To ask genuinely if you aren't following the rules

[MrsKingfisher]

Why? I'm genuinely curious to know why those who can't get to grips with what's been asked of us all at this time or those who need to find a loophole are doing it.

Not key workers etc etc I'm talking about those who simply cannot do as they've been asked. It's mind boggling how simple rules can be so unclear to so many!

Some of my friends just cannot seem to stay at home, just carrying on as if the rules don't apply to them. I don't get it.

Yes I go shopping more than once a week to the corner shop. I am not allowed to buy more than 2 litres of milk which lasts two days. So I go more often. Shoot me.

I’m following them apart from the 1 exercise a day. I live in a tiny gated community with direct access to a beach and I’m going walking there a couple of times each day, and taking a flask of coffee to sit and watch the sunset each evening. I’ve not met a single person the whole week so don’t think I’m causing any risk to anybody.
I’m following all other rules, keeping shopping to a minimum and socially distancing when I go.

I don't think many people are carrying on completely as normal, maybe just bending the rules a little bit. I moved in with my bestie (ex partner) for the duration. I've also seen one other friend a couple of times. Both of them have care needs, so to an extent I'm helping them out.

I do a lot of hand washing and gelling etc.

Not stupid, just making it slightly less boring. I don't think seeing one or two people is too extreme- it's no more than people who have partners/families do, after all.

I am hardly going out at all because of the IDIOTS who don't keep their distance, particularly runners in the park who pass you from behind, within a metre. The gyms are all closed so they are taking over all the outside space. Even walking along my road, there are people in groups who don't give you an inch of space. I'm sick of it.

Calling people stupid and selfish doesn't help. And means that nobody will feel they can talk about it. Attacking people doesn't usually help them to feel like uniting.
I would imagine that some people cannot bear it, and cannot bear to take it in.

My DSS wasn't taking a blind bit of notice of any advice last weekend. I don't know if he's changed his tune since lockdown started, but he took the view that "You can't just stop seeing people" and was still visiting mates. He's also still working, despite being told that he could just do emergency call-outs. He has type 1 diabetes and his lodger is a paramedic.

DP is so livid with him that he hasn't spoken to him since last weekend, so I have no idea if he's following lockdown rules.

His ex is being very responsible and stopped seeing anyone as soon as the schools closed. She has, understandably, refused to let him spend time with their daughter.

He thinks this is desperately unfair.

Yes some people are breaking the rules.
It’s not good, but what do you want to do, give yourselves a fucking thrombosis over it?

What do we all do in response to these shitty threads?
All it does is encourage us to feel angry and more afraid, over events we cannot largely control.
It is encouraging more hatred in a already uncertain and depressed society. The news is always negative, with or without a pandemic.

I’d suggest taking a step back, making yourself aware of current news and just avoid shit like this.

I'm still working which isn't breaking the rules obviously but I feel it's at a massive risk. NHS nurse though so no choice, I'd love nothing more than being paid to stay at home where it feels safe.

My dad is running out of medication. He genuinely can't get any more. He'd left some at my house (4 hours away). The local post office is shut (the post mistress is self isolating). So I drove to a post office yesterday to post it. It's breaking the rules. I know it. I feel bad about it. But I'd do it again in a heart beat...

Also completely agree that you see people making up rules. There’s nothing in the legislation about the number of times you can go shopping or exercise -see ref 6 (restrictions on movement)- www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/pdfs/uksi_20200350_en.pdf

I suspect that they just don't care enough about other people to stop doing what they want to do.

Everyone around here is following the guidelines. I am an NHS nurse, as is DH, so we are both still working, and still well. We still only take the dog (one of us) for a walk once a day and we don't go to the supermarket more than once a week if that. All the local children are in their individual gardens. The over-70's are all staying in, and the community are rallying around via Nextdoor to make sure everyone has enough food/medicine/someone to talk to. My mum isn't local and nor are my adult children, and I haven't seen any of them since February. We natter on Snapchat, Facebook and Whatsapp all day long (when not at work).

We will all get through this.

ILoveAnOwl
That’s fine. Medical need.

People do things that put others lives at risk every day, it doesn't stop people doing them. Did anyone honestly think everyone in the country would blindly abide by these rules?

I've been running several times (my only time out of the house apart from the illicit sanpro shop) and I've found most people go in single file to pass or move to one side (as do I- I'm not expecting everyone to move for me) often I'll go in the road when safe to keep an appropriate distance but some people seem completely oblivious- walking 3 or 4 abreast on a pavement, barely noticing if someone is trying to pass

Mostly!
I’ve been food shopping once for elderly DM and twice for myself
Arranged to food shop at around same time as DD so we could see each other and catch up in car park (we stayed 2m apart) quite sad though as we wanted to hug each other and didn’t feel we should

Why is posting medication to someone "breaking the rules"
Where are these mysterious rules that I seem
To be missing?

I only go out to shop by it is for 4 separate households, to safely deliver said shopping to others and to help my son with his needs as he is disabled but lives alone. I am also on a rota as a key worker but have only been into work once since the schools closed.

"My dad is running out of medication. He genuinely can't get any more. He'd left some at my house (4 hours away). The local post office is shut (the post mistress is self isolating). So I drove to a post office yesterday to post it. It's breaking the rules. I know it."

That's NOT breaking the rules

Medication is essential
You followed the rules, especially by posting them instead of driving all the way

Changed my name because i’m naughty and don’t want to be told off forever more. I’m going for one long walk a day, 2 hours with the kids and husband. Then, because being fit is part of his job (key worker, military) my dh is going back out for a long run in the evening. We are breaking the rules but I don’t plan on stopping really. We haven’t however been to a supermarket in over three weeks as i whisper stockpiled/ panic bought all we needed and have at least another week of freezer food. We ARE doing our bit. No car journeys, no waiting in line at the supermarket and no popping out.

"Thick as pig shit"
Dear god what is wrong with this place
And you of course are ooooohhh so clever
Because you can look down from
Your mythical moral high ground and sneer
Fuck sake

There are plenty of these 'reasons the rules don't apply to me' people on this thread too. Case in point really

I go on multiples walk a day because I have severe mental issues and long walks are the only thing that really helps. I keep a distance between everyone and I mostly walk through empty wooded areas.