Some good posts. People will tend to view the COVID dilemma depending on how exposed they are to it medically and commercially. Younger ones who are generally healthy don't take it so seriously, and people who have cast-iron income aren't as bothered about the effects of lockdown.
I lost one business in the last recession which took me 10 years to recover from, and we're just treading the line with this situation so far. For me this outbreak calls for a balance, as with most things - we need to allow enough activity that the whole economy doesn't collapse, but manage cases within limits too.
I'm sure stadia could manage around 5k supporters at events and effectively distance them. How is it any different from the many retail parks that are already open?
We may end up in rolling lock-downs but the govt has to understand that reported numbers are already old: so we have to act quickly to mitigate and act equally quickly to release the lockdown. 2 weeks should be sufficient to put serious breaks on the spread - IF those 2 weeks are effectively stuck to. That's what I would do - advise everyone to be prepared for rolling lock-downs, improve the testing regime, enforce localised lock-downs as they are, put additional protections around the vulnerable - and otherwise crack on with it.
The broad-brush responses we have seen were emergency measures which have caused huge collateral damage; we need to get the scalpel out now we have got to grips with the situation and the science more.
