I have a friend (possibly soon to be former friend) who is all over social media with stories of how she and her husband saw this coming at the beginning of March so have been in self-imposed lockdown for three weeks prior to the rest of the country. It's hard but it's the right thing to do. They are not going out for food but making do with what they have in the house and do not trust delivery drivers who will contaminate their groceries. She claims to have quit her job in early March in order to take one for the team and ensure she can stay inside, while her husband works from home anyway. She now spends 24/7 on social media, commenting on every news article she can find and picking fights with strangers who are not social distancing as well as she is. She is exhausting. And it's all lies.
On 8th March, she and I took a day trip together by train.
On 13th March, we were both invited to the pub for drinks for a mutual friend's birthday. I came down with a "persistent" cough a few days before so didn't go (no other symptoms but wanted to be safe and was also scared of being lynched in the pub for turning up like that). She kept messaging me, telling me that with no other symptoms, I'd be absolutely fine and tried to persuade me to join them.
I've been in her flat hundreds of times and know it like the back of my hand. I don't know where she is keeping a 6-month supply for food which will enable her to never leave the house or take a delivery.
Apparently, before locking down, she and her DH calculated how much they would normally spend on haircuts and in local shops and went around donating that sum to these businesses. She is also continuing to pay her cleaner weekly although the cleaner is obviously not coming at the moment. If true, this is wonderful, but she accompanies these bragging posts with "hang your head in shame" messages to the rest of us. NB - she and her DH (who is still wfh and drawing a very high salary - she has often described her job as "pocket money") are very well off. DH and I and other mutual friends are not. We couldn't afford a cleaner even before all this. My DH has now lost his job due to CV19 and I'm on a paycut (but not furloughed). Apparently this is irrelevant. But the main thing is that everyone in the neighbourhood knows and loves her for her benevolence.
Another mutual friend, who does have underlying health conditions and lives alone, had been expressing concern about not having enough food in the house. One of her neighbours did a shop for her and she posted her gratitude. Bragging friend then came in with warning messages about how she shouldn't have trusted the neighbour - he probably coughed into the bag - and now mutual friend will definitely get CV19 and die.