Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "England eases rules while Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland stick to 'stay home'" video.

  1. A week ago the UK government was being castigated for not publishing a strategy for leaving lockdown, now they are being criticised for providing a plan. The UK media was commenting that the reason the government refused to publish its plan for leaving lockdown was because it feared that the plan would dilute the lockdown message and result in confusion. The UK press criticised Boris johnson for treating the UK people as children, who could not be trusted to distinguish between a strategy for leaving lockdown and the message to stay at home. Well all the evidence is that the press at least, willfully misinterpreted the message and did behave like children. It is important to understand that the stay at home message is simple to understand. Its is an order to everyone, backed up by new laws to enforce it. Even then, some idiots failed to understand the logic of the lockdown in stopping the spread of the virus and decided that the instructions did not apply to them. There actions in part are why the lockdown has not eliminated the virus. The new message of "stay alert" is far more complicated, as it is attempting to convey the complexity of how each individual should leave lockdown taking into account all the myriad of individual personal circumstances that that entails. The government has backed up this new message with a host of documents that deals with the conditions for different industries and occupations. If every there was a case for the UK public to behaviour as adults it is now, yet the media seems to think that it is the governments job to provide instructions to every individual as to how and when they should return to work. That about 29 million individual documents, tailored to the Citizens personal circumstances. This is clearly a nonsense, the best that can be expected is what the government is attempting to provide, which is instruction that cover sections of work and industry. What is clear, is that the government is attempting to establish a new normal way for work, that keeps the people safe and the virus under control, until a vaccine is developed. Since it takes up to 15 days for the infected to show symptoms, any return to work must be slow and managed, monitoring the virus for any spread that indicates a return to an epidemic. The PM has made it clear that lockdown will be reimposed if there are any signs of the virus spreading again. Those who are being asked to return to work, are in employment that has an inherent or engineered minimum risk of infection. HOW IS THIS COMPLICATED TO UNDERSTAND???
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