Technically I think the key one is the statutory guidance which basically says if you can work from home before there's no excuse now. I think many companies are arguing under efficiency this time around and telling employees to come in.65th changing on the rules in the UK since march
Edit: Reading them, they don't seem overly strict. Unless that click and collect shopping for essentials is like when Wales stopped supermarkets from selling clothes etc. and doesn't mean only from essential shops
Think we have most of those in England already, don't we?
Aye that's fair,
www.independent.co.uk
...how many u-turns is this government up to now?Coronavirus vaccinations to be available 24/7, Boris Johnson says in major U-turn
Move comes days after Downing Street said there was ‘no clamour’ for round-the-clock jabs
Good, should never have been shot down in the first place.
Read most of the cases are people who contracted it over xmas. Wonder if it was mixing households or just the general melee of supermarket shopping in the festive period
For fear of overanalysing a throwaway comment, sport in general is a welcome distraction for many people at a difficult time. As long as it's not contributing to the problem or diverting resources away from making it better, I think it is important enough to worry about.
Plus add new strain, a trifecta.
3 weeks is the length of time generally accepted to go from licking a plaguebearer to winding up in hospital, so it's likely that we're just starting to see the damage that Christmas did.
The mad rush out of London just before the new tiers, as well (/other big cities, I imagine - but it was the London pictures that stick in your mind)
Yeah I get that and everyone will see it in their own way depending on personal experience, how COVID has directly impacted them, age etc. For me sport’s importance / interest has dulled but I accept that it will be the polar opposite for many.
My interest has dulled too, but for me it's more of a product of the lack of an affiliation with a GP team and lash up of a European tournament that have had this effect. I wish I didn't feel that way as I would welcome the distraction from everyday life. I was more responding to what I construed as you meaning that it was morally wrong to be worrying about rugby while the NHS is on its knees and corpses are piling up. I can understand anyone who feels that it's fatuous at the current time, but given that few of us can do anything to help matters (other than limiting personal contact and practicing good hygene / social distancing), I would argue that it's a positive thing for personal wellbeing and not something to feel guilty about.
Theres a reason why that mantra was quietly dropped I think it was about the time of eat out to help out. But scuttlebutt from people in the know basically says the government ditched following the science when they tried to supercharge the economy by exiting the first lockdown as they did.
I’d rather have rugby and other sport than not, but there is a bit of a moral element to it. Coincidentally I’ve just read this from yesterday’s Grauniad which summaries some of the conundrums more eloquently than I’m managing.
