Do you reckon the uk will go into an official lockdown?

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Just that really. I understand theirs a lot of suggesting going on but will they officially make people stay in or take responsibility?

Yes, because idiots do idiot things because they're idiots.

79 year old Stanley Johnson, the Prime Minister’s dad has just appeared on national TV and said,
‘If I have to go to a pub, of course I’ll go to a pub.'

Meanwhile in the rest of Europe, all pubs, clubs, cafes, coffee shops, takeaways and restaurants are closed as an anti-infection measure.

Just had a message from DD (age15) school, closing from tomorrow for y7-9 with plans ready for if/when there’s a full closure. Those in y10-13 who are isolating will be able to watch lessons via FaceTime or similar.
Grammar school in the SE with a large catchment and many pupils travelling via public transport.
DH and I both work in food retail so will be expected to work where possible. Handy for picking up any shopping we need. DS (1 next Sunday) will hopefully be ok, luckily he’s still breastfeeding so that should help with immunity and we don’t have the worry of running out of formula or milk.

I’ve got a friend in Italy. They’ve been lockdown for 2 weeks.
You can’t even meet your friend in the park, even with 2m apart.
I think it’s one family member, a day for the supermarket.

A friend just posted a picture on Facebook. One in one out at supermarket. Gendarmes stationed at the door.

The Brits have no idea what’s coming. Neither did we a week ago.

Anyone else noticed the pattern with posters who tell you they and their family members are meeting up regardless, and when people question it go 'ah, we'll have it or have got it anyway' as if they are the only people it affects? Really limited thinking.'

@cologne4711 there are so many exercise tutorials on YouTube that it would be easy to get an hours exercise a day, people who need to exercise for their mental health will be able to get their endorphins from that, I know that exercise outside is far better but this will not be forever. It’s short term, everybody will have to make sacrifices.

If the virus is left to run riot then a lot more people will be suffering from mental health issues, I’m thinking about our NHS staff who will be witnessing a lot of suffering and death. I can imagine that some would be left with PTSD.

Everybody needs to be less selfish and think of others, it’s a temporary situation, we will come out the other side. Life will be on hold and after the initial change of routine people will adapt.
I can’t help but wonder that when this is all over if the world will slow down a little bit.

I think we will be in full lock down before the weekend. Yesterday was just the warm up. Unless people do as advised then the whole class gets detention. Every other EU country who has gone into lockdown has done it rapidly after advising social distancing.

I think we will be in full lock down before the weekend. Yesterday was just the warm up. Unless people do as advised then the whole class gets detention. Every other EU country who has gone into lockdown has done it rapidly after advising social distancing.

Agreed

I really bloody hope so.

I also wish they would get a move on with it.

There a daily briefing from Boris isn’t there...

Yes I suspect it is days till it happens too. Friday maybe?

Yes, we will have to. The reality of the crisis that's hitting the NHS will not hit home to the general public for another week or so.

Yes, within the next week at the latest. Too many people - despite currently being asked nicely - are taking no notice of the advice so there will be no choice but to enforce it.

True, we don't have the infrastructure or culture currently but we'll have to adapt pretty fucking quickly. Apart from China none of the countries currently in lockdown had the infrastructure or culture until it happened.

Anyone who still thinks this is not as serious as it is needs to wake up very quickly. Life has changed, and will continue to change. Dramatically.

We have a huge number of armed forces (Army, Air Force and Navy) who can assist in the enforcement, an entire reserve armed forces (Territorial Army). We can get the deterrent in place quite quickly.

I'd like to see people telling an armed guard stood at the end of their street that they're off to hot yoga and a bit of 'me-time'!

In France the order was :
Close Schools
Close Shops
Quarantine

Each announcement was 2 days apart.

I would say there will be an announcement on Thursday night; that schools will close on Friday.
Saturday will tell you if shops are closing
Full quarantine next weel

Yes, by the weekend schools will be closed (or perhaps open with skeleton staff for children of NHS and other essential workers) and all cinemas, pubs, restaurants and other indoor entertainment venues will be closed, which has to happen to prevent the hard of thinking from viewing school closures as just extra holiday time.

I hope they offer guidelines about outside activities. I go for a long walk each day, for exercise and to help my mental health, and currently I'm still doing this, although I am keeping my distance from other people and not chatting with people along the way, like I'd normally do. I've noticed fewer people walking their dogs during the day, so I think people are walking them early morning or late at night, to avoid crowds. I've seen some people wearing masks, and have wondered if that is what I should be doing, although I doubt I could buy any at this stage. If I had symptoms of the virus I would self isolate, without question, but otherwise I hope to carry on walking, but will avoid narrow paths/cutways where there is no room to keep a safe space of 2 metres from others.

I don't get that people don't understand that the 15 minutes in the presence of someone with CV is all about probability, not absolutes. You can catch it in seconds, it is not 14 minutes 30 seconds you are ok, 15 minutes 30 seconds you will catch it.

15 minutes is a random number meaning a short time. The more time you spend with anyone infected, from one second upwards, the more chance you have of being infected.

In the early hours of this morning the Telegraph had a headline saying we had gone into lockdown. I assumed that was the case but nobody else said so.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-heal ... oll-cases/

It's not a headline now.

Yes I think we will.

blackswan88 Tue 17-Mar-20 12:25:04
@FizzyLimes how do people get supplies with the shops closed?
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Some places still delivering, I had one this morning.

Try again:
www.telegraph.co.uk/global-heal ... oll-cases/

Link doesn't work now but it was real.

Just had an email - my DDs school is shut from tomorrow. 1400 pupils in the northwest

I think we will be in full lock down before the weekend. Yesterday was just the warm up. Unless people do as advised then the whole class gets detention. Every other EU country who has gone into lockdown has done it rapidly after advising social distancing.

Agreed. It's inevitable surely, too many people ignoring the advice, they just want to start getting people used to the idea.

It's possible for neither party to have had an illness three days ago, and for one of them to have it now.

@leafygarden is that an independent?

@Havanananana that sounds like a really well organised set up.

Where are you?

@leafygarden are the school just taking matters into their own hands then? I have kids in three different schools in the North West, no sign that they are closing yet unfortunately.