Rule of Six

[ZombieCake]

An article on the BBC said about the 50,000 cases that:  'Sir Patrick did point out the 50,000 figure was not a prediction. But it was used in the knowledge it would grab the headlines.'    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54255635  One could therefore consider that it is made up to deliberately scare people.
Part of the problem is this, and the previous actions and of people like Cummings and Fergusson, frequent U-turns and inconsistent policies means that people are becoming fatigued with the whole thing. 

 

[mikem]

Herding cats is easy compared to humans (unless you have a big stick)...

 

[pwhole]

In many cases large portions of the public have no-one but themselves to blame if they get infected now. I'm sick and tired of watching the supermarket across the road from me encourage their customers to not wear masks, despite the signs, when other shops are doing just fine refusing people access without them. I've had to stop using the place - part 'protest', part common-sense. In fact someone asked me yesterday where it was and I told them not to go. I despise this government, but most of the general 'rules' are quite easy to follow and hardly a massive imposition in terms of behaviour. And shops like this just need closing down they're so anti-social.

I don't have children or elderly relatives needing care (yet), so I'm probably less impacted than most people in terms of my behaviour, though it is damn boring having such a restricted social life - but many opposed to this appear to have a philosophical issue with the idea of trying to protect other people through (minimal and temporary) personal behavioural changes, which seems rather selfish - and rather sad.

On the upside, NASA have just announced that they're going back to the Moon in 2024. About time. Maybe that will get shit moving again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKxsljxKhc

 

[droid]

In my opinion it'd improve the nationwide discussion on Covid if people did their 'research' on Google Scholar rather than Facebook.

 

[mikem]

But you can't disagree with Google scholar...

 

[bagpuss]

... so that's the death knell for caving clubs, I guess.

Why the death knell? Doing trips in groups of less that 6 is generally better as easier to move through the cave, less getting cold on wet pitches etc. Clubs could make up 'bubbles' of 6 and arrange different trips for usual caving night? Our club pre covid was lucky to get 6 plus on a trip anyway, although understood it's prob different for uni clubs. Personally right now if anyone is caving I think better to keep to less than 6 as you can at least attempt some form of social distancing. Maybe I'm overly cautious, I've still not been caving since March, but I think for now if the sport is going to keep going it requires just a bit of careful planning over trips.