Good Morning.....

Many who are self-employed will be hoping to discover today what level of support the Chancellor is able to provide. The problem then of course, as with other funding being offered, is how quickly the monies can be rolled out.....as with universal credit, another admin nightmare!  

5:10 to 6am run. A few other people had the same idea.

Challenge accepted. Let's see if you lot will be out at 4am.

Just called her - it is actually seven wards and the numbers in each vary from 12 to 15.

So the figure is from 84 to 105 or thereabouts.

The discrepancy with PHE is that patients are not included in the published stats until the virus test has come back from the labs, so recent admissions are not included yet.

^^^^^ from MM ^^^^^

Ok cheers for that 

We are in the manufacturing industry - a lot of our customers are starting to close , mainly those further North which I find odd 

It's the dog walkers.

Grrrrr

To be fair, if I had a dog I'd be out at 5 AM or so! Then again around here there are footpaths going across the marshes and I gaurantee you won't find anyone around on those at that time of day. One of the perks of living in a rural area!

Incidentally the Tele has a Q&A about what you can and can't do during the lockdown.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/26/lockdown-qa-questions-answered/

This one will be of interest to some:

Q: Can I drive somewhere to exercise?

A: No. The Government is advising "to exercise locally" and that "no non-essential travel should be made".

Presumably they find you equally as inconvenient or annoying? There’s a lot of space out there, I’m sure you can share.

I walk through town in the evening on my walk. By 8pm everything is shut and there are very few people anywhere which is nice 

I don’t think you can catch COVID-19 from passing the odd person here and there at a distance of at least a metre plus. 

I know you were more correct than most about this virus but still.... :D 

. The police are stopping people from working.  E.g i saw that a range of contractors had been stopped by police and told to go home around here. It included builders, window and door fitters , handymen etc. 

The police response in each area may dictate what lockdown actually means.

I believe the test figures were 9am to 9am but the deaths were 1pm to 9am. So deaths understated yesterday but overstated the day before

Quite. Extraordinary attitude. Just maintain your distance and accept that other people have a right to be in this world.

Interesting differences between Turkey and Greece. Not sure if its down to tesing, measures taken, population density,  or whatever

1st confirmed case for Turkey wasn't until 11th March, they are now 2433 confirmed cases and 59 deaths

Greece's 1st confirmed was 26th February, they are now 821 cases and 22 deaths.

Some excitement around here because the "Bourne Gutter" is flowing for the first time in living memory. Apparently it indicates catastrophe is imminent.

 That was my understanding too as I said yesterday.

I prefer the earlier ones in the franchise, it’s not the same without Matt Damon. 

I live on the North Downs down a dead-end lane which peters out into a rutted byway. There are eight houses in the little community. Two of the houses have holiday lets which are now fully booked for the rest of the spring and early summer. The people coming are London escapees and all of them turn up and then start walking up and down the lane in large groups, oblivious to the risk of spreading the disease. Obviously, they are happy to be away from the risk of the city but I don't understand why this flight is allowed to continue. We clearly need checkpoints on the main routes out of the cities.

Anyway, we will probably close the lane with a manned barricade this week.

Both of the East Kent nailbournes have risen for the first time since 2015 and are flowing strongly. In folklore, the Kent bournes are known as 'woewaters'