You attempted to move the goalposts. You talk about the early 2020s as if everything that went on was normal and acceptable, and not contradictory at all.
Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time, but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbours over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
>Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbors over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
Supermarket is critical for food, not exercising in the park for a couple of weeks is NOT going to kill you
>I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
The government response in hindsight was probably overblown in terms of risk management but for the most part in the UK the actions taken reduced the spread until the vaccine and other infrastructure was in place so I would say it succeeded. All of the rules, regulations and laws have been rolled back/unwound and society is back to normal.
>You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
"The app has been designed with user privacy in mind, so it tracks the virus not people, and uses the latest in data security technology to protect privacy. The system generates a random ID for an individual’s device, which can be exchanged between devices via Bluetooth (not GPS). These unique random IDs regenerate frequently to add an extra layer of security and preserve anonymity. "
There was no legal requirement to download the app and use it just FYI
You attempted to move the goalposts. You talk about the early 2020s as if everything that went on was normal and acceptable, and not contradictory at all.
Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time, but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbours over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
You make stuff like this too easy
>Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbors over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
Supermarket is critical for food, not exercising in the park for a couple of weeks is NOT going to kill you
>I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
The government response in hindsight was probably overblown in terms of risk management but for the most part in the UK the actions taken reduced the spread until the vaccine and other infrastructure was in place so I would say it succeeded. All of the rules, regulations and laws have been rolled back/unwound and society is back to normal.
>You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
https://transform.england.nhs.uk/covid-19-response/nhs-covid...
"The app has been designed with user privacy in mind, so it tracks the virus not people, and uses the latest in data security technology to protect privacy. The system generates a random ID for an individual’s device, which can be exchanged between devices via Bluetooth (not GPS). These unique random IDs regenerate frequently to add an extra layer of security and preserve anonymity. "
There was no legal requirement to download the app and use it just FYI