People are going mad, people who I doubt read more than a book a year kicking off about their access to books being restricted. Or what if the telly breaks, or the kettle, or they need to buy clothes. It's like there was absolutely no notice whatsoever, or you can't buy literally everything online, or that it's not just for two weeks.

As with every other decision related to Covid though, there's some people who are legitimately caused problems by it. For example something I didn't think about but I heard a foster carer say is that often they get kids brought to them at very short notice with just the clothes on their back, so in that case they'd go straight to the supermarket which they can't do. I'd hope there's a proviso for extreme circumstances but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended being up at the manager's discretion.