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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

It's all semantics really. We locked down on the 16 and it was enforced on the 23rd when people were ignoring it. During the course of that week the papers were full of all the people ignoring the directive

Well no we didn't.

It was only put in place as lockdown on 23rd March.
The letters were only dated that went out to the People shielding etc in that week.
Dated 22nd March.

I was downtown the Friday before, in all types of stores, the churches were open.

No lockdown.
Only measures.

The PM announced the full lockdown on 23rd March.

Before that,there was only advice and NONE as to shops, churches, libraries etc being closed before that date.

Not much sense I can see, announcing a lockdown a week later than you say it was.

Most things were going on as usual before the 23rd.

Of course this government should have put lockdown in earlier.
However they can't have it both ways.
They didn't, until the 23rd March.
The instruction of the 12 week shielding lockdown for instance started 6pm on the 23rd March and ran to 16th June.
12 weeks, not 13 weeks from the 16th March.
NO lockdown before that.