Lockdown Question

[PinkSparklyPussyCat]

How does it work if a lockdown is announced? If I was at work would I have to stay there indefinitely with no clean clothes, medication etc?

You'll be able to go home.

Thank god for that! I think I may have taken it too literally

Don’t be ridiculous!

They designate an area which you can't leave except in exceptional circumstances and encourage people to stay at home, close public buildings etc. We don't all just have to stay exactly where we are at the time of the announcement like musical statues.

The reason I asked was because I've seen a lot of comments moaning about people leaving the locked down areas in Northern Italy and therefore possibly spreading the disease.

I know not to bother asking a question on here again as some people have to get a dig in.

It's not about people having a dig. it's about people their selves having a bit of common sense.

Oh another snarky comment, lovely.

In Italy people were leaving the North and travelling South, therefore running a risk of spreading the bug. If you are at work, or anywhere else, and a lockdown is announced you follow the health advice given by the Govt and Public Health, probably just go home, keep yourself in isolation for however long they say. Employers will be given advice on what to do if anyone has the illness. It's all available on line.

Thank you HappyHammy. I've read the government guidelines but haven't seen anything yet about a lockdown situation.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/guidance-for-employers-and-businesses-on-covid-19

Think of it like this. In Italy all of Scotland were told they couldn't leave Scotland. Instead people were desperately trying to get on a train to London.

www.acas.org.uk/coronavirus

Thanks again HappyHammy, I hadn't looked at ACAS.

Sylbunny, that's a very good point. In my defence I've had too much time on my hands as I haven't been well since Saturday (NOT Coronavirus related!) and I've been reading a lot of the scaremongering stories and it's started to get to me a bit!

They'd send you home, doubt it will happen.

Oh another snarky comment, lovely.

It's not snarky it's telling you to use common sense where have we heard of people being confined to offices ect.

If you can use common sense you really are in danger.

I think @PinkSparklyPussyCat's question does raise a valid point regarding this outbreak.

Some of the language used is not helping anyone.

The term "Lockdown" would normally be associated with keeping prisoners locked in their cells or stopping people going in and out of a building, due to a terrorist incident/ongoing situation.

I do love @bitheby's musical statues idea😉

Does anyone remember Bernard's watch? That's what the musical statues comment reminded me of. Not a dig at you OP, it just made me reminisce

If you can use common sense you really are in danger.

I presume you mean 'if you can't use common sense'. Well actually I can, however the constant scaremongering is starting to get to me now like many other people on here.

I have no idea what Bernards watch is, off to google now!

A friend who works in Milan once told me that there’s a lot of economic migration of people in southern Italy who move North for the work but their families are still in the south. Sort of like if London went into lockdown and all the 20 something graduates were ignoring instructions to stay put in favour of travelling back to wherever else in the UK their parents live.

Don't feel silly for asking OP, I have followed this really closely since January and I didn't know we wouldn't be able to work during a lockdown. I thought we'd just not be able to leave our quarantine areas.

You need to step out of the room op dont watch TV or read mumsnet till you have

But I understand your confusion in my sons school
Lockdown involves hiding from a threat under tables or inside the internal corridors depending on the threat

I do. Being off sick has given me too much time to read things!

There is massive confusion over the word "lockdown"
I'm in Italy (and MN constantly tells me I'm in lockdown) but apart from schools being closed, nothing has changed for us.

The whole of Italy is for lockdown from tomorrow.