Re: It's all bollocks
"It stems from the fact that we have a government that doesn't do detail, doesn't think things through."
I would disagree - why should we have to have a government "standard" for the size of a substantive meal when the variance in the population suggests any answer will be wrong. It's about a media and public that are used to looking for loopholes so they don't have to follow simple guidelines.
We have a proportion of the population that are prepared to believe that COVID-19 is a government conspiracy while at the same time we have local/central bureaucracy and political parties that struggle to organise a piss up in a brewery before it goes out of business due to lock downs...
And a media that are happy to ask the unanswerable questions to ensure that poorly considered options are considered as valid so that the spiral into stupidity continues.
The failures in lockdown 1 were largely down to the government failing to react quickly enough. Post-lockdown 1 and into Lockdown 2 (and likely 3) has been about petty issues around whether it is "fair" that one city has to lockdown while another doesn't and the populations of both ignoring the guidelines that would help control the virus while blaming everyone else for their own lack of responsibility.
And as we have these arguments, people die and the NHS is expected to cope with the results of the larger proportion of the populations stupidity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
