Trying to work out how many people are still following the lockdown rules

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So it turns out nearly every member of mine and DH family are not following the lockdown rules in some way. I only found out today by chance with some of members of my family after hearing them in the background whilst on the phone to my mum.

According to Dsis the vast majority of people are breaking the rules in some way.

I Thought people might be honest on a thread like this which is anonymous.

So AIBU to think most people are breaking the rules?
Please vote AIBU if your sticking to the rules.
YANBU if you are breaking them.

I should probably also say that I'd be more willing to follow 'the rules' to the letter if the rules actually made sense. Allowing people to drive 2 hours to go to the beach is crazy IMO and far more likely to spread the virus from an area of high infection to one of low infection than allowing two families from a low infection area to have a picnic together in their local park.

@zafferana I completely agree about child mental health. Children have been ignored - it would be perfectly safe (it is indeed safe) for children to play outdoors in a park with friends but it's not even been mentioned.

Breaking the rules for the first time today by going with baby DS to sit in DPs front garden, with them sitting on doorstep. Have spent last 24 hours arguing with DH about how bad this is. DPs think it's ridiculous and I should sit in back garden (via side gate) and let them make me a socially distanced cup of tea.

They're being bastards about DC IMO @Wondergirl100, and they're doing it deliberately, because this week is half-term and they don't want families meeting up, which is not only cruel, it's unnecessary. There is no evidence that two families meeting outside is harmful and I'm tired of following all this nonsense that has no scientific basis.

I keep to the rules where they make sense.

I am, however, meeting both of my parents at the same time because I don’t see how it is more risky to do that (outside and socially distanced) than to see one of them for an hour while the other sits in the car and then for them to swap over.

We met with a single male friend to go for a walk. We socially distanced and had a good natter I brought us a can of beer each which we drank and disposed of safely. He was posting a few worrying things on social media about feeling cut off from the world, thinking about asking his gp for medication to help him sleep etc, so I suggested a walk. We’ve said we’ll do it once a week.

I'm not in that my partner who lives alone and I are moving between our houses. I'm wfh. My son had his girlfriend around yesterday - they are the only people outside their own households (excluding my partner) they've each met up with.

@Incrediblytired

@Myfriendanxiety I was joking

@incrediblytired -I’m glad! But you wouldn’t believe how many people don’t see to know. There was a thread ten minutes who where someone didn’t know what they were!

I'm sticking to the rules but I don't see much social distancing now. My world is very small though. Many people don't attempt to social distance when out walking, lots of people waiting for the bus pacing up and down, standing in the middle of the pavement so you cannot safely pass them etc.

Ah, so I wasn’t breaking the rules by having my friend over to sit in the garden!
Going by the rules posted by @Myfriendanxiety, I’ve done nothing wrong, yet some posters made out that I was!

@tigerbear there was additional guidance put out to this that said gardens are also not allowed.

@Myfriendanxiety oh, ok, where was that? I don’t understand why there are 2 sets of rules then? What if someone only read the first lot?

Also, it makes no sense to walk to the park (passing loads of people in the process), to sit in said park with hundreds of other people, many who aren’t social distancing, compared to staying at home, with one additional person in my own garden.

It makes no sense at all!

Why is sitting 2m away from someone in a park different to 2m away in a garden???

We are sticking to the rules but currently on a zoom with dh’s family and every single one of them has broken the rules (mainly meeting in larger groups).

I’m really starting to feel like I can’t be bothered any more, particularly as they don’t seem to apply to the likes of D.C.

Judging by the ever decreasing figures, the vast majority are following the rules!

Everyone except Dominic Cummings?

I have followed the rules throughout (reluctantly) and continue to do so.

Though a few weeks ago, I condoned my son and his girlfriend meeting up for a few minutes each day. But I think that was still within the rules anyway as they met up outside and stayed 2 metres apart.

We have been sticking to the rules religiously, but have agreed to have a picnic in the park next week with another family from school because from what I can see when I run there, everybody else is doing the same thing.

I’ve seen so many school mums out and about in groups the last couple of weeks I’m not prepared to let my DC miss out any longer.

We are in our home and it appears family and friends do follow the rules as well.

We are here, but we're in west Wales so it's slightly different here..lots of Police spot checks for one.

MIL came and sat in our back garden for an hour yesterday. We all stayed well over 2m away from her. My Dad did the same thing the day before and again we stayed well away.

We technically should have met in a public place somewhere if we were to stick to the rules, but I don't personally see how it makes any difference where we are as long as we're outside and over 2m apart? Maybe I'm missing something.

I disinfected everything they had touched after they left.

A close friend has put an update on FB about how she is closely following all the original rules and still only doing the hour exercise. Unfortunately what she doesn’t know is that her teenage daughters hours exercise is meeting her mates in the woods (see her when dog walking). She is planning on visiting her elderly mum as she believes she is no risk and has asked if college begins can I take her DD with my DD as it will be safe. Feeling a bit shit about the right thing to do regarding her mum.

Right at the beginning, I would walk round the park once a day, and was rather surprised to see how many other people were there.
At first no one spoke to each other, but gradually people started talking.
However, I was then surprised to discover other family members going for 10 mile walks, 20 mile cycle rides, etc. But they told me they had checked the Gov website for the guidelines. Michael Gove may have said 1 hour a day, but actually there was no limit imposed.
Since then, I have gone further afield, etc