Ahh perfect. As lockdown 1 and 2 worked so well. What is it they call doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting a different result?
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Be careful; you are being watched by the secret police 
spreading misinformation at a time like this…
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Lockdown 1 wasn’t harsh enough.
NZ is Covid Free
Aus isn’t far away
I appreciate that they are far less populated but they stopped people entering the country and there weren’t 1000s going to the beach, protests or abroad!
Quite. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t suggesting we do nothing, just floating the idea that things that were done haven’t really worked. But we seem doomed in an endless cycle of things that aren’t going to really work.
The problem is the government dreamed up this whole 4E’s approach where you had to go through 3 other steps before you could issue a ticket and if they complied with the law during that process you weren’t allowed to give them a ticket.
Quell suprise that no one got tickets and now no one respects it. If everyone had been ticketed on sight from day 1 they would be behaving themselves now.
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That’s not fair, they’re islands… oh, hang on…
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To be fair Liverpool didn’t win the Premier League there.
Probably a good idea that people weren’t ticketed on sight, what with it turning out that plod has a difficulty with reading 2 sheets of A4 and implementing the actual law, rather than pulling crap out and checking people’s shopping trollies for Easter Eggs and ‘talking to’ one of my neighbours about his unnecessary journeys - he was driving up and down his fields: ploughing them…
Should have sacked the lot of them and spent the money on hand gel - far more productive.
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I’m not normally one to jump to the defence of poor policing decisions however what happened with the police over-stepping the mark during the first lockdown was little to do with the officers on the ground, as you appear to be implying. The issues came from their senior management and central government. In a lot of cases it is difficult to blame their management, as the government guidance for the police was poor/non-existent.
The police officers on the ground were doing what was told by their force. Their force was deciding what to do based on poorly written legislation that, as it was brand new, had no judicial interpretation to go off of. Honestly, I’m not sure I can blame anyone within the police for that, only central government.
Yes some forces massively over-stepped in retrospect. Think road blocks to ask where people were going and using mega-phones in AONB to tell people to go home. However, I don’t actually blame those forces for over-stepping. At the time those were reactively reasonable steps to take on enforcing the un-tested legislation. The government made the rules with absolutely no thought for how to enforce it, and sadly the police were made to look like fools because of that.
There are populated islands in the UK British Islands (yes, that is a valid term) that have also not had any C19 cases! 
Arrived at 18.12.
But I also have notifications set up from the sharepoint homepage so saw it that way first.
Sqn next door town hasnt had the email at all though. I have passed your suggestion to them and they have reported to our bader POC.
Yeah JB. See above.
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They are in summer. Which helps.
Hopefully they get vaccines out else as they go.into winter it will be bad again for them.
Well, they are now… But when all this kicked off it was winter.
Unortunately, these days, ‘winter’ down there is a relative term.
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Cambs Police did this on a major route into Cambridge - why are you out / give a reason for your essential journey during this National Covid19 lockdown?
Thanks officer - if you check Google Maps, you will notice that Sainsbury’s is 300 yards away, & if I wasn’t going there, I have to take this route to get to other major essential shops!
Doh!
Lasted less than a day before they realised that they had massively overstepped the guidance.
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Rockall?
Nope, a populated one!
Isle of Man have no social distancing and are back to normal
And they take it seriously if you break the rules!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-isle-of-man-55280466
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Not an island in the UK though
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