Triassic
Well-known member
What I find interesting is that people don't seem to understand politics..... I'm no fan of Boris but he know's his population. Britain has always prided itself with it's freedom or rights but the downside of this is that we a population that are not accustomed to being told what to do, they need a certain amount of persuasion. Whilst the rest of Europe was going into Lockdown the PM instead chose to follow the herd immunity approach, i.e.: protect the most vulnerable and let the virus run amongst the rest until enough have caught it that it cannot find a fresh host and dies out. Unfortunately our European neighbours kicked up over this and pretty much bullied him into following their lead. Now a Lockdown might work in Italy and Spain where the police not only enjoy a ratio per capita that is over twice ours but they are also obeyed, (through fear rather than consent as we do here). In the UK the only way the government can get compliance is through co-operation, hence his initial guidelines asking us all to be sensible and then his subsequent "directions" that, as some have pointed out on here, left lots of unanswered questions and confusion as to what is and isn't allowed. This has now been backed up with some legislation that sets things out a little clearer, but there is still lots of room to get around them, and we've seen lots of imaginative ones on her as well. This rather proves my point, we don't want to be told what to do. Boris has done all this deliberately, he knew people would work around whatever he put in place so he's still working on his herd immunity approach, but he's made it look as if he isn't..... Covid-19 is going to go right round this country and kill a lot of people. If you're smart you'll let the people who want to go out and get exposed to it do just that whilst you stay nicely locked away. Don't think of ways around the rules, think of ways to stay safe.