When I'm out and about I fairly often bump into a chatty bloke who lives a couple of streets away. He's a nurse and also a local Covid-19 community group volunteer. Nice, cheerful guy but he really doesn't seem to understand social distancing and more than once when I've nipped out to the local shop I've encountered him and have had to back away as he's kept approaching me for a close-up chat.
I also have home-schooling neighbours who went off to Spain in January for a couple of months and were trapped there during the Spanish lockdown. Yesterday they arrived back at their home just across a little green area opposite my house. Their children have been playing out on the green. I texted to welcome them home and told them that my partner and I are self-isolating because of my partner's severe asthma. They texted back to say how relieved they are to be home and saying they appreciated that they wouldn't be seeing us around for a while.
We have a window on the landing that overlooks the green. I looked out as I came downstairs earlier and saw the nurse walking across the green and going up to the children and talking to them at close quarters. Their father came out of the house and the two men shook hands and then had a big hug. They've been standing talking for ages and there's a lot of shoulder-slapping and high-fiving and roaring with laughter going on. I can almost see the spittle flying. It's as if Covid-19 didn't exist.
I don't know for sure whether the nurse is working at the moment. When I last spoke to him he said that he hadn't worked for a while because they couldn't find PPE to fit him properly. AIBU to feel worried that a community volunteer and a nurse is behaving like this? I really hope they're testing nurses regularly.