T'was ever thus!! Idiots abound!
I'm putting my hope in the scientists. I think that's the only way out of this predicament for all of us. I read an article in the paper at the weekend about a lady scientist - (Jane Something, I think - I've recycled the newspaper and can't now find her on google. Typical!) who thinks they are getting closer to a vaccine and is urging the powers that be to start manufacturing the vaccine and not wait until after the tests are done. As she says, there's going to be nothing more frustrating than discovering it works and then taking months more to make the stuff. I suppose you could say that's chucking good money away but I agree, in this case, we've got to just go for it. Do the tests, of course, but then be ready to get going with the vaccines immediately. If it doesn't work - at least we tried.
I just can't see any other way. Whenever they let us out of our voluntary imprisonment, the damn virus isn't going to go away and I fear we'll just be back to square one with hundreds more people dying. I also don't think you can expect people to come out of quarantine, yet be expected to go about their (reasonably) normal lives and still maintain this social distancing. You just can't do it on public transport, in pubs and restaurants etc.
In my opinion, the reason why the government won't tell us what their isolation exit plan is, is because they haven't got one. It has to be all or nothing or we may just as well not have bothered in the first place.
I take comfort in the fact that scientists around the world are concentrating their efforts on this and , by and large, unlike governments, they're not opposed to consulting each other. There are some extremely clever scientists out there - power to their collective elbows!!
