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Wanted to make the new thread quickly to get the link onto the last page of the previous one!

Is it me, or are half the the posts on AIBU right now about reporting people for breaking THE RULES ? I don’t know how people have enough stamina to keep giving such a shit. In the first couple of weeks of lockdown, maybe, but after 2 months? I’m exhausted just thinking about it.

I’m worried many small businesses won’t be able to survive with social distancing. Many rely on browsing and impulse buys. I really feel for business owners, especially if the fact their allowed to reopen means in reduced support from government, which I assume it will.

We're planning a small picnic today. Which we will drive to. SLAUGHTER SLAUGHTER EVERYWHERE

I think evidence is building behind the theory that the virus will simply peter out by autumn. And then there will have to be an accounting for what we have done.

Is it me, or are half the the posts on AIBU right now about reporting people for breaking THE RULES

Its not just you! Its pathetic. Are people really expecting a fcking SWAT team to descend on suburbia because next door has their elderly gran round to sit in the garden? I mean, what exactly are they wanting to happen? granny to be locked up in a police cell for the night? yeah that'll teach her wont it?

Its gross.

Yeah, I’ve dropped out of the few regular zoom meet ups I was in. I know it makes me look like an antisocial sod, but it’s such a poor substitute isn’t it? It makes conversation which would normally flow so naturally all stilted and odd.

I really want shops to reopen too. I'm in scotland and it;s some way off yet. Lots of our local restaurants have been getting very creative with their offerings - DIY pizza in a box kits, three course meals in a box delivered to your door, one is even now operating as a click and collect deli selling everything from bread to beer. In the past two weeks, several have re-opened for takeaway.

Going to murder dozens later by booking my car into the garage - it was due a service and MOT on 10th April which was cancelled. So now every time I get into it, there's lots of beeping and messages flashing up about my service being overdue.

If I never hear the name "dominic cummings" again it will be too soon. Sick to the back teeth of hearing about that man .

I also hate shopping.

But if shops are open I'll shop.

I might even browse

Better than another walk around my very pretty town.

And I LOVE walking. Not just in beautiful areas, just the pleasing rhythm of one foot in front of another for 40 minutes to cross the city.

I'm just so BORED.

I’ve just ordered a projector so we can have outdoor cinema night in our garden. Probably killed some Amazon workers and a couple of delivery drivers

It’ll be fun and the kids will love it but I’m thinking what the actual fuck am I doing? This is mad. Cinema in my fucking garden FFS

Shops opening is good, but I want to go to a shop and not have to queue outside, or spend ages going up and down aisles I don't want to get to the one I do. I want to go to the shops without a back drop of hassle.

@HauntedGoatFart I saw that headline about how the Oxford scientists are worried that by the time the vaccine is ready for testing, their won’t be enough cases for testing to be effective!

I’m not normally the biggest fan of shopping but I do like a good wander round our pretty little gift shops in town

I love a good tat shop

And yes, not queueing!

I had to queue to get OUT of Sainsbury’s on Saturday.

I nipped out to get milk and cat food last night from our little Co-Op. Massive bloody queue down the street.

Drivingdownthe101 With zoom, you can hide your own face! Still not as good as actually meeting friends, but a teeny bit better. Top right hand corner of "your" screen, there's a few options and one is hide self-view.

Ooh thanks MaudesMum!

Can I also be quietly hopeful that my holiday may get to go ahead in August?

I had an email from the RSPB the other day to say that they are hoping to start opening their reserves, however with them being closed ground nesting birds have done so really close to the paths.

Sorry not been around much, been giving myself a break from social media.
When Boris gave his speech last night he ended with:
"We will set out what moving to step 2 means for other areas, such as non-essential retail and more social contacts, over the course of the next week"
So, I wonder if now we will be able to mix households? After all, following the events of this last week, he doesnt have a leg to stand on to justify not doing it anymore.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the priorities for reopening in England being garden centres, homebase and the tips. Great British day out indeed but i exhausted my patience for gardening and diy in week 2 of lockdown. I am doing a constant refresh on the lido's website though. Neighbour has invited us for an illegal bbq. He says no one will report us as his neighbour one side has had them most days and the house between us is empty. Tbh he's totally right, the kids have been total pitas in the front yards for weeks and no one has so much as given us a frosty stare, but i am a law abiding type and am nervous about going through his house. I am hoping kids' unbearable racket will help people realise they need to open some child-friendly stuff soon. It's very difficult to persuade them to come on another walk to the cordoned off playground.

I love shopping and really want to wander round a lovely big store with loads of make up counters.

And go to the fancy cheese shop and taste little bits before choosing something nice.

And got out for lunch and afternoon cocktails.

I can't be arsed with the queuing for supermarkets so just don't bother going. It's all so boring and needless.

The problem is almost all businesses - shops, pubs, restaurants, gyms etc - depend on numbers. They need lots of people in the place buying or it’s just not viable to stay open, pay rent, rates, wages, suppliers.

If the official line stays 2m for much longer it’s that which will kill off all these kinds of businesses. Two months shut is one thing, but even Starbucks can’t sustain the best part of a year only serving a handful of people per hour.

This applies to supermarkets too, so I expect (hope?) a pushback from them soon about the pointless queuing nonsense because they need to get back to volume sales.

Oh. And the gym. I need the gym. Getting fatter and unhealthy is hardly ideal.

I am too mean to enjoy shopping mostly, but i do love a charity shop browse.

Aw re RSPB, to be fair i might let the nesting birds have that one, they sound reasonable!

I am quietly hopeful re August holiday too, though it's in Wales, and they seem to be playing it stricter. Currently eyeing up a switcheroo to the Northumberland coast.

I think evidence is building behind the theory that the virus will simply peter out by autumn. And then there will have to be an accounting for what we have done

The problem is, as we’ll never know what would have happened without lockdown, they’ll always claim that it was lockdown that made it peter out. That it’s thanks to our ‘national sacrifice’ and our ‘war like effort’ that we ‘turned the tide’ on the ‘silent killer’. And people will buy it, because it makes them look like heroes.

I'd like to look round shops in peace not getting hissed at by a man in a mask like last time in M&S... I think the small shops might struggle and there are many here...the rents are very high also so even before this many found it hard.

I have no idea when things like the thermae bath spa or the roman bath would re-open not for ages I guess. at least might not mean overwhelming crowds of tourists or the hoards at the christmas market I guess

Is it me, or are half the the posts on AIBU right now about reporting people for breaking THE RULES ?

This is the Golden Age for busybodies.

They finally have the excuse that if the whole of society doesn't bend to their petty judgements that people WILL DIE.

Giving them this pretext for their behaviour was risky, because they are not going to give it up without a fight.

In every society there are people who want to control how everyone else lives, to maximise their own comfort according to their prejudices and sense of order.

Lockdown had effectively pit them in charge. They are our gaolers.

The state hasn't the resources to police lockdown. It needed compliance through consent and social pressure.

Now that consent is waning, all that is left is social pressure and that is far less effective as consent dries up.

Thankfully the state (UK) has decided it's time to ease lockdown, so the budybodies are largely just shrieking into a void.

The interesting thing is that Wales and Scotland have decided to become busybody nations. I'm fascinated to see how that plays out socially. (Sorry to my buddies in Wales and Scotland, I hope you are released soon.)

Ah Orangeblossom78 we used to live just outside Bath. Usually visit friends there every summer. I miss it.