..and we think it's tough here!!

I can barely carry more than 2 bags of shopping.

There is if you are a single parent with children to feed Hetty (sorry to disagree ) .

In France, from tomorrow there is a new gadget to be added on the iPhone instead of having the downloaded signed and dated government document. I find this a bit scary as they say that this will help them, in the future to track how the virus is spreading and then... after..
GagaJo
When I lived in China, I had BBC and wanted my Chinese teacher to watch the news but she refused saying that Chinese people had been warned that foreigners and their news media were giving false details, regarding at that time deaths in floods.

gillybob, I disagree. I've never had a car and used to visit supermarkets. There's no need to go twice a week!

Supermarkets are the main place where social distancing isn't always possible. The virus can be in the air, on trolley handles, food packaging, at the checkout - and in the loos.

People still aren't following the advice to visit infrequently. What is the earthly point in queuing outside two metres apart - in a breeze?

Sorry I meant bear in mind.

Let’s hear in mind that some people don’t have a car to fill the boot with groceries and need to do a couple of small shops a week .

Vital

It's tough if you are a nurse or doctor on the frontline. Very tough indeed. Or a parademic
It's extra hard work if you are providing the nation with food
If you are a policeman, serviceman or woman, or anyone else who is working in a viral frontline job
Trying to keep your firm going by working at home
Keeping the roads open

For many of us at home, retired, furloughed or whatever, it is worrying, frightening, inconvenient but we are not experiencing what they are experiencing.

I agree Casdon. Once a week, maximum.

A friend of mine has got the virus. She was ONLY going out for the supermarket, once a week and walking her dog.

Dubai has it right I think, people shouldn’t be going to the supermarket frequently like some still are here.

I can't answer about TV in China SQ, because I didn't watch it there (don't speak Mandarin). But you can get western newspapers in China. I had a subscription to the Guardian while I lived there.

EVERYONE has a VPN (virtual private network) so can access the regular, western internet. I'm not even sure the government really try to stop VPN usage. My school set it up for us when I worked there and lots of our students were the children of CPC ministers. I used all of my usual social media AND watched the BBC online using it in China.

Yes, things are very different there. But the average Chinese person is no different to the average Western person.

I dont know..thankfully my daughter and babies are...would think that everyone is...

Is everyone online in Dubai? Not everyone in the UK is. A curfew of that nature only works if there is no mass desperation.

We're actually really lucky, in many ways. In China, things are restricted all the time - tv, newspapers, internet, all censored. The people are repressed.

How do you think they managed the virus emergency in China? If they are told to jump they ask how high, we argue for all we are worth!