A lot of people have been calling for more regulations. Maybe even a curfew. Let me think – why would it stop virus spread if we stopped people going outside when hardly anybody is outside? Hmm.
But I understand. There are two ways to write regulations, and us frail humans like to be told “What does local mean?” “How far can we walk?” “What is the definition of exercise?”
I remember driving in the USA and when I got to Montana the speed limit sign said “Reasonable and Prudent” for cars in the daytime. That was it – no mph. So how fast could I drive? Well daytime was half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset. Just to help this is part way between the normal definitions of civil and nautical definitions of twilight.
Many of us like numbers – a clear right and wrong.
Just look at the reports – what number of vaccines – what number of infections. There was a God of Number is Egypt, Seshat. One of the early Gods by all accounts, so one of the first things to be deified.
What % do you like somebody? Sounds silly, but I just found an assessment from work recently, and it put a % against all my characteristics.
I like numbers, numbers are important, but we can, like the Egyptians, treat them like a God. Sometimes we need to ignore them for our sanity. And sometimes things like sanity and mental health should not be given a number.