Well, whilst it's disappointing and worrying that the number of new cases is creeping upwards again, the number of deaths is STILL continuing to fall. Only 38 people in all settings died from Coronavirus yesterday. That's the lowest WEEKDAY total now since 20th March! And this is over 95% down from the peak in Mid April when over 1,000 people a day were dieing from Coronavirus. But sadly the press don't seem to have made a fuss about these facts! What if say by mid October when Boris holds his review about the next changes in November, that the number of average daily cases is say 900, but the number of average daily deaths is down to only 25. Will that mean it's decided that social distancing must still continue on and on, due to the number of new cases being so high even though the number of daily deaths is very low? The main thing to consider should be the deaths being very low and continuing to fall. We just can't continue on with this social distancing very long term or indefinitely, just because the number of cases is so high. As this is continuing to wreck the economy and people's lives week by week. Godknows what this country is going to be like in 6 months time if we're still having to adhere to these social distancing rules. It's absolute madness.
But sadly I too get the feeling now that social distancing will not end in November, and this insanity will drag on into next year. Because the government will probably take notice of what Chris Whitty says again with his "Social distancing is here to stay now.", "We'll have to keep up social distancing for a very VERY long time yet." comments. If he had his way we'll have to keep up social distancing for eternity now. He just doesn't take into account the absolute catastrophic damage this is doing to the UK economy and people's lives. More and more jobs cuts, more and more unemployed, more and more businesses having to close for good because it's not financially viable for them to operate to these restrictive social distancing guidelines. And the effects this will have on people's livelihoods and mental health. It's absolute insanity if this drags on into at least next year.