I just don't understand why we haven't enforced lockdown better. Yes we have the R rate down below 1 (though barely), and the daily deaths/cases are decreasing, but how on earth are we still getting 8,000 new infections and 2-300 hundred deaths a day? Only reasonable explanation is that the public haven't had enough respect for the lockdown and rather than just abide by the rules as instructed, continually flouted the regulations and tried to find loopholes in the system, like those ****ing VE Day conga lines or Cummings' well-publicised trip. And now the government can't get the curve any flatter because more and more of the public are getting fed up with the restrictions so we're loosening them faster than the scientists believe is appropriate because we need to get the economy back up and running. How the hell is track and trace going to work when you've got 8,000 new cases a day, many of whom will be asymptomatic?
There will be a second spike in cases now, and there will inevitably be a second period in lockdown in one form or another, I'm pretty much resigned to it now. The government's handling of this has been a complete **** show from day 1, but the biggest mistake was putting far too much faith in the British public. Collectively we have no common sense, and have continually proven this. But to be honest, who can blame us, when even at the top of government we have idiots operating heavy machinery on public roads to test that their impaired eyesight is still good enough for them to drive 260 miles across the country with their wife and child in the car?
We've spent over two months in lockdown - if this had been handled correctly and was enforced properly we could've been out inside a month, albeit with social distancing maintained.
