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I've noticed some people being careful again when I go out walking (making space on the pavement), but I think all these lockdowns are like applying the brakes on a lorry rolling down a hill, it just gathers speed again when you take the brakes off.

The real restriction is hospital capacity, if they linked hospital capacity and 'lockdowns' it would make more sense, but no sign of the 'world beating' track & trace we were promised in the summer (when the roof could have been fixed when the sun was literally shining).

Still having told us that there 'was no magic money tree', Rishi Sunak has discovered the enchanted forest, but a politician telling people that they are supposed to survive on 66% of salary, when their own salaries are guaranteed until the next election is a bit much.

Still Anon | 17.10.20 - 11:43 p.m. | #

Though Essex has moved to Tier 2, just up the road and bordering the village where I live, Southend-on-Sea which is in Essex geographically but not administratively as it is a Unitary Authority, is still only in Tier 1.

So I am now not allowed to mix with my friends there, nor with my friends here in the village, but less than 1/4 mile away, life remains unchanged.

Given that Southend is surrounded by Essex, this distinction in lockdown levels looks baffling, as much cross-border movement takes place every day for things like work, shopping and education.

IanD | 18.10.20 - 7:18 a.m. | #

I doubt we have enough trained medical staff to operate the Nightingale hospitals if we need them now, while keeping other hospitals operating too.

Andrew | 18.10.20 - 10:26 a.m. | #

Looking at chart of daily infections, it took from 20 March to about 20 May for Lockdown to reduce the numbers. Why can that be achieved by a 3 week Lockdown now?

Scrumpy | 18.10.20 - 1:38 p.m. | #

My worry about the 3 tier system is the lack of a no-risk-at-all tier. Perhaps they're trying to tell us something.

Andrew S | 18.10.20 - 9:54 p.m. | #

My worry about the 3 tier system is that the measures of Tier 1 are already known not to work, so need to be tighter, with the upper tiers recalibrated upwards accordingly.

NickW | 18.10.20 - 10:11 p.m. | #











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