I was watching the select committee grilling people over the government response to the pandemic today. There was one expert who was not a glass half full, nor a glass half empty. He was more a “Don’t bother to look at the glass”.
His view was that we need a Tier 3 shutdown along with a circuit break.
I was more interested in the discussion on behavioural science. Apparently very few people with positive results stayed in isolation for the full period required.
Here the local infection rate is the same today as it was 10 days ago. Not because of tier 3 restrictions – they have still to make a difference. It appears to be because people have changed their behaviour. If this is the case then it means that it is in our power to control the virus spread, we can do it without government controls, without shutting down business.
We get the restrictions we deserve?