Them Or Us Again 1: Gasmask Revival

Strap in for Boris Trump's announcement.

Well that was clear as mud.

Three tiers, like a shit wedding cake. Or the kind so extravagant that eating it would reveal it isn't a cake at all and you're eating a plastic construction at the risk of your teeth. Choking hazard, a bit like Boris himself.

I had read earlier in a  Guardian article that was simultaneously speculative and yet clearer than this guff coming from the PM. I suppose we'll get details later. It said that, in Tier 2 areas, households could not mix indoors. It also said that a Tier 2 area will be one where there are more than 100 cases/100,000 people.

If this definition is correct than I'm most definitely in such a region as were are over twice that. I would imagine all but the most rural and remote areas are. But what seems to be the case is that it'll be Tier 1 everywhere, except where it isn't, and then there will be lots of exceptions. For example, pubs that sell food (like those that vote Tory, by some sheer coincidence no doubt) can still open. Does food or the act of eating make you immune now?

It's as clear as mud. 

More information has appeared, as I read the rolling news coverage. This from the Guardian: 

"The “medium” alert level, which will cover most of the country, and will consist of the current national measures. This includes the rule of six and the closure of hospitality at 10pm."

If most of the country is going to remain as it is then how is anything supposed to improve? Surely these current conditions aren't effective and that is the problem?

So what does that mean for Tier 1? Those are going to be regions where even those restrictions, previously universal, won't apply, right? Am i correct? Who knows, this fool, this stupid bumbling grandstanding oaf can't even explain. What regions does he think are worthy of no or less restrictions than what currently exist?

Words utterly fail me. We are facing the most intense time of the year for the NHS. The winter is always difficult for a lot of people, myself included. Now this? Utterly incoherent bullshit.

So it now seems that Tier one, which seems likely to apply to most, is basically as things are now with all that Rule of 6 bollocks. But this isn't working so why should this not be addressed?

I am starting to crack