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Originally Posted by nomadking
Allowing groups of up to 1000 people to gather, isn't exactly a lockdown, and possibly if anything worse than only allowing groups of more than 1,000. Those from smaller groups will then mingle with people from other smaller groups.
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Other smaller groups??? What other groups?
Compared with 55 000 people in a football stadium with larger numbers crowded into bars, fast food places, buses, metros, trams etc is definitely going to be worse.
It also has the effect of reducing the number of large events at once. 55 000 football fans don’t decide against going to the game and set up 55 x 1000 person gatherings doing something else.
Closing schools also has the effect of reducing the spread. A step taken earlier in Germany.
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UK has an estimated 2.1m cases, compared to Germany's estimated 460,000.
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You seem to be missing my point. Clearly if Germany has kept the numbers low, despite a higher population, I’m literally claiming they have better managed the situation.
At some point in time both countries presumably had a handful of cases. Unless you are claiming that a disproportionate amount of people travelling to the UK came into the UK with it and that they all came at once. Yet Germany, within Schengen, didn’t get this kind of simultaneous movement of infected people across it’s borders?