{"id":205161,"date":"2020-04-05T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205161"},"modified":"2020-04-09T05:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T05:09:44","slug":"do-as-we-say-it-is-not-a-request-it-is-a-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205161","title":{"rendered":"Do as we say: &#8216;It is not a request, it is a requirement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns the government will ban &#8216;all forms&#8217; of outdoor exercise if a &#8216;small minority&#8217; of people continue to refuse to stay at home as he blasts sunbathers for flouting lockdown rules<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Matt Hancock today took aim at a &#8216;small minority&#8217; of people breaking lockdown<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Health Secretary said it is &#8216;quite unbelievable&#8217; people are not staying at home<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>UK&#8217;s green spaces and beaches filled up with people yesterday sparking fury<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Mr Hancock said UK will ban outdoor exercise if people do not stay at home\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>He also said it will be &#8216;hard&#8217; to hit 100,000 coronavirus tests by end of April<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>He also insisted Boris Johnson is &#8216;okay&#8217; despite still being in virus self-isolation<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_205163\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Matt-Hancock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-205163\" class=\"wp-image-205163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Matt-Hancock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Matt-Hancock.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Matt-Hancock-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-205163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Hancock. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jack Maidment \u2013 Daily Mail April 5, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Matt Hancock today blasted sunbathers for breaking <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/coronavirus\/index.html\"><strong>coronavirus<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0lockdown rules as he warned the government will ban &#8216;all forms&#8217; of outdoor exercise if a &#8216;small minority&#8217; refuse to stay at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Health Secretary said it was &#8216;quite unbelievable&#8217; some people are still not following government guidance and stressed the plea not to go outside apart from in very specific circumstances was &#8216;not a request, it is a requirement&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A number of other countries have banned outdoor exercise in a bid to slow the spread of the disease and Mr Hancock said the government is willing to take the same action if people do not comply with existing restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said: &#8216;My message is really clear: If you don&#8217;t want us to have to take the step to ban exercise of all forms outside of your own home, then you have got to follow the rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The vast majority of people are following the rules. Let&#8217;s not have a minority spoiling it for everybody.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Meanwhile, Boris Johnson repeated the importance of staying at home this morning as he tweeted he knows it is &#8216;tough&#8217; but it will mean &#8216;saving lives&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Hancock and Mr Johnson&#8217;s interventions came after a south <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/london\/index.html\"><strong>London<\/strong><\/a> park was shut indefinitely yesterday after 3,000 people visited &#8216;despite clear advice&#8217; not to as green spaces and beaches across the UK filled up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Hancock told Sky News: &#8216;It is quite unbelievable frankly to see that there are some people who are not following the advice.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The government has said that people should only leave their home for food, for medicine, for exercise or to get to work if they absolutely cannot work from where they live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8188711\/Health-Secretary-Matt-Hancock-blasts-sunbathers-flouting-coronavirus-lockdown.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns that all forms of outside exercise will be banned if the public defy lockdown <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205167,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205161\/revisions\/205167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}