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I think this is bang on. The combination of inaction and then blaming us is really pissing me off.
Being shamed for going to the park twice in a day or riding for more than 60 mins when two weeks ago this was "scientifically fine" is fucking nuts.
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Yes, and also let's remember that there are still many many people going to work in crowded tube trains etc. Now of course a lot of those are indeed 'essential workers', but I'm fairly sure quite a few are not. See this article for example:
The Tube driver said: "We were all a bit surprised that so many people
would be allowed to travel. We were expecting rush hour to be largely
un-impacted and that has turned out to be the case."There's very little difference in the numbers around rush hour. We're
still seeing the builders in the 'Hi Vis' jackets and paint on the
trousers."We want to be playing our part to keep the country moving, but
building a new office space for whoever isn't really what we want to
be doing. But we know that mixed into that crowd are people who need
to be there."... and I can definitely confirm that, around here building seems to be going on as before - as just one example, we can see one of the Thames 'super sewer' building places from the staircase and while they might not be going at 100%, there are still workers on site, lorries coming and going, cranes moving. This is not something you can blame on the individual builders, they need the money too, but you can blame companies. And I'm sure there's quite a few more examples of not-really-all-that-essential work going on.
I'm fairly sure the risk of spreading the infection in a packed tube train, or even just inside a station, is orders of magnitude higher than when people go out for a walk or a run or whatever.
SwissChap
Rupert Read here with a strong anti-Johnson government take.
https://medium.com/@GreenRupertRead/the-coronavirus-letter-youve-just-been-sent-by-johnson-is-a-lie-transcript-824e71aa73b