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That was my frustration among others though when Boris stating the incorrect advice on Friday's brieding, the Deputy CMO didn't correct him, so giving the benefit of the doubt didn't hear him or doesn't feel confident enough to challenge

Germany banning more than two people meeting unless from the same household and they have a far lower deathrate than us

Those demands make far to much sense to be taken up

Littleover is nice, was thinking south of the city Chellaston, Alvaston, Shelton Lock etc. but you won't be walking in to town and yeh traffic in Derby is horrible.

You should just get this https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-77504113.html
and stack cheques and let your grad mates buy the house for you while you build up a second deposit for somewhere less affordable i.e. not Derby.

Also know Derby, do you really want to live in such a nice area? You can pay far less in some of the slightly less desirable or further out areas or get more for the same money if you don't mind being much further out but still close to work assuming you work at RR. Can understand wanting to be close to town as I am further out but go out in Notts mostly and getting to/ from the station is a ball ache.

Yep that's Pen Ponds Cafe in Richmond Park, not the Lake District.

Weird, I wonder if the Guardian just took a random photo of cyclists at cafes then, as the headline and text were all about the lake district being over run by visitors on days out

Can anyone recommend a book, I imagine it would have a title something like A year in the life of the British Countryside and shows what should be happening and to look out for by month. Just been for a walk and a couple of local ponds just surprised me by out absent of life they were but maybe it is too early in the year and I don't realise it. Thanks

By Kindle do you mean audible? Audible has about the biggest selection going but overdrive is also worth a look and might be available via your library, haven't used it in a longtime as Audible just seemed better

From the Guardian ticker, taken in the lake district, just a cheeky little cycle, get some fresh air and Vit D:

Sadiq Khan on Marr is so much clearer with the message and urgency in his delivery than we are getting from Government Ministers

This appears to be a cultural issue as supposedly Italy's supermarkets aren't experiencing the problem to the same extent as us

Also pretty clear that nudge theory doesn't hold up in a acute health crisis, people need a shove not a nudge to get a sense of urgency

I don't know how people can think Boris is doing a good job, on Friday he told the nation it's OK to go and visit elderly parents for Mothers Day against Government advice and then issues a statement last night at 10pm saying people shouldn't visit parents, shambles #ditheranddelay

+1 rep for @HatBeard those are some great reviews and will definately give a solo game a go now, never really thought of them being an option before

We are only just at the start

In the eurozone, the cash sums promised average about 2% of GDP.

Forecaster Capital Economics predicted that the figures needed could be at least five times higher, dwarfing the 2.5% of GDP spent by eurozone countries at the peak of the banking crisis in 2008.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/europes-economic-rescue-packages-worth-combined-17tn

Not sure they make money guns that big unless they just nationalise everything and leave the printers running

Well this makes for grim reading:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/coronavirus-crisis-could-lead-to-new-credit-crunch-as-companies-struggle-with-debt

Hopefully businesses realise that so much buisness travel isn't really needed and can reduce international air travel

ONS says there are 4m households in the UK, got to think of that 65m a chunck are in hospitals, prisions, care homes etc. or babies so not getting fed from the supermarket

Edit - I can't read, there are:
-In 2018, there were 27.6 million households, an increase of 350,000 on the previous year and 1.7 million since 2008.
-In 2018, there were 19.1 million families in the UK, an increase of 8% from 17.7 million in 2008.

So an additional £52 per family on food, so a weeks worth maybe a bit less

If they are anything like my parents they will find a tablet easier as the screen is just too small for their eyesight on the phone

Same as me, live 200 miles away from my parents, both in their 70's one in moderate health but the other on chemo and very frail. Not seen them since Christmas and no idea when I will see them next, so lots of skype and luckily my brother livers 1 mile away from them so he can help them out with shopping. Quite sad though, the road they live on of 5 houses, 4 out 5 houses are 60+ so guess they will try and look after each other.

Also in the position of @Markyboy having a teenager who splits time between me and mum. It just doesn't make sense for her to keep going backwards and forwards, especially as her mum works in a care home with the elderly, although I am now full time wfh, I would hate to somehow be the one who introduces to their household so told teenager she needs to think about which home she wants to be locked down in fairly quickly.

£250 per household isn't it?

Government just saying there is roughly £1bn more food in peoples houses than three weeks ago, turned to a nation of preppers

He kind of addresses this in his Q&A at the bottom

Q: Different countries are testing at different rates. How can you compare the data?

So long as the fraction of actual cases being detected does not change, this does not affect any inference we can make about the growth rate. 35% growth is still 35% growth, whether we measure 100% of the cases or 50%.

If, for example, Italy is detecting 50% of the cases and the US is detecting 25% of cases, this affects any predictions of how far the US is behind Italy At 35% growth, cases double every 2.5 days, so this undersampling would show the US 2.5 days further behind than it really is.

Likely no-one except Korea and Singapore are getting close to 100% of cases. Probably everyone is detecting at least 20% of cases, because those require medical attention. We don't really know what fraction of cases are missed, but the difference in sampling between countries might skew the delays by a few days in either direction.

Yep, know a lot of people where 1/2 - 2/3 of statutory sick pay would go just on paying the monthly car payment