Last week’s poll: halting the spread of Covid-19
The challenges of juggling parenthood and being a professional engineer are being tested to the maximum right now with home working the norm and the kids being home schooled.
As a nation, we are collectively heeding the call from Boris Johnson to ‘stay at home’ and following the guidelines about restricting our movements and practicing social distancing. This is all being done in a bid to reduce the spread of Covid-19 and therefore ease the strain on the NHS, which is seeing around 1,000 coronavirus-related admissions per day.
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There have been well-publicised incidents of people flouting the new rules and suggestions that No.10 might impose even stricter restrictions on our movements as a result. There have also been reports suggesting an over-enthusiastic response from the police in enforcing the PM’s wishes, particularly in Derbyshire where the local force has sent drones into the sky to identify walkers deemed to be participating in non-essential exercise, and adding dye to the Blue Lagoon beauty spot to deter swimmers.
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