You’d be forgiven for thinking they want us to beg for lockdown at this point
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79345627 At this point, no.
But after mid-October, well...
Quoting: deplorable recollector This is completely true and believable from our perspective.
(And you, DR, know how much I believe in your models and updates).
But not from government's point of view...
I try to explain my opinion:
Media and politics (in my country, Italy) now are spreading a different message: "You (a common citizen) must learn how to live with this virus".
This means, in other words, that the citizens must take in account all the risks about living a "normal" lifestyle...
You (must) go to work?
You (must) go to the supermarket?
You (must) get on public transport?
You (a simple, common citizen) take the risk...
"economic circle" can't be interrupted anymore.
Basically, you have no choice. You must act normally while taking in account the risk of being infected.
That's why I am pretty sure that most of EU countries will rule out a new lockdown...
Governments will try to let pandemic go on as long as they can and play "whack-a-mole" with the new clusters.
Some businessmen also started to say that if an employee is tested positive but is "asymptomatic" or "pre-symptomatic", still have to work on remote because a positive test isn't enough to stop someone from doing his job.