(06-08-2021, 08:44 AM)Birdman1811 Wrote:(06-08-2021, 08:21 AM)Protheroe Wrote:(06-06-2021, 11:49 AM)Birdman1811 Wrote: The idea of a lockdown is to give you time to set up adequate track and trace.
No it wasn't.
That is the idea, maybe not our governments, but the generally accepted idea for a lockdown is to get track and trace set up.
We never did.
Birdy's right Proth, lockdown is the bluntest tool in the box to help reduce transmission, it really is a last resort when there is no other options. The reason it was entered into was to buy us time to set up the other tools to help, test and trace, vaccination programmes, purchase and roll out of PPE being the main three. We failed miserably on one of those, managed to scramble to get another and outperformed everyone on the vaccine programme.
One thing that is surprising me at the moment is how shit the information flow is recently on the government website. The BBC were reporting yesterday that there were 154 new patients in hospital, what they failed to notice was that was from the 1st of June. Currently for England the data is for the 4th June on those in hospital and 2nd on new admissions. At a point when information is critical into the publics understanding of what's going on this is pretty shit.