What is wrong with Londoners? Still piling into pubs until they no longer could, and still cramming into public transport.
From the Daily Mail with good photos, as always:
Hours after Boris Johnson said almost all Britons should should stay at home in the most draconian shutdown in modern history, people were nose-to-nose on the Tube, trains and buses despite being told to be two metres apart to avoid catching coronavirus, which has claimed 335 lives so far.
To stem the terrifying number of deaths, gatherings of more than two people are now banned and people must only leave their homes for essential supplies, medical help, or to travel to work if it is 'absolutely' unavoidable. ...............~
Well, bungling fools that BoJo's gubmint (or London council) may comprise, they're not the only ones this side of the pond that are overwhelmed by the task of making squares round (or vice versa).
Never seen such an abundance of conflicting instructions and vague definitions, UK, France, Germany or here (Spain).
For instance WTH kind of monicker is
unavoidable work supposed to be, if you don't define "unavoidable" more clearly (and strictly preclude everything not fitting the definition)?
As such, I might find it unavoidable to go to work, seeing how I'd otherwise not be able to pay my bills (rent, electricity etc.) and the fact that I'm personally in the comfortable position of not falling into the category of the so afflicted takes nothing from their conundrum.
Seeing how London is hardly in a position to double or treble the number of "tubes", buses and trains, how does one thus get to work, let alone reserve oneself a personal space of 2 m on any of those, short of waving an AK-47 around?
That the pub thing (and the parks etc.) represented the height of irresponsibility is beyond question and that led to their closing, but shut down public transport and you'll be hanging from the nearest lamppost before long.
I don't have the answer on how to address this particular issue, I just know that this ain't it or wouldn't be.
