I think Iāve worked it outā¦ well not me but sending on anywayš
4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for their tuition and the accommodation that they arenāt living in, canāt go back to university.
I can go to school with many 4 year olds that Iām not related to but canāt see one 4 year old that I am related to.
I can sit in a park, but not tomorrow or Tuesday but by Wednesday thatāll be fine.
I can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe but not two people so if I know two people from another household I have to pick my favourite. Hopefully, Iām also their favourite person from my household or this could be awkward. But possibly Iām not. In fact, thinking about it, I definitely wouldnāt be. But as I canāt go closer than 2m to the one I choose anyway so you wouldnāt think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict my eyeline too much and prevent me from being alert.
I can work all day with my colleagues but I canāt sit in their garden for a chat after work.
I can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like I was some kind of fitness guru. I can think of lots of things that I would like to be unlimited but exercise definitely isnāt one of them.
I can drive to other destinations although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? Itās hundreds of miles away but no one has said thatās wrong.
The buses are still running past my house but I shouldnāt get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers arenāt doing nothing.
It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by airā¦ but not yet. Itās too soon. And not ever if youāre coming from France becauseā¦ well, I donāt do know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldnāt come to the UK maybe.
Our youngest children go back to school first becauseā¦ they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldnāt, maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you.
We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2,3 and 4 can be anything youād like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now weāve realised that theyāve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though itās in writing in the stay at home guidance.
The slogan isnāt stay at home any more.So we donāt have to say at home. Except we do. Unless we canāt. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So donāt do that.
Donāt forgetā¦
Stay alertā¦ which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means Stay home as much as possible. Obviously.
Control the virus. Well, I canāt even control my dogs and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about dogs and very little about controlling viruses.
Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, Iād say, so Iāll try my best with that
one, although hopefully I donāt need telling to do that. I know Iām bragging now but not NOT saving lives is something I do every day.
So there you are. If youāre the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise then enjoy. But not until Wednesday. Obviously.
Well, all those people stating that they understood the government advice and have got themselves safely to work, Iām pretty sure (but not positive) that you shouldnāt actually be there until Wednesday - according to Rabb. (But not Johnson on Sunday)
So well done for not following the latest government advice.
Probably.
Unless Iāve got that wrong, then I apologise - but it sort of proves my point.
Going to work has not been outlawed at any stage of this pandemic. The advice has always been work from home if you can. If you canāt, but you can work safely, then you can leave the house to do it. My particular circumstance involved me going in to my office twice a week during this lockdown period in order to do the things i canāt do at home, at work, including āholding the fortā. We work on āessential projectsā which closed for 3 weeks, but we were told to get out and find a way to open them up again. There is nothing wrong with that. No guidelines broken. No-one infected.
I donāt think anyoneās having a go at you for going to work, after all you are only following the government advice.
What is being done is people are, rightly IMHO, ripping the shred out of the government advice because it is so confusing. Not just for working but also for people going out and meeting other people or relaxing in parks/beaches or driving.
On one hand they say you can then on the other they say may be. It is too ambiguous and not directive enough, itās left for people to make their own judgements as to to what they can and cannot do.
Yeah I know weāre all adults and should be treated as such the only trouble is some people arenāt.
I need to be careful as Iāve had a beer or 4. @BTripz has nailed it in his response you Numpty.
Imagine you hadnāt been in work over the lockdown. Imagine today was your first day back and that you were expecting to come back today to an office/yard/site/shop full of colleagues. At 8pm last night youād have been following government advice. At 8am this morning youād have been at work in contravention of that advice. On Wednesday this week you will be following government advice.
If you, and others on this thread, legitimately canāt see the contradictions there, then I shouldnāt have had the IKAT DDH DIPA at 8% that Iāve just consumed.
No one was told, yesterday, that they had to get back to work, today. Encouragement was the word. Returning to work is, as some posh Tory twat said about his Brexit realisation, a process, not an event.
Thereās a lot of people working very hard to try and get through this in the best way possible and with the best welfare for their staff and clients. I know a lot of people doing this and all said they didnāt find the 15 minute speech yesterday (expanded on greatly today, incidentally) difficult to understand. This was my point, but in the space of an afternoon it has been dragged into supposed murderous government plots and a mild inference of being some kind of moral repugnant.
I think i need some of that beer you are drinking.
If youāre doing office work and you have to be there, Iād argue thatās a failing of your IT, your managementās priorities, your working practices, your corporate culture or any combination of the above.
What is it that requires you to physically be at your office?
I saw the leader of the Welsh assembly speaking earlier and he said that he didnāt understand what the English plan is because it is confusing.
Nicola sturgeon said the message was confusing. She also said the Scottish R number was between 0.7 and 1.0 but that it was almost impossible to be sure what the number actually is. Sheās not taking chances.
Even if you put any confusion aside, my main issue is that the āplanā is unwise. Itās putting people in danger. The R value isnāt falling in the way they have been saying today and yesterday. There is not enough evidence to suggest people will be safe. Why are the English so sure about that number when the Scottish arenāt?
