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 !

Old people going out and about is not being stoic it's being selfish. Because the statistics quite clearly show that it is the over 70s who are most likely to be severely affected and end up in hospital or die if coronavirus. If they lay low for a few months, the NHS would stand a better chance of coping with the surge in cases. Unfortunately I think only a huge surge in deaths will cause these people to realise that this is serious.

There are more and more serious cases of young people being admitted to hospital. Please encourage your teenagers to do social distancing too, this illness isn't just for people with underlying health conditions and the elderly.

20,000 dead in the UK will be a good result, 250-500k dead expected without a lock down.

www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

I've had 2 interesting perspectives today.

1. I found out 2 friends are still going to work in offices, they're not allowed to work from home. They are solicitors. This is bonkers. I can see how in their mind, going out to a cafe or a restaurant makes very little difference.

2. Someone told me today "well lockdown will come soon, I am just trying to take advantage of some social life before then - but I am being sensible". They honestly felt they weren't doing anything wrong going out for meals in restaurants, and think I'm bonkers and hysterical for refusing to leave the house for anything except for essentials. Their attitude is that what they are doing must be ok because that's the advice the government is giving.

In short: we need full lockdown asap. People are just not getting it. Sensible educated people don't understand that going out for a meal in a restaurant now has a direct link to people dying in a few week's time because the hospitals are overloaded. And some poor ICU doctor is going to have to decide who gets treatment and who doesn't, and will have to live with that.

I think people are honestly just in denial, as well. They don't want to have to think about how bad things are going to get soon.

Ive heard that aswell tiger-we got on during the war so we';ll survive this

it isnt bombs killing them though

and everyone else saying well im making the most of it-lets hpoe it just them that gets corona then and doesnt passit on

Round here everyone is walking with a good distance between themselves and others. In all supermrkets this morning (I was looking for butter) I had a few chats with strangers, standing a metre or so apart. All pretty good natured, wondering at the plague of locusts that still descend at 6am!

@MarshaBradyo christ that is terrifying reading

And suggests social distancing will continue until at least September.

Not sure I'm fully able to take that on board either.

I don't understand how people can think govt across the globe are taking all these drastic measures just for fun. Or why they can't see that not yet knowing anyone who has died is hardly the point. They can't seem to see how we have weeks of infecting each other with a hidden enemy before the explosion of deaths.

I just really honestly don't know what kind of mental deficit it is that results in the failure to see these things. Genuinely asking...what could be wrong with these people?

It’s like people are trying to be out and about as much as possible either to 1) get out whilst they can before potential lockdown or quarantine.. or 2) they just want to rebel and be a massive twat.

In Waitrose today because l had a trolly l couldn't process it myself so l went into the queue with others keeping a wide distance between me and the front person no one was behind me.
And then there was l knew because they kept on leaning onto me so they could put their shopping on the conveyer normally l would turn around and ask them to stop this time l didn't,

Where I live we've been very lucky so far. A handful of confirmed cases, almost all from one incoming party from Europe, and that was mostly over a week ago. They've managed to contain any other spread so far.

Panic shopping has happened to a degree (but not in all shops) but on the whole people seem to be being sensible with regard to the distancing thing, and we've stopped people coming in to the island for the most part (not on the mainland) so we're relatively on top of it.

It's tough, there's no doubt about it. We don't have the safety net of the UK government's money, and I (among many) have lost my only source of income with no chance of working from home because my job doesn't exist in that capacity. Basically I'm fucked. I don't qualify for sick pay, I'm a single parent, and have no savings to speak of.

Can only hope we can start to regain some kind of normality in 2 or 3 months. At some point, we're going to have to be brave enough to take a tough decision to restart a semblance of normal life with normal economic elements as well. If not, I'm worried about suicide rates locally of people unable to provide (many reliant on seasonal work, no legal protection like on the mainland, and many people are on zero hours contracts.)

I guess I'll start carrying a metre stick or a tape measure round with me to show those wanting to get cozy and pushy in the shop...

I was waiting for DD after school and someone came to stand RIGHT next to me and was continuously coughing. We were the only 2 people standing there. I kept edging further along and she kept moving closer.

Oh and someone on my Facebook last night posted about how nobody is going to stop him going to pubs and clubs, he's going to continue going regardless of what we are told because he's never done what he's told before so why should he start now?! He has several underlying conditions, his partner does too and their son has very severe health issues that mean this could be extremely serious for him.

@MarshaBradyo thanks for that link. Just shows the impact of social isolation etc on flattening that curve.

Yes yet again we are the laughing stock of the world.

The government have advised us to do something. Most people aren’t doing it. Therefore we need new tactics.

Car boot still running on Sunday near me....

Mil and fil nipped to shops today. Both over 70 and health issues.
Dps reply was ' aw well cant keep them in forever' twat.

My boyfriend and his mate are off to the pub tonight 🙄
I'm self isolating without him

I think the government need to be very clear that although you might be ok, lots of people won't be so please follow these guidelines

Glad none of you are running the country. Not because you're wrong but because we're all humans and humans thrive on interaction, and regardless of how intelligent they are on paper, it's very hard to believe in things you can't see. We also often spend time laughing at people who believe in a god they've never experienced and yet all of a sudden we're religious zealots ... I'm lucky my Norovirus OCD has always had me wiping and washing everything I touch, but I also struggle to overcome the politeness of small talk.

For fucks sake... my Facebook is full of people tagging themselves in various restaurants etc... “thought we’d eat dinner out while we still can”

This is all backfiring. My Facebook is also full of people ‘going out while we still can’.
Just had an advert from the local leisure centre ‘following the government advice on Monday that all gyms and leisure centre will stay open blah blah. Then they say ‘following Boris Johnson’s call for people to go out and exercise’.

They are taking this as a green light. Gyms and leisure centres have to be the worse place to be at the moment. Shocking.

It’s so bizarre.

Someone needs to make a huge rubber ring to wear to keep people away!

There was a photo doing the rounds of a guy in Italy wearing a giant disc so people couldn’t get near him. Genius.