COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

As it happens, here's a breaking example of how not to manage a pandemic from the UK:



This is the area I live and work in getting extra restrictions because our cases are rising rapidly. These are basically no households mixing particularly in private homes and gardens, table service only in pubs and restaurants, and entertainment venues closing at 10pm.

So that's something, better than nothing, yet pretty weak as it is, since to be sufficiently effective it relies on the transmission at homes and in pubs after 10pm being significant enough that it doesn't matter if transmission is continuing at work and schools and in pubs before 10pm. But the kicker is that they've announced these measure today for them to come in on Tuesday.

And while there are many sensible people living in this part of the world, there are also lots of people who, if you tell them on Friday that they can't go to each others' houses and to pubs past 10PM from Tuesday, will definitely spend the entire weekend before then getting blitzed at each others' houses and going on pub crawls, which is the exact opposite of what you want to happen.