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christianSpaceman
Christ. In the space of a day, it's gone from 'enjoy meeting your family' to the introduction of a new and previously un-speculated set of strict rules, to 'tier four is going to be in place for months ' (Hancock, c.09:00 in guardian live blog):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/dec/20/coronavirus-live-news-nsw-premier-to-provide-update-on-sydney-restrictions-as-northern-beaches-locked-down-uk-tightens-christmas-rules?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
That's the issue isn't it? The decision is the right one but it presumably could have been made days / weeks ago.
Is it likely that they got new information in the past 12 hours that the statisticians had been keeping from them previously, or were they just happy to ride the inappropriate good news wave for as long as they could before breaking this one.