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| cdev:
This is an article asking that people who have engineering and science skills try to apply them to making this situation more bearable and especially safer for everybody. This shows why sanitation is important! (Enveloped viruses means a group of viruses including COVID-19) Environmental Engineers and Scientists Have Important Roles to Play in Stemming Outbreaks and Pandemics Caused by Enveloped Viruses https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7099656/ |
| AndyC_772:
--- Quote from: Bud on May 04, 2020, 12:37:33 am ---I always thought it was ridiculous in Britain where police forced people from sunbathing outdoors back into their houses , even did not allow to be outside on their front lawns. It seemed so stupid. --- End quote --- That's not the rule here, though it may have been an overzealous reaction from one particular officer shortly after the lockdown was introduced. Some police forces did go way beyond what the rules required people to do, and received a strong backlash from both the public and senior legal professionals for it. It doesn't help that there have been major discrepancies between government guidelines - which they confusingly call "rules" or "instructions" - and the actual law which is the The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. |
| paulca:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on May 04, 2020, 06:50:01 am --- --- Quote from: Bud on May 04, 2020, 12:37:33 am ---I always thought it was ridiculous in Britain where police forced people from sunbathing outdoors back into their houses , even did not allow to be outside on their front lawns. It seemed so stupid. --- End quote --- That's not the rule here, though it may have been an overzealous reaction from one particular officer shortly after the lockdown was introduced. Some police forces did go way beyond what the rules required people to do, and received a strong backlash from both the public and senior legal professionals for it. It doesn't help that there have been major discrepancies between government guidelines - which they confusingly call "rules" or "instructions" - and the actual law which is the The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. --- End quote --- Yes it was a combination of overzealous enforcement and confusing rules. When measures were first introduced a lot of people either shrugged or went "Don't tell me what to do!". So they had to make it enforcable by the police. They over shot considerably in a few cases, but in the end to make the rules "simple to enforce", they actually got much stricter. There have been quite a few garden and house parties broken up by police because it was clear it was not one household, but loads of people congregating in one house/garden. They told people to go home, drove off, came back an hour later and fined everyone who didn't live at the house, because most of them simply came back. The action on people sun bathing is caused by people driving to local tourist/beauty spots. They think, "Well it's empty, nobody else will go to <insert prime sunny day out spot>" when in fact they became literally bunged with thousands of people. Now police ask you what you are doing, where you live and if you are adhering to distancing and not more than a reasonable distance from your home, they leave you alone. We can still go shopping, even for non-essentials in some cases, hardware stores and catalog stores like Argos are open. Basically anything that can be delivered or "click and collected" is open for business. EDIT: One more thing to be aware of in the UK is that it has 3 (or more) semi-devolved regions. England and Wales are governed together, but Scotland and Northern Ireland have devolved health governance and the rules do differ between them somewhat. |
| paulca:
I live completely alone. At home I don't see a single sole from one day to the next. This has been that way for maybe 10 years as I suffer with social anxiety and depression it suited me. Work was my only real socialising. However now I'm in lock down I have had to bend one of the rules. I share an isolation space between two households. My household of me and my daughters household of her and her mother. This is just for "needs must" sake. Children are allowed to be exchanged between households with separated parents and in the first few instances we literally did "Hand her over at the door", but we relaxed that a bit. So I had a family BBQ in the back yard on Saturday. If any of you have a toddler you will understand when I say, if they have it, you have it. My little one has sneezed in my face more than once already. What are you going to do, they don't understand. |
| AndyC_772:
There are different regulations in England vs Wales too. For example, one of the "rules" is that outdoor exercise is permitted exactly once per day, but this is only actually law in Wales ref. s 8.2.b. In England we're still being told this is a "rule", but it isn't law. |
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