Traffic is normal, people around as normal and big queues in front of the food outlets open for take away business.
It's great isn't it!
It just means that people are desensitised and need a new level of "bad" to stick to the lockdown rules... something along the lines of corpses abandoned by the side of the road, like we saw in South America in the spring. Numbers and stats don't work anymore, they need to see the real thing
Perhaps these people are following the rules? Perhaps they're NHS workers, keen to keep the pandemic under control. They just fancy a Big-Mac, and the rules allow it currently.
I'd rather traffic went back down to April levels, but realistically it's not cars that spread Corona so I choose not to moan about it. (or invent my own extra rules for other people)
There is no moaning. Whether you like it or not, there is a direct correlation between how many people leave the house and how many infections will come as a result.
So if you see more traffic than last time and more people around than last time, all it means is that the lockdown will be less effective than last time. It will bring the R value below one, but not by much and not as quickly. The result is obviously is a stubbornly high number of people in hospitals over the winter and of course deaths piling up.
This is a fact.
They are not all NHS workers, they are not all supposed to be around, they are just less intimidated than they were in spring and the message "stay at home" is not as strong as it was in spring (I think BoJo said it once).
For instance, my neighbour wasn't even home last night and he's not back yet. Should I report him or should I report the other lady living on the opposite side of the road who seems to have people around despite the lockdown? In the end I mind my own business, as we mostly tend to do, but I can't help noticing...