Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
It works both ways though - if (as I'm optimistic might be the case) there's no increase in cases over the next few weeks despite the protests, it could lead to a quicker ultimate easing of lockdown than we would have had without the protests this last weekend happening at all.
It's certainly a useful experiment as to whether 2m matters outdoors. If it transpires that it doesn't, chuck the beer gardens, zoos etc open without any distancing, and tell people to pack in walking 2m circles around people outdoors (which my observation is that people have pretty much stopped doing now, at most they will walk at the opposite side of the path).
It's possible, I suppose, that the spread that occurred at the likes of Cheltenham and that footy match in Liverpool in fact all occurred in pubs, bars etc (i.e. indoors) at and ancillary to the events.