Well, it?s 5 to 7 on Sunday evening, and I?ve just watched the news on ITV; I was utterly amazed and appalled at the footage shown there of people flocking to parks, outdoor gyms, countryside venues, ice-cream vans ? you name it. There were pictures of people walking up Snowdon in a long crocodile (I guess that there must be some steps forming a sort of bottleneck), footage of kids playing (full-contact) football, pictures of a lane leading to a Cornish beach with cars parked nose-to-tail on each side of the road. The outdoor gym was, in some respects, the most bizarre, with people exercising in close proximity to each other and then moving on to another piece of apparatus (presumably ignorant of the fact that on steel the virus can remain active for at least 72 hours). They interviewed one guy who said (I paraphrase from memory), ?It?s great out here; they?ve shut down the indoor gym, so it?s great to get out for a bit of exercise in the fresh air?. (Erm, you didn?t stop to wonder why they closed the indoor gym?)
So ? unless the government imposes a compulsory lock-down, we?re going to go the same way as Italy (that is, if it?s not already too late).