Be Honest - anyone not going to Follow Boris's advice

tomorrow when family members go for their shop, they may pick up the virus, and give it to you when you visit them, or vice versa. Just one more day with x person, and the rest of your life without them.

Isn't what he said LAW now?
Not just advice
Mist be if police can fine you. They will love that little boost to their powers.

will wear face masks when out shopping.

This will cause a lot of health issues for people for example, dust, impossible to remove dust from the home, of course you can do cert

sorry for triple post

This will cause a lot of health issues for people for example, dust, impossible to remove dust from the home, of course you can do certain things to limit that, but if everyone is spending so much more time in the house that can cause health issues itself, that's before you move onto the mental aspect.

Then there is the NHS this Christmas, birth rates will soar. will struggle to cope.

Even these new measures don't amount to people under siege in their homes. So why are they still stashing food away?

Heart disease is high on the list of dangerous conditions with regard to coronavirus.

Many people are diabetic and don't know it - that's another one.

My mums heart would break if I didn't visit. Her neighbour spent all day crying because she couldn't see her kids and grandkids on Mothers Day.

I have fuelled up the merc ready to go and the khants have jammed the roads stopping me from getting there

bar stewards

I get that, but i reckon they would rather be alive in 6 months time. Not sure how you could deal with it if you infected them (by accident of course)

I think your mothers neighbour needs to realise the seriousness of this virus, short term pain is very little in the scheme of things, you get this virus aged above 60 then i dont fancy your chances.

Good advice dr, the 2m rule is enforced at my work (which is impossible)

I suggested everyone has a 2m stick so they can hit anyone that infringe, or a bubble suit 1m wide like the ones in its a knockout, they didnt take my suggestions well.

stewart   what do you do if you have none of the abover and snaptwitterfacefuk stuff

Phone!

The biggest reason why this is a nonsense is because this is half baked lockdown, you could maybe understand the logic if this was a Total Lockdown as if we were being hit by the Black Death, but this is essentially a partial lockdown which is like being a bit pregnant, you either are in lockdown or your not, you're either pregnant or your not.

Many School children of key workers all over the country are still going to school, many teachers still there to teach them. Small children in particular will be impossible to keep from each other, they have an urge to play games with each other and interact.

Everyone is going to the supermarkets, it is not possible to keep 2 meters apart at all time, in any given aisle you are going to pass people up and down the whole way round. Most of the till operators are of a certain age as well. Then there are the trollies, people are not going to be wiping down the trollies after every use, some will, most wont.

Key workers are still hefty in numbers and on public transport will again come into contact with each other - many of these key workers will go home to relatives who do indeed have underlying health issues.

Exercising once a day, literally impossible to enforce and prove, do you really think youngsters or those criminally minded will adhere to this sort of thing, they'll do as they please especially during warmer days.

Parks remaining open to exercise - people will be breathing in and out a lot more in moving at speed doing so followed by others, who then all go home to their families.

Staying at home so much will create many problems for the NHS.

I think the best way forward is as said, attack rather than defence, the 1.5 million maybe stay at home for a set period of time, those with no known underlying health issues carry on as normal, those that have to come home to those that have health issues, take normal precautions, washed hands, wear face masks when in same room.

That has to better than this, there's no chance this lasts for 3 weeks, at least I'm pretty sure that's what the governments plan is, in their minds this could last several months.

Found a note in my letterbox on Saturday morning, with an email address and phone number of a neighbour, advising to contact her should I need to do so on account of being vulnerable due to my age.

I'm 58 for Christ's sake.

There are six adults and one little girl living in my hamlet (including the neighbour in question), and every one of them is younger than me, but every one of them bar me is also disgustingly obese. The hamlet also boasts five cars (theirs) and one bicycle (mine). But evidently I'm the one who's going to be in need of help.

People already on treatment for cancer and other illnesses, are seeing treatment interrupted or discontinued because the hospitals are going to be full of people infected by selfish types.

58 is the new 78

Maybe it’s your gait.

But I mean, nobody thinks Bradley Wiggins is an OAP just because he walks funny after a hard day climbing l'Alpe d'Huez, do they?

The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, it infected 500 million people—about a quarter of the world's population at the time. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.

To maintain morale, World War I censors minimized early reports of illness and mortality in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Papers were free to report the epidemic's effects in neutral Spain, such as the grave illness of King Alfonso XIII, and these stories created a false impression of Spain as especially hard hit.[7] This gave rise to the pandemic's nickname, "Spanish flu".

Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify with certainty the pandemic's geographic origin, with varying views as to the origin. (Taubenberger & Morens 2006)