//Fortunately no-one with responsibility or accountability is taking any notice of the views of those who don't who think "we can't control so just let it happen"//
An answer to my earlier question might be nice but I'll not hold my breath. Just for clarity (and so that I am not lumped together with the people who think Covid is a hoax) I'm not suggesting we "just let it happen". What I'm suggesting is that the government's strategy which is aimed at trying to prevent spread by keeping everybody apart from everybody else is pointless. It will not work and it has been demonstrated that it will not work. What I am suggesting is that guidance should be provided to everybody but particularly to those at risk (the elderly and those with other health problems) so that they can make an informed choice about the measures they want to take to protect themselves. It is they themselves who must take those measures because neither the government nor anybody else can "keep them safe" from an infectious disease and it splits my sides when I read that they believe they can.
To continually faff about in the way this government has, locking people down, closing businesses and schools, opening them up again alongside the threat of closure is utterly pointless. But more than that, the strategy has seen twenty years of economic growth slaughtered in a month, it has seen countless businesses go under and hundreds of thousands of jobs lost. The social fabric of the country is under immense strain and the health service is all but defunct. And all this is to try to prevent the spread of a disease that, since the beginning of August, has claimed an average of ten lives a day. Covid is a nasty disease for those who end up with severe symptoms. But they are very few and far between. Far nastier and more lethal diseases also abound and they are being ignored, their victims sacrificed on the Covid altar. Very soon there be far less funds to treat them anyway.
The government needs to decide what it is trying to achieve because I don't know and I doubt anybody else does.