Social distancing, reckon we'll comply??

[fessmess]

Just wondering really. It's all so weird and confusing and on this site I have seen people ask if they should attend parties this weekend. No. We need to stay away from others unless necessary. I believe that if we don't comply the government will order the closure of venues and we may even end up ordered indoors. Come on people, we can DO this. We have social media, FaceTime etc. Think of the vulnerable.

The horse has bolted.

About five days incubation. That's five days of no symptoms but being infectious. No isolation.

People are generally creatures of habit. Most of see the same people, go to same places week to week.

Couple that with continued public transport and schools.

If it's in the office you've lost.

No, we won't all comply. I work in retail, people are acting like nothings happening.

It’s about damage limitation.
If you don’t need to be in a gym, bar, cafe, restaurant etc etc, then don’t be.
If you can’t WFH, have to go to work and need to use public transport, then you have no choice.
The government is asking people to stop doing things that bring them into contact with lots other people when they don’t need to.

Yeah sorry bing, I can see that you just don't understand. If my simple analogy can't help you then maybe you could do a bit of independent research to try and figure it out. To be fair though your clearly not the only one who can't grasp the situation.

UK holiday parks 'open as usual'.. so, no

lol, hell no. Supermarket this morning was mental mobbed by grandparents with children in tow, who were kept off school to avoid large crowds. 🤪🤪🤪

@purpleboy

No, I understand perfectly.

You can't do this a bit, which is what the gov are doing.

We either lockdown and actually limit the spread, or we carry on and limit the economic fall out.

At the moment we're not limiting the spread but are causing economic damage.

Worst of both worlds.

Off to put Always look on the bright side of life on 😀

School was about 50% empty. But roads still seem busy and lots of general activity. Have got to go to work tomorrow (now wfh apart from when I am building duty manager) and very bothered by the amount of non-essential travel that I am being exposed to as part of that.

No!!!!

Just been to Tesco. It was rammed! People didn't care at all.

They’re really not helping by sending mixed messages, like keeping the schools open while telling us to avoid gatherings. And not bothering to test people.

Quite how they think they can continue to keep hospitals and schools staffed, when households have to self isolate for a fortnight, because one of them has a cough, I don’t know.

There were old people in Brighton o think on the news last night, fit and healthy women one said it didn't apply to them so we're going to carry on as usual and one balked at not being able to go out on Mother's Day! So much for compliance. If they won't do it now they'll not do it for months on end.

MIL is compromised so SI, FIL is fit and healthy do going about his usual business, he obviously doesn't understand that this will impact MIL if he gets anything.

No - I’ve just taken baby DS for his immunisations (essential) and taken the car along the sea front - it is heaving... The ice cream man is even out. Kids and adults everywhere, arcades are open and cafes that don’t usually open until Easter have opened early 🤦🏼‍♀️

Morons.

Same (older) grandparents dropping their kids off at our school this am. Plenty of older people in the co-op but I suppose they could be stocking up for the next few days and have no-one to help them.

My MIL and FIL and my elderly grandparents have all pleasantly surprised me today and informed us they're stocked up and won't be leaving their houses now. Asked us for things they haven't got.

I've been to the pet shop to buy dog food as it was missed off our food order. Loads of people stocking up- I joked with the assistant that people would be stocking in more for their pets than for themselves and she just laughed and said that I really wouldn't believe some of the stories.

Called in at TK Maxx to get MIL some hand wash and soap as boots had empty shelves. People trying on high heeled shoes and browsing....

Until it becomes illegal you'll still get people going I guess, coupled with the fact schools closed it doesn't quite hit it with some people.

I've just seen beauty salons around me urging vulnerable people to 'still come to your appointment and support local businesses' because it's ok they are using Detol spray on the cash machine. How irresponsible.

I do understand that it must be stressful for them to know they are going under but the bigger the explosion of this virus is, the more people are going to die and the more time it will take to get back to normal.

I went into town this morning because I had an appointment. It was quite busy, with lots of elderly folk around,

Agree with many PPs that it's the lack of rationale that makes it difficult to take the advice seriously at this point. So I'm working from home but my kids have gone to school (because that's current advice but it just feels wrong). And also that it's just that, advice - it's not mandatory (yet).

But more importantly I just don't see where all of this gets us - early on we were told that we needed herd immunity so lots of people need to get infected - but now things are in place to try and stop people getting infected. Are we really going to be in lockdown until it dies out? But then all it takes is one live case (anywhere) slipping through the net and we are back to square one. Or it's creeping death (pardon the pun) with slow rise of cases due to non-compliance with isolation and it takes months and months and months and months (ad nauseum) to get to a herd immunity (or vaccine) situation.

The government is trying to treat us like adults. Alas, many can’t meet that standard.

I think probably about half the people will comply, the others will still go about there business as normal. A friend of a friend on facebook wrote earlier she doesn't even no what all the fuss is about 👊 seriously.

My BIL is an A&E doctor and he's told us to avoid large gatherings, WFH, not go to cafes, the gym, swimming etc. But he has said as long as both households are practising social distancing, none are high risk and you don't use public transport to get there, the benefits of contact between family groups outweigh the risks (eg, seeing grandparents provided they are also social distancing and are not at risk).

Not at the moment because most people are selfish.

What will happen very quickly is that the NHS will collapse under the weight, people will be treated on camp beds in make shift hospitals like in Italy as there is no hospital space, so many people will be infected that we will all know people who die or need ventilation.

AND THEN people will take it seriously by which time it will be too late for those who were trying to be careful got infected by the selfishness of others.

In my experience most people don't think the rules apply to them.

My nan and her sister, both over 80 believe they're not at risk as they feel healthy

MIL threw a strop this morning because I won't look after niece and nephew while I work from home. SIL is unemployed so why ill need to look after her kids so she can laze about the house is beyond me.

Diabetic uncle who also thinks we're all over reacting.

There's a video from a news channel in Spain of a group of brits refusing to go inside drinking in the street and generally behaving absolutely appallingly

Wish I could say I was shocked when I saw the clip

@Titslikepicassos That is frightening.

Im not calling people thick and stupid if they need to get to work. Nobody is telling people not to go to work, unless they are ill, and I totally agree that SSP provision is dire and untenable.

Its those adults who are still mixing in the evenings, meeting up, going to claases and increasing the rate of spread.

Because, if you are talking about preventing yourself getting the virus AT ALL, then yes, it probably is a bit pointless. However you can do something about slowing down the rate at which it happens, and that precisely what this social distancing is about.

They wont close the schools right now (although I believe that will change by the end of next week) because the schools being open is a controllable relaese of the virus into a section of society. And as each child brings it home, that family will self isolate. Children and most people wont generally be affected. If someone vulnerable is in your household, then work out the risks of keeping your child at school or not. If its your mum who is vulnerable, and she doesnt live with you, then you shouldnt be visiting her anyway - she should be in isolation or extremely stringent social distancing.

But going to the pub, going to the gym, going on holiday cos the schools broke up, playdates in the park and coffee meet ups. That is thick and selfish.

They won't comply. Yesterday had a man in our shop buying cough medicine while continually coughing. Likely has CV. But came in anyway and spread it. Selfish wanker.

Everyone needs to start calling out those who aren't following guidelines.