One rule for them

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Starting another post with a George Orwell quote, bacuase this morning it emerged that bars in Parliamant were made exempt of the 22:00 curfew that all other licenced establiments in the country had to comply with.

Because, someone had classified the bars as "works canteens".

This loophole has now been closed, but shows that there is clearly one rule for us, that MPs expect us to follow, and a different one for them, because because.

Another loophole that was closed was the one that meant the NHS branded app could not collect data from actual NHS tests.

Remember, this was supposed to be the second or third world beating opp.

The last there is data for, 26th September, showed just under 6,000 new cases.

Tonight, the BBC Panorama program is showing an edition based on submissions from those employed on older versions of the track and trace programms where one person traced one infected person in four months of work, and another who once they had got the rest of the test, traced the person to tell them to isolate, only for the ten period to have already elapsed.

Accurate and fast testing, leading to quick track and trace is essential, otherwise those who were tested, shown to be positive, won't know and will carry on going on about their business, possibly infecting hundreds of people.

Meanwhile, more video emerged from around the country, of crowds assembling in town and ciity centres just after midnight when pubs kicked out. No social distancing.

This is a failure of leadership, no more no less, along with the mixed messaging which was until a couple of weeks ago to go back to work, coming after eat out to help out and it is your patriotic duty to drink in pubs.