I'm afraid that PHE/NHS and the Government have tried to give us some freedom to live under less draconian conditions, to have a few choices left and to make the right ones...and it hasn't worked. As a population we have a sizeable minority that have not listened, have not taken heed of the pictures coming out of Italy and China, can not connect the dots that social distancing is not about the healthy young 25 year olds health so much but the vulnerable old person who catches it off him as he continues to do anything he wants against sound guidance. We will go into stringent measures very soon but in my opinion not soon enough.
I live in Cornwall and we are facing a deadly predicament. We have a huge populace of old people...they like to retire down here. We also have just one hospital with normally 15 ICU beds in it...although more beds are now being rigged up its still going to be a pitiful amount to cope with whats coming. We are at the end of a long supply chain...As food trucks arrive the food is barely making it onto the shelves before its in someones trolley and gone. If you go 1-2 hours after opening the shelves are bare of most everything (except from toothpaste...go figure!). The predicament is that because its only advice not to visit pubs and restaurants that, apparently, is carte blanche permission for tens of thousands of people to load up their cars and head down here for a break and as the schools are now on 'holiday' (that's how they are saying it on Facebook Groups) they are taking advantage and coming down even earlier. Holiday Parks are advertising their caravans and chalets as 'isolation pods'! Feck my life if they don't shut these places down soon we'll be in a world of sh1t down here...especially as a deal of second home owners are coming in from London.