BREAKING: New Coronavirus Restrictions to be implemented across England from Monday

It is the most paltry action that once again makes no logical sense and will be implemented without any parliamentary scrutiny.

I fully expect it to be full of loopholes like the rest of the Health Protection Regs.

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It is the most paltry action that once again makes no logical sense and will be implemented without any parliamentary scrutiny.

I fully expect it to be full of loopholes like the rest of the Health Protection Regs.

Why does the restriction make "no logical sense"?

Yes, it does have some loopholes: schools, workplaces or Covid-secure weddings, funerals and organised team sports are exempt.

We'd be in a better situation if the Government had got the basics right in the first place: the contact tracing app (which they've dropped, after claiming it was going to be "world-beating"...), a usable/efficient testing system able to cope with demand... and so these new restrictions would not perhaps be necessary.

Personally, I think one of the most serious consequences of the Government's Coronavirus response will be damaged public confidence. Their failings – e.g. over acquiring PPE, contact tracing, testing, and even matters not directly related to COVID, such as the A level results fiasco – will leave many questioning why they should listen to the Government and obey its rules at all, and this will make it even more difficult for the Government to respond. I reckon that's partly why the economy is doing so badly as well – I'd assume it must indicate the level of confidence in the Government (although I'm not an economist, so I stand ready to be corrected if I'm off the mark).

I work in an office with 16 other people, if I were to leave work with those 16 people and sit in a park I would be breaking the law, but being in an office with them is legal.

How is that logical? Does the virus respect that I am in work and wait for me at the door to finish work?

We are conducting more tests than ever before, naturally the wider the net you cast, the more cases you will pick up, this doesn't neccessarily indicate a spike in the overall infection rate. Besides that, most of the recent infections have been among the under 30s, this is precisely the demographic who should be allowed to become infected to push us closer to herd immunity, they are highly unlikely to suffer any serious illness, let alone death. We should of course be isolating and shielding the vulnerable (if they so choose, they should be free to take the risk if they want), and letting the fit and healthy get on with their lives and salvage what's left of our wrecked economy.

More pointless knee jerkery and can kicking from a government that seems to be increasingly losing it's collective mind. I will not be obeying this latest dictat. **** them.

We are conducting more tests than ever before, naturally the wider the net you cast, the more cases you will pick up, this doesn't neccessarily indicate a spike in the overall infection rate. Besides that, most of the recent infections have been among the under 30s, this is precisely the demographic who should be allowed to become infected to push us closer to herd immunity, they are highly unlikely to suffer any serious illness, let alone death. We should of course be isolating and shielding the vulnerable (if they so choose, they should be free to take the risk if they want), and letting the fit and healthy get on with their lives and salvage what's left of our wrecked economy.

More pointless knee jerkery and can kicking from a government that seems to be increasingly losing it's collective mind. I will not be obeying this latest dictat. **** them.

I work in an office with 16 other people, if I were to leave work with those 16 people and sit in a park I would be breaking the law, but being in an office with them is legal.

How is that logical? Does the virus respect that I am in work and wait for me at the door to finish work?

It is ridiculous and frustrating; but to be fair to the Government, it's difficult to avoid some cognitive dissonance between Coronavirus restrictions and the complexities of people's lives.

It's obviously significant that keeping people in work as much as possible is a massive priority for the Government, and that would explain the exemptions that they have set out.

Because the Debate and Current Affairs forums (other than Educational) have been quarantined due to trolling brought on by the lack of active moderation by TSR.

Oh... that’s a bit rubbish. That explains why hardly anyone has seen/posted and the thread is already dying.