[Margaret Pilkington]

The new raft of localised restrictions....does it make any sense at all?

We can go to the pub, we can eat out, but I am not permitted to visit my daughter and her family in their home.

I can mingle with those who are an unknown quantity, but cannot legally be in the company of family, whose health I know inside out(a daughter who has not been outside her house since October, two children who have not been out in social settings since the end of March.....and a son in law who wears PPE in his work environment.).

We have observed the restrictions, social distanced, gone shopping infrequently and for very short periods of time.

It seems to be something of a knee jerk reaction....the Covid numbers maybe up, but then the more you test and the more you find.
Add to this the fact that the local death rate from any cause has fallen.

I am not impressed.