I don't live in the UK, so I'm not exactly sure what "lockdown" means, specifically. What are citizens forced to do, stay in their homes for the period of the lockdown, or are there times when they can travel, and are there restrictions on that....? I'm very curious about that. In the US, there hasn't been anything like that as far as I know of. I've never been prevented from leaving home, and all of the businesses that I usually frequent have stayed open the entire time that the pandemic has been going on. The nonessential shops did close, but now they're reopening.
Is the COVID-19 situation still that bad in the UK? I have to plead ignorance, as I don't watch much news.
Whatever happens in your country, I wish you well and I hope your lockdowns don't last for long. None of us can keep completely safe from anything, no matter how many precautions we take--and some of these mandates are killing the economy and the spirits of people just trying to live normally. My best to everyone in the UK.
I think they just use the term lockdown to discourage people. Afaik the last lockdown limitations were:
only essential workers were able to go to work
some people who couldn't work from home could go to work in some cases
and households weren't really allowed to meet - but that's more of a self policed system so no one's really going to notice.
The police here have a legal obligation to act on the consent of the population so they can't, for example, try splitting up families unless they think that wouldn't be "unpopular" . And if they've done it themselves too they can't really expect others to not...
Never mind sliding windows, defenestration of parliament would be far more effective.
Can the person with a favourite word say Aye? 🤣🤣🤣
And yeah it is a problem to keep the borders closed for tourism and services.
And it probably is too little too late. They should've started this in July. But they already had half the population within August.
Also, they're obviously vhsjcjng test results to see if the lockdown as a success or not, they're not just going to reopen everything with a large amount of infections...