Honestly quite surprised by what I'm reading on here from a lot of people. The English government have made colossal phuck ups at every turn since this whole thing started - why are people suddenly so assured that Boris has made the correct call now, and that Sturgeon is wrong?

I get that the Scottish government announcement is not what any of us wanted to hear, but do you honestly think the virus gives a phuck what any of us want?

How about reserving judgement until we see how things go? If England relax their restrictions and everything goes as planned then great - good for them. I live in England so that would suit me fine. Then we can all say that the Scottish government were too cautious. But if the English start opening things up, only to see an increase in cases and deaths (let's be honest - not unlikely) then we're right back in lockdown again and some folk on here are going to feel pretty stupid.

Daily new infections are still at around 10,000 - the numbers are coming down but not rapidly by any stretch. The tier system was only moderately successful - it slowed the spread a little bit but numbers continued to rise and then lost control completely. People quoting low numbers as a reason for bringing back the tiers - maybe we need to see these low numbers sustained for a period of time before we can be confident in that approach.

What people have to remember is, this is a virus. You are trying to negotiate with a virus.