The restriction measures in the hottest spots around the country seem to be working by slowing growth in infections, but nowhere near well enough to get infection levels down.
To get the economy fully open, and life back to near-normal, we need to get infections down to very low levels, #NearZero.
Yet here we are. We can't plan ahead. Not in our businesses nor in our personal lives. What can we do at Christmas? In the present, kids are being sent home from school, disrupting their education and parents' ability to work. Students are being held captive in their digs.
Our wretched lives was brought home when switching on the local BBC radio here yesterday afternoon. Oxford United's visiting football team had a COVID-19 outbreak and were having to self-isolate. The match postponed at the last minute:
Not just sports. Theatres and music venues remain closed, with many jobs and livelihoods at risk. Do we want to carry on like this until there's a vaccine? Really?
A full lockdown like we had in March and April will not be enough to get infections down to #NearZero in any reasonable timeframe. We certainly don't want weeks of that again.
If we want to get our lives back to normal, and I'm sure you do, we need to think the unthinkable. And say the unsayable. A short, sharp Mass Simultaneous Self-Isolation.
If you want to find out what that would entail, and the benefits to our lives and livelihoods of doing it (not to mention the advantages to the Treasury) then do click here.
Remember you heard it here first. Or would have done. I'm still trying to say it. Short, sharp Mass Simultaneous Self-Isolation. You try. Let's do it.
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