It is more difficult to be out of the house. You have to have a form giving you 'permission'. But, restriction wise, it doesn't seem a lot different to here with schools and factories open. On the positive side, they looked totally out of control but there has been a huge drop in cases from a peak of 86,000 cases.
Wales and Northern Ireland have also fallen from high infection rates. Scotland only slightly though and England hasn't yet after two weeks. I think it was rico on another thread saying there were a lot ignoring meeting in houses in his street; I don't know if that is typical of other areas.
I get that, and I would be up for that. We should manage R, to allow things that are important (school and work) but be a lot more restrictive on things that are not important (in the grand scheme of things), but either way, that total needs to be below 1 somehow.
The thing is here, people want both, they want to have their cake and eat it, and it's not possible. They want to work, they want schools open, they want hospitals open, they want pubs open.......not happening, not possible, especially not in winter, especially not in the UK with our ignorance.
There is simply not enough leeway with the "R", everything we do effects the R and growth rate, then once we go over the top, we're in a big problem.
R for one set of rules in summer seems like it's different for winter too, which is to be expected, so we need to be tighter now than we were in April. People seem more lax now too, when they need to be tighter. Each countries acceptance of "rules" is going to be different too, what works in a more caring country won't work as well in a more ignorant country.
Imagine them suggesting a "permission slip" in the UK, there would be an absolute meltdown from the anti-lockdown lot or covid deniers.
People on my street are shopping a few times a week, having people around, some in the house, some having parties. Some of my mates live in slightly less affluent area and they describe things ten times worse than I see mind.
That 86k looks like it should have been spread out over other days, their graph is all over the place, but at least they know it's coming down, good for them.