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Not sure why the Government have given a 6 month extension if that's the case if you can get yours done as normal, oh well I suppose it will help keep people off the roads going for MOTs.

Are car dealerships open for servicing? my car is due it's annual service soon and is still under warranty if it's not done the warranty becomes void, would driving your car to the garage be allowed it's 15 miles from my house?

There do seem to be some strange anomalies Germanys very low death rate % wise, and as you say our recovery rate, puzzling to say the least.

But if we are as you say two weeks behind of course there haven't been as many recoveries yet. It's also very likely those other countries have tested a lot more people. I'm doubtful we only have 8,164 cases which is why our figures pro rata look worse than a lot of the other countries.

That is todays figure 422 dead up 87 on yesterday, Italy's equivalent 14 days ago was 631. it had been 463 so up 168 on the previous day.

On 10th march 14 days ago Italy had 631 deaths so a lot more than us at the same stage. our number increased 87 from yesterday the previous days figure in Italy 9th March was 168 lower so their increase was nearly twice ours we are no longer on the same trajectory it seems.

What I can't understand is in my experience with my wife and father in law is that even before this outbreak there didn't seem to be enough beds already so we are in trouble from day one.

Considering we are supposed to be following Italy just 14 days behind this would suggest we are not, thank god.

I didn't say the bloke wasn't a **** just that to boycott a place because the owner supported Brexit is childish. I can see why with the way he is treating staff someone might not want to patronise the place but not just because he supported leaving the EU that was my point which you seem to have overlooked.

I think the phrase pots and kettles comes to mind.

Read the effin post properly, he said he boycotted spoons because of Brexit not for what he has recently done that's what it's got to do with Brexit he had already boycotted the place before this, if you had read what he said you would have realised that.

A bit petty in my opinion, just because you didn't get your way in the vote, I like to think if the vote had gone the other way I would not have been so childish. I admit the bloke can be a bit abrasive but to refuse to use a pub just because his political opinion is different to yours is a bit daft, you would have to boycott half the businesses in the country if that was the case.

It IS advisory whatever you might think, at the moment there is no law which states if you are an at risk patient you are forbidden to leave your house read it again.

FRUIT AND VEG!!! that's like gold dust around here haven't seen any in my local co op for a week.

No but you may have no choice sometimes but to leave the house, what I'm saying is it's up to you if you want to risk it after weighing up the risks they wont arrest you if you ignore their advice (yet(

It's advisory surely?

Unfortunately this crisis is not showing some on here in their best light is it, I'm afraid people want a scapegoat and Boris is an easy target, look I don't think he comes out of this blameless but the best sight in the world is 20:20 hindsight.

Do they pay JSA for a year now? you were lucky I received it for 26 weeks that was all I was entitled, and because my wife was working that was all the benefits I could get despite after working continuously for 35 years, made my blood boil when I personally knew people that had not worked for years and yet seemed to have a life just as comfortable as mine.

I was the same as you 35 years of continuous employment through no fault of my own was made redundant, made to jump through hoops for £65 a week job seekers allowance (it was 10 years ago) when I think of the lazy Bast***s that had made a lifestyle choice to never work a day in their lives and lived a comfortable life with all their rent paid and 50 inch flat screen TVs ( I know because I had to wake some of them up at 10 o clock to fit their new balconies was the point I lost all faith in the system.

Could but wont, why should our figures be worse than China that has 25 times our population you should stop with the scaremongering as it isn't doing anyone any good, most of us are doing all we can (I said most) we don't need all the pessimism, give it a rest your preaching to the mostly converted apart from completely giving up on life there is little more most of us can do.

We are wasting our time, it seems most on here are determined to look on the black side with all there we're doomed predictions, best we just stop trying to reason with them and let them get on with it, short of having a guard outside everyone's house and we all starve to death because we shouldn't be leaving our homes you know to shop, work, get some fresh air etc. what the hell do they expect us to do just give up on life.

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic but unless things get much much worse I can't see the final death toll being anywhere the figure some of the more excitable posters on here are proposing, figures of tens even hundreds of thousands being bandied about.

It was a news flash 5 minutes ago.

Death toll up 53 today to a total of 233.

It wouldn't be so bad if after a big shop they then didn't shop again for a while, but I suspect that a lot of people are going way beyond that otherwise the shops would have been able to catch up by now, but if my experience of the last couple of days is anything to go by that's not the case. In my local shop I have not been able to buy certain item for nearly two weeks so certain people must have a house full of stuff as it's not a big community unless people from outside the village are coming in, perhaps it will have to come down to proving where you live to be able to shop in a certain store to ensure there is enough to go round not sure what else can be done.