Originally Posted by
ATNotts
That question is one that any enquiring journalist might want to ask at the daily press conference. Sadly, there's a shortage of enquiring journalists!
A cynic might suggest that in putting in quarantine here, the government might avoid the risk that Spain, Greece etc would open up to inbound tourism from "safe" countries, but label the UK as not yet being safe. I don't see a new case tally stubbornly running at 2,500 per day as safe, compared with the likes of Spain, Portugal, Greece or much of central Europe.
Agree with you there AT... where are the enquiring minds in journalism? Even the so-called good ones are only interested in using words to trick politicians in to saying silly things. What about questions like 'tell us what the scientific evidence was taking this decision or that decision' Instead we get lazy stuff like 'will you or won't you personally guarantee that absolutely everybody in the country will be 100% safe'.
Cases aren't going down here because we are testing way more people now. Look and you will find. The lazy way to get new cases down is to stop testing.