To be fed up of self isolating when I see other people out?

[CorinnaSinner]

In the news ... on the beach, bbqs in the park, coffees in groups etc

Obviously I’m going to continue ... it’s just very frustrating.

Do you mean self isolating (which would be because you have symptoms and means not leaving the house at all) or the social distancing we are all being asked to do?
Either way, the other people are twats and staying in is the right thing.

Totally agree. Just reading local paper where gps are saying more measures need to be taken as people not heeding those already given - we have gone for two short walks since last Sunday, stuck home with two small kids, only to discover many aren’t bothering! One of the walks was to a very empty local park beside a dual carriageway (we’d never normally go there but trying to stay close to home) and the dual carriageway was heaving with cars!

How do you see
on the beach, bbqs in the park, coffees in groups

unless you are doing those things, too? I'm confused.

@Wetcarparkrain why have you only gone out twice? Why not everyday like you're allowed.

I did say in the news ... didn’t think I needed to elaborate further

Yabu as they’re on the news being pointed out to be being ignorant twats. So why would you think that was somehow something you’d want to do.

@userxx we've only been out once since Sunday because I found it too stressful trying to maintain distance from people coming towards us who didn't care!! Some thanked us for moving to the side, some completely blanked us and some looked at us like we were two sarnies short of a picnic!! We'll be out more over the weekend now DH is home from work (well, out twice!)

Because I’d like to think we’re all in it together. These people are going to keep me inside longer yet they will still be going out like normal - nothing to stop them.

Because the less you go out the less you’re at risk? Because I have asthma and although outside the most vulnerable group, do not want to unnecessarily expose myself or risk taking up a hospital bed? Because the every day once a day exercise thing isn’t a special token where on that walk you’re immune to Covid-19, just a recommendation to the maximum you should be doing.

And it's very easy to use angles and lenses to make it look like people are closer together than they actually are. Even the angles used may make groups of people look larger. A recent example I remember was a visit to Edinburgh castle by a couple of the royals - met by cheering crowds it would appear from the close, tightly framed TV footage - but tourist photos of the scene from higher angles showed barely a couple of dozen flag wavers.

A few shots stitched together from 'around the country' doesn't mean that this is happening everywhere.

YABU. I just think “massive wankers“ and get on with my life. The new police powers will have their gatherings broken up and moved on hopefully anyway.

@WhatICallMyUsername You should have seen Aldi this morning, I'm not overly bothered about the virus but Jesus Christ it was more like 2cm between people 😱

It’s really p’ing me off. So many comments on here, the press, so many fools not following the rules. I’m on day 10 now of working at home and only leaving the house for a dog walk (way more than 2 metres away)

@userxx DH said there was a queue to pay for petrol the other day and everyone was keeping their distance and then going the long way round past the fridges to pay when the guy at the front of the queue just squeezed past everyone on purpose and someone said what the hell are you doing and he just laughed

The new police powers will have their gatherings broken up and moved on hopefully anyway

No. They won't. The police in the UK stopped investigating burglaries years ago. They don't bother with recidivist violent criminals. They are notable for their absence on the streets, where most people want to see them exercising some semblance of law and order. They are busy on Twitter however, where limericks can elicit a visit as Harry Miller knows. The idea that the UK cops will be able to prevent more than two people meeting in public? Laughable. One of the things this virus has exposed is the ability of the police in a police state to effectively shut down any public social interaction. And the ongoing failure of the police in the UK, where the concept that their job is to protect civilians seems to have died sometime back in the last century.

Police are powerless to stop people leaving home repeatedly every day or driving to nature spots to exercise, chief officers admitted as forces began issuing coronavirus lockdown fines.

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/senior-officers-divided-about-rules-to-deter-public-in-open-spaces-cb36j9njc

I agree OP, we were questioning yesterday whether we were okay to go food shopping as we’d already been for a walk and then I speak to family members who are going around visiting people like nothings happened 🤦🏼‍♀️

There are always stupid people, no matter what else comes or goes. Console yourself by remembering that most people who see them acting this way are thinking they're selfish idiots. And even if a few jerks behave irresponsibly, every person who does the right thing is tipping the scales in the opposite direction. You're doing your part.

Enjoy the fact that you're not on the news at some BBQ with the whole country watching at home and hating you.

In the co-op queue the other day the man behind me told me to move up! I told him to back away from me as I was maintaining the distance advice and he told me I was a weirdo!!

YANBU

Conversations with selfish family members and seeing my neigbours and their outings/visitors is evidence enough just in my small.corner that others don't give a crap.

We dont even bother exercising outside the home as it's just running the gauntlet because others can't be trusted - as we experienced on our one and only walk.

YANBU. Some people think the rules don't apply to them. Just look how many threads there are each day on here where posters are desperate to be told they're exempt from the rules.

One of my friends seems to think it doesn't count if she goes to see her boyfriend on the grounds that they both work from home so aren't seeing many people. The fact they're both in house shares with others who are working seems to have escaped them. I told her the government have said it either needs to be home separately or decide to cohabit, but apparently that doesn't really work for them right now. 🤦

I guess lots of journalists are wandering around just looking for any congregations of folk to take pics of & declare they are being too sociable. Is this an important activity for journalists to be doing right now? Discuss.

Driving round doing NHS home visits today and it's only day 4 and people are already taking the piss, sitting reading on their doorsteps, chatting to neighbours in the street, sitting on walls. I swear I'm going to get a dashcam and shame the lot of them on social media.