I'm with the Mats on this. It's ridiculous that you can't share a table with more than 5 kakis but the buses and trains are packed to the brim with just few centimetres separating you and the person standing next to you in a bus.
None of the measures taken by various countries around the world have any scientific basis whatsoever. The numbers are pulled from thin air which is why there is absolutely no consistency whatsoever from one jurisdiction to the next.
Take the reduction of groups from 8 to 5. You think the virus gives a shit how many people are sitting together? They're all arbitrary numbers conjured up by bureaucrats trying to sound important and pretending to be in control of a situation that is entirely beyond the realms of human understanding.
Nobody knows what the R0 really is. It varies from place to place depending upon a myriad of factors that nobody has a grasp of so the "experts" plug some numbers into a computer and some dubious script of questionable quality will spew out a figure which is invariably a load of garbage.
Masks have gone from being undesirable to being a savior but nobody wears or stores them according to CDC instructions so whatever studies the CDC initiated regarding mask use go out the window in the real world when people wear the same mask for days, hang it on their chins and put it down on contaminated surfaces and touch it wear it should not be touched when putting it on and taking it off.
I honestly have never seen a greater display of incompetence packaged to look like "expert" advice. It has been a source of constant amusement for me from day one. When mask wearing became a battle of political ideology logic went to hell and has yet to come back and the fact that both sides of the battle insist they are right despite the complete absence of data supporting the claim that masks work adds further lunacy to the whole charade.
In NZ you need to wear a mask in a taxi with one driver but you can go to a netball match with 5000 other screaming fans without having to wear one. It's like mandating condom use for vaginal sex with one whore while allowing unprotected anal sex with 1000 gay fucks.
If the whole situation wasn't so tragic in terms of lives turned upside down by useless lockdowns Covid 19/20/21 it would be a great script for one of the world's latest keystone cops themed comedy series.