Lockdown won't work in U.K

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Because we are too rebellious. I cannot envisage people staying indoors for any length of time

I'm in a bolshy bit of France that had a very active gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) movement. I live on a main road and at the moment there are no people on the streets and barely any cars, and we only locked down four hours ago.

If we can do this it will be easy as pie in the UK.

One thing I’ve noticed in the uk is the rise in people telling those of us who are worried how ridiculous we are.

Examples: A group of younger women laughing and shouting out to a group of elderly people cleaning trolley handles before shopping at a supermarket.

Being shamed for refusing a hug, kiss or handshake.

Being laughed at for seeing everything going on in Italy and Spain and fully expecting the same thing to happen here.

So from what I see, whilst Brits have a reputation for being compliant, there is a large section who appear to have some weird superiority and arrogance that we are untouchable, that our NHS (already suffering due to cuts) will cope.

I am in voluntary isolation due to health issues, I also have a small holding, so daily drives there are necessary, but luckily very rural and no people around. I’m worried what lockdown will mean in terms of keeping that going. If I’m not allowed out what will happen to the animals.

You'd like to think Darwinian principles would apply, but sadly the muppets who insist on going out in the midst of a lockdown will no doubt make a complete recovery. While those they pass the disease on to will be seriously ill or worse.

sadly the muppets who insist on going out in the midst of a lockdown will no doubt make a complete recovery. While those they pass the disease on to will be seriously ill or worse

Yep! Depressing stuff, people are ignorant - I've heard of a few cases of people coughing deliberately in people's faces - if they do it to me, I swear I will actually punch them!

One thing I’ve noticed in the uk is the rise in people telling those of us who are worried how ridiculous we are

IME, many of these are those lucky enough never to have suffered an event or loss they never saw coming that completely devastated them. I suppose it's easier to believe bad things only happen to others when it has always been that way for you so far.

That said, I'm not a fan of hysteria or scaremongering either, and people who are not mindful of how much what they write/ say could scare others. I'm generally not an anxious person at all, the opposite in many ways, yet many aspects of this have scared me. For those with anxiety/ health anxiety it must be absolutely awful

Don't worry @fatalbert. Your animals will be fine, you don't have to abandon them and you are very lucky to be rural. You will have a freedom of movement that most people won't soon.

I agree todayisnottuesday I was dealing with everything well enough until Italy made it clear how serious it was. Then when Boris said people were going to die before there time I thought that was so callous. I can only imagine the people saying “you just have to accept that people will die nothing you can do about it” haven’t faced the trauma of losing someone before their time! And the talk of the over 70’s aa though they are all vegetables in beds in nursing homes!

I posted above. That the police were meant to be getting powers to arrest people

People shot me down!

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