Pointless in that as soon as you bring in schools, college, work, pubs, opening hours, area boundaries, work etc then the virus can’t be controlled. We took all precautions and followed guidelines yet still caught it.
Give people the choice. Follow the guidelines, do your best if you want - but we know a certain percentage won’t follow the rules, and even those that do can still catch it.
Maybe describing the rules as a mess would be better, rather than pointless.
Boundaries and rules will never be perfect, it's impossible, but it's not a reason to deny it works, or works better than doing absolutely nothing or shutting everything down (and I mean everything).
Forget that it's our government making the rules, describing them or enforcing them, but think how and why things are or aren't being done the way they are.
It's all one big equation for R, one big equation for the economy and one big equation for how many dead people we end up with, and balancing that out, with the figures effecting those equations changing by the minute, literally.
It's more about they allow bits and pieces to keep the economy and essential services and jobs going, and trying to balance that out with things that don't keep people in work or keep the economy ticking over. You can't just blanket open everything up, or blanket shut everything down, as doing either of those ends in hundreds of thousands of extra dead people. There must be a balance, which is being calculated, although they do a $hit job of explaining it to the public, or even following their own advice.
What can't happen though, is leaving the public to do what they want, as this assumes they can figure out R (or care about it), have them in control of the economy and have them running the hospitals. This also means having the public in control of the risk of others, which of course cannot happen, as 95% of people have never even seen a risk assessment, never mind written one.
The calculations will expect a small number to be selfish and not follow the rules, but if that number increases, then they will simply just apply other measures elsewhere so the choke hold tightens. If people take the ****, they will have their privileges taken away.
