Yes you need to cancel parties, weddings, book clubs, holidays, concerts. Stop asking the same Q over and over.

[bubblesforlife]

Just that.
You need to cancel everything in the coming weeks, possibly 1-3 months at a minimum.

Enough with the constant stream of posts asking the same daft questions.

No holiday
No parties
No weddings
No concerns
No theatre
No classes
Etc
Etc
Etc

Of course, it helps to work from home and stop going to clubs and pubs even if the kids are still going to school. It's a game of statistics and you still lower your risk by cutting down on the amount of time you spend with other people and the number of people you spend time with. Our kids are still in school, but all clubs are closed and we told them to come straight home after school. No going into shops or visiting friends.

what's with the anger and aggression OP

What is your issue exactly

@Goth4moths

...I hope those at a higher risk take care of themselves and do what they need to.

It's up to every fucking single one of us to take care of the vulnerable!

Carrying on as normal because you've saved up for 10 years is just NOT acceptable.

I am utterly staggered by how selfish some people are.

It's disgusting. It really is.

My over 70 in laws are fuming that their choir has stopped. Apparently they don't understand why 60 elderly people in a room is a problem at the moment

Our school had to send children home yesterday as they were sent in with temperatures and coughs. This is why I made the decision to take my children out from last Wednesday as I simply don't trust anyone at the moment.

"Standard business interruption cover – the type the majority of businesses purchase - does not include forced closure by authorities as it is intended to respond to physical damage at the property which results in the business being unable to continue to trade."

Cue a spate of pub/restaurant fires?

To those posters unable to attend funerals:

Firstly, condolences. I am truly sorry for what you are going through.

A few years ago my mum died in a faraway country and for several big reasons I was unable to attend. What I did was asked for the various readings/eulogy/music etc, and then went to a special place (climbed a local hill) and did the 'service' on my own at the same time. It worked for me, and actually made it more special because I was able to say some things to mum which were more personal. That was my way - I suggest you have a good think about how to honour your loved one in a similarly remote way, whatever is meaningful to you. It can be done.

My friend is getting married at the end of this week. At least, she still thinks it’s going ahead. I really feel for her but just don’t see how I can justify attending, especially accompanied by a babe in arms.

Cue a spate of pub/restaurant fires?

A close friend who is a fireman lost a colleague (and a family lost a father and husband) a few years ago in a building fire that it turned out had been started by the landlord for the insurance.

I asked about book groups yesterday - because, as a previous poster said, I was getting conflicting advice. On the one hand a knitting group I go to was suspending meetings for the foreseeable future, but when I rang the local library to ask if the book group and knitting group that meet there would be going ahead, I was told yes, they would.

I decided to ask MN - so sue me.

I thought medical appointments would count as essential but if you have to cross a border for them apparently not, you are completely dispensable and will be left without essential treatment for as long as it takes.

Schools are open so parents in health care can keep working through all the sick people. Still reduce your contact!

Me and mine are symptomatic quite heavily and have obviously completely isolated (I can work remotely through the laptop as can dp in between coughing and dizziness from the increased temp)

Dm posted a care package and when I thanked her she mentioned df was still planning to play golf this weekend....he is 72 with AF, diabetes (insulin controlled ) a failing heart bypass , etc etc ....there is simply no helping some people.

Not to mention half the people I know who insist that joone who has any symptoms whatsoever could possibly have CV, nope they are all doctors and everyone just has a cold , despite like my close family not having had a cold for 3 years (seriously we haven't....I suspect my former smugness is being repaid in spades on this one) and all getting it within days of each other , with coughs and temperatures . The Stoic keep calm and carry on lot are simply losing any respect I had at this point, I mean there is healthy scepticism (of which I am very much usually a fan) and then there is simple stupidity and denial.....rather looking like the latter at this point. Even Exdh , who is the king of go to work with your leg falling off is taking sensible measures.

Thank for all those condolences. The church would have been packed but we think most will not go. We did consider postponing and holding a memorial later but thought we had a window to do it now just without the wake. I am over 60 with serious underlying health conditions so I am going only to the crematorium part of the service which will be immediate family only.
I will still wear the bright clothes she requested.

@Shinyletsbebadguys

The Stoic keep calm and carry on lot are simply losing any respect I had at this point, I mean there is healthy scepticism (of which I am very much usually a fan) and then there is simple stupidity and denial.....rather looking like the latter at this point.

I'm with you on this.

I'm all for just getting on with it 99% of the time - haven't had a day off sick in 10 years - but this isn't about me/us, it's about vulnerable people who need to rest of us to do the right thing in order to protect them. They can't do it by themselves.

There really has to be some altruism here. I will not do anything that we're being advised not to do, with the aim of looking after others.

bubblesforlife

Haha excellent! Then afterwards I will just go running through a care home coughing at the elderly, sounds like a splendid afternoon

@quirrels

I'm sorry for your loss.

A relative of mine died last year and I was unable to attend, but the service was streamed on line (obviously only available via a secure link sent to designated people) and could be accessed for about 48 hours afterwards.

Maybe you could ask whether this is possible? The funeral was in the UK.

@GnomeDePlume Cancel it.

It is possible that the ceremony will be cancelled anyway.

Still going on holiday unless they actually ban all travel rather than advise.

2 hour drive, no need to stop, middle of nowhere coastal location where we can avoid contact with others for a week better than we can at home.

Nieces Christening in 2 weeks time. Asked when they are letting people know it is cancelled. DSIL replies "We aren't planning to cancel because we have ordered the sandwiches and someone is making a curry and a chilli and has already bought the ingredients". I literally despair....

I was due to host a whole class birthday party for DD a week on Saturday. I emailed the company I was hiring the bouncy castle from to cancel this morning, and they seemed genuinely baffled and told me I was the only person cancelling a party.

FIL, who is pushing 70 and has health conditions, is adamant he’s playing golf tomorrow.

@Gnome De Plume Cancel it.

FIL, who is pushing 70 and has health conditions, is adamant he’s playing golf tomorrow

Golf isn't exactly a high risk activity. You are outside and there are very few people around and you can keep 2m apart.

@crapette only a week ago when we met the vicar I suggested live streaming because of coronavirus and he looked at me like I was a mad woman. He clearly thought I was worried over nothing