I've just been out for a three mile walk with our Beagle, traffic levels are lower than a quiet Sunday and the only pedestrians I saw were a couple of neighbours walking in the opposite direction. The buses have been cut from hourly to two hours and they are running nearly empty, with hand sanitiser available from a dispenser by the door. I have heard that the drivers have been screened off behind a Perspex screen.
The newsagents I do a morning shift in is exempt from closure and Fishguard was like a ghost town this morning. We are doing well out of it as home deliveries have gone through the roof. The paperboys are issued with vinyl gloves every morning, and at the moment the place has a "Phoney war" feel about it. No real impact locally yet with the virus, but everybody is waiting nervously.
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