Today the news has moved towards acknowledging covid-19 reality: Nicola Sturgeon has explicitly stated that some social distancing will carry on until the new year in all likelihood.
When Matt Hancock asked if this was true for England too, he refused to say yes but he said that Scotland was working from the same framework as England.
In case anyone does still need this spelling out, this means the outlook for the hospitality and leisure industries is bleak.
There are extremely unlikely to be many enjoying a holiday in the sun any time soon, whether it be in Devon or Spain.
We won't be celebrating birthdays in restaurants nor having a pint in the pub.
Conversations on the doorstep from a couple of metres away is as good as it gets.
That means if you can't adapt you may not survive.
To add into the mix changes to customs to those companies who are operating seems insanity. But that's a political not a scientific decision to be made.
Whether reality in this will kick in, in the next six weeks or so before EU budgetary decisions relating to an extension have to be made remains to be seen.
Until then, there is no news but covid-19.