advice is designed to deter idiots from doing reckless things, not sensible people.
Let's face it, if healthy 70+ year-olds are being allowed (encouraged, in fact) to congregate at supermarkets, then the idea that we all desperately need to self-isolate to get through this can be considered *******s.
I'm planning to get my dad to move into a local Airbnb for a month or so to keep him from going mad. The kids and ourselves will be effectively self-isolating from tomorrow and as long as he does the same then there's no real risk in us mixing with him if we're sensible about it.
This is the problem it's all contradictiory information.
Also now that Boris is doing these daily briefings I assume he feels compelled to make at least 1 change a day.
Apparently I am not supposed to be going to London but you can still get there, the office is still open, the pubs are still open,
'Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before'
'Met a dwarf that was no good, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood'
'Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd'
It doesn't need to be sustainable for everyone for it to work. They are banking on sufficient numbers adhering to it for it to achieve the required results. I think that as the sense of risk remains high (and that sense will continue rising for the foreseeable as death stack up) most people will simply be too spooked to not do it.
Also, lockdown doesn't stop you leaving the house for a walk or run, or even seeing friends/family as long as you're sensible. And we all have plenty of home comforts to keep us busy/entertained.
Last edited by Monty92; 03-20-2020 at 12:45 PM.
Oh, I know it's a mitigation game rather than an attempt to actually stop the virus. And the fact that they're not shutting pubs and such suggests to me that they do actively want the virus to spread through the younger and healthier part of the population now while older, more vulnerable people are hidden away. It's all about controlling the rate of spread.