the reason the government are doing what they are doing is because they are trying to achieve the maximum reduction in potential contacts for the minimum impact on people s day to day lives. we know when people go to day lives. we know when people go to work and work in the office, it s notjust to work and work in the office, it s not just sitting to work and work in the office, it s notjust sitting in the office, it s the trip to work via public transport, it s going out for your coffee in the morning, it s going getting your sandwich, rushing to pick your children up from school. there are lots of other contact and people movements that it involves. by people movements that it involves. by divorcing that chain of transmission, it does make a firebreak, if you like, in the rate of transition for the disease. in a way, it is making a big difference without too much materially impacting on people s lives. it is an initial step. they may have to tighten it further. for now, it does reduc