Suff wrote:My take is that full freedom to work and travel will have tracing as an integral part.
Nah, we are about to be re-sloganised: "Stay Alert>Control the Virus>Save Lives."
Then we are going to get a brand spanking new virus alert system. It will have five levels between 1=green and 5=red - so it's not a traffic lights system. And we are apparently somewhere between levels 3 and 4, according to the Johnson - so it actually has levels with steps, but we don't know how many steps between each level; clear?
Different towns, cities and regions can all be at different levels (steps) at the same time. Lancashire could be 'wear hazmat at all times' when Yorkshire is 'picnic land'. And Javid has suggested that age could also be used as well - over 70s, stay under the duvet, under 30, it's party time.
The British Retail Consortium says that shops should reopen if they are 'safe', which is helpful, or not. There is no definition of what 'safe' means nor who decides.
At the moment if a group goes to the park and spreads out couple of blankets to sit on they can be fined £60, even if they are all 2m apart, because it is not essential. At the same time airlines can pack people into enclosed canisters and fly them hundreds of miles so that they can go to the beach and spread out couple of blankets to sit on, and that's fine.
When those people return we are soon going to force them into quarantine just in case they have caught the plague, but only after they have travelled home by taxi, bus, coach / train, taxi. The fact that they might be returning form safer places than the UK where another 8,000 might have caught it whilst they were away is neither here nor there nor that it's implementation is about seven weeks too late.
But relax - the message is clear: "we are on top of this".
