According to a friend of mine, their supermarket's 3 item limit was applied to individual bottles of ale ! There was, however nothing to stop you getting three bottles of gin.
This is a new meaning of "clarifies" when it disagrees with and exceeds the law, such as the once a day for exercise.
And even then, that once a day is part of the law as passed in Wales. See https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...ssary-journeys-etc.202681/page-4#post-4508562To be fair, it uses “should” and “should not” rather than “must” and “must not”.
Very worrying news coming out of France today, reports of domestic violence are up a third in a single week. I'm sad to say that I would not be at all surprised if the UK follows a similar trend.
Not the sort of thing I would engage in, but I've posted before that I'm glad I'm on my own in the house as I'd be tripping over anyone else who was there by now.
Status of COVID-19
As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious diseases (HCID) in the UK.
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
More confusing information, this seems at odds with what the media are showing
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19
It’s a scientific/admin scale rather than a newspaper drama scale so is far more restrainedThere is no doubt an official definition of HCID but the name is confusing to the casual reader. If we take account of the lack of immunity in the general population I'd say it was high consequence to society even if the risk to an individual is low.
Double-edge sword for me; when I "moved back home" to look after mum and dad (now both deceased) they left me a large house and garden which is a godsend - far better than a one-bedroom flat which has always sufficed! But there's no social contact at all, the neighbours are spread out behind large fences, so I'm feeling very alone.Not the sort of thing I would engage in, but I've posted before that I'm glad I'm on my own in the house as I'd be tripping over anyone else who was there by now.
Pedantically Covid kills no-one, 100% of us all will die of heart failure!! That's waht i read anyway. But obviously the diseases and viruses that weaken the heart...It’s a scientific/admin scale rather than a newspaper drama scale so is far more restrained
Covid will not kill a significant proportion of the population, the scale needs a lot of space on the worse side - an Ebola that spread as easily as Covid would definitely be High consequence, and beyond that there could be something that actually threatens the existence of us as a species.