"First Minister Arlene Foster has said there are few options left to curb the crisis, apart from a possible curfew."
When your actions don't seem to be working, you change them, you don't double-down. Locking people up indoors will always see an increase in infections.
When your actions don't seem to be working, you change them, you don't double-down. Locking people up indoors will always see an increase in infections.
When the first "lockdown" was implemented last year there were signs that the infection rate was already starting to drop due to the seasonality aspect of the virus. The Executive ignorantly believes the drop was due to the lockdown and have been trying to replicate it since.
As each successive lockdown fails to wield the desired outcomes, they blame the people and again double down on these failed measures, making lockdowns longer and harder. Locking people up indoors, where the virus spreads more more easily, further compounds this ignorance.
People need to be outdoors, maskless, breathing in clean air and exercising. Not stuck indoors, breathing in stale air & drinking copious amounts of alcohol. But when those governing, do so whilst being consumed with fear, the idea of reversing any restrictions is seen as crazy!