks of hospitalisation is to actually wear masks and respect personal space
if cashier spitguards and asking customers to wear a mask inside a shop is all thats really being asked (because your suppose to respect personal space anyway) then thats not much to be asking people to do.
and by doing it. means that they can avoid not being able to socialise with close friends and family.
yep if everyone actually followed level 1 policy they can avoid level 2. but in places where the dont respect level 1 and some dont respect level 2 level 3 is then implemented. and risks of triggering the march-april full restrictions.
so if you want to avoid the practical and easy to perform stuff. expect the rules to tighten and be less able to socialise with close family and friends
yep if family start having weekly house parties of 30people where in previous years they never did.. then they are the ones that will be shooting their selves in the foot by being told they cant even have 6 close friends in their homes.
so dont be an idiot doing the far opposite of the restrictions because you will just cause more restrictions.
this is the one time where protesting against a restriction will actually cause more restrictions.
if you really want to have restrictions relaxed. following them is the fastest way to relax them