Ok I’ll bite
September 1st. Hospitality has been open at limited capacity for 2 months. Only ONE change is made to Covid policy and that is allowing schools to reopen.
New cases per day - 1,295
1st October. Schools have been open for 1 month, and despite no other changes to restrictions on other sectors, cases have risen rapidly. Hundreds of school classes are being disrupted due to self isolation of entire year groups.
New cases per day - 6,914
1st November. Due to rapidly rising cases, hospitality and other sectors face a tiered lockdown, schools remain open
New cases per day - 23,254
1st January. Many sectors including hospitality have been closed for two months. Schools have remained open. Some restrictions were eased for 5 days to allow for families to meet for Christmas
New cases per day - 57,724
All figures from the gov.U.K. Website, compiled and placed on the following interactive chart
Coronavirus disease 2019
https://g.co/kgs/kH4dXL
As I’ve said, the only material change to policy came with the opening of schools, other sectors did not change their Covid rules in September and many then closed, but cases continued to rise. If it wasn’t education then what was it ?