State of Emergency Covid-19 (Part 6 - Lockdown)

[*Sandra*]

Chief Medical Officer now diagnosed with coronavirus. 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-chief-medical-officer-chris-21767882

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-chief-medical-officer-chris-whitty-self-isolates-with-symptoms-11964697

Sandra

[KGarrad]

News from the Isle of Man:

A 16 year old was arrested yesterday at Tesco for abusive and aggressive behaviour towards staff.
Sentenced today to 28 days jail, 6 month ASBO plus a fine.

59 year old man arrived by private jet, after the borders were closed. Gave police false information as to name, address and date-of-birth.
Arrested at home; found guilty. Remanded in custody until April 23rd for sentencing.

[*Sandra*]

Here we have a shopowner  of a bakery fined by a police officer  for 'criminal damage' after she drew social-distancing markers in CHALK outside her bakery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8159177/Police-forces-accused-overzealousness-follow-dog-walkers.html

Sandra

[Gadget]

This look pretty bad:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

PS - Newcastle seems to be going up fast (121 - 41 more than yesterday)

Add - could be an increase in testing


Keep safe

[youngtug]

Must be a problem for the police,, all this chalk.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10046236/Police-warned-girl-10-chalk-hopscotch-grid-on-path-was-criminal-damage.html

[Top-of-the-hill]

  "A 16 year old was arrested yesterday at Tesco for abusive and aggressive behaviour towards staff."
  Bring back the birch.

[Erato]

"Bring back the birch."

There were several videos on tv here of the police flogging people out and about without permission during curfew hours - appeared to be drunk teenagers.

[KGarrad]

  "A 16 year old was arrested yesterday at Tesco for abusive and aggressive behaviour towards staff."
  Bring back the birch.

That's a commonly heard comment on the IOM.
We stopped using it in 1976.

[Rena]

Here we have a shopowner  of a bakery fined by a police officer  for 'criminal damage' after she drew social-distancing markers in CHALK outside her bakery.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8159177/Police-forces-accused-overzealousness-follow-dog-walkers.html

Sandra

I've just watched a youtube video of an altercation between a woman shopkeeper and a police officer about chalk on the pavement.

I think she should look at the deeds of her property because, there's usually a one yard perimeter around a building that belongs to the property (for maintenance purposes) and the chalk line could quite easily be on her property.

Additionally, I see that the pavement is quite wide, which might denote that the shop had a larger frontage.  Years ago, once a year shop owners used to rope off the area of the pavement that belonged to their premises, but I haven't seen this done for years.