When you are in your car you aren’t going to infect anybody. It’s only when you are walking around where there are other people that you become a threat.
Reminds me of “War of the Worlds” and the fate of the malevolent Martians.
Jeff Wayne
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No offence to anyone but I think if everyone focused on geniunely minimising their own déplacements, rather than looking at what other folks are or aren’t doing and finding fault with the rules and trying to do Macon’s job for him, we would get through it better.
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Our recycling collections have been suspended for the duration.
They are more likely to stop people like me and many others on SFN who live rurally when we are on our way to buy food or medicine etc, so in a car.
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This virus 
saga is going to out-Brexit Brexit in terms of kilomètres of script generated by the SF factions.
Tanks are being rolled into position, and Stella is picking basketfuls of tulips for the Peaceniks to insert into the infantrymens’ rifles. (bless!) 
Pandora’s Coronavirus box has been opened, and there will be no turning back… 
Rumor here says they have left it too late. Last weekend there was a sudden influx of Parisians escaping to their holiday homes and receiving a lot of abuse from the locals as they stripped the supermarket shelves for a long siege.
Been here before?
Boris comes back from Germany, waving a piece of paper, saying ‘Take back control in our time.’ and before you know it. . . . .
No need to get in a flap!
Like the beast in Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’, this morning I moved my slow thighs and slouched, with pitiless gaze, towards town to get mon pain.
The atmosphere was sombre. The very few pedestrians abroad avoided my gaze, and my efforts at cheery salutation. In the supermarket customers moved like hermit crabs in the aisles, scuttling away silently when I moved into their territory. No-one spoke. At the checkout I ostentatiously flourished the flacon of bactéricide from my coat pocket (also actif sur virus I’ll have you know) and held out my sanitised palm to receive my change.
On the way home I met a stranger who exchanged a happy bonjour, and I mentioned the air sombre et mélancolique that prevailed in town. We had a good chuckle about that, although I didn’t quite catch all he said, so the last 20 mètres of my homeward journey restored my faith in humanity a bit.
But the overall impression is of awkward gloom.
We are all going to die of rabies anyhow as our vet has put on his Facebook page that his professional body has stopped him from vaccinating our animals.
Think I saw him. Tall and slightly stooped, black hooded cloak and a scythe?
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That’s the Blitz spirit, Jane! 
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Can’t beat it Peter.
Has he explained why…???
No.
But that seems to be the norm nowadays.
There is a period where you can still be contagious and yet be carrying antibodies to the virus (viral titre / antibody titre). It takes a while for the scouts in your immune system to call in the big boys and get them to multiply.
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Did you see the shambolic Leader of the Free World spouting illiterate nonsense from a gabbled script surrounded by a gaggle of contemptuous lackeys, not least of whom the charlatan Secretary of State and warmonger Pompeo, in the White House this afternoon , Fleur ?
Have you witnessed the derision with which eminent scientists are ridiculing our own British Prime Minister’s astounding claims to be able to “turn the tide” and “send coronavirus packing” in 12 weeks, and heard that a major British hospital has run out of specialist resources due to a surge in critically ill admissions?
I’m not flapping, I am wringing my hands at the chaos that a corrupt system of politics has polluted the fabric of society for so long, and our home country is now facing the reckoning. God help them all.
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Has anyone got a link to walking / cycling restrictions please? Ta.