At some point there at least has to be an acknowledgement that this is all doing more harm than good at this point, because we desperately need to change th way we are dealing with this and it's now going into "too late" territory for a lot of people.
I get that case numbers are not going down, but it's a virus. That's generally what happens. It isn't just going to go away by keeping people out of bowling alleys a couple of weeks longer.
We've completely changed everything we do and most people are living in some degree of either uselessness or misery or both, and the fact is that there will be a second wave in the winter regardless. There will be significant increased death rates through poverty, unemployment, depression etc. People cannot meet, date, interact, learn off each other, make friends, etc. There's literally no benefit to anything that anyone is doing outside of the effect on case numbers...and even then if that's what it's about the plan fails to make any sense because what we are doing will not do anything other than subdue the virus until the winter, at which point there will be no plan and there will still be no reliable treatment.
People are acting like what we are doing is sustainable but it is absolutely the opposite. Working from home does not work. Historically we change how we work to be more productive based on new technology and science. What we have now is Microsoft teams and zoom, which is basically just a shite version of making a phone call. Productivity is down, employment is down, education is evidently a complete and utter mess. It's gone a long way past the point where it stopped being a workable solution. Anyone who works in a restuarant, cafe, anywhere that relies on office workers for income, is fecked...and that's an awful lot of people. What's the solution there?
We're heading into a winter where a significant number of people's health either physically or mentally will have suffered since March and that, even without Covid, is going to put a big strain on the health system. Then on top of that Covid numbers are going to go up significantly again, aided by the fact we've spent all summer hiding from it but not actually doing very much to get rid of it. The solution for this is to ban deals on junk food?...yet at the moment you can get a McDonalds half price 3 days a week. People who are sat at home drinking, smoking, ordering takeaways more, have had treatments cancelled or delayed for various conditions, etc. Aren't suddenly going to crop into full athletic health because a pizza costs 50p more.
I'm still at an utter loss to what the plan is and why people are so ignorant of the wide range of problems building up. Some of which have now reached the point of being absolute mammoth issues in themselves. It's like people are just happy to live in unproductive misery, which you could maybe argue is a sacrifice except that by the end of this we will have saved next to no one and killed a frightening amount of people who we didn't need to. Some of the stuff coming from the governments "scientific" advisors is fecking scary. It's the sort of thing you'd think was stupid coming from a 7 year old.