I don't wish to 'pile in' overmuch, and i'm not going to /quote at all, but we find ourselves in a strange place.
What should have remained a Public Health emergency has become an ideological battleground.
Increased testing has led to the
discovery of higher numbers, but
increased hospitalisations indicates something more important.
There is an interesting way of looking at the concept of 'fines' as punishment - one that Finland has learned - that means some activities just have a
de facto VAT for those that can afford it. Parking, for example - if Bezos can't find a space for £3.50, would a £75 fixed penalty notice make any real difference?
And that's even if we genuinely believed the rules would be enforced all the way to the law courts - certainly
75% of people are not shaking in their boots.
It's all too easy to say we can isolate only those that need it, just as it has always been easy to say things that we wish to be true - Take Back Control, Get Brexit Done, those sorts of lunacies - are easy, but they are not.
Just because we live in a news cycle that shortens our attention span, it shouldn't distract us from the fact that this is a novel virus - we have lived with it for less than a year, and for all the focus on mortality, morbidity may ultimately be the bigger story. Especially if we end up with a US-style insurance based healthcare system, as advocated in Nigel's Garage, in our Brave New Brexit.
And remember kids, even though Sunetra Gupta can make her theories about cross-immunity fly, you can't.
Not unless you take a lot of dexamethasone.