Quote Originally Posted by Ram59 View Post
Agree with much of what you've said Swale, but if the government hadn't had scared us witless, how many more people would have ignored the lock down?

We saw what happened when they went softly, softly with the exercise advice in the first place and even now.

Take Durdle Door at the weekend, only accessable via narrow steps, so why go there? Again, I'll question the wisdom of the media, they interviewed people on the beach, which they themselves had to access via the path. Wouldn't it have been more practical and safer to interview people in the car park above, asking them why they were going there and not any other easily accessable beach?

I've been out today, doing important shopping, it's impossible to keep social distancing in the supermarket, but very few staff and customers are following the current advice of wearing a face mask.
For me your last sentence illustrates the problem, Ram.

I have to disagree about it being ‘impossible’ to social distance in the supermarket. Generally speaking the supermarkets have been ahead of the game imo. However I haven’t heard any ‘advice’ regarding the need to wear a face mask in the supermarket.

The advice I’m aware of is that face masks should be worn on public transport, although even then they’re not mandatory.

Until the advice is clearer and less contradictory then we will have a problem and frankly, as far as the schools are concerned, I would have zilch confidence in Gove’s advice from yesterday, especially when one considers what they advised in relation to Care Homes a couple of months ago.