To be pissed off that no one seems to practicing social distancing?

[Dia12]

Ok so the title pretty much says it all. I was out running a few errands (thankfully not grocery shopping) and was in a queue of about 4 people.
I was second so decided to keep a good distance from the person in front of me. The man behind me was standing very close behind me and so I took a few steps to increase the distance but the idiot kept creeping forward closer until he was practically breathing down my neck.

For the record, there was plenty of space just a huge effin black hole where normally common sense would be. The other day a lady working at Sainsbury's was making small talk and i guess it was a pleasant chat, a relief from all the supermarket-sweep-like shopping craze - but then she just kept leaning over and breathing all over me! Arrggghhh!! I didn't want to be rude but really should have just stopped it.

Anyway, as you have figured, I'm really fed up with this outbreak already.
Tell me what's ruffled your feathers and let all the steam out !

I know, some people just seem to be determined not to take this seriously. I'm afraid they're probably going to learn the hard way. I've ended up with what's almost certainly been COVID-19 (I'm waiting to see if they do finally test me), and I was careful.

I really don't understand the mentality of some people in this country.

I work in a GP surgery and people have zero respect for boundaries. They will stand as close as possible to the person at the desk so we have to tell them to stand back.

They also lean over the desk at the receptions and cough all over them. We had to get sneeze guards to stop that.

Sorry to hear that @Mittens030869 - hope it's not covid-19 and you get better soon.

YA soooo NBU.

Just the threads on here! With people still going to the gym and children's parties. So many people not taking it seriously. Unbelievable.

I like to distance myself socially anyway

YANBU.

Stay at home, please, unless you really have to go out.

ha, OP, I just got back from town centre and wanted to start exactly the same thread, for word pretty much!
Why aer people being so stupid and irresponsible?
Same here, queue in Wilko where lottery tickets are, even in normal times usually everyone keeps distance from the person at the till as it's quite a small area to crowd it! But nope, groups of 3 women behind me got RIGHT next to me to the side instead of standing behind, and then another two people close to them.

Office shop (small branch) in the shopping centre doing closing down sale! Small and quite stuffy in the shop - everyone (about 8 people) crowding at the shelves and the queuing to pay, about 5 staff all at very close dsistance running around with shoes. Isn't irresponsible from Office to run a hugely discounted sale in such a small branch, in the first place?

But absolutely, people do not keep any distance let along 1.5m! Older woman in M&S again today, literally on my heels, no one behind her, queue at snother till all right begind each other. I think stuff should be advising / announcing through loudspeaker politely, to practice distancing.

Argh!

*word for word

Sticky wow that's impressive, a fast response and organisation!

Nothing like that here. The other thing, a few older cashiers (around 70) stull working on cash desks endangering themselves.

Staff don't bother to advise the idiots, either.

You are definitely NBU! I got invited to go ten pin bowling yesterday by some friends - I mean ffs!! I said no thanks because you know social distancing and they said ‘it can’t be that serious if the schools are still open’

Wonder if they’ll change their minds now!

I drove past a hairdresser's earlier today, which was open with customers inside. How essential is a visit to the hairdresser ffs?

I feel very sorry for hairdressers and other small businesses like them, but really? How can they possibly justify remaining open?

*Tali8 it is just unbelievable, it's like they need to wirness friends/ relatives being taken to hospital to take this seriously. At GP s you should put a massive sign by reception desk telling people to keep 3 step distance. I think you should wear masks to protect yourselves.

Not noticed anything like that where I am, people being really sensible.

Tali (sorry, I'm just too annoyed to be typing accurately )

The number of people out and about either coughing without covering their mouth at all, or coughing into their hand immediately before using the self service checkout has horrified me today.

theyve jsut said they dont want to tell people what to do as of yet but might have to

NBU!

I went to our local pharmacy for paracetamol - can't get any online and I take it regularly for chronic pain (plus some other much stronger stuff), and I'm running low.

Our pharmacy had a really sensible policy of only 3 people in the shop at once, I start queuing outside. Everyone is standing 1-2m apart. A woman come and stands RIGHT BEHIND ME, I move away. She moves closer. This happens once more until I say "please keep your distance, I'm trying to stay at least 1m from anyone" and she looked really offended. And she had a scarf wrapped around her mouth! I totally despair.

Darwin's Law is going to be quite evident in a few weeks....I called my elderly mum who lives 2000 miles away to check on her...after talking for a moment she said there was someone there with her she wanted me to speak with. She proceeded to hand the phone over to someone whom I don't even know! I was in no mood to talk to a stranger, so I rung off quickly. After a few minutes, I realized that having this woman in her home meant that my mother was NOT isolating so I quickly called back and told her to tell the lady to go home immediately and that people like them were the ones causing the virus to spread! I later found out that the 'visitor ' is a lady in her 40s whose husband is a police officer and that she was going to see him at work and thought she'd just pop round to see my mum for a couple hours!!! What an idiot...who in their right mind thinks it's ok to drop in on a lady who is 89 years old and then stays for a 2 hour visit in the middle of a pandemic.
She hadn't seen my mum in 6 months so she picked yesterday to stop by? And she wasn't checking to see if my mum needed anything...she invited herself to eat lunch with dessert included and didn't even bring one thing for my mum.( she asked to use the loo, too, so I wouldn't be surprised if she stuck a loo roll in her purse as well).( oh, and of the loo stopped up and almost overflowed when she flushed...probably used half a roll ad it was the soft stuff!) I don't blame my mum too much because she's always been overly hospitable, and the lady caught her by surprise and she also probably forgot she was in isolation....before this visit, she'd been isolating for 2 weeks, so I felt she was not going to get the virus....now this numbskull whose husband has to be exposed to the world in his job comes into a safe environment and contaminates it all for a free lunch....she also took home a bag of chocolates and a packet of cookies as her husband loves them🤯😤😡😠. There just aren't enough words!
Please excuse any grammar errors as I am livid still!

OP wear a face medical mask and cough a lot in supermarket queue.

tiger she just sounds selfish then-although ive never understood why people have to stand right on top of u anyway winds me up

Most people are being polite and not taking this seriously anyway. They're scared to the be the weird social distancing one of the stupid group. People will remind them of it for years to come if none of them die or get. Coronavirus.

sissymate2 I have the rage for you here aswell!! Ffs what's wrong with people? Hope your DM is ok and that woman's next shite is a hedgehog.

Because the government hasn't done anything to force people to do it. If Boris wasn't so wishy-washy then maybe people would listen to him.

I had to physically lift my daughters pram to get her away from a guy in Iceland before who tried to touch my daughters face! He tried to assure me he’d washed his hands... as if that was enough!

It is bizarre! Our HR department has been sending out emails about social distancing, but a couple of them have commented on intranet chats and encouraged people working from home to go to coffee shops for a break or get together with a friend and work together from home. Huh? What's the point of working from home, then.

We have a friend who's working in China. He says it's crazy to see the difference in reactions here and there. He says people in China took the restrictions very seriously. Streets were deserted. There were even people checking temperatures at supermarket entry points. I understand that it's an authoritarian government, but their rates of infection are going down, so a well-regulated response seems to do wonders.