Frankly, most of the rules have been made up on the hoof by certain people with very little brain and no regard for human rights. It seems to me to be a direct method of breaking up the family. Just as the rule about a Husband cannot be with his Wife for the birth of their child. Another that is completely illogical is that one cannot shop specifically for decorating items such as paint or tiles in order to decorate your house! So the local family-run and mine-of-information Hardware Store goes into liquidation while we internet shop from the giants.
Did you know the organisations that can already access your ISP records and monitor everything you do online? It's expanding. You should acquaint yourself. I mean, do you mind the Food Standards Agency having free access without your knowledge to everything you do while connected to the internet? Every letter you write here or email... Then there is the Department of Health, Department of Transport, NHS Trusts that provide ambulance services.... Why all these? If we are doing something criminal then surely it is a Police matter?
But with the immense fear around due to that the huge amount of effort the Government has put in to keep people terrified, plus the current need to be virtue signalling which becomes so emotional on Westminster Bridge that even Cressida Dick is not bothered about those corona droplets from nearby public as people ignore the 6feet rule. Our Nightingale hospitals await. Empty. Our normal hospitals stand on guard more than half empty. Our poor in every sense Carers keep caring for our elderly in Care Homes, wondering how long it will be before they get the virus and maybe die, for lack of protection. The elderly in the Care Homes just die. Without their family holding their hand, even if they do not have CV and if the family give it to them now, well, it's a bit late wouldn't you say? Thank God for those Carers, many of whom are the Immigrants Boris Johnson felt were excessive additions to our Country. Indeed common sense, normal intelligence, and compassion have all died.
What amazes me is the ready way people accept these stupid ideas and are prepared to think up excuses for supporting them. People do not think "why?" People do not ask, "how was this decision made?" It was made actually on the basis of a very questionable set of predictions of mortality on a paper supervised by Professor Neil Fergusson at Imperial College.
Professor Neil Ferguson, of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College in London, produced a paper predicting that Britain was on course to lose 250,000 people during the coronavirus epidemic unless stringent measures were taken. His research is said to have convinced Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his advisors to introduce the lockdown.The numbers, he later changed drastically. But this 'paper' was never Scientifically published, and thus not Peer reviewed so not given the scrutiny of the Scientific community. Epidemiologists and other Scientists across the World were horrified when they saw the predictions which were the basis for Boris Johnson shutting down the country and leading it to financial strangulation.
Neil Fergusson the man who in 2009 wildly over estimated the effect of swine flu with devastating results, and was behind disputed research that sparked the horrific mass culling of farm animals during the 2001 epidemic of foot and mouth disease, a crisis which cost the country billions of pounds. This very man was chosen to make the novel Corona Virus predictions which led to the decision that will affect our Grandchildren all their lives for they will be paying for it. Where has common sense gone? Nobody said why aren't you asking some other scientists? Or why isn't there a proper debate? Or why are Out Korea's death figures so incredibly low? Or why is Sweden coping so well, not having any terrible death figures, with people being sensible about distancing but not shutting down the economy?
Or, importantly, why was this Fergusson man chosen when his record has been so disastrous, he has made one terrible bad decision after another. Remember how, separately he also predicted that up to 150,000 people could die from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or ‘mad cow disease’) and its equivalent in sheep if it made the leap to humans. To date there have been fewer than 200 deaths from the human form of BSE and none resulting from sheep to human transmission.
Worse, where have Civil Liberties gone?
I greatly fear that life has changed far more than we realise. We have handed over our precious freedoms and personal privacies, our rights to debate and discuss openly with respect for one another. We have given up our right to do so many things we took for granted, thinking it was important to save lives, support our NHS from being over-loaded. Yet our hospitals have empty wards. Our Police have been able to tell us we cannot buy paint, we cannot sit on a bench, we must go home, just as they please, not with any guidance or with real evidence that it is better for the greater good if an elderly couple, say, taking a seat on their walk, must be told to get up straight away and go home. Our Police are changing. The Police we used to be so proud of are no longer here.
My country has changed. We can only protect the common sense, decency and our human rights if we begin to recognise that we have let them slip through our fingers.
Thank you, Artysue. It is what it is so we just have to keep b*ggering on! 
I think that photo of Prince Charles is from last year. Prince Louis looks quite small.
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