No I don't believe they would have done. I had a similar musing myself the other day. China's lockdown appeared to work, so others followed sure. Only Sweden and a few other countries have done something different and they don't appear to have done any worse than us, but have avoided taking their economies.If China had not locked down originally, would any other country have done so?
A friend from university reckons he, his wife and two kids haven't left their small flat since March. Grim.Was speaking a young person today. He said hes not likely to go out till next year ,he dosent think its safe. Blimey.
I was in Norwich today too. There were quite a lot of those sheep and they did make me smile. Good old Norwich!Unfortunately it is a lot harder to do so in Scotland, but I would strongly recommend getting out and about where possible. It is mostly reassuring (except for the occasional strange person, like the corner-jumping woman in Ely today...). Most people are just getting on with stuff. Norwich today looked like a normal Saturday, very few masks, no-one at all following the one-way system in the market. Someone had even
spray-painted a sheep next to a ‘keep apart’ sign on the pavement
Most places were fairly sensible, one way through Thornes but that's no problem and allows you to admire the higgeldy piggledy wonderland. Jones Bootmaker was sanitise your hands when entering. Staff had visors and one also had a surgical mask but other than that a completely standard experience. Jarrold sensible. Only place I had an issue was in Boots. Security guard on the door "Why are you here?". Directed me to the sun cream and told me to follow the one way system to pay. I ended up at the pharmacy counter and got told off because apparently I should have continued to a different till at the other side of the shop that couldn't be seen. But she sold me my sun cream "just this time". Thanked her and went to leave, via the one way, but apparently this was incorrect and I was meant to go back the way I came from that particular counter. There was one other customer in the shop at this point, so it really didn't matter anyway. As I was leaving I noticed there were tensa barriers everywhere blocking off some of the aisles completely. Just bizarre.
Had lunch on the market. Nice to see it reasonably busy and some of the character stall holders again.
Friend flew back from Canada where she's been in lockdown with her partner and daughter on Wednesday. Apparently the crew were similarly dressed in full hazmat suits and wine her up several times when her face mask shifted slightly.Maybe one of the MODS can tidy this up but hopefully you'll see the kit the Qatar Airways crew are wearing in this tweet!
https://mobile.twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/1274145379773222913/photo/1