All outdoor visitor attractions in Wales to be closed until at least Christmas ... so Mark Drakeford has announced today.
Having been allowed back to my volunteering job this week, after nine months away, I am really disappointed that's it for this year, not allowed back next week, Bodnant Garden will be closed.
I have met only a small few people who have been tested - but it does seem to me that they have not been asked for important information ... put simply, where have you been in the past month.
Have all the people who have tested positive been somewhere where there was a crowd, or have they been isolating. If the former, then it should give some clue as to where to concentrate restrictions. If the latter, then big problem. Track and trace is of no use if you haven't got the app and enter the info of where you go.
To me, statistics is a tool to prove what you want it to prove, so throwing out the big numbers just scares people - but that's what the media like. Looking at the figures that SteveH has posted - the number of tests is only 3% of the population and only 5% of that 3% is positive ... so where has that 0.15% been to pick it up.
One death is one too many, but how long is it between catching the virus and dying. I know they say within 28 days but be more precise, where has that person been when they caught it - no precise way of knowing unless that have only been to one mass gathering.
To me, there is a lot of information that has either not been asked for, or is not being compiled, assessed and publicised.
Having stuck to the rules and was looking forward to visiting daughter and family at Christmas in Liverpool I am really fed up of the government(s) moving the goalposts so often, headless chickens come to mind - I admit it's a difficult situation but seems they have no idea what to do.
