COVID-19: Tier4 Bollocks.

So, let me get this straight. We're now in Tier4 essentially across the UK because cases are rising.

However, lets have a common-sense look at this.

Tier4 is essentially lockdown, yet the borders are still open, the schools will be going back in January and the "essential" shops have no limits on the amount of customers placed in them. 

So it's not a lockdown and keeping people indoors will do nothing to stop the spread if other vectors for transmission are not closed down as well.

Anyone with kids will know how effective they are at spreading any germs around, so unless the schools maintain social distancing inside school (good luck with that, controlling small kids is like herding fog) and the adults at the gate keep 2 meters apart and wear masks, then this new variant covid is just going to jump the gap and infect the lot of them.

So really Tier4 is a load of bollocks. Because yet again the public can see Swiss-cheese size holes in the Government's rules. Either lock down properly or don't fucking bother. Just saying.

Talking of Swiss Cheese, I see in the news that a bunch of Brits just escaped Switzerland "Great Escape" style overnight, because Switzerland were about to impose quarantine restrictions on Brits so they had to isolate in place for 10 days. But it was Verbiers so very posh and those posh knobs don't like following lockdowns. I have visions of a convoy of Black Range Rovers heading for the French border in the small hours of the morning.  I expect they "escaped" the UK to avoid tier4 rules anyway. I say don't let the fuckers back in the UK. I bet they don't quarantine on arrival either.

My prediction is we'll be back in a national lockdown on the 2nd of January, or close afterwards. Not that lockdowns work. Especially the notlockdowns we keep having in the UK.

Again the government has missed an opportunity. They could have called a nationwide lockdown over Christmas. 10 days full lockdown from Christmas Eve all the way through to 2nd of January, which would have cost most people only 3 or 4 day's pay.  Warn in advance, let people get to where they need to be for Christmas/New Year and then they stay there for 10 days. If 14 days is warranted, then move the 2021 Bank Holidays to the beginning of January. 

No excuses for going out. Borders closed, schools closed, all shops shut, no no nipping out to the corner shop for mint sauce. No excuse for "essential workers" either, they stay in place for the duration. 

Given enough warning, even the essential care homes could have put measures in place and the NHS could have got staff in to cope and put them up over the period. 

But is that too simple? Am I missing something? Am I asking too much.

 I suppose I am, given the NHS had over 97,000 people off sick in one day over the weekend.

Now there are rumours that the Government are going to invent a new "Tier5" set of restrictions for after the New Year. Yeah? Fuck. Right. Off.

It's meaningless bollocks. Do it properly, with public consent and the consent of Parliament to make it lawful, or don't fucking bother at all. Cunts.