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Gavin D
25 March 2020 14:54:37

Phil G
25 March 2020 14:54:39

Everyone must stay at home to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
You should only leave the house for 1 of 4 reasons:
-shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible
-one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your household
-any medical need, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person
-travelling to and from work, but only where this absolutely cannot be done from home

This suggests to me that you cannot drive anywhere just to exercise.

Originally Posted by: speckledjim 


Reading this, yes.


Definitely heard on the BBC news last night around 6.30pm during a Q&A the chap answering said you could drive to somewhere remote, exercise and drive home again. All I would say is he was either giving out the wrong advice, even he could not understand perhaps or was wrongly informed, or things have moved on with updated information superseding each other.

John p
25 March 2020 14:54:50


 


Good point. One assumes everyone will have one?


How much will they cost? 


Originally Posted by: Heavy Weather 2013 


I fail to see how you will subsequently be able to prove you're positive for the antibodies.  Will you have to carry a used testing kit everywhere you go?


Edit - I think you send them back for results, so certification could be done that way.


Camberley, Surrey
Heavy Weather 2013
25 March 2020 14:58:37


 


I fail to see how you will subsequently be able to prove you're positive for the antibodies.  Will you have to carry a used testing kit everywhere you go?


Edit - I think you send them back for results, so certification could be done that way.


Originally Posted by: John p 


Yes and who determines who gets the 3.5 million tests out of a population of 60m.


If we had some proper testing it would have been easier. How many of those tests are going to get wasted? I.e some people may have had mild symptoms and actually it was something else. That’s one test used.


If there is a cost, how do people on low incomes obtain


Mark
Beckton, E London
Less than 500m from the end of London City Airport runway.
warrenb
25 March 2020 15:02:58
I see Off Licences have been added to the list of essential shops to stay open.
xioni2
25 March 2020 15:08:41


Absolutely amazing stories!


Where are all these police suddenly appearing from that can afford to spend time patrolling country lanes?


Has crime stopped since the epidemic got underway?


Originally Posted by: RobN 


Reports from Italy and Greece had suggested a big drop in crime and (obviously) a collapse in the number of road accidents. I can't remember the source though. 

Darren S
25 March 2020 15:09:46

Has anyone noticed how incredibly clear blue the sky is at the moment? The reduction in air traffic must be part of it.

Originally Posted by: Rob K 


I just happened to have a look at Gatwick's arrivals and departures for the 2 hours from 14:30 to 16:30. 6 flights arriving and 4 departing, so on average one movement every 12 minutes.


Darren
Crowthorne, Berks (87m asl)
South Berks Winter Snow Depth Totals:
2023/24 0 cm; 2022/23 7 cm; 2021/22 1 cm; 2020/21 13 cm; 2019/20 0 cm; 2018/19 14 cm; 2017/18 23 cm; 2016/17 0 cm; 2015/16 0.5 cm; 2014/15 3.5 cm; 2013/14 0 cm; 2012/13 22 cm; 2011/12 7 cm; 2010/11 6 cm; 2009/10 51 cm
springsunshine
25 March 2020 15:11:20

I see Off Licences have been added to the list of essential shops to stay open.

Originally Posted by: warrenb 


Why?? How the [censored]is are off licenses an essential shop?

Sevendust
25 March 2020 15:14:17


 


Why?? How the [censored]is are off licenses an essential shop?


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


Alcohol sales = tax

RobN
  • RobN
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25 March 2020 15:17:47


 


 


Can't wait!


Do we need to pay? Does everyone get one?


(And why aren't the Govt using Royal Mail, instead of an American tax-dodging company that pays minimum wage to most of its staff?)


Originally Posted by: Saint Snow 


If you "can't wait"  then you have the answer to your last question right there.


Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.
Maunder Minimum
25 March 2020 15:18:10


 


Why?? How the [censored]is are off licenses an essential shop?


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


Makes sense - reduces the numbers going to supermarkets if all they want to purchase is booze.


New world order coming.
RobN
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25 March 2020 15:19:40


 


Why?? How the [censored]is are off licenses an essential shop?


Originally Posted by: springsunshine 


If they weren't open they'd be looted instead.


Rob
In the flatlands of South Cambridgeshire 15m ASL.
Gooner
25 March 2020 15:20:58

I have looked on the BBC website and this was part of an answer posted only an hour ago:
'Nothing expressly forbids people driving somewhere to go for a walk'

Originally Posted by: John S2 


The question of driving to a place of exercise ( country park ) was asked last night on the Beeb, the guy replying said " absolutely nothing wrong with that "


Remember anything after T120 is really Just For Fun



Marcus
Banbury
North Oxfordshire
378 feet A S L


Jonesy
25 March 2020 15:30:30

Mass self testing for antibodies will be available in the UK by Monday. Amazon will distribute the kits on behalf of the government. Like blood glucose testing although results will take longer - 10 to 15 mins as opposed to a few seconds. This is the game changer.

Originally Posted by: Brian Gaze 


I'm hearing they will be available in the likes of Boots also, but I hope that's to order online only and not in store or the pharmacy. You will get huge amounts of people queuing up to get one in store putting the boots staff at high risk surely plus everyone else in the same queue?


 


 


Medway Towns (Kent)
The Weather will do what it wants, when it wants, no matter what data is thrown at it !
Gavin D
25 March 2020 15:31:38
Breaking: Lombardy have reported 296 new deaths a big drop from yesterday when they reported 402.
Gavin D
25 March 2020 15:32:42
Breaking: London city airport are suspending all commercial and private flights from today until the end of April
NMA
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25 March 2020 15:35:23

My ex wife works in a company that makes essential life saving equipment (think high tech bellows) that have been in the news recently. I told her she must insist HR gives her a letter today that she can show to checkpoints/police that are beginning to appear on the roads. Preferably laminated so it can be sanitised if she still has hand gel. She leaves I think, not long after 0500hrs and they are working overtime to meet orders first for UK and then other countries.


Unfortunately the company (not allowed to name it), is located on an industrial estate that was being ostracised yesterday in the local media as still being open.


Nick


Vale of the Great Dairies
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Gandalf The White
25 March 2020 15:38:22

to my mind, it is a simple case of the police picking on a soft target (although of course to be fair, the Police have an impossible job to do). So they pick on an easy "win" and hope that the associated publicity will "encourage" others... Just like stopping someone doing 25 in a 20 MPH zone during daytime hourse , and fining them, whilst joy riders and petrol heads cause mayhem late at night and are generally free to carry on doing so until someone gets killed.

Originally Posted by: Chichesterweatherfan2 


You may be right but on other hand how many people have now been made aware of the chances of enforcement just by this anecdote being shared around?


Location: South Cambridgeshire
130 metres ASL
52.0N 0.1E


Retron
25 March 2020 15:50:13


 


You may be right but on other hand how many people have now been made aware of the chances of enforcement just by this anecdote being shared around?


Originally Posted by: Gandalf The White 


I was toying with the idea of going to the wolf centre on Saturday (one of the wolves is dying and it'd be the last time I'd see her - having bottle-fed her 13 years ago). Getting stopped would be a problem, of course...


...but as it happens, the wolf centre are now restricting it to just 2 people per day, so I won't be going there for a long, long time. At least I'll get to remember Mosi as she was, not as she is.


Here's hoping those antibody tests come out quickly and have good availability.


 


Leysdown, north Kent
warrenb
25 March 2020 15:51:41
New York sounds like a mess.

Sky News
·
'We have 140,000 cases needing hospitalisation and only 53,000 beds. And we have 40,0000 needing Intensive Care beds and only 3,000 ICU beds' says Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor.
xioni2
25 March 2020 16:04:37

New York sounds like a mess.

Sky News
·
'We have 140,000 cases needing hospitalisation and only 53,000 beds. And we have 40,0000 needing Intensive Care beds and only 3,000 ICU beds' says Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor.

Originally Posted by: warrenb 


Just a reminder of what Trump has done during his disastrous presidency:



  • 20% cut in CDC’s emerging and zoonotic diseases program, which investigates and prevents new diseases

  • His administration disbanded the national security's council's directorate charged with global health

  • drastically reduced a CDC team working in China to identify global health threats

  • In late Feb he called Covid-19 a hoax and a week later he said he had fully contained it


 


 

Retron
25 March 2020 16:04:46


My ex wife works in a company that makes essential life saving equipment (think high tech bellows) that have been in the news recently. I told her she must insist HR gives her a letter today that she can show to checkpoints/police that are beginning to appear on the roads. Preferably laminated so it can be sanitised if she still has hand gel. She leaves I think, not long after 0500hrs and they are working overtime to meet orders first for UK and then other countries


Originally Posted by: NMA 


A letter sounds like a good idea. I'm just glad I've got my work lanyard with me at home - a school's ID and lanyard gets you through cordons with ease, apparently!


 


Leysdown, north Kent
westv
25 March 2020 16:05:04

New York sounds like a mess.

Sky News
·
'We have 140,000 cases needing hospitalisation and only 53,000 beds. And we have 40,0000 needing Intensive Care beds and only 3,000 ICU beds' says Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor.

Originally Posted by: warrenb 


Don't worry Super Trump will save the day.


At least it will be mild!
howham
25 March 2020 16:19:23

Advice please... we have two cars and one of them is due an MOT by 29 March.  The new government announcement on MOTs only applies to those due from 30 March.  The local garages are now closed.  As I will likely not be driving this car for some time now, am I right thinking that I could SORN it until the garages are open again and then book an MOT at that point?


I assume I'd also have to advise my insurance company?

Sevendust
25 March 2020 16:20:38

I had a letter from my employer saying that I was classified as a key worker (security) yesterday.


I keep this in the car


In addition to my ID that I carry when on work travel which confirms my place of work and the nature of what I am supporting (Emergency Service Network) so I am raesonably happy with that.

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