Ski slopes, restaurants and hotels in Poland’s tourist-reliant mountainous south have announced they will defy anti-virus restrictions and reopen Monday, as small business owners nationwide grow increasingly weary of lockdown. Around 200 entrepreneurs have joined the so-called ‘Highlanders’ Veto’ movement, whose leader Sebastian Piton announced the disobedience campaign while clad in the traditional outfit of the Tatra mountains. But the Polish government said opening businesses now would ‘radically increase’ the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the country. ‘The entrepreneurs are this determined because they realise they won’t survive another month – so they have no choice,’ said Piton, who has described coronavirus as a ‘minor, pleasant illness’. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9142789/Hundreds-tourist-trade-businesses-DEFY-Covid-lockdown-rules-say-reopen-Poland.html?fbclid=IwAR3ca0EPs59KW62Et5xIzfd6bv5jQC0ElgakslzwvDKgLFJZSPgz8sxbhAY
COVID-19: The excuses people have been giving for breaking lockdown
Climbing a mountain in the dark in trainers and a road trip to visit all 92 football league grounds are just two of the excuses people have given to police after being recently caught flouting lockdown rules. Though the rules on the government website state “stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live”, one minister has conceded the term is “open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means”. Two women who were fined £200 after travelling to a reservoir for a walk around five miles from their homes have had their penalties cancelled. Here is a look at some of the reasons people have given for leaving their homes and breaching current COVID-19 regulations. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-the-excuses-people-have-been-giving-for-breaking-lockdown-12185693