O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[Andy_Faber]

Of course you’re right about the hospital admissions/death rate aspect...but, worst case scenario, if the AZ vaccine - which is the one most people here have had - only provides such relatively limited protection, and the Indian (or other) variants take off then we may be on the way back to square one. Hope not...but better (any even) Government communication and direction would help.

individual compliance continues to be the key and there continues to be individuals and groups who just don't get it. When I called in at the local corner shop yesterday there was an abandoned full trolley left, apparently, by what GP has in the past described as a 'shorts in winter' sort who had been shopping there maskless because Asda wouldn't let him in, On this occasion he came up against the shop owner not a random operative and she wouldn't serve him. Just an anecdote...

[ramAnag]

individual compliance contintues to be the key and there continues to be individuals and groups who just don't get it. When I called in at the local corner shop yesterday there was an abandoned full trolley left, apparently, by what GP has in the past described as a 'shorts in winter' sort who had been shopping there maskless because Asda wouldn't let him in, On this occasion he came up against the shop owner not a random operative and she wouldn't serve him. Just an anecdote...

I’m not disagreeing, Andy...`individual compliance’ is essential and selfish idiocy is the enemy...but the point is people need to be fully aware of what the dangers are in order to comply and at the moment, in certain areas - both geographical and legislative - the Government is doing a very poor job of raising that awareness.

A second anecdote...my first live music event - planned for the end of next month - has had to be postponed. Can’t be helped...maybe one day we’ll make it back to gigs and the theatre.

[MadAmster]

With the Euros round the corner and Dutch people likely to be allowed more freedom from mid-June there has been a rise in people looking forward to watching the games in jampacked bars or in jam packed squares with huge screens. The government got a pre-emptive strike in saying that, although people are likely, considering the way the stats are improving, to be allowed back inside bars and restaurants, that social distancing will still be in force and that they don't want huge gatherings to watch the games.

Not nice to hear but, IMO, most definitely sensible.