//Hairdressers who work from home and mobile hairdressers come under exactly the same rules as hairdressing salons. They cannot work at the moment.//
Yes I know they do. But they are working. I was illustrating how this latest "lockdown" is not being observed by many and those to suffer are those running businesses that can be easily controlled.
//Nothing to do with the selfish peopel who dont follow the rules and guidance reagrding gatherings, social distancing, minimising contacts. So says the judge
Unbeleivable.//
Well let’s have a look at recent events.
Wales had a “firebreak” lockdown from 23rd October to the 9th November. In the week before that began, Covid hospital admissions averaged 90 per day. In the week after it ended (up to 16th November) they averaged 88. On 23rd October there were 571 people in Welsh hospitals with Covid. On 16th November there were 1,127. There was only one day during that period when the number of people in hospital decreased and that was 13th November when they went down by 6 from 1,066 to 1,060. It is now well over three weeks since that lockdown began - plenty of time for its effects to feed through to hospital cases - and there is no sign whatsoever that infections – certainly those serious enough to require hospitalisation - are easing. On the contrary they have more than doubled.
Meanwhile in England – where the latest lockdown did not begin until the Welsh version was almost ended - there was a similar increase in numbers in hospital from 6,518 to 13,468. But for much of that period (from 23rd October to 5th November) a good proportion of England was under far more relaxed rules where people could “gather” indoors up to six in number. Even where they could not, shops, hairdressers, pubs and restaurants remained open.
Of course you will say that without the “firebreak” Wales would have fared much worse. Well England didn’t – it fared about the same so I will say that you have no evidence to support that. So what I find “unbelievable” is that you can consider it is worthwhile closing huge swathes of the economy when the results I have provided are much the same.
The country has been conned again by the scientists. They produced blood-curdling graphs which predicted 4,000 deaths a day by the end of November. We’re two thirds through the month now and there seems little likelihood that figure will be anywhere near accurate. Those figures were produced using duff data, the authors accept this but now make pains to point out that the numbers were not “predictions” but “projections". That use of semantics has closed England down for four weeks and many businesses that closed will not reopen. But, as no doubt you will say, that is just a minor inconvenience and not worth fretting over.
So back to my point which you dismissed as unbelievable - viruses spread and fannying about with face coverings and "social distancing" will not stop that. The only way to stop it is to confine everybody to their homes 24/7 and obviously that cannot be done.