Lock Down?

[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. ?

[Nick Connell]

I

Now builders can work

[David Cropper]

Update on my wife. Taken in by ambulance at 1530 yesterday. She's been keeping me updated by mobile phone texts etc until 0330 this morning when she said could i come to collect her. She was released and I brought her home. Had Xrays,  blood tests and a virus was found in her lungs. Not tested for the Coruna as it seems the test kits are in short supply. She is home now and we are both confined for another 14 days. If she gets bad again, ring for an ambulance. They wanted rid of her to free up the bed. She waited in the ambulance after arriving at the hospital for over 2 hours due to the volume of patients coming in. This seems to be the norm, unless you are death's door,  stay at home, then if your condition deteriorates,  you will be wheeled back in. All the emergency staff have been exemplary. Very bizarre travelling up the motorway and only vehicles were hgv using it, not many of those compared to normal. 

As to the ambiguous nature of the "can I work or can't I" question, it's exactly the same over here. Good luck to you all and your families,  please listen to the Government advice.