Lock Down?

[scraggs]

pretty plain really
"Non-essential businesses and premises must now shut"

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

5 minutes ago, doobin said:

They’ve toned it down a little. Working looks to be fine  

Cummings must be reading Arbtalk!

[doobin]

9 minutes ago, scraggs said:

pretty plain really
"Non-essential businesses and premises must now shut"

I’d take this to mean places where the public would congregate. Clothes shops for example. 

[eggsarascal]

Andy Burnham has just said he's just had confirmation from Downing Street stating it is fine for people to travel to work if they can't work from home.

[scraggs]

I’d take this to mean places where the public would congregate. Clothes shops for example. 

I would take "premises" to mean where the public would congregate and "non essential businesses" to mean what it says.
Trouble is people will interpret it how they want.
I personally don't have an issue with closing down for however long it takes, as much as anyone says "I won't be near anyone" the reality is that it is most likely crap imo, what about getting fuel and various other things ?

Edited March 24, 2020 by scraggs

[delabodge]

On 13/03/2020 at 18:39, Rough Hewn said:

Looks like it may be 3 months or more.
I'm guessing we've got less than a fortnight before we are locked down,

HOPE YOU BOUGHT A LOTTERY TICKET LOL

[The avantgardener]

Just watching all the builders vans going past my house, two or three guys up front in hiviz, they are all part of the same family, right?

[Nick Connell]

Seems to be changing by the minute!!

[Bloom]

Watched the speech fully expecting it to be a lock down. Think Boris dodge it. He could very explicitly said 'only key workers can travel to work' but he didn't. I think everyone would have accepted it if he had. 

[Gardenscape]

Getting loaded up for todays work. Clear blue skies. ?