Common Weal’s Local Groups call for an increase in the ambition of its proposed Test, Trace, Isolate and Support plans.
― The groups are pleased with the Framework in general but are concerned about the lack of scale in its TTIS plan.
― The policy of mass testing must be increased to meet the scale demanded by the pandemic.
― The Scottish Government should adopt a programme more akin to Common Weal’s previous policy paper on testing, Ending Lockdown.
― The group is concerned that attempts by the UK Government to prematurely end restrictions will result in a spike cases and calls for the Scottish Government to resist political pressures to follow suit.
― Given the potential negative costs of not controlling the virus, this scheme should not be seen as a “big ask” but as a “sensible and logical ask”.