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how many distilleries are making products?
I also know distilleries more intimate than 99% of the world and can assure you you work intimately close with regular staff as well as outside support workers.
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19 of them according to this, producing 50million bottles of sanitizer for the NHS. https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/18362230.scottish-distillers-produce-50-million-litres-hand-sanitiser-nhs/&ved=2ahUKEwj3l-rt06vpAhWailwKHRtBBs0QFjAAegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw02JirL0teyt5nk65qhUbCf
It's up to businesses themselves to decide if they can operate safely-be that through PPE or distancing. Rural communities where most distilleries are also won't be as reliant on public transport for workers which is another major factor.
the Carling factory is still churning out lager with adjustments to it's processes anyway so I'm not sure why you're holding up the whisky industry as a bad example? https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/alcohol/coronavirus-molson-coors-scales-down-uk-operations-and-cuts-range/603968.article
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Pretty essential in my household but many distilleries have also switched to making sanitisers and cleaning stuff for hospitals. You also don't have many staff running them or in proximity to each other.
Don't see businesses moving south of the border in the name of a few extra weeks of shutdown but maybe you know something I don't. Likewise, footing the furlough bill: don't think Johnson said that was ending today? I think the real farce is rUK leaders finding out what Johnson's 'plans' are on the T.V-Sturgeon published a detailed proposal to start discussions for how coming out of lockdown could be done weeks ago that was typically ignored by Westminster. In the absence of any credible alternatives coming from Johnson or any consensus I think it's right to err on the side of caution when other countries with stricter lockdowns are easing and seeing infection rates jump again.
The fact that Sturgeon's doing a live unscripted update/q&a every day, and remaining accountable to the press, is to her credit too.
Edit. Just searched out if interest and Dufftown's hospital has 20 beds. Seems reasonable not to encourage someone to travel from Hungary/London/wherever and pitch up expecting to work when there's not even any checks at airports and quarantine measures are potentially going to be introduced at the end of the month too. Again, I understand people's frustrations but the bigger picture isn't every country in EU going back to work: England is very much an outlier in its current attitudes.