To think everyone is going to get very fed up with all this?

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The thought of John Lewis dumping a washer-dryer on my doorstep and expecting me to remove the old (integrated) one and carry and plumb in the new one makes me wonder.

AIBU to think we're going to get fed up with this social distancing malarkey before very long?

(I hate it anyway, as I need people around me for my sanity. And not my teenagers 24/7).

Like I said, buy a dolly and spend.some.time.learning!

You have the internet. Use it.

OP was joking?

Op, as kindly as possible, saying you need these things won't change these things not being possible right now

Leaving aside my washer-dryer problem, Wendy says the most important thing of all: The long term effects on mental health and the economic fallout will be awful and probably claim just as many lives in the long run

This is, unfortunately, true.

My washing machine broke 2 weeks ago, no income now, so no new machine.. am handwashing for me and DS2, like my mum used to when i was little.. Its actually quite therapeutic, and boy my hands are cleaner then clean!

At the end of the day, i'd never ever imagined that going out to buy a pint of milk could kill you, i'd rather stay at home, and go without milk for as long as it takes..

Alternatively leave it on the drive and someone will move it for you. Possibly not to where you need it though

thistime, no I wasn't joking.

Ok, so the washer-dryer is a massive inconvenience, because I don't want to learn to use an effing dolly and have my tiny house full of dripping sheets and towels (not to mention clothes).

However, I am deadly serious that this situation can't go on, and that people will get very, very pissed off and will refuse to go along with it.

Anyone who has had mental health problems will know what I am talking about.

Nobody is listening to us.

I'm not sure whether the OP can physically move the machines and do the plumbing, but there must be people who if their washer breaks wouldn't be able to and would then resort to using launderettes - which are open but entail more contact.

Of course we are all going to get very fed up of it very soon, and anyone who takes the moral high ground will also feel the same but won't say it.

Errol, I would find it hard. It's integrated and wedged. The plumbing isn't a problem. However, the un-wedging it and carrying it is (as mentioned, I'm tiny and have a broken foot).

runrabbit, I really hope you're not in charge of NHS mental health provision.

I imagine there will have been huge concern about the mental health impact. Quite simply that cannot overtake NHS workers dying. Think about this, if a Tory government are willing to pay people to stay at home there is a serious serious risk to life.

The government can’t win here

More people will die from the lockdown you are spot on but at least they are seen to be doing something.

And slowing the spread may mean less deaths over all as the nhs is not do stretched so people with other diseases will not die on unrelated things.

I don’t believe any sustainable course of action will reduce deaths from the virus unless a cure or a vaccine are found.

I don't want to learn to use an effing dolly

You don’t need to learn to use a dolly! It’s a wheels contraption used for manoeuvring heavy things, like washer dryers, to where you want them, like kitchens.

However, I am deadly serious that this situation can't go on, and that people will get very, very pissed off and will refuse to go along with it.

Are you talking about adults or toddlers? No one enjoys the lockdown, but we’re trying to save thousands of human lives.

Your washing machine comes a very, very distant second to that.

RJ, I don’t believe any sustainable course of action will reduce deaths from the virus unless a cure or a vaccine are found

I think you are right about this.

Hack, I don't think this is a party politics matter. I can imagine that any government of any hue would see an immediate and serious problem that demanded action. For all I know, they have people advising them on the MH aspects of social distancing, and are aware of the problems.

I think MN is a real hotbed of unconcern about MH issues at the moment, though.

Dollies can be operated by teenagers under supervision of tiny, broken footed adults.

Juan, I thought a dolly was one of those sink-plunger things that people used with a wooden crate in the Olden Days to do their washing. Apologies!

Just read an article in tne Guardian written by an Italian on the 3rd week of lock down who reckons there’s going to be rioting/a revolution soon. Which surprised me seeing as how bad it is in Italy.

But he did say that food has become scarce again which I guess wouldn’t help......and contradicts what I’d seen earlier in the week about no food shortages in Italy or Spain?

@runrabbitrunrunrun Perhaps all the people with MH issues could just be deliberately exposed to coronavirus so only 'healthy' people remain. FFS it hasn't taken long to go backwards on that subject has it!! 'Stasi' isn't the term I'd be using to describe people with your attitude.

In fact, one of these

I'm not unconcerned, I get that it's a huge issue. I'm fairly mentally well and, after 3 weeks indoors (was ill before lockdown) I'm varying between serious fear and moments of feeling very low. At the same time I know, as we pass 1000 deaths, that it's a moment of the least worst option right now.

Yes people will get fed up of it but tough shit. Least we're not having to physically fight a war and evacuate our kids.

Oh I hear you op
I need a new cooker because I have no workingoven, but can't order a new one because I can connect it myself, or move the other one
It may seem inconsequential, but I am sick of not having a working oven

Can not connect it myself obvs