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Up until yesterday the daily flight from Rio was full of Brazilian “tourists”. Luckily that has now stopped.

My local hair salon has closed and others in my 'Neck of the woods' have also taken the decision to shut their doors.I suspect this will occur nationwide.

With a re-opening NOT for quite a while, some kind souls will end up with tussock hair askew,crinkly hair in a mad frizz or indeed hair very long and straight akin to al dente spaghetti.

Will certainly keep some behind closed doors as they will not wish to be seen with hair resembling an abandoned chaffinch's nest.

Today Gatwick will have flights from Dubai and Amsterdam both large transit hubs. A flight from Cape Town and wait for it...... one from Bologna! Still Border Force staff are at no more risk than anyone else ( according to some)

So much for 'herd immunity' then.

Not that it made much sense in the first place.

However, I also don't agree with turning the country into an economic disaster zone where crowds are banned. We lived with smallpox and other viruses through history...the Spanish flu (which killed the fit and healthy) and we didn't destroy the economy doing it.

I believe the focus should be on isolating the elderly and vulnerable and testing everyone coming off an incoming flight not on telling everyone else to stay home....that isn't going to work anyway.

That's where all the money should go.....not on stopping the economy and paying people.....how long do they expect that to continue?

Anyway, you can't 'ask' people to do A and B and then expect compliance, not in this society.....that's been the most awkward aspect of government advice.

Edited by Stirlingsays (23 Mar 2020 11.45am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Haha, I don't think there are many on these pages with full heads of hair any more, unless of course they were lucky enough to be born without the follically challenged gene.