Health and order

You cannot treat a public health crisis like it is a public order crisis.

I have said that before, but I will keep saying it, because its true.

In order to keep the public health emergency under control, people have to be educated as to why they should obey guideline, not dazzle them with a lgion of laws, laws that contradict each other or make no sence.

Thake this evening's word salad from the Home Secretary; people who attend a house part of 15 or more people will be fined £800 for the first offence, £1600 for the second, and so on up thr £6400.

This message imples that a house party of 14 is fine and dandy.

Which is a disaster for public health.

Indoor meetings are very bad for public health, outdoor meetings better, and could be better if people wore masks all the time.

And even the BBC gets it wrong, by saying that the organisers of a party with over 15 people gets a ten grand fine, but that fine comes in after more than 30 people attended. How are we supposed to know what we can or can't do, either by law of guidance, if Ministers and the BBC doesn't?

But last week, even though the POlice Force in question admitted they were wrong, Ministers lined up to say it was right, when two women were fined for driving for exercise and meeting up to walk beside a lake. The fixed penalty notices were revolked.

There is nothing in current legislation stopping people from driving for exercise, to the other end of the country, especially if the area around where they live is crowded and so would be more dangerous. There is nothing illegal in driving, public transport is safe, yet the Government is scaring people from using buses and trains saying the virus uses them too. This is just plain wrong.

This is a Government that wants to legislate to limit freedoms, so transfers responsibility and blame from the Government to people, lambasting the people for not following or understanding the rules they apparently have broken, even when Ministers and the Prime Ministers don't understand the laws and rules they pass, as they are passed without scrutiny via SIs.

Last week the entire Government of the Netherland resigned due to a scandal over means tested benefits. And yet with the UK now has the highest per-capita death rate in the worl, higher than Sweden who did nothing for six months, and the US who had Trump in charge. Worse than both of those, plus the rest of the world. And they don't appologise or resign.

Just blame us, or encourage us to snoop and blame our neighbours.