Do you think we need tougher lockdown restrictions?
Is it that we need tougher lockdown restrictions or is that some people are not following or flexing the rules that we have?
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned that ‘every flexibility’ of the rules could prove fatal.
Senior ministers have discussed the prospect of introducing tighter lockdown controls in an effort to improve compliance with the current rules, according to reports.
The Prime Minister reportedly spoke with senior ministers on Sunday to evaluate “whether the current lockdown rules were working” in reducing the spike of coronavirus cases, the Daily Telegraph suggested.
The paper said the Government was considering scrapping the exemption allowing people to exercise with one other person from outside of their household or support bubble.
A Government source is said to have told the paper that the allowance was “being used as an excuse for people to go for a coffee in the park with their friends”, adding: “It may be we tighten up on things like that.”
Ministers are also preparing to tell supermarket bosses to get tougher on policing social distancing restrictions and mask wearing in-store, the Times said.
People could also be asked to wear face coverings in shop queues and even at work, it was claimed.
As well as the Prime Minister’s discussions, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove was said to have chaired a separate emergency committee over the weekend during which attendees examined stricter possible measures and initiatives to boost compliance.
England’s chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty urged the public to “stay at home unless you absolutely have to” as the next few weeks will be “worst weeks of the pandemic”.
What are your views? Are the current measures sufficient? Are the rules too easy to flex? Would tougher restrictions ensure that the rules aren’t open to misinterpretation?
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I say make these safety measures mandatory, and if the cops cant cope, we could all start taking photos (but beware of the danger in doing this) and send the pics to our local newspapers and ask if they would put them up on a 'name and shame' page.
Maybe the prats may take some notice if we could expose them and hopefully get their friends and relatives to give them a talking to and a good bullocking...
- We need people to abide by the restrictions already in place.
- We need shops and supermarkets to enforce the distancing rules, and the ‘one shopper per trolley rule’.
- We need businesses and individuals to stop looking for loopholes in the regulations.
- We need people to wear masks, wash hands and keep to the 2 metre spacing.
I sometimes wonder how these large football clubs winge so much about their lost revenue, when the wealthy owners can pay so much to their " players ". Presumably they are upset that the TV companies are not paying out for non appearances.
We are hanging on the verge of the U K becoming one huge
Concentration camp. Why is so much effort being put into caging
us .?Yet no effort is going into finding the nest of this virus .It has taken A YEAR for a few investigators to pop over to China ,to have a look around ,Think it's called "closing the stable door ,after the horse has bolted "
Also in my experience it is not only the younger generation who are not complying and it is often the older age group who are just as guilty particularly in ignoring social distancing, and continuing to have friends and relatives visit them in their homes.
This follows that things will never change.
This government has tried [ without sucess ] to appease all shades including anarchist groups and others [ unable to mention by name or Mdm editor will censor ] who we all know of. Unless really strong penalties are applied to these law breakers then nothing will ever change.
They really do make me angry. Grrrrrr !!
Bring back the birch,,,, Bring back the stocks....
He says...... With tongue in cheek. But then again !!!!