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The ExCel hospital is truly astonishing. The fact that they have 4000 beds and all that equipment ready to deploy is fascinating. Just goes to show what emergency contingency planning must go on in the background that we’d never be aware of otherwise.
Visited my local supermarket on Friday, the latest shortage is of cash, only 50% of the self service tills and lottery/fags could take cash, everything else was cards only.

Also for those who remember how quiet the roads were on Sundays when all the shops were closed, it was just like that.

Alcohol now at dangerously low levels, had offers on bourbon - but none available, tissues OK, tinned food - meh, running out of cheese.

Loads of toilet paper Tuesday evening - but all gone by Wednesday.
The Sun shone on us every day. Garden jobs got done; lawns mowed.
This is really useful-- I'm having a hard time keeping track of time, of when we all started worrying, etc.
James I agree. I hope DG does a weekly round-up like this as it's amazing how fast things have changed this week!

Living on a fairly busy street I'm enjoying not hearing people shouting into their phones as they walk past at all hours of the day/night, and fewer cars means the beeping at the lights has pretty much been eliminated!
On Friday evening I took much needed long walk and came across a front garden party, in which neighbours on each side of the road, and adjoining gardens, stood in their patches with drinks and were chatting across the hedges and road. Quite inventive, but I'm not sure how it sits with the rules. Certainly safer walking through this than being passed by joggers. More are now at least taking mutual avoidance action.

This exercise at dusk was notable for seeing how nearly every front window was lit, with signs of life within, punctuated by the glow of big, medium and small screens.
On Mon 20 April I sadly won't be meeting my US cousins in Paris and taking the train with them to Avignon for a two-week holiday in Provence.
As things stand, the official rules, as set out in the law, are less restrictive than some might think.

Under Regulation 6 of The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020, you must not leave the place where you are living without "reasonable excuse", which the Regulation says includes obtaining "basic necessities, including food and medical supplies" for your household or other vulnerable persons (no limit on frequency or type of "basic necessities": you can buy an Easter egg if you want one); taking exercise either alone or with your household (no restriction on locations or times each day or numbers of people together from the same household); seeking medical assistance; providing care or assistance to a vulnerable person; donating blood; travelling for work or voluntary or charitable purposes (for things you can't reasonably do at home); attending a funeral (including a friend, if no members of their household or close family are); fulfilling legal obligations (such as attending court); accessing "critical public services" (such as childcare, education, social services, or DWP); providing parents with access to their children; ministers of religion going to a place of worship; moving house (where reasonably necessary); avoiding injury or illness, or escaping from a risk of harm.

Or indeed any other reasonable excuse not mentioned in that indicative list.

That said, whatever the law says, everyone should stay at home as much as possible, only leave home were necessary, stay 2m away from people who are not members of their household, and keep washing their hands.










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