Lockdown easing in England

[Gadget]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/02/statistics-watchdog-ministers-still-misleading-public-on-coronavirus-tests

This is also reported in other newspapres and media.

[LizzieL]

The number of actual people tested per day has been missing from the PHE website for almost two weeks now. Yesterday and today the presenters of the BBC  Breakfast programme asked whichever government minister they had on that day to answer that question and they burbled on about the track and trace system, which was irrelevant. The presenter wanted the number 10 days or so ago, before track and trace started. Looking at PHE site the number of tests sent out each day is 40 - 50K. Who's got them all, I wonder. I thought maybe it was institutions like care homes, but reports a couple of days ago were saying that a high proportion of staff still had not been tested. Now they've started counting the antibody test kits and the target has changed to capacity not actual tests. 

[LizzieL]

I have just started a petition

http://chng.it/My6G7Q5K

[JenB]

I have just started a petition

http://chng.it/My6G7Q5K

I agree that the scenes in Dorset and other places are totally out of order.

However.....I am on the vulnerable list, so not able to visit anyone at the moment.
But if I wasn't on the list your proposed 30 mile rule would prevent me from going to spend time occasionally (out of doors of course) with my daughter and granddaughters.

How is your suggested 30 mile limit to be policed?

[LizzieL]

30 mile - or whatever reasonable distance - could be policed by people needing to provide evidence of their home address if stopped by police. I suggested 30 miles but this is negotiable within reason. My nearest relatives are in Dorset - 170 miles from where I live, so I haven't picked 30 miles because it suits me personally. 5 miles as chosen by some other of the devolved parliaments seems a little on the small size. Several of my neighbours have family reasonably locally but more than 5 miles but less than 30.

[Mike in Cumbria]

It would be completely unenforceable and discriminatory.

[JenB]

I suggested 30 miles but this is negotiable within reason.

How do you suggest that the distance is to be negotiated?

[LizzieL]

It would be completely unenforceable and discriminatory.

So you think the current situation of a free for all should continue?

[Mike in Cumbria]

It would be completely unenforceable and discriminatory.

So you think the current situation of a free for all should continue?

I don't actually see a free for all.