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But the really woolly undefined phrase, for now, is "essential work".
Now, unless unavoidable, stay indoors. Please.
I do office-based work but we have all been working from home for a week. I need to print some documents for some task this week; they are essential for my job.
Should I go to the office to print them? Currently the advice says yes, which is lunacy!
I don't 'need' to go shopping this week, so I won't, but the real danger is if I don't do little and often there's a real danger of us not getting the food we need for a family of 7 - especially now the Deliveroo option has also been shut down in most cases!
If printing it is that important do you have a friend, neighbour etc with a printer? Its not that difficult to arrange a fully quarantined hand-off if you do a little planning. Which is what some of my family members have had to do the last few weeks.
Obviously I won't be doing so, but the point I'm making is that the guidance is so poor that it opens the door to people in my situation choosing to leave their homes and believing it is acceptable. It isn't.
Basically, if your business is specifically on the list of closed businesses then don't go to work. If you can work from home. Otherwise, go ahead and go into work.
▶ Only go out when absolutely necessary for food, medicine, work or exercise
▶ Always stay 2 metres apart 🚶🏾♀️ ↔ 🚶🏾♂️
❌ Do NOT meet others outside your household, even friends and family
In areas of large amounts of rented accommodation, few of these places have washing machines. So those residents / tenants need a launderette - what's been forcibly closed, ostensibly on inability to keep 2m apart? Launderettes... Ever tried hand-washing towels? They take a week to dry, assuming you have a bath to wash the big ones in. A lack of clean clothes will create bigger health issues.
Other examples roar to mind - older or disabled folk without internet but with mobile phones on PAYG cash 'contracts' as a back-up lifeline can't top up at phone shops (all closed) and can't spend time at supermarket tills to top up either. A lot can't use ATMs either.
Each day an interpretation of lock-down mutates, each new meaning solves maybe one issue and creates two more - spreading just like coronavirus.
Meanwhile, the council seems to have closed the tip and ended separate collection of recycling and green waste.
And for some reason we were turned away by the supermarket when we arrived in the silver hour to buy food for the grandparents who have been shielding at home for a couple of weeks already. Fortunately most of what we needed was still available an hour later, but the shelves were rapidly clearing. Panic buying is not over.
I expect that the idea is that people can visualise 6 feet more easily than 7. The catch is that I've often witnessed people standing closer than 2 metres. If they internalise it as ‘the same distance as a little more than my height’ they underestimate the amount.
If we were told ‘7 feet’ I expect people would be more likely to overestimate if they picture a length of the average height for men plus a whole foot.
I suppose it is too late, but there you go.
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