Main Coronavirus / Covid-19 Discussion Thread

[vagabond]

i is confused. Is it ok if I go out for a picnic and then play beach ball with all my workmates coz it’s a nice day and I’ve been in all weekend.

That’s ok right guyz?

Please can someone confirm.

 

[Weststander]

If it’s only key workers allowed to go to work- that has shut down a huge number of businesses. Anyone else, who cannot work from home, now cannot work?

That’s right. The business will still tick over in admin and communications by the owners etc.

Millions of other businesses are already operating with staff working from home.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Gov.uk website is now stark:

Stay at Home
Only go outside for food, health reasons and essential work

I think the sentiment here is clear. It’s a national emergency. Only travel to work if the work is absolutely necessary.

However, there must be some ambiguity if people don’t ‘clearly’ don’t get it!

Ambiguous, and undefined, as of now that is a matter of opinion.

 

[Marty___Mcfly]

Sadiq Khan has upgraded it to ‘only people working in a critical industry like the NHS’.

 

[rogersix]

You can only go outside for exercise one time a day? I doubt very much there would be any way they could enforce this. If someone gets stopped they will say ' its my first bit exercise today' even if it wasn't.

are you danny ocean?

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Of course you carry on, trade suppliers haven’t been told to shut and the self employed have still got to work.

Building sites ?
Regards
DF

 

[Hugo Rune]

Not even a tad of Tory hating, brought to COVID-19 threads?

If I could be bothered to point you in the direction of the post I made about Thatcher being the PM we needed in this crisis, I would.

 

[beorhthelm]

Of course you carry on, trade suppliers haven’t been told to shut and the self employed have still got to work.

is that certain, where's info from?

 

[Mr Bridger]

Building sites ?
Regards
DF

Yes still open, trade suppliers have not been told to shut down.

 

[Springal]

Of course you carry on, trade suppliers haven’t been told to shut and the self employed have still got to work.

Why would trade suppliers not sit under retail / shops?

 

[Triggaaar]

It's in the paper Mellotron was referring to that Bozza first raised.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2

Thanks

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Yes still open, trade suppliers have not been told to shut down.

I know they're still open , just wondering for how much longer though
Regards
DF

 

[vagabond]

I’m confused. Is it ok if I hold a 50 person table tennis tournament in my garage.

Please confirm.

 

[dangull]

are you danny ocean?

I had to google that to see who it was. First name is the only similarity.

 

[Mr Bridger]

is that certain, where's info from?

Non essential shops closed, clothes , electrical etc. Nothing about trade supplies, so still trading.
No mention of building sites closing, many of trades are self employed and nothing mentioned of helping them out, so carry on.
I suspect once the self employment issue has been sorted, then the sites will be closed.

 

[Springal]

Non essential shops closed, clothes , electrical etc. Nothing about trade supplies, so still trading.

Essential is food and medicine. Not building materials ! Police and council will be out tomorrow closing things up


Shopping for basics necessities like food and medicine, with Downing Street saying you should do this "as infrequently as possible" and use food delivery services "where you can"
•One form of exercise a day, such as a run, walk or cycle. This can be done alone or with members of your household
•Any medical need, to give care or to help a vulnerable person
•Travelling to and from work, but only if this is "absolutely necessary" and cannot be done from home

 

[Triggaaar]

You can only go outside for exercise one time a day? I doubt very much there would be any way they could enforce this. If someone gets stopped they will say ' its my first bit exercise today' even if it wasn't.

A lot of the rules will be next to impossible to enforce, but they shouldn't need to be. Everyone should follow the rules, and if you don't, you're putting people's lives at risk.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Essential is food and medicine. Not building materials ! Police and council will be out tomorrow closing things up


Shopping for basics necessities like food and medicine, with Downing Street saying you should do this "as infrequently as possible" and use food delivery services "where you can"
•One form of exercise a day, such as a run, walk or cycle. This can be done alone or with members of your household
•Any medical need, to give care or to help a vulnerable person
•Travelling to and from work, but only if this is "absolutely necessary" and cannot be done from home

If you can’t work from home then it’s essential..... to live! Self employed haven’t been sorted yet, so you have to work.

 

[Driver8]

Everyone should follow the rules, and if you don't, you're putting people's lives at risk.

Hasn’t stopped people so far.

 

[monty uk]

Sadiq Khan has upgraded it to ‘only people working in a critical industry like the NHS’.

He's also clarified the exercise issue. Johnson said "one form of exercise per day" not one session. So I could go running a dozen times over the course of a day, or cycle all day. That's not what he meant. But surely whoever writes this stuff (Cummings?) should get the wording correct? Otherwise there will be ambiguity and uncertainty. It's a pseudo-legal statement after all.