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Me personally no.....and that emphasises my point. Why am I doing no wrong when sitting on a bench with police walking by (last weekend by the river), whereas someone else has been fined.
As I said.....doesn’t make sense and it seems the law has been passed on to individual officers interpretation....which in my opinion is wrong.

I just think that most of us are not as wound up about this mate.
There will be inconsistencies, there will be over zealous police and the guidelines will get interpreted slightly differently at times.

I really don't see this great threat to our liberties.
Just a government trying to manage the worst situation we've been in since the second world war.

Whether they're right to trash the economy etc is a separate argument and one that I find myself on differing sides of most days.
 
Well people complaining, probably ignorant twats, isn’t the same as a concerted attack on your civil liberties.

But you (and I) are programmed to expect **** from governments, it’s what government does. Since when has **** been consistent? People like us want to get rid of government, don’t we, not say ‘let me sit on a seat in peace and I’m all happy’? Wrong battle I think mate, unless you have changed your perspective and become a ****ing democratic socialist.

We have a collective social contract to try and slow the spread of a disease because we don’t want our health services to implode. We will see if the strategy is correct in time. As individuals part of that contract is restrictions on our personal movement. They are not very enforceable restrictions, and some of them are a bit daft, as the only one that really matters is the two metre rule. Of course I am 100% certain that you two will follow this one rule and as far as I’m concerned the others can be safely ignored as they apply to you. But I am not convinced by any means that everyone else either understands or is committed to following the rules, even the key one (in fact from personal experience I know they are not). So unless you are prepared to vouch for everyone else, which I don’t think you are in a position to do, we need rules and we need at least the pretence that they can be enforced. Of course they should be explained better and be applied more consistently, but I’m afraid that though I trust you guys to exercise common sense I don’t trust everyone to.

Great post
 
I just think that most of us are not as wound up about this mate.
There will be inconsistencies, there will be over zealous police and the guidelines will get interpreted slightly differently at times.

I really don't see this great threat to our liberties.
Just a government trying to manage the worst situation we've been in since the second world war.

Whether they're right to trash the economy etc is a separate argument and one that I find myself on differing sides of most days.

I take your point Col. Well put as always.
Just our views differ a little bit...
 
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I just think that most of us are not as wound up about this mate.
There will be inconsistencies, there will be over zealous police and the guidelines will get interpreted slightly differently at times.

I really don't see this great threat to our liberties.
Just a government trying to manage the worst situation we've been in since the second world war.

Whether they're right to trash the economy etc is a separate argument and one that I find myself on differing sides of most days.
If I weren’t so long winded this is what I would have written.
 
Uncle Update: Back in hospital early hours of this morning with continued breathing difficulties. Thought he was out a bit quick.
Sounds like too much pressure on beds. My sister in law (55) fell over and broke her hip on Thursday (I unhelpfully asked about the role vodka had to play, but she slipped in Tesco’s car park doing the big shop). Apparently she made it much worse by trying to get up. She had a hip replacement yesterday and was home earlier this afternoon, which sounds incredibly quick to me. My brother was told ‘she’s best off out of here as quickly as possible‘.
 
The authorities have also said that we are allowed to purchase whatever we want, but I think they're discouraging a trip out just to buy unessential stuff.

Really mate.
It ain't rocket science.

Some coppers are being twats is all (along with a lot of the population).
That has to be right. The aim is to prevent needless trips. If you go out to buy food there's no reason why you can't buy sweets, cakes, chocolate, ice cream, booze etc on on top of your bread cereal eggs meat, potatoes and of course BOG ROLL. But you shouldn't just go out to buy a Mars Bar or one prepared meal for that night only
 
Sounds like too much pressure on beds. My sister in law (55) fell over and broke her hip on Thursday (I unhelpfully asked about the role vodka had to play, but she slipped in Tesco’s car park doing the big shop). Apparently she made it much worse by trying to get up. She had a hip replacement yesterday and was home earlier this afternoon, which sounds incredibly quick to me. My brother was told ‘she’s best off out of here as quickly as possible‘.
Exactly the same has happened to my mates mum. She is still in hospital. Sadly she has an immune deficiency so they are hoping to get her out ASAP.
 
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