So what do you propose we do? We can’t stay like this for much longer. We’re not locked down but we may as well be, people are terrified to go to work, use public transport and go out and support shops and restaurants.My comment that the advice was out of date was ironic. A quick check will show that https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus has been updated multiple times per day - there is no doubt that this is current government messaging.
I believe that the government is being deliberately contradictory, as I said in my earlier post. The short-lived tweet from the Government Account "Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters" sums up the current position.
As for how we need to lock down for - I'm really at a loss. It's clear that we should have locked down fast and hard when we had the change, but the government decided not to and we're in the position we are now. We could have had less than half the number of deaths and have been relaxing controls with a clear and easy conscience.
We've had the opportunity to act quickly and decisively on a number of occasions - masks are the latest debacle - why wait another week?
This is all down to the risible, self-serving, talentless government that's way out of its depth.
This really isn’t a healthy position to be in. I think the government probably have likely forgotten about this page of guidance, as it’s vastly outdated, but telling people at this stage in the pandemic to stay at home when we really need to be encouraging economic activity would just be ridiculous.