While last week I looked at this whole call to the return to the office to work this week it is less of a reversal but a restating in a less muddy more black and white* terms what despite the greater freedoms granted had not really changed in a way that has legal standing and thus can be actually enforced although whither or not the police want to is different matter.
Some people it seems to me can get to grips with understanding a situation, that because of its seriousness that people are to adhere to rules and apply them to their day to day lives and yet others just do not get it or worst still think it's some right wing political conspiracy to deny them their rights and that Covid ain't a thing. It is and it kills.
There can be little denying that there has been a discernible rise in case of Covid notably amount 18 to 30 year olds which while not resulting in hospitalization nonetheless meant they had transmitted to others who could be more at risk examples might be multi generational households are shared student accommodation.
That is the logic behind the reduction to only allowing gatherings of up to six people regardless of age indoors or out maintaining social distancing from thirty although exemptions will exist for weddings, funerals, organized team sport, worship and work.
In Scotland under 12's are exempted from the "six" and there is pressure for England to do the same where seemingly most of the Cabinet wanted that but the Health secretary Matt Hancock backed by the Chief Medical Officer got his way.
A fuller breakdown can be found on the BBC website and this will be enforced not just by police but official health enforcement teams in city areas.
My gut feeling is one of "about time too" as while the measures made sense, police were not even prepared in some instances to even open conversations about behaviour and request people altered it which doesn't need a specific legal power and we've all seen to many instances of breaking the spirit and often the letter of the rules putting public health -yours and mine - at risk.
Composed on the new Blogger Interface which I might just say is web intense slow cack-handed interface and doesn't have proper photo sizing settings.
A dog's dinner is the polite version of how I'd rate it.
* This term for the benefit of snowflakes has nothing to do with race and so isn't racist even if some external race trainers say it is. It plays on the clear black type on white paper of a paper document so it stands out clearly not a racial put down. In 2020 you have to say this.
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