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What's your problem? Boris Johnson's Lockdown Speech

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So following on from Boris Johnson's speech yesterday there seems to be 3 common reactions People saying they don't understand the change, or that it reverses the lockdown. Aggressive support for the government that insults anyone who says they don't understand the new terms. That the terms are unclear, and that the ambiguity caused may lead to an increase in cases. Whilst I don't think that it reverses the lockdown (and perhaps people mean it may reverse all of the good the lockdown as done), my problem with this is the following The new terminology is ambiguous, you cannot be alert for something that you cannot see and the government is not on top of testing. Personally I feel that the new terminology has been brought in simply because the Government feels they've over scared the population and want to start winding that back ready for a return to work and the government wanted to throw some good news to the public to avoid defeatism. ...