New (11/06) CoVid regulations for boats.

[NotBirdseye]

Errr... yes, I know all that. Suspect though that you might have missed the point of my original post.

Nope, I fully get the maybe. Just we've been having a problem with English (for the most part) tourists who don't quite grasp the concept of devolution

 

[JumbleDuck]

Is it safe to do so? Your call. What else matters?

The well-being and lives of other people?

 

[JumbleDuck]

Anyway, I expect we'll be back to relatively normal cruising well before Nichola let's you lot out to play...

Looks equally likely that you'll all be locked up again for another three months. I hope the week of freedom was worth it.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I seriously doubt that.

While some organisations have clearly developed a taste for authoritarian behaviour, unless they are able to convince the general public that the risk is the same as people feared back in March then an attempt to do so would probably fail.

If nothing else there simply isn't the money to keep people at home doing nothing

 

[Babylon]

Looks equally likely that you'll all be locked up again for another three months. I hope the week of freedom was worth it.

I had a lovely week, thanks.

 

[DJE]

I seriously doubt that.

While some organisations have clearly developed a taste for authoritarian behaviour, unless they are able to convince the general public that the risk is the same as people feared back in March then an attempt to do so would probably fail.

If nothing else there simply isn't the money to keep people at home doing nothing

They're not at home. They're being paid to go to Bournemouth beach.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Indeed, but as those furloughed have previously been banned from doing any work and without having the benefit of something like being able to go sailing it is understandable that they see going to the beach as a reasonable thing to do

 

[JumbleDuck]

While some organisations have clearly developed a taste for authoritarian behaviour, unless they are able to convince the general public that the risk is the same as people feared back in March then an attempt to do so would probably fail.

Death rates up to a thousand per week again might help make the case.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Yet when I looked on the bbc app in the COVID19 section it was pretty much all about holidays and the like

I suspect if the government was serious about the possibility of reintroducing the restrictions we would see something other than the 'mission accomplished' noise emanating from Downing street

 

[Stork_III]

Looks equally likely that you'll all be locked up again for another three months. I hope the week of freedom was worth it.

Be Afraid. Prof Neil Ferguson has announced there will be no second spike in infections, which means we're all doomed.

 

[DJE]

Yet when I looked on the bbc app in the COVID19 section it was pretty much all about holidays and the like

I suspect if the government was serious about the possibility of reintroducing the restrictions we would see something other than the 'mission accomplished' noise emanating from Downing street

But if it's not safe for them to be at work how can it be safe for them to go to the beach?

 

[Lucky Duck]

Some probably wont have jobs to go back to once the job retention scheme ends

Others might be working for business prohibited from opening by law

Edit - the HSE will enforce social distancing in the workplace but as we know it has no force of law elsewhere

 

[Babylon]

That's right. A lot of people won't have jobs any more, nor much prospect of getting another one any time soon.

The phenomena of the excess on Bournemouth beach and elsewhere was unfortunate but understandable given the deep physical and psychological claustrophobia of the last three months. Judging by the numbers of people enjoying themselves in, on and around the Hamble last week, and the extremely light, almost non-existent police presence, its clear that the need to allow people to get fresh air and sunshine and 'normalise' as much as possible mentally has been recognised as now being of the same importance as supporting other aspects of physical health.

The difference between March and late June is that the whole system is now more practiced - medically, commercially and socially; especially the generalised self-shielding of the vulnerable - so any increase in infections will be sustainable. This is all in-line with the early, obvious recognition that the virus will never be eradicated and that eventual herd-immunity is the only way.

The foolish herd never listen, while the neurotic herd will always criticise the robust herd, etc.