To think we should still be sticking to the rules?

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I feel a bit of an idiot, I've been sticking to the uk lockdown rules since day one. I've been on Facebook today and seen friends going to parties, groups bigger than 6. I've specifically not done any gathering more than 6 because I thought this was the rule. Am I being silly ?

Nope.

I work with vulnerable people. I've seen my partner, son and colleagues.

Only place I've been is Tesco.

It's important to stay safe.

Sticking to rules here.

Rules here, but I agree there has been a huge shift and I feel even more alone this week.

I know what you mean we have completely stuck to the rules however it’s seems like everyone else round here has given up

We're sticking to the rules. I know others who are too.

I've declined 3 different rule-bending invitations in the last 2 or so weeks. I felt awkward doing it but it's for the best for the time-being.

We have just been invited to a picnic in the local park, great I thought social distance get together with six friends .... then I found out that if we go there will be about 11 people there, just trying to think of a polite way of saying love to but no thanks 😟

Sticking to the rules

I’m shielding, do being really quite careful. But I do go out for exercise, and today walked to clinic for a blood test. People are less diligent than they were about distancing, which is a pity. You can’t tell if people are unusually vulnerable just by looking at them

No - sticking to the rules as best as I can. I’d love for my family to give my baby a cuddle - they’ve changed so much in the last 3 months but I’m not going to let them until Nicola gives the go ahead.

We are sticking to the rules. No one else we know is.

Sticking to the rules.

We are but we know lots of others around here aren't. DH was talking to a friend today (on phone). The friend was saying how he's trying to social distance at work (in a carpet shop) but a customer came up and but her hand on his arm to pull him to where she wanted him. And the customer is an NHS worker.
How are you supposed to social distance when others won't?

I wouldn't worry too much at this stage, unless you are clinically vulnerable. There's hardly any community transmission and you are unlikely to catch it outdoors anyway. Just avoid close contact or meeting up indoors.

This will all go completely out of the window the second BoJo makes the pub/club/hairdresser/one metre announcement.

No rules broken here but at this point I don't judge anyone who can't deal with it anymore. People can make their own judgements on what risk they're willing to take.

I haven't broken any rules but only because I haven't had the opportunity

We have been happy sticking to the rules. Weirdly disappointed not to have been invited anywhere though!

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Feeling you ! Getting the exact same about kids locked up in the house not seeing anyone etc ! Everyone we know are meeting up with kids, the adults are social distancing but not the children which imho makes no sense at all, if the kids aren't doing it why should the adults even bother ! We are home educating and enjoying it, the kids are happy they are entertained and they are enjoying relaxed family time Maybe in a slightly different scenario where we have a vunerable child so no plans to go out socialising anytime soon but sometimes i do get sad and think that my kids are missing out on this and its looking likely that my youngest who is the vunerable will miss out on starting school which is a lovely new adventure but then i think of the alternative we get it and pass it to her or someone else who is vunerable and i could never forgive myself. Having sat in ICU watching someone ventilated etc and many times struggling to breathe ambulances and blue light trips etc we would do absolutely anything to avoid ever being in that position !

But yeh everyone else is just moving on with normal life along with the sly comments i just hope none of them have underlying conditions that they are as yet unaware of

Not 100% no. I’ve without thinking picked up someone else’s child when they were in danger, and due to owning animals I’ve been close to other people. Not sure if this a breach as such, becauseYou’re allowed To help people and care for animals, but it doesn’t really matter in that I may have been exposed.
I’ve also been in hospital and doctors surgeries.

I'm meeting my mum in London for the first time in 4 months on Saturday to keep her company while my dad has an operation. Zero chance I'm not going to be hugging her.

We have been following the rules but I’ve been forced back to work this week (non-essential retail) and I’ve found my customers do not understand/care about social distancing. I’m also having to get the bus.
I feel like I might as well have not bothered trying to be so careful the past 12 weeks

We’re sticking to it. We’re in Wales so still quite strict.

I work with a very vulnerable group of people.

Less and less people seem to be. I can’t help feeling disappointed at a lot of my friends Facebook feeds showing them travelling further than the guidance and meeitng with many more than 1 other household.

Lots of these work in the NHS and schools. I can help but feeling it just selfish. It’s also making it harder to make sure that our dc are sticking to the rules. They think they’re meeting one friend and when they turn up it turns out that there’s a big group.

My mum is doing my head in making me feel guilty that she can't hug the kids, making out that I'm being over the top about it! She's desperate for this extra bubble to happen with 2 grandparents but she fails to grasp that my brother has been going into her house from day one so her bubble has already been taken!! Drives me mad 😡

I’m in Wales too, @Muchtoomuchtodo and while I think the cautious approach taken here is correct, the 5 mile guidance is ridiculous. Many, many people in Wales have been travelling further than that to their nearest supermarket all through. My daughter and I can meet by each driving 5 miles to a park between us. This means that, in terms of community transmission, we are involving 3 areas. If one just drives to the other it’s only 2 It makes no sense.
I also think not having bubbles for single people is too much now - I live alone and I haven’t eaten a meal or chatted in a relaxed way with someone for 12 weeks. I know they are looking at that this week, but even so.
I haven’t broken rules but it’s tough and I completely understand whole bending or breaking some of them.

I'm sticking to the rules. I have been all along. (Had a man in the house earlier because I just could not fix my oven myself and have hungry teens to feed).

My family have been 'bending' the rules all along. Meeting in gardens before that was allowed. Nieces have been having sleepovers at 2/3 sets of Grandparents houses. Having each other over for dinner etc etc.

I'm allowed to have a bubble now as I'm a single adult. None of them will bubble with me because apparently it isn't worth it. Mum is waiting until 2 adult households are allowed to bubble to bubble with my brother and sil as apparently they need it more (even though their DC have been staying with various relatives for a week at a time. They haven't had all 3 of them at home at the same time for the last 9 weeks).
I'm not saying they dont need support, having 3 under 7 is hard work. But they've been bending the rules to access it all along, and it's the casual way they have decided for me that I don't need the support that hurts. (Theres also a massive history with them telling me my sons anxiety and school refusal was a learned behaviour, yet DN is now apparently so anxious they've had to stop homeschooling and need all this extra support. Suddenly anxiety in a child is real and not learned. Maybe she really is anxious, it just hurts that when I needed support they all told me to be a parent and Yet a year later they are getting all the help I needed then. )

Whoops. Went on a bit of a rant there. Sorry