Which caused all the numpties to flock to the pubs that week. Our village pub had never been busier!
Yes, you've mentioned that a few times before, in various threads, but I am not aware of anyone else experiencing the same thing anywhere else. I don't see how that is justification for retaining the 2m guideline though, if that's what you're suggesting?
SD for everyone was implemented 7 days prior to lockdown, 17 March.
Not in the way it is now.
The biggest issue with the 2m 'rule' is the impact on businesses; people in the street aren't sticking to it because it's impractical (I still had to avoid someone who walked into the road in front of me yesterday but that was more because the people going the other way were two abreast, leaving him very little room)
We could have nearly ignored doing a lockdown at all and just socially distanced if people followed the 2m guidance as soon as it was brought in, they didn't do so leading to the rates of infection rising.
You've said that before, but there is no real evidence of this. If you purely want to talk about the infection rate, well it sill rose in the early stages of the actual lockdown anyway. I'm not really sure what you're arguing for here; are you using this as an argument to say the 2m guideline should not be relaxed because people flout it anyway, or something else?
If you want people to be 1m apart, you suggest 1.5m or 2m as the guideline...
That's what happens out on the street, but see the article I linked to the other day for why we need to reduce to 1m.
When the UK gets down to French infection rates, you might have a point!
Do you have a source to indicate France had a 2m guideline when they were at our rate of infections?