Guidance or mandatory? Enforced?

[Isadora2007]

I’m at a loss as to whether this statement today is an order, advice, or guidance which suggests a level of personal choice- eg government guidance is to not drink more than 14 units of alcohol in a week and have 2 days out of 7 with no alcohol. Many adhere to this, many don’t...
So... at present is this guidance? And when does it become enforceable... and how? Surely in different parts of the UK this advice is more or less sensible? In a busy city of millions versus a quiet village or town of hundreds or thousands?

That's what I don't know either. It was all, 'if you don't mind, give the pub a miss if you possibly could' wasn't it?

Not helping the pubs and restaurants either. They won't know whether it's worth opening or not and with the FB campaigns to support them or else they'll go bust, they could have custom, or might not.

I honestly don't know whether I'm supposed to go to work tomorrow. I can work from home most of the time but I have client meetings that are normally in person but since last week I've arranged video conferencing, but I don't know if those people will be at work/be in contact, because they have the types of jobs where they do have to be there in person at least some of the time because they have factories to run.

And that's another thing. Are they expecting manufacturing type businesses to continue more or less as normal? The ones that need people in the building to run machines etc?

It’s all very vague and I’ve heard that in not demanding places close they’re making claiming compensation impossible for the small businesses they said they’d support. Which is awful...
my son is a chef and likely to face redundancy, my friends daughter in the public entertainment industry has just lost her job as her company has lost £100k worth of business in the last few weeks due to cancellations, it’s awful.
I am far more scared of the economic impact of this than the health impact right now...

If people don't stop going to the pub etc then it will be enforced in a lockdown.

I'm guessing that by this time next week we'll be in that situation unless people take responsibility.

They said don't go to the pub. It couldn't have been clearer.