O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Andy_Faber]

I agree that more extensive testing is likely to lead to the recording of correspondingly greater infection rates, but on this one I wholly agree with MA.
Ultimately the way out of this will be via a vaccine...in the meantime it’s a case of common sense and social responsibility.

Responsible folk in my area are using the Govt rules as 'guidelines' and then applying common sense - ie there's a wide promenade outside my hovel seperated by a canal, when people are on the opposite side, so seperated by maybe 20m, they have their masks in their hands, when they are on the same side, so potentially very close as they pass, they have them on. Some of the excuses I've heard round about have been laughable, inc (sorry rA) a non-mask wearing teacher who says she won't self isolate when she gets home because she's 'being careful'...I felt like making a analogy with Aids, but Mrs F pointed out that with Aids people died through ignorance, with Covid they kill through ignorance