It seems there isn't going to be a "lockdown 2"
Yet!
Just as in March, we are seeing restrictions gradually tightened with the changes only days apart. This clearly doesn't give enough time for ht eprevious set to have any effect.
For instance, "Rule of Six" was introduced recently, and there's no way they could possibly know what effect it has had on transmission. Yet today we are to get a further serious tightening of the rules.
I suspect in a few days it will get worse, they are clearly heading towards a full shutdown again, they just think that if it's done in stages we won't notice.
The hysterical brigade are going along wit this.
New restrictions Monday > Cases still rising on Wednesday > Demands for more restrictions on Thursday > Government accedes by the weekend.
Nobody is mentioning that there is around a two to three week lag at least before any of this takes effect.
A further downside to this is that, when cases DO fall, we have no idea which restriction actually ehlped, so we stick with all of them.
It is a complete joke and anyone with a modicum of intelligence and critical thinking abaility should be completely bemused by it.
The problem is that if you don't want exponential growth, it's been proven that the restrictions (compulsory or voluntary as they may be) need to be slightly tighter than the ones you have now. It's like a switch - pass R=1 and we WILL end up in a mess. It's just a question of how quickly.
We cannot keep the country shut down. The consequences of that will be far more destructive than this virus.
A balance has to be struck. Currently it's not being.