JD its much too early to suggest it's not work here in Italy , part of the north have been shut some weeks now but the rest of us we just in our second week.
Even they are awkward. We are telling the government about Covid deaths locally only when the results come back from labs up to a week after death.
Until you have the testing resources in place, you have to lock down. What other option do we have?
To everyone else, if people see others following the rules perhaps those that ignore them may follow suit. If not then we are forcing the government to impose more harsher measures.
My original comment was about if the Government was to lock down the country in order to help contain the virus, then sailing would probably fit into the catagory of non essential movement. Hence the above comment on if those rules were in place then it would be prudent to follow the advice of the government and help stop this. I think because of all the replies on here, people are being mis quoted or mis understood. Hope that clarifies what I'm on about.
That's one per 10 square miles of the UK . If they do three shifts per day x 7 days a week that's one every 30 square miles . If they work in pairs that's one pair every 60 square miles.
My poorly made point is that lockdown is a very crude tool which appears to work in small Italian towns about as well as it does on cruise ships, ie "not at all". That place was small enough to identify the small number of actual carriers and isolate them completely rather than limit and awful lot of people a bit. The same strategy has worked pretty well in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong.