Is Italy still on total lockdown?

[Butterbear86]

I just wondered if anything was easing up there?
Because it might give us an idea of how long lockdown will last here. I can’t believe it’s going to be six months. Everyone will have gone bust / starved by then if they’ve no money to buy food.

We are not locked down.

I don't know anyone in italy, but a friend in china - in a city about 700 miles from wuhan - has been in quarantine for just over two months. no problems with the supply chain for food and pharmaceuticals, just constant temperature checks and checked entry to apartments. free to walk around, but with monitored social distancing measures.

I know money's a worry for all of us, but the stock markets are bust so money is almost irrelevant. the government will have to find a way, wether that be through rationing packages, a universal basic income, or a combination of both. there are too many of us who buy supplies weekly because our income didn't let us stockpile food.

Yes and further more restrictive measures are probably going to be brought in.

We will be locked down within a few days.

Peak contagion hasn't yet been reached. Expected between next week sometime to beginning of April.
Lockdown is until 3/4 but govt said this morning it is certain to go on longer.

We will be locked down within a few days.

Will we?

bemoreeverything
Will we?

Gosh the denial is real

No need to be snippy @adipose

Gosh the denial is real

Denial?

Even after the government categorically stayed this is not happening?

yes we are day 10 here ... But we can go to the shops 1 family member at a time and stay 1 m apart. We have no shortages either !

My dd is in Italy studying . It’s manageable . Innovative ways of contact , online lessons and exams . The sober truth about ghastly death rate has brought compliance with rules .

the government haven't stated it won't be happening - 'no plans' and 'zero prospects' means nothing - plans and prospects are both, by definition, able to change.

we all could do with some clear communication, but this is politics : it all comes down to semantics.

the government haven't stated it won't be happening - 'no plans' and 'zero prospects' means nothing - plans and prospects are both, by definition, able to change.

Eh?

No plans almost certainly means no plans. Of course things can change, but let's not get the truth get in the way of a good post!

People are saying we are going into lockdown tonight. The giver many are saying this is not the plan.

'No plans almost certainly means no plans.'

I don't really understand what you are arguing about tbh. Nobody is going into bloody lockdown.

Not only is the lockdown still on, it will be extended beyond the originally planned end date. www.cnbc.com/2020/03/19/italys-death-rate-reaches-record-high-hospitals-in-lombardy-struggle.html

Nobody is going into bloody lockdown .... yet

words are chosen carefully in these communications for legal reasons. 'we will not go into lockdown' does not mean the same as 'no plans and zero prospects to go into lockdown.

boris says he 'does think, looking at it all' that we can turn the tide'. Maybe he thinks our prospects have changed.

Lockdown isn't something to be scared of, it's the best thing for everyone's safety. It's something we're better doing now rather than later.

Yes @TheCanterburyWhales how much more locked down can we get?!

In in NE Italy.
More than 400 deaths today. We haven’t peaked. Soon we’ll reach the number of Chinese deaths and more, in a country with a 60million population, much like the UK.

Online rumours are predicting schools closed indefinitely and no more walking outdoors.
They can’t bury the people fast enough so coffins are being transported out by the army.
Nurses are qualifying and on the wards the following day.
It’s grim.

Just checked. Today we overtook China’s total dead.

The italy figures today make me despair. So, so sad

After listening to the Prime Ministers update, I still theorise we will be under lockdown by Saturday.

BJ cant confirm as the Government feel it would cause a mass panicked London exodus if he did and he needs time to get the army in place to 'assist' the police at checkpoints around the M25

@Sgtmajormummy what do you mean "no more walking outdoors"?

No more taking one bag of rubbish to the bin on the road. No more dog walking. One person out of the house for shopping trips, preferably by car. No more chatting on chairs in the garden at a meter’s distance.