The message is clear...

The message is clear...

I think I’ve worked it out... 

* 4 year olds can go to school but university students who have paid for their tuition and the accommodation that they aren’t living in, can’t go back to university. 

* You can go to school with many 4 year olds that you are not related to but can’t see one 4 year old that you are related to. 

* Your youngest child can go back to school first because they are notoriously good at not touching things they shouldn’t, they maintain personal space at all times and never randomly lick you. 

* You can sit in a park, BUT not today, however by tomorrow that will be fine. 

* You can meet one person from another household for a chat or to sunbathe but not two people so if you know two people from another household you have to pick your favourite. Hopefully, you are also their favourite person from your household or this could be awkward. But as you can’t go closer than 2m to the one you choose anyway, you wouldn’t think having the other one sat next to them would matter - unless two people would restrict your eyeline too much and prevent you from being alert. 

* You can work all day with your colleagues but you can’t sit in their garden for a chat after work. 

* You can now do unlimited exercise when quite frankly just doing an hour a day felt like you had turned into some kind of fitness guru. There are lots of things that you would like to be unlimited, but exercise, definitely isn’t one of them. 

* You can drive to other destinations although which destinations is unclear. I was supposed to be in Brighton this weekend. Can I drive there? It’s hundreds of miles away but no one has said that’s wrong. 

* The buses are still running past your house but you shouldn’t get on one. We should just let empty buses drive around so bus drivers aren’t doing anything.

* It will soon be time to quarantine people coming into the country by air... but not yet. It’s too soon. And not ever if you’re coming from France because... well, we don’t know why, actually. Because the French version of coronavirus wouldn’t come to the UK maybe?

* We are somewhere in between 3.5 and 4.5 on a five point scale where 5 is all of the virus and 1 is none of the virus but 2, 3 and 4 can be anything you’d like it to be really. Some of the virus? A bit of the virus? Just enough virus to see off those over 70s who were told to self isolate but now we’ve realised that they’ve done that a bit too well despite us offloading coronavirus patients into care homes and now we are claiming that was never said in the first place, even though it’s in writing in the stay at home guidance. 

* The slogan isn’t stay at home anymore. So we don’t have to say at home. Except we do. Unless we can’t. In which case we should go out. But there will be fines if we break the rules. So don’t do that…

Don’t forget... 

Stay alert... which Robert Jenrick has explained actually means stay home as much as possible. Obviously. 

Control the virus. Well, I can’t even control my cats and I can actually see them. Plus I know a bit about cats and very little about controlling viruses. 

Save lives. Always preferable to not saving lives, I’d say, so I’ll try my best with that one, although hopefully I don’t need telling to do that.

So there you are. If you’re the weirdo wanting unlimited exercise, then enjoy. But not until Wednesday…. Obviously!

L. Rafael A.

Build / Graphics

4 年

You can compare all this to the supermarket rules, everyone doing long queues outside keeping the 2m distance, but once you manage to get in, you can see most of the people doing whatever they want and ignoring the rest of the rules once they are in.

Chris Lake

Assoc CIPD - Operations Director

4 年

A brilliant summary of the situation... that's cleared it up nicely. Thanks Emma ????

Vicky Jarman

Freelance Marketing at Jarman Marketing

4 年

This geniunely made me chuckle. Particularly point 7 ??????♀?

要查看或添加评论,请登录

Emma Plant的更多文章

社区洞察

其他会员也浏览了