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Originally Posted by papa smurf

It's been widely ignored since the get go around here,and we have one of the lowest infection rates, meeting up with 6 people will be a bit of a blow when people have been gathering in larger numbers for weeks.

There are several ways of looking at this. If the slow decline of R is partially due public practice, then guidance adjusted for this might not lead to greater risk.

On the other hand, Professor David King said on Channel 4 News yesterday that if the current death rate 0f c. 300/day was the starting point, we'd be in severe lockdown. But, of course, that would have been when R was 3 or higher.