Is the hospitality industry driving the rise in Covid cases? None of the data says so.
“Must be seen to be doing something” ... the permanent response to crisis of an uncaring overclass worried, primarily, for its own appearance of competence. And why not? What other justification but good appearances ... the respectability of incumbency ... does it have to exist?
NHS Test and Trace has been recording the locations at which infected people met close contacts who were later found to have the virus. Overwhelmingly, that was in the home.
Figures released last Friday in the weekly Public Health England (PHE) surveillance report show that more than three-quarters of people – 75.3 per cent – contacted by tracers came into contact with an infected person either in their own home or someone else’s.
In the report, PHE even accepts that “this is the potential exposure setting”.
Only around five per cent reported close contact in a “leisure or community” setting – and that category bundled together pubs, restaurants, places of worship, celebrations, entertainment, organised trips and community activities.
... What seems to be happening is that the Government does not want to shut schools, universities and workplaces and cannot do anything about household transmissions, even though these are by far the biggest drivers of disease.
DT article by Science Editor Sarah Napton
