I must admit I really don't entirely understand Sturgeon's harsher approach to lockdown.
My region has had:
0 in the last week, 5 cases in the last 30 days, including a period of 0 new cases for 15 days
0 hospitalised cases, including 0 in intensive care
0 deaths for 3 weeks
Our local hospital is lying around 60% empty, with 160 empty beds
And yet 'our R number is much higher than England, a much harsher and more restrictive lockdown with severe economic and social consequences is absolutely necessary to not overwhelm the NHS.
I appreciate that it's important to look at the wider picture, but I really am worried about the economic and social consequences of this. In my town countless pubs, towns and independent shops have permanently closed over a virus which doesn't seem to have any presence whatsoever in this region, and I can't think of any rational justification for why this harsher lockdown (with a ridiculously low travel distance limit) is strictly necessary when England, which has various regions with an R number and infection and death rate MUCH larger than this one are much less restricted and can essentially go where they please, send kids back to school, and are opening many more businesses very soon.