Re: If you're not part of the solution, you are an idiot.
Original quote: ""You are strongly requested to stay in your house, and when you go out for exercise, please be courteous to others and keep 2m apart, and please don't congregate with people you're not living with", well, that's got a chance of being done."
Response: "And Neil Barnes, [original quote] has worked really well so far, hasn't it? They tried that. It did not work. What did you do when Boris said "we are advising you to stay indoors"?"
Not really connected to the rest of your comment, but you appear to have missed their point. The point was about wording, specifically "order" versus "strongly request". The opinion stated there was that "strongly request", though technically a weaker statement than "order", would have produced a smaller sense of injustice and would have been better adhered to by the public. If you knew that, then you know that "strongly request" was not tried by the U.K. authorities (it is much stronger than "advise", and the statement I found when searching for that one had some limits on it), meaning we can't know whether the stated opinion was correct or not. For the record, although I'm not in the U.K., when I received my suggestion (yes, mine was a suggestion) to stay at home, I did so. I have not come within range of others since that time.