Reminds me of the people who queue on the motorway for hours on a bank holiday monday to go shopping at an outlet village. I just don`t get the fun and pastime of it. Peace and quiet for me as well Rob.
Fingers crossed France will let me in so I can sit doing nowt not being pestered by anyone
What a lot people misunderstood at the time was the actual prevalence of the virus back then - it was estimated to be 1:1300 had it back then and prevalence was halving every 9 days. That’s a huge difference to where we are now and a million miles from Christmas when it went as low as 1:20 in places.
At a prevalence of 1:1300, we were never going to see a spike from instances like this. I think that was the misunderstanding - that an infected person could pass it on to everyone on that beach - an understandable reaction to be honest after the situation we’d just gone through. But this isn’t as infectious as measles so was impossible to happen. For sure, there were people carrying the virus on the beach, and for sure they passed it onto one or two in restrooms etc, but that’s about it. Any direct spike from that day would be weeks and months in the future and itself overtaken anyway by community prevalence increasing in September.
The opposite is also a misunderstanding though. The people that thought this happening in June would cause a spike misunderstood the situation, but also those who now are proclaiming that any meet up of that size is fine as nothing happened in June also misunderstand the situation. It’s all relative to the prevalence in the community, nothing more.
