> but the first carries the connotation that this is something the government thinks you should be doing Unfortunately that distinction was deliberately obfusc

> but the first carries the connotation that this is something the government thinks you should be doing Unfortunately that distinction was deliberately obfuscated by the UK Government during the COVID crisis. They would issue "guidelines" that you could be arrested for violating. As I recall, they began as real guidelines, and morphed into legal mandates without ever becoming laws.