Totally agree here. I have mentioned that I am impressed with the amount of social distancing I have experienced in the UK in comparison to HK and I get shot down each time. (Usually by people that haven't been here)
Of course it doesn't explain why HK figures are so slow and HK so high but clearly it is not all down to mask wearing, social distancing, hand sanitiser etc.
So I live in a village and I am not subject to lockdown. So I can go to work, that is in the lockdown area. I can go to the shops, that are in the lockdown area. My kids can go to school, that are in the lockdown area. I can go to a restaurant, in the lockdown area. Get my point?
Yes the interactions are not so many but they are not two isolated groups. Not doing a national lockdown defeats the purpose and they might as well continue with the local 3 tier system.
If you turn on UK news there always seems to be quite a lot of people ambling maskless around town centres completely ignoring 2m distancing. Scenes at closing time in town centres are...... The fault of the government?Original Post Deleted
Completely not.
But the risk for 50% of the population is significantly lower because they do have fewer contact points. Would you put cities in lockdown if they had the same infection rates as the rural areas do now?
Perhaps if you believe the purpose is to eradicate the disease at all costs. If you want the country to keep functioning as much as possible to save as many businesses as possible your thinking may be different.