Act NOW Boris

As Covid-19 cases rise significantly in the UK, it should be a no brainer that taking action now will prevent having to take prolonged and more painful action in a few months time but as seems to be the case with this Government, no brains is their specialty.
With a R-rate over 1 and daily cases now topping 4,000 and the corresponding death rate ominously creeping up with it, putting the brakes on immediately for a fortnight would drag the figures down but leaving it a month when the cases and deaths have tripled would take a longer period of lock-down and a world of hurt for families.
The state of the economy is the least of my concerns, it may take years but that will come back eventually, the same cannot be said for the unfortunate souls who die from the disease as it regains it's grim foothold on the population so whoever is advising the Prime Minister needs to grab him by the lapels and give him a good shaking.
Boris Johnson was rightly pilloried for amongst his many misjudgements in March, locking down too late causing the needless deaths of thousands, let's hope that he doesn't make the same mistake this time and can see that even if it takes a succession of short term stops and starts, it has to be better than waiting until the country is being ravaged once again before acting.
He also needs to get a grip on the test and trace system which has been woefully inept despite the relative respite of three months of summer to put a working system in place.
He got it disastrously wrong last time and he will be held to account for that but don't make the same mistake this time around and leave it until the bodies are piling up in the hospital morgues before deciding something has to be done, do it now.