CV19 is here and it won’t be gone for a while yet, well that’s my opinion. What’s surprising me is that there is a somewhat large discrepancy allowed to happen and persist between reasonable behaviour in terms of infection control and what folk are actually doing on mass. I doubt that this BBC report isn’t untypical of what’s happening in many (other) places: Crowds descend on south's beaches
Banding is out for the foreseeable future and if you’re a Church goer then heavy restrictions apply but if you go to the Pub then who knows what happens (think Aberdeen local lockdown causes, BBC report: 'Fury' at Aberdeen players as city ) and as for the beach literally thousands of folk are going to such places and crowding together. There’s seemingly no Policing to stop such incidental and spontaneous gatherings yet to some large extent they are predictable. You can’t hold a football match but you can allow such large gatherings? Schools will restart soon and kids just don’t social distance (kids are kids) so there are bound to be consequences. Flights are being allowed again (I don’t know the exact details) and breathing common air (via the air conditioner) with fifty plus strangers is very likely to spread disease.
Have I missed something here? It just seems to me that the Government has a soft approach on some things whilst being quite controlling (which for now is mostly what’s needed IMHO) on others. However if literally thousands are allowed to crowd together in beauty spots then I’m puzzled why Bandsmen can’t gather together in some way - doesn’t even have to be indoors. It seems to me that the rules have become blurred, confusing and unequal, and that they are not actually enforced. What do others think?
Banding is out for the foreseeable future and if you’re a Church goer then heavy restrictions apply but if you go to the Pub then who knows what happens (think Aberdeen local lockdown causes, BBC report: 'Fury' at Aberdeen players as city ) and as for the beach literally thousands of folk are going to such places and crowding together. There’s seemingly no Policing to stop such incidental and spontaneous gatherings yet to some large extent they are predictable. You can’t hold a football match but you can allow such large gatherings? Schools will restart soon and kids just don’t social distance (kids are kids) so there are bound to be consequences. Flights are being allowed again (I don’t know the exact details) and breathing common air (via the air conditioner) with fifty plus strangers is very likely to spread disease.
Have I missed something here? It just seems to me that the Government has a soft approach on some things whilst being quite controlling (which for now is mostly what’s needed IMHO) on others. However if literally thousands are allowed to crowd together in beauty spots then I’m puzzled why Bandsmen can’t gather together in some way - doesn’t even have to be indoors. It seems to me that the rules have become blurred, confusing and unequal, and that they are not actually enforced. What do others think?
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