The change of tact from “stay home” to “stay alert” simply means, if you are going out, be careful to keep good social distancing, and ensure you are washing your hands/ kids hands whenever possible.
Going to work if you can’t work from home, HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE PLAN. Frankly I don’t understand why this one is tricky for people. If you cannot perform your role from home, go to work, if your work cannot be completed due to it not being possible thanks to social distancing, or the government advising your industry sector remain closed, then you stay at home. Simple.
Avoid public transport where possible. No brainier. If you don’t understand that one then I don’t know how to help you.
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For those of you that love to try and pick apart the current government, I’d like to point out a couple things if I may:
1) There has not been a government in recent memory faced with this problem. If it looks like they are trying to figure things out, that’s because they are.
2) This is a global pandemic. It’s not just some number on a television, it’s not some obscure individual that you sort of know from the town over. It’s international.
3) If you don’t know, or you don’t understand. Research it before you start issuing opinions as facts. There is a plethora of information online from REPUTABLE sources.
4) Science will hold the answers, but you need to give it time. There is no point being pissed off at the government regarding the lockdown, one way or the other. Parliament can only issue statements based on the information they have been given. If it sounds incorrect, then guess what, someone has given that false information.
5) Now is not the time for political point scoring. Right, Left, Middle, it doesn’t matter! If everyone wants to get out of this reasonably quickly with minimal casualties, then you need to just get on with whatever you’re being asked, by whatever powers that be, ask you to. We can worry about civil liberties once the threat of death via a deadly virus is out of the way!
6) Don’t believe everything the media throws at you, question them like you question the government, be critical of those that report information as only then will the truth come out.
7) Disregard opinions and focus on facts. In these times you cannot allow your feelings obscure the information that is present. To ignore the truth for the sake of emotion is to damn the world to continue this spiral. Empathy and other such feelings have a time and a place.
8 ) Be proud to be british, be proud of the NHS, be proud of the essential workers that keep going despite the challenges. When this is all over, these people will fade back into obscurity, and continue to support the country as they have before. This may upset some, but this is the way of the world. Not everyone can be a TV personality, not everyone can be a millionaire musician, but this pandemic is proof, that not everyone has to be, in order to be important.
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If you’ve read this far then hats off to you, and if you take nothing else from this then please remember:
This pandemic will take time to get through, and rushing will be catastrophic. Please, allow scientists and the government to work it out, they, like us, are only human.
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great impersonation, in fact more understandable than Boris. Have you watched President Trump's press conference yesterday? he slammed a lady (again) press agent, Trump is a very nasty piece of work, why did the Yanks vote him in. 
