This is interesting. My daughter's teacher said much the same thing about the town centre here in La Roche sur Yon. I've always thought that it's unrealistic to expect people to stay home for so long without maintaining a high police presence.
In a couple of weeks we will be officially easing the lockdown: on May 11th some pupils will be going back to school.
If we come out of lockdown then have to go back into it during a hot summer I wouldn't be surprised if people start to revolt.
Since we are all getting things that irritate us off our chest, mine is bad manners around social distancing.
My wife is working from home and working religiously through the day and relies on me bringing her food and cups of tea as she is on back to back calls. So we generally try to take a walk for some exercise around 6 pm and to give her some downtime before we eat. Quite a few other people are out doing the same and it’s a quiet area away from the main roads.
If we see someone walking towards us, probably 75% of the time we make the effort to move aside sometimes as far as the opposite pavement if no one else is on that side That’s probably me just anxious to be proactive in respecting people’s space recognising the social distancing guidelines. About 1 in 5 will acknowledge this with a smile, a “thanks” or a wave. Those that don’t are not socially awkward teenagers but grown adults. On those occasions when people move aside for me, I always make the effort to smile and acknowledge them for making the effort to be sensitive and sensible enough to do the right thing.
Why can’t people just show some basic good manners towards others?
With regard to lockdown, 3 weeks ago I wrote “We, as a nation of ill-disciplined individuals, will simply implode” and I fear that’s proving the case.
The one noticeable additional shift I think that has occurred is that fear has eased.
3-4 weeks ago we had a lot of rising scare stories; Johnson, Hancock, Whitty all catching it, the story of the poor kid dying in isolation, the rising spread and personal stories of those early wave of people dying. Shops were bare. It was growing, spreading and people were fearful and reactive to its threat.
Now a few weeks on the shock element has subsided, a lot of people who were genuinely scared of catching this disease and passing to love ones are more blasé, the human focus in reporting has subsided and more focus has shifted onto political mileage.
Rightly or wrongly (I think wrongly),I don’t think quite a few people are as scared by this as they were a month ago. Many haven’t seen family / friends for over a month now and feel more comfortable in being more ‘loose’ in applying their distancing. Self employed are seeing an opportunity to either get out the house away from the wife & kids, or make a few quid again (whatever’s the driver).
Add to that the general ill discipline of sticking to being told what not to do, I think from a behavioural perspective, this was all fairly inevitable.
Who knows, perhaps the current set lockdown measures are too impacting and a loosening will in real terms add no further negative impact and help return a slow easement back to normality.
The flip side though is it might put us back to square one.
Here in Dubai we're into the 4th week of a full lockdown. Can only go out if you have a permit (you have to apply online) and at the start of this week they announced the rules were changing and you're now allowed one permit application per 72 hours. You can only go out to the supermarket or pharmacy, a medical appointment or if you work in key/vital sector. Police are everywhere stop checking people and if you're out without a permit you get a hefty fine.
Emirates have also just announced this morning no commercial flights until at least 1 July.
Here in Dubai we're into the 4th week of a full lockdown. Can only go out if you have a permit (you have to apply online) and at the start of this week they announced the rules were changing and you're now allowed one permit application per 72 hours. You can only go out to the supermarket or pharmacy, a medical appointment or if you work in key/vital sector. Police are everywhere stop checking people and if you're out without a permit you get a hefty fine.
Emirates have also just announced this morning no commercial flights until at least 1 July.
Do you have a big place there? Just you or family too? It’s calculating the amount of booze to get in with just one permit which would worry me! Don’t you have to have a licence even to buy booze??
I would definitely struggle with full lockdown. Can cope with this just about... but I don’t half miss going to the pub with me mates.
Like you @robinofottershaw I often find myself on the road to get out of the way of someone coming towards me. Some people don’t really care.
People are starting to revert to type. I’ve been a fervent supporter of lockdown and abiding by the rules on here but I ventured out yesterday. Couldn’t get any bananas in the Ocado delivery on Monday. The first thing my little boys says when he wakes up is “nana dad” 😂 there’s a Tesco express at the top of the road so I chanced it. Wore gloves and face mask and there was no fucker there. Wife didn’t talk to me for the rest of the day tho 😂
Really think it’s down to a lack of leadership at the moment. No one cares what Hancock et al tell us. I know most people of here think Boris is a twat but It’s quite clear that the majority of the nation take notice of what he says, me included.
Need the top man back to kick us all back into shape and get us through this.
Since we are all getting things that irritate us off our chest, mine is bad manners around social distancing.
My wife is working from home and working religiously through the day and relies on me bringing her food and cups of tea as she is on back to back calls. So we generally try to take a walk for some exercise around 6 pm and to give her some downtime before we eat. Quite a few other people are out doing the same and it’s a quiet area away from the main roads.
If we see someone walking towards us, probably 75% of the time we make the effort to move aside sometimes as far as the opposite pavement if no one else is on that side That’s probably me just anxious to be proactive in respecting people’s space recognising the social distancing guidelines. About 1 in 5 will acknowledge this with a smile, a “thanks” or a wave. Those that don’t are not socially awkward teenagers but grown adults. On those occasions when people move aside for me, I always make the effort to smile and acknowledge them for making the effort to be sensitive and sensible enough to do the right thing.
Why can’t people just show some basic good manners towards others?
Rant over.
My experience has been quite the reverse. I'd say 80% of people at least smile and nod when you swerve widely to keep several yards away. But then I live in a small village of about 3,000 and I think that makes a difference.
To maintain social distancing, my advice would be to carry a six foot length of heavy chain and start swinging it round your head if approached.
There were definitely more people out today doing my weekly shopping, both pedestrians and cars. The roadworks were also back on. I've also had my first two work contacts for six weeks. People's attitudes are definitely shifting partly because schools partially start going back on the 11th May and so I think this has changed the mindset. Meanwhile my wife was treating some COVID19 'suspects' today again.
Noticing a lot more people out as well, in fact a huge amount more people.
I think a lot of people have done a mental calculation of 6-12 months in isolation/socially distancing vs a very, very small chance of being seriously ill (if they even get the disease) and decided to take their chances.
We have a limited amount of years on this Earth, some have decided not to spent a good chunk of their time at home.
Not saying it's right, just saying.
The main thing I've noticed is that people are a lot more half hearted with their social distancing in public.
Here in Dubai we're into the 4th week of a full lockdown. Can only go out if you have a permit (you have to apply online) and at the start of this week they announced the rules were changing and you're now allowed one permit application per 72 hours. You can only go out to the supermarket or pharmacy, a medical appointment or if you work in key/vital sector. Police are everywhere stop checking people and if you're out without a permit you get a hefty fine.
Emirates have also just announced this morning no commercial flights until at least 1 July.
Do you have a big place there? Just you or family too? It’s calculating the amount of booze to get in with just one permit which would worry me! Don’t you have to have a licence even to buy booze??
I would definitely struggle with full lockdown. Can cope with this just about... but I don’t half miss going to the pub with me mates.
Like you @robinofottershaw I often find myself on the road to get out of the way of someone coming towards me. Some people don’t really care.
Live with my fiance in a 2 bed apartment so the space isn't an issue. No garden is annoying though.
You can get alcohol delivered so that's not an issue, the places that require an alcohol license deliver quicker, the places that don't ask for a license are more expensive and take longer (i assume because most people probably don't have the license and order numbers have gone through the roof)
Noticing a lot more people out as well, in fact a huge amount more people.
I think a lot of people have done a mental calculation of 6-12 months in isolation/socially distancing vs a very, very small chance of being seriously ill (if they even get the disease) and decided to take their chances.
We have a limited amount of years on this Earth, some have decided not to spent a good chunk of their time at home.
Not saying it's right, just saying.
The main thing I've noticed is that people are a lot more half hearted with their social distancing in public.
One hundred percent agree. Had almost 5 weeks of lockdown and people realised this will be lasting for another year or two. Chris Witty said social distancing will last until the end of the year.
A lot of people are trying to get their life back to normal and are happy to take the risk of getting this illness.
Definitely noticed it in this last week. Two big groups of teenagers wondering the this evening - first time I’ve noticed that.
We’re still only leaving the house once a day for a walk (early or late) and with my wife being pregnant we will be sticking to that as long as possible.
Surely if it’s that important to the government there should be tv / social media interruptions every day, several times reiterating the instruction and saying fines will rise to £x for any group gathering. They’re not which says it all.
Here in Oz the lock down is similar to the UK in terms of what you can and cannot do.
As the family dog walker I get to see what others are up to out there in the big bad world....it’s pretty extraordinary.
Yesterday, walking the dog at the park, which is a massive open space of grass (by which I mean it’s not like Greenwich Park etc with lots of flowerbeds etc) I stumbled across a fitness group.
Despite having the entire ******* park to conduct their class in these twats were conducting their class right across the single concrete path that circles the park.
Absolutely furious I stood there in the world famous English “Double Teapot” stance at which point the fitness instructor, suddenly aware of my presence, broke from her stretching exercise and looked up at me.
”Everything all right there mate?” she asked, smiling beatifically with her golden blonde hair falling down across her perfectly tanned shoulders atop a simply exquisitely gorgeous figure clad in a black Lycra outfit that could easily pass for swimwear.
Summoning up all my courage to tell her exactly what I thought of her selfish and thoughtless behaviour in unnecessarily inconveniencing all us other park users I girded my loins and said, “Yes, all good, thanks,” and walked home with the dog.
Definitely noticed it in this last week. Two big groups of teenagers wondering the this evening - first time I’ve noticed that.
We’re still only leaving the house once a day for a walk (early or late) and with my wife being pregnant we will be sticking to that as long as possible.
Surely if it’s that important to the government there should be tv / social media interruptions every day, several times reiterating the instruction and saying fines will rise to £x for any group gathering. They’re not which says it all.
People don't need telling any more, apart from politicians and scientists, every celebrity under the sun, from actors to footballers, from comedians to musicians have been repeating the message
The only thing which will enforce this properly is if there are more police out there actually charging people. I walked over Hampstead Heath this afternoon, and there were loads of people sunbathing or just sitting in the sun. They weren't causing any problems, as there was plenty of space for everyone, but if you're going to have rules, it's pointless having them unless they're enforced.
In some respects I agree but unless you watch the daily briefings or the news, which I’m sure many many do not, is the message really being emphasised enough still? The extension to the lockdown has felt half-hearted and woolly from the word go. And no one is really going to give a monkeys what celebs/footballer etc are telling you, are they?
But you’re right about enforcement, pretty pointless without it.
It surely all boils down to the numbers. Especially those entering hospitals.
Yes they're a lot busier than normal,.but as far as I'm aware haven't been over run. And that's driving the government's tone,which has definitely lowered in the last week or so.
It's a slow drive to herd immunity. Get as many people back to work but ban all large social gatherings. All work. No play. Yes they'll be some collateral damage, but this thing ain't going away.
I'm lucky. I can work in pretty much isolation. Get the shopping delivered and don't mind going out for my bit of excercise at times when hardly anyone's about. So steering clear of it is pretty easy.
Many are not as fortunate, and their odds are very much reduced.
There were definitely more people out today doing my weekly shopping, both pedestrians and cars. The roadworks were also back on. I've also had my first two work contacts for six weeks. People's attitudes are definitely shifting partly because schools partially start going back on the 11th May and so I think this has changed the mindset. Meanwhile my wife was treating some COVID19 'suspects' today again.
Jimmy, no way will schools be back on the 11th May, even partly. The talking of social distancing in schools I find ridiculous and I think the government know this too. There’s a long road ahead with this and I think people are going to have to come to terms with that. I fear if we don’t we will indeed be back to square one.
I might be wrong but I think schools will be shut until September as the government scramble to find a vaccine or at least a more successful treatment. If they open any earlier then I think the suggestion about herd immunity being the plan could be true but this could see hundreds of thousands dead by the end.
Being a glass half empty person. Im probably doing what i will be doing for the rest of the year. When they ease this lockdown it will be basically be for people to go back tk work those that can. Some might but if they were to announce you can see family and friends will be rushing round there giving everyone hugs ,kisses and handshakes. Tbh ive never understood some of the lockdown rules. I can go to the supermarket once ,well twice a week if getting shopping for others but cant meet up with one family or friend member for a walk keeping 2 metres apart. For me i dont need the government telling me what i can and cant do i can make them decisions for myself.
Went for a run yesterday evening and there were definitely more people out than I had seen previously, more traffic and saw more restaurants (offering take away) and takeaways open than I’ve seen since lockdown began.
I couldn’t see many necessarily flouting the rules, but I guess more relaxing their adherence to the rules than previous.
The governments can’t save every business approach is pushing people out. I’ve seen a window cleaner working on my development, the grounds maintenance guys out working. Some people are entering week 6 without pay and are venturing out to try and earn.
if the government paid each adult a monthly salary to stay at home, would people?
i spoke to my dad yesterday who is mid 70’s. I was worried that he wouldn’t stay at home but he has been. His view is now changing, his words were “I’m in the final years of my life, I’m not going to spend it as a prisoner in my own home”. I think that’s a view echoed by many.
the government need to do something, whether it be being firm and having a day or two of police out issuing fines on mass, or telling people to go out wearing masks. Yet again, I feel they are adopting the do nothing approach
There were definitely more people out today doing my weekly shopping, both pedestrians and cars. The roadworks were also back on. I've also had my first two work contacts for six weeks. People's attitudes are definitely shifting partly because schools partially start going back on the 11th May and so I think this has changed the mindset. Meanwhile my wife was treating some COVID19 'suspects' today again.
Jimmy, no way will schools be back on the 11th May, even partly. The talking of social distancing in schools I find ridiculous and I think the government know this too. There’s a long road ahead with this and I think people are going to have to come to terms with that. I fear if we don’t we will indeed be back to square one.
I might be wrong but I think schools will be shut until September as the government scramble to find a vaccine or at least a more successful treatment. If they open any earlier then I think the suggestion about herd immunity being the plan could be true but this could see hundreds of thousands dead by the end.
I’ve been looking back through the data from the 2008 recession and the impact of what happened afterwards. Apparently 500k extra deaths from cancer related illness due to poverty and 10k deaths from suicide in UK.
The really sad is I think whatever government decides to do a lot of people will die, whether in the short term (2/3 months) or in the longer term 2/3 years due to the economical impact.
The governments can’t save every business approach is pushing people out. I’ve seen a window cleaner working on my development, the grounds maintenance guys out working. Some people are entering week 6 without pay and are venturing out to try and earn.
if the government paid each adult a monthly salary to stay at home, would people?
i spoke to my dad yesterday who is mid 70’s. I was worried that he wouldn’t stay at home but he has been. His view is now changing, his words were “I’m in the final years of my life, I’m not going to spend it as a prisoner in my own home”. I think that’s a view echoed by many.
the government need to do something, whether it be being firm and having a day or two of police out issuing fines on mass, or telling people to go out wearing masks. Yet again, I feel they are adopting the do nothing approach
I think (and was saying before the furlough scheme) the government should have given (number can be debated) £1.5k to every National insurance number in the UK per month.
IF you are working, you earn everything above £1.5k.
The governments can’t save every business approach is pushing people out. I’ve seen a window cleaner working on my development, the grounds maintenance guys out working. Some people are entering week 6 without pay and are venturing out to try and earn.
if the government paid each adult a monthly salary to stay at home, would people?
i spoke to my dad yesterday who is mid 70’s. I was worried that he wouldn’t stay at home but he has been. His view is now changing, his words were “I’m in the final years of my life, I’m not going to spend it as a prisoner in my own home”. I think that’s a view echoed by many.
the government need to do something, whether it be being firm and having a day or two of police out issuing fines on mass, or telling people to go out wearing masks. Yet again, I feel they are adopting the do nothing approach
I think (and was saying before the furlough scheme) the government should have given (number can be debated) £1.5k to every National insurance number in the UK per month.
IF you are working, you earn everything above £1.5k.
That way there is no excuse for going out.
That’s what I was getting at but you said it better than me
I’m a surveyor and can do some outside work in Southwark. 6 weeks ago I decided it was too risky, I’m now thinking that come mid may, I will have no choice but to do it. I’m assuming many are in the same boat
In parts of the UAE you get shopping vouchers that allow you to go to the shops 3 times per week. Caught outside that and the punishment is pretty severe according to a contact of mine who worked for Emirates airline. Wilko is open and has been all of the time. they do the best dog poo bags (get a good handful without getting shitty fingers lol) Essential, but people are queuing for non essential items. Coming out with just a bag of compost and bird seed!
It is noticeable btw the increase of dog poo that’s not picked up at the moment. bloody disgusting
We've never had a proper lockdown in this country.
Where I live I've never seen so many out walking, running and cycling (many on the footpath). It's a main road and during the day there are just as many vehicles on the road as normal, though it is quieter at night.
Both my husband and I are at higher risk of complications if we caught the virus, but are not officially at risk, so I worry about a loosening of the restrictions. I fear that there will be a second spike if people start to take more risks.
What is actively pissing me off is how many parcels I've had to keep hold of for my next door neighbours. Of course they are not in, why would they be indoors during a lockdown I mean they have families to go and spend time with and shops to go to and friends nails to do. And after all that they want to pick up their array of shit from me who, like a mug has left his home twice in 6 weeks once to go to the vets and once to drop fully cleansed and washed shopping off on the doorsteps of our families and wave from the windscreen of the car.
I'm fully aware of the dangers of catching this horrible virus and selfishly do not want to get it even if I possibly already have had it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I then gave it to someone who suffered or worse. Imagine being someone working in critical care and seeing people gathering outside shops, mincing along to the newsagents, sharing a van. How demoralised would that make you? I'm.already humbled everytime I engage with someone working on the frontline of the NHS and will always go out of my way to be extra polite as I have witnessed people behave like absolute arseholes to them and if me saying please and thank you means a tiny bit less ingratitude in their day that's something.
I don't know how things are day to day in shops or supermarkets because I have not been in them so can only go on the greatest hits being shared online. Same with parks and beaches.
I sound like I'm being a martyr here when in reality me and my wife have gone out of our ways to be extra nice to each other, make time to play some board games, do exercise classes together, spend an absolute fortune on online shopping from organic and artisan places (I'm not that poncey just needed some fresh food in the house) and we can both do our jobs remotely so we are dealing with it and as we are working all day not having to deal with the devil making work for idle hands.
I just wish the government had been absolutely black and white in their direction, dog walkers go outside, anyone else spend a maximum of 1 hour outdoors exercising. I believe their should have been a similar system like in Cyprus for leaving the house as well where you need permission.
Treat this as the softest prison sentence ever and less people will get ill. Ignore it and this will never end
The lockdown should have been a lot more severe, no going outside whatsoever apart from shopping for food and going to essential jobs. Anyone found outside without written consent is ordered to go home and fined. No exercise, no dog walking, no going for a bike ride with your snotty nosed kids, nothing. Would be a lot less contact and a lot less cases and deaths long term, but we were too wishy washy with it and this can be seen if you do venture out to any parks. Hilly Fields, Ladywell Park and Greenwich Park are all (just about) walking distance from me and the amount of people out and about flouting the rules is astonishing.
I've seen 20 people picnics, personal trainers running gym classes of a dozen or so people, people playing football, dog walkers with 5-6 dogs that aren't theirs (so they are traveling to multiple households to pick up and drop off dogs) it's insane
Amazing how we all see different things.
Superb adherents to social distancing where I live. On the 4 days a week when I venture out, for exercise for body and mental health, I haven't seen groups of youngsters or groups of anybody congregating together. A common sense approach appears to be working. Having 4 different open areas, woods, downs, park and the local pond within a short walking distance helps and I will, and do, Zig zag across the road, if necessary or walk off pavement till I get there.
I accept that I will probably be run over by the boy racer type ( 17-75 where I live) but as long as my family and friends know I was doing it for social distancing reasons and hopefully, I will have clean underwear on, then I can depart with my head held high; metaphorically speaking.
In parts of the UAE you get shopping vouchers that allow you to go to the shops 3 times per week. Caught outside that and the punishment is pretty severe according to a contact of mine who worked for Emirates airline. Wilko is open and has been all of the time. they do the best dog poo bags (get a good handful without getting shitty fingers lol) Essential, but people are queuing for non essential items. Coming out with just a bag of compost and bird seed!
It is noticeable btw the increase of dog poo that’s not picked up at the moment. bloody disgusting
Who said it’s dog poo, an hours walk is a long way from home
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In a couple of weeks we will be officially easing the lockdown: on May 11th some pupils will be going back to school.
If we come out of lockdown then have to go back into it during a hot summer I wouldn't be surprised if people start to revolt.
My wife is working from home and working religiously through the day and relies on me bringing her food and cups of tea as she is on back to back calls. So we generally try to take a walk for some exercise around 6 pm and to give her some downtime before we eat. Quite a few other people are out doing the same and it’s a quiet area away from the main roads.
Rant over.
The one noticeable additional shift I think that has occurred is that fear has eased.
3-4 weeks ago we had a lot of rising scare stories; Johnson, Hancock, Whitty all catching it, the story of the poor kid dying in isolation, the rising spread and personal stories of those early wave of people dying. Shops were bare. It was growing, spreading and people were fearful and reactive to its threat.
Now a few weeks on the shock element has subsided, a lot of people who were genuinely scared of catching this disease and passing to love ones are more blasé, the human focus in reporting has subsided and more focus has shifted onto political mileage.
Rightly or wrongly (I think wrongly),I don’t think quite a few people are as scared by this as they were a month ago. Many haven’t seen family / friends for over a month now and feel more comfortable in being more ‘loose’ in applying their distancing. Self employed are seeing an opportunity to either get out the house away from the wife & kids, or make a few quid again (whatever’s the driver).
Add to that the general ill discipline of sticking to being told what not to do, I think from a behavioural perspective, this was all fairly inevitable.
Who knows, perhaps the current set lockdown measures are too impacting and a loosening will in real terms add no further negative impact and help return a slow easement back to normality.
The flip side though is it might put us back to square one.
Emirates have also just announced this morning no commercial flights until at least 1 July.
I would definitely struggle with full lockdown. Can cope with this just about... but I don’t half miss going to the pub with me mates.
Like you @robinofottershaw I often find myself on the road to get out of the way of someone coming towards me. Some people don’t really care.
Really think it’s down to a lack of leadership at the moment. No one cares what Hancock et al tell us. I know most people of here think Boris is a twat but It’s quite clear that the majority of the nation take notice of what he says, me included.
To maintain social distancing, my advice would be to carry a six foot length of heavy chain and start swinging it round your head if approached.
Meanwhile my wife was treating some COVID19 'suspects' today again.
I think a lot of people have done a mental calculation of 6-12 months in isolation/socially distancing vs a very, very small chance of being seriously ill (if they even get the disease) and decided to take their chances.
We have a limited amount of years on this Earth, some have decided not to spent a good chunk of their time at home.
Not saying it's right, just saying.
The main thing I've noticed is that people are a lot more half hearted with their social distancing in public.
You can get alcohol delivered so that's not an issue, the places that require an alcohol license deliver quicker, the places that don't ask for a license are more expensive and take longer (i assume because most people probably don't have the license and order numbers have gone through the roof)
We’re still only leaving the house once a day for a walk (early or late) and with my wife being pregnant we will be sticking to that as long as possible.
Surely if it’s that important to the government there should be tv / social media interruptions every day, several times reiterating the instruction and saying fines will rise to £x for any group gathering. They’re not which says it all.
As the family dog walker I get to see what others are up to out there in the big bad world....it’s pretty extraordinary.
Yesterday, walking the dog at the park, which is a massive open space of grass (by which I mean it’s not like Greenwich Park etc with lots of flowerbeds etc) I stumbled across a fitness group.
Despite having the entire ******* park to conduct their class in these twats were conducting their class right across the single concrete path that circles the park.
Absolutely furious I stood there in the world famous English “Double Teapot” stance at which point the fitness instructor, suddenly aware of my presence, broke from her stretching exercise and looked up at me.
”Everything all right there mate?” she asked, smiling beatifically with her golden blonde hair falling down across her perfectly tanned shoulders atop a simply exquisitely gorgeous figure clad in a black Lycra outfit that could easily pass for swimwear.
Summoning up all my courage to tell her exactly what I thought of her selfish and thoughtless behaviour in unnecessarily inconveniencing all us other park users I girded my loins and said, “Yes, all good, thanks,” and walked home with the dog.
The only thing which will enforce this properly is if there are more police out there actually charging people. I walked over Hampstead Heath this afternoon, and there were loads of people sunbathing or just sitting in the sun. They weren't causing any problems, as there was plenty of space for everyone, but if you're going to have rules, it's pointless having them unless they're enforced.
But you’re right about enforcement, pretty pointless without it.
Yes they're a lot busier than normal,.but as far as I'm aware haven't been over run. And that's driving the government's tone,which has definitely lowered in the last week or so.
It's a slow drive to herd immunity. Get as many people back to work but ban all large social gatherings. All work. No play.
Yes they'll be some collateral damage, but this thing ain't going away.
I'm lucky. I can work in pretty much isolation. Get the shopping delivered and don't mind going out for my bit of excercise at times when hardly anyone's about. So steering clear of it is pretty easy.
Many are not as fortunate, and their odds are very much reduced.
Im probably doing what i will be doing for the rest of the year.
When they ease this lockdown it will be basically be for people to go back tk work those that can.
Some might but if they were to announce you can see family and friends will be rushing round there giving everyone hugs ,kisses and handshakes.
Tbh ive never understood some of the lockdown rules.
I can go to the supermarket once ,well twice a week if getting shopping for others but cant meet up with one family or friend member for a walk keeping 2 metres apart.
For me i dont need the government telling me what i can and cant do i can make them decisions for myself.
if the government paid each adult a monthly salary to stay at home, would people?
i spoke to my dad yesterday who is mid 70’s. I was worried that he wouldn’t stay at home but he has been. His view is now changing, his words were “I’m in the final years of my life, I’m not going to spend it as a prisoner in my own home”. I think that’s a view echoed by many.
the government need to do something, whether it be being firm and having a day or two of police out issuing fines on mass, or telling people to go out wearing masks. Yet again, I feel they are adopting the do nothing approach
IF you are working, you earn everything above £1.5k.
That way there is no excuse for going out.
Caught outside that and the punishment is pretty severe according to a contact of mine who worked for Emirates airline.
Wilko is open and has been all of the time.
they do the best dog poo bags (get a good handful without getting shitty fingers lol) Essential, but people are queuing for non essential items. Coming out with just a bag of compost and bird seed!
bloody disgusting
Where I live I've never seen so many out walking, running and cycling (many on the footpath). It's a main road and during the day there are just as many vehicles on the road as normal, though it is quieter at night.
Both my husband and I are at higher risk of complications if we caught the virus, but are not officially at risk, so I worry about a loosening of the restrictions. I fear that there will be a second spike if people start to take more risks.
I'm fully aware of the dangers of catching this horrible virus and selfishly do not want to get it even if I possibly already have had it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I then gave it to someone who suffered or worse. Imagine being someone working in critical care and seeing people gathering outside shops, mincing along to the newsagents, sharing a van. How demoralised would that make you? I'm.already humbled everytime I engage with someone working on the frontline of the NHS and will always go out of my way to be extra polite as I have witnessed people behave like absolute arseholes to them and if me saying please and thank you means a tiny bit less ingratitude in their day that's something.
I don't know how things are day to day in shops or supermarkets because I have not been in them so can only go on the greatest hits being shared online. Same with parks and beaches.
I sound like I'm being a martyr here when in reality me and my wife have gone out of our ways to be extra nice to each other, make time to play some board games, do exercise classes together, spend an absolute fortune on online shopping from organic and artisan places (I'm not that poncey just needed some fresh food in the house) and we can both do our jobs remotely so we are dealing with it and as we are working all day not having to deal with the devil making work for idle hands.
I just wish the government had been absolutely black and white in their direction, dog walkers go outside, anyone else spend a maximum of 1 hour outdoors exercising. I believe their should have been a similar system like in Cyprus for leaving the house as well where you need permission.
Treat this as the softest prison sentence ever and less people will get ill. Ignore it and this will never end
Amazing how we all see different things.
Superb adherents to social distancing where I live. On the 4 days a week when I venture out, for exercise for body and mental health, I haven't seen groups of youngsters or groups of anybody congregating together. A common sense approach appears to be working. Having 4 different open areas, woods, downs, park and the local pond within a short walking distance helps and I will, and do, Zig zag across the road, if necessary or walk off pavement till I get there.
I accept that I will probably be run over by the boy racer type ( 17-75 where I live) but as long as my family and friends know I was doing it for social distancing reasons and hopefully, I will have clean underwear on, then I can depart with my head held high; metaphorically speaking.
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