O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[ramAnag]

The problem is that so many aspects are Unknown’s and so little true concensus even within the scientific and health communities exists. EVERYONE has an angle, most of which contradict, and this whole thing has shown what a delicate machine the world as we had made it really was - globalisation has a lot to answer for. I think HMG got off to a bad start but have done an ok job (with a few high profile ****ups) of keeping a million plates spinning at the same time. Personally I couldn’t give a **** if Boris goes grouse shooting so long as he keeps me and mine, and by extension my countrymen a) alive and b) in employment or other means of at least buying the essentials and I’ll comply to help that rather than moaning

Sorry Andy but that just totally avoids the question.
Critical questions and ‘moaning’ are quite different too, imo.
I appreciate you’re half a dozen years or so younger and not a grandparent, although that’s scarcely relevant.

The worst I’ve said in this particular exchange is that it’s ‘confusing’. You think HMG have done an ‘ok job’...I disagree...but that’s not the point so I’ll phrase my questions differently.

As a grandparent who has complied totally - and never moaned - with all the ‘advice’ about family get togethers throughout the pandemic how am I meant to feel when suddenly told that’s grandparents are now exempt from the rules if child care responsibility is involved? What has changed...have the over sixties suddenly ceased to be the most vulnerable...was that never actually the case...or is this simply all now about convenience in terms of parents being able to go back to work?

I also genuinely don’t understand the point of the 22.00 hrs pub curfew. What difference does it make when people stop drinking and leave the pub? Surely all that matters is whether people abide by the social distancing rules while they’re in there. Speaking anecdotally I’ve been in five pubs since they reopened and their ‘management’ - as far as Covid is concerned - has varied massively...from brilliant to poorly observed ‘lip service’.

P.S. Sorry, overlapped with Ram...who goes some way to explaining it.