Are you basically avoiding unnecessary contact at the moment?

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Supermarket this evening seemed really quiet - like most people had been and got their stuff. A very strange atmosphere.

I have been avoiding 'social' things out of work as much as possible - that's basically things that I don't have to do. Work, school run and supermarket. If I need to.

I wonder how many other people are doing that?

Currently not changed anything hugely. I work with the public and that won't change.

Dd has got hand San and her own hand wash for school and her after school activity was not cancelled tonight it was as normal but they only have 8 kids attend.

This weekend I wanted to have a quiet one anyway with no major plans but I would not avoid eating out etc just yet.

One of my parents run a coffee shop though and business this week has plummeted. So people are definitely staying in more.

Carrying on as normal here until told otherwise. DS went to Beavers tonight, I did a bit of shopping. The supermarket was no less busy than usual. Tomorrow I'm going to my volunteering role, will grab a coffee at the cafe on the way.

I haven't got a lot on this weekend, but will take DS to the park if it's dry and his swimming lesson. Next weekend I'm taking my mum out for afternoon tea for mother's day.

We’re going away for a spa weekend - DH’s 40th bday present. No way I’m changing that but hopeful that we may have the pool etc to ourselves...!

OH and I are still doing early morning walks around the park, but otherwise keeping inside. I'm currently having IVF treatment and other than having to go every 2 days for scans, I'm trying to stay in.

@ScrimpshawTheSecond - ditto here (high five!!)

I was hoping there would be more people in our boat but doesn't seem like it.

Yes.
Didn't go to a concert this week, or a hobby which involves a large group for two hours.
Still planning to meet at a friends' house for dinner on Sat, but am bailing out of things for next week.

DH & I already work from home. Have food delivered. Have a home gym and a garden. Could quite happily self-isolate for months!

DS is coming back from uni this weekend and other child finishes school next week for Easter, so we will hunker down for a month and see what happens.

My ILs are very elderly and one currently in hospital (not virus related) so DH is keen to avoid getting/transmitting this to them if possible - especially at peak.

Yep. Nothing dramatic, but just assuming a quite few weeks/lots of fresh air ahead. Hoping that everybody with common sense will do the same whenever they can. No point cramming ourselves into soft play/pubs whilst also dramatically buying all the panic-toilet-roll.

Well to be honest we don't have much contact at the moment anyway except for the kids being at school. DH works from home a lot and his offices have now closed until end of April due to cv19 so he has no choice. I work in a small office with 2 other people for 8 hours a week. We probably won't socialise for a while now although I might go to my allotment a fair bit (not likely to get much contact there).

I haven't really been doing anything different so far? Work in a school, taking kids to their various hobbies, went to a kids birthday party at the weekend etc

ditto here (high five!!)

Maybe let's just wave?

Same here. School run and supermarket if needed. I used to go to baby club with my 16 months. But stopper going there too. Just play with her house and garden.

Yep. I’ve cut back. No gym this week and usually do 3-4 classes a week (spin, yoga, Pilates) and last week was using own yoga mat and own disinfectant. Have two kids both at uni (yrs 3 & 4) and 4 over 75 yr old parents (well parents and in laws). FIL has COPD and likely to be starting chemo next 4-6 weeks for CMML (leukaemia). I don’t want to be the one that puts them at risk. Damage limitation.

Yes. But I still have to commute on the tube and bus every day for work, so it’s pointless really.

Are people really waiting to be told by Government that they should start 'social distancing' themselves?

I've seen (on other threads) so many people complaining that they don't agree with the current advice, but surely then you can take some of it into your own hands - stop going to events, call the school and tell them your child has a fever and a cough etc if you think they should be off.

I appreciate this won't apply to everyone, and is unsuitable where you have an employer that needs to be 'told' to let employees work from home etc, but as @ScrimpshawTheSecond and @OrangeBuddha point out - if those of us who can start social distancing anyway, doesn't that contribute towards 'flattening the curve' for others/ keeping us out of medical facilities which others might need?

Thinking of doing the weekly shop at 3am on Tuesday. Surely it'll be quiet? Surely I can't be the only one to think this?

Ok nobody is as mad as me but I'll have toilet roll and pasta and a lack of infection.

No, work in nhs, been at a parents evening with maybe 300 people tonight

Business as usual, here. Oddly, everywhere has been busier this week than last week. The road outside my house, which leads to a retail park, has been stocking up for Christmas kind of busy.

@cheninblanc - that’s mad about the parents evening!
Our school has cancelled our parents evenings and has said parents can arrange a telephone call/ Skype call if they want to discuss reports etc.

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@Eckhart no that's my plan too. There'll probably be hundreds of us!