There are two things infuriating me this morning.
1. Some people on the the news are saying that sunbathing in isolation should be allowed. Now here is the problem. Lemming syndrome. If one person sits there on their own, whatās to to say another person who walks past and then thinks āIāll sunbatheā. Then there a reports of a few people sunbathing and another 10 people think. Iāll go and sunbathe if they are. You then have hundreds sunbathing. It infuriates me that some people are making an effort to quarantine themselves and others think they are above the rules.
2. It seems that there is a clamour amongst the very rich and those who value the economy more than life to stop the lockdown. It seems to me that they are now scared, prettified even, that their millions are suddenly under threat. Thatās all they seem to care about.
Letās be absolutely clear, if lockdown is eased to soon and the deaths go up even more then I do think the people will blame the government.
In fact, itās already starting to happen. Letās not forget, at a minimum 10k deaths will impact a large circle of people and that will influence opinion.
Latest opinion polls while still relevantly favourable do suggest that things can turn very quickly - body bags piling up will not look good for the government:
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Public approval for Governmentās handling of coronavirus crisis drops fast. Opinium: last week two-thirds approved; this has now fallen to 52%. Disapproval rises to 29%, giving handling of Covid-19 a net positive of +23%, a drop of almost half from the +42% figure 7 days ago.
Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.