The trouble is, even pretending they can is a major indictment of them as the government.
Talk about panic shopping, why, this is panic governing on a horrendous scale.
The silly thing is that whenever they bring up all these other factors they dilute the main message, which is separation. Ultimately nothing else matters. But people are clearly not getting the separation message in all the welter of talking about everything else from driving, going out, exercising, sunbathing etc.
To illustrate using my three attempts to go walking from my home for exercise. My part of this large estate is built on the flanks of a valley with an 800 metre long cul de sac along the valley floor and small unnamed spur roads running from it with numbered housing in four named areas.
So some 1800 plus residents use the 800 metres of road and pavement to walk, exercise, drive and bus travel. With over two persons per metre, you can imagine that I constantly
meet others when walking along it, as do they.
And people appear to have given up on separation. Of the many I met on my three walks on different days, only one made an effort to maintain a two metre space, on all the other encounters I was the only one making that effort.
Teenagers who I know are from different homes were walking in close pairs having met up. One woman from the other side of the road spotted another she knew who was out with her child, so crossed over and joined them. They were then joined by a boy on a bike, their group blocking the pavement and grass verge where I needed to pass, with no sign of them moving for me. So I had to stop, wait for a car and bus to pass and then walk past them well out into the road. These are just samples, there were many other incidences of similar and why I now drive to safe exercise spots to walk.
One near neighbour has an intimate relationship girlfriend living elsewhere who drives to him every weekend, staying with him from Friday to Sunday evening. She did that again last weekend and is here now again this weekend.
Clearly none of these people are getting the message on the all important separation if they live in separate households or different areas.
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