After the house meeting we asked the Prime Minister about that decision not to go into a full-scale, national lockdown. Government did so the last time in mid April when there were under 10 positive cases; we have seen close to 300 cases emerge in just the last 10 days!
So what is the threshold for a lockdown. The PM conceded that there is no standard; and it's a judgement call, a very though one:
Jules Vasquez:
"You can't do a lockdown because of the effect it will have on the economy but one wonders what is the threshold?"
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
"Well precisely because we saw how much we suffered economically and perhaps in terms of mental health, socially from the first lockdown we are not going to be in as much of a hurry as we were before to pull the trigger for a second lockdown, I can't give you a number, you ask about a threshold but I think that a lot depends on the particulars, this is one case in which the devil really is in the details. Once it is that we are still looking at the majority of the tests coming from the contacts of people in San Pedro, in Orange Walk I don't think we need to get to the point where we actually decide to go for a full countrywide lockdown."
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