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this is truly insane. how to stop it? to even find the bits worth reading, you have to wade thru the usual DM rubbish. however, pics do show Brits out enjoying themselves:

20 Sept: Daily Mail: Boris Johnson unveils £10,000 fines for those breaking self-isolation rules in strict new restrictions as coronavirus infections soar and battle rages among Ministers over a second lockdown
•The news comes as the number of daily cases reached 4,422, the highest level since early May
•But large crowds were still seen around markets and bars on Saturday, signalling little care for the rules
by Glen Owen
But fines for those breaching the rules, which come into effect a week tomorrow, will start at £1,000 – rising to £10,000 for repeat offenders and ‘the most egregious breaches’, which would include business owners who threaten self-isolating staff with redundancy if they do not come to work...

•A third of the people recorded to have died from Covid in July and August may actually have passed away due to other causes, researchers at Oxford University suggested...

Today the Government’s original lockdown architect, Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, recommended ‘rolling back’ freedoms ‘sooner rather than later’ by ‘reducing contact rates between people’.

The epidemiologist, who was sacked from SAGE for flouting his own lockdown rules, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘Right now we’re at about the levels of infections that we were seeing in late February, if we leave it at another two to four weeks we will be back at levels we were seeing more like mid-March’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8751339/Boris-Johnson-unveils-huge-penalty-breaking-self-isolation-rules.html

My wife and I retired to Spain 5 years ago so we're old enough to be considered in a high risk group. Additionally my wife has a disease which affects her immune system so she's especially vulnerable. Yet we kick back, have a drink and stare death in the eye. You can see why people from other parts of Spain would want to come here and risk death also. But people like the OP only read the raw data, pull the sheets up over their head and go back into hiding.