How many of you have broken lockdown rules?

[vulvic]

I'm just wondering. I thought the vast majority had stuck to it but seeing more threads and hearing more stories, it seems there is a lot of people still seeing close family.

Anyway, I'm in the Channel Isles. Still in lockdown but slightly easing.

I'm not interested in shopping, garden centres or more exercise. I'm not even interested in socialising or catching up with friends.
I just want to see my mum.

I think it's badly affecting her mental health now as she was depressive anyway, and my DS is struggling having not seen her for 2 months.

So, I'm just wondering, have any of you still been seeing close family? Or were you sticking to it and now given up and started visiting? Or are you encouraging to stick firmly to it for as long as possible?

I've been a firm sticker to the rules but now starting to feel the negatives are outweighing the positives but still completely paranoid.

[RosesandIris]

My son has just ranted at me because OH and daughter have gone out to get me a birthday present. Apparently it’s non essential!

[LovelyIssues]

Everyone I know had broken it. Met people outside, been in friends or families gardens, been out for more then an hour for exercise, been to the shop for non essentials, drove somewhere more picturesque for "exercise" etc

[cantata]

I don't get why people think it's ok to sit 2m apart for a period of time with people. It's 2m apart if you're going to pass someone in a street or stand in a queue. Not sitting for a whole afternoon

That's because your chances of transmitting or picking something up are exactly the same in all these situations (assuming you were sitting 2m apart and in the garden/park/whatever).

We just need to apply common sense, really.

[Aloe6]

I’m seeing an attitude change amongst neighbours, starting to have friends over again. Even the people who were quite frothy at the suggestion of mixing a few weeks ago.

I’ve mixed with one other household too for various reasons, although kept 2m apart from each other.

[PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock]

been out for more then an hour for exercise

That was never a rule.

[Coulddowithanap]

Broken then to spend time with my dad, my mum died so feel that is a valid reason.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

That was never a rule.

Depends on where you live I think.

[Janaih]

Definitely a valid reason @Coulddowithanap sorry for your loss

[Comefromaway]

Dh went and say with his mum whilst his dad attended a vital medical appointment. She has dementia and cannot be left alone at all.

Dd drove us to collect the in laws shopping for them so mil could see her as we dropped it on the doorstep. It meant a lot to her.

I’ve been seeing my parents quite regularly as I just moved house and am part way through a kitchen refit so I have no freezer. I’m using a spare freezer in mum’s garage but I also work for my parents company, and although we are all trying to work from home we have had to meet occasionally to pass on files or sort out computer problems. We are in construction so technically we could all meet up at the office if we keep distant.

[zigaziga]

To compound my treachery, I also visit my 84 year old father every Monday. I take him food and spend an hour, at the furthest past of his lounge, chatting to him. Tbis is the only contact he has with the 'outside world'. He is horrendously lonely and tbh, If I pass it on to him and he dies, at least he dies happier than he would be.

The only person I know who is completely breaking lockdown ie carrying on pretty much as before is a 90 year old. He still sees various different family members most days when they pop by (I think it adds up to about 4 “households”).
He can’t use the internet, isn’t good on the phone etc .. He’s very clear that he would rather die than cit himself off from those he loves.

Don’t blame him really.

[RosesandIris]

I’ve heard this from several elderly people. I know of one lady who is 71 and adores her grandchildren. They are here life. She’s been in isolation on her own since lockdown began but is begging to see her grandchildren. She says she would rather catch the virus than live as she is. I completely understand. It’s very hard for elderly people living alone anyway, to be completely alone for weeks and weeks and weeks when you are frail is just horrendously cruel.

[Notmyrealname855]

Totally stuck to it... at first it was a novelty, but then our area got really badly hit. I worry about peoples MH, because some are struggling with lockdown but we now have more MH issues with people unable to kick corona :( it’s a really, really hard and challenging slog. So that’s made all of us a bit stricter. We’re in Cumbria, assuming not all areas have such bad cases

[luckylavender]

@cantata - no they're not. Your chances are reduced by passing at 2 metres, not eradicated. Sitting for a long period of time will greatly increase the risk.

[SallyB392]

I think we broke the. Rules since day 1, we go for a long walk with our dog in the morning which sometimes takes longer than an hour (I use crutches and sometimes I have to sit down before carrying on), and my DH takes her out for literally 5 mins in the evening.

Our justification. Is that we don't see anyone else so are neither at risk nor placing others at risk.

[ghostmouse]

I've broke them from day 1

Dp and I live in separate houses a mile from each other. He has spent most of his time at hours but goes home twice a week to sleep. He lives alone and doesn't see many people any way.

Been to the shop to get non essentials, the range is open so I got paint and paint brushes and also fence paint. I did however pick some food up from Iceland there which is in our local range.

I live in Wales and our lock down rules are different. We are not supposed to drive to exercise unless you have a disability or caring with someone with a disability or to prevent illness.

My daughter has autism so I drove to a local park and had a walk round with her as it's much quieter and remote there. The abuse I got from 2 women when I got back in the car was awful even when I pointed out that I wasn't breaking the rules there they still didn't listen. My daughter hasn't been out since because it scared her that much and now things are horrendous at home.

I don't think I can hold out much longer. I feel like jumping off the nearest bridge. Wales is going on for another 3 weeks.

I'm going to meet my mum later. Under Welsh guidelines of course. No more than 2 people accidentally meeting in a park.