Absolutely no going out or socialising?

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My understanding is basically no going out except to work, for food shopping or outdoor exercise away from others. Meaning I can't see my parents, can't go to a cafe and can't even visit same age friends (early 40s).

Other people think I'm being extreme but isn't this whats being asked of us for the next few weeks at least?

This couldn’t be clearer. I’m a nurse. Sorry for the hard hitting message but it’s important x

@VeeJayBee It is hard but necessary keep sharing.

Just had a Tesco delivery arrive (and bless them, almost all of it was there, with substitutions). The driver was grim and tired, and said the drivers at base are shocked at the numbers of people locally who are ill that they're delivering to, and just how ill they are. Even they are shaken by how widespread it's become so quickly, and are seeing it worsen.

We're isolating due to two vulnerable people in the household and I've just told them all this is seriously it now. We're battening down and we don't go to shop again until absolutely essential.

I am just about to fucking scream !!!!! I’m so angry - I despair. I’m at work today in a totally non essential industry , a colleague had just said ‘All my mates are out and about and they’re all ok’ .

We have had loads of families in , a couple with a new born , everyone walking about touching everything.

One woman said to me that she doesn’t think the message is getting through to people- no it isn’t it is you idiot, which is why you’re standing in front of me!!!!

AAAASAARGGGHHH !

My sister in law currently has a birthday party for 10 year old nephew in full swing. Huge gazebo in her back garden, 40 children and their parents milling in and out of her house and garden. Both her sons have asthma and one was in hosptal over Xmas with a chest infection.

Our region is second behind London for cases and deaths.

Not a fucking care in the world apart from bitching at me that I’m not bringing Dd.

She would not listen to Dh at all and took the piss because apart from Dh walking to the corner shop twice a week we are all staying in the house and seeing no one.

She’s a bloody teacher as well, on rota to work two and a half days a week as her school is open for key workers.

So many people don’t give a fuck.

@connie222 send them that YouTube clip!!!!

Not complicated.
Each and everyone is meant to be staying in their own home with the other people who may also live in their home.
Allowed out only for essential food / medicine whilst being Uber sensible with hygiene.

Key workers out to keeping the country running.
No one is meant to be out to have fun!
Have fun at home and get creative with how to connect via technology.

Allowed out only for essential food / medicine whilst being Uber sensible with hygiene.

That’s not right-going out for walks only in household groups and staying away from other people is both allowed and encouraged.

@Connie222

People are so stupid! Let’s hope they don’t have to learn the hard way now!!

Yes just read the Government advice not random people on the internet.

You can certainly go out as a family etc. My son sent out cycling with a friend this morning and on a walk this morning - they are active boys and will be out an huge amount in the fresh air and always are just not at the gym any more and obviously away from other people (student age so not like trusting a 12 year old not meet up with mates)

Most people around this bit of London are respecting the recommendations very well. I am very impressed - well done to everyone who is coping with these big changes to their lives. Even those of us unlikely to get it or be bad from it (if any of us can predict that) who might be losing income with no support such as the self employed who will be paying the higher taxes next year as a result are doing their bit to ensure those who would catch it have a better chance of survival and I am sure those people are very grateful indeed we have put the nation on this kind of measures for their sake.

Xenia there is no one who can say they are unlikely to get it. And no one who can predict that they won't get it badly. It's random. I know someone who is fit and well who was hospitalised and on oxygen. Luckily now recovering at home.

So Xenia, your son went out “cycling with a friend”. In other words, your household quarantine has been broken and 2 households are now exposed to each other and everyone they might have seen unnecessarily. Please think how this is supposed to work. 56 people have died today in the UK, the highest daily total so far. 793 people have died in Italy today.

I don't understand how some people are just carrying on as normal like nothing is happening.

We are not going out except for work and essentials from the shops, I've been getting odd bits of shopping for my friends who are isolating and left the items on their doorstep so to have no contact with them.

In Italy at the moment in effect 2 jumbo jets are crashing every day with no survivors. An Italian doctor has just appeared on C4 news and more or less said anyone with an existing illness over a certain age doesn’t get any ventilation, just palliative care.

Xenia has also said it would be better life goes on as normal and we just let people die of CV. I ignore anything she says.

No one has said we’re in lockdown.. yet. Of course people can go out for walks !! Just keep distance from other people and you wash your hands throughly.
Unless you have symptoms or someone in your family does, walks are totally fine with family members.

@Connie222 that should be reported to the police.

I haven't said I want life to go on. I have been doing self isolating almost for 2 or 3 years actually and I have one cold in the last 18 months and seen my doctor once in 15 years. I am the huge advocate of the hermit life style. However I do think we should have kept school open because we now have a ridiculous situation where loads of chidlren of key workers are crammed together in schools passing infection from their nurse parents and it is a bit of a farce as "key workers" covers so many people.

My son and his friend are together 24/7. They are 21. He is virtually family. Also they just got back from university - we are taking loads of precautions even though none of us has symptoms, we are not socialising and I even have a separate towel at home in case the university germs are spreading.

Next week my son who is at university will be coming back home too and he is incredibly good about handwashing and that kind of thing. In the university library today they have them all sitting very very far apart. I would say we are doing very well compared to a lot of people in the UK. there are certainly people out there who are ignoring the precautions. Also as people know people are allowed still to work (and have to if we are going to have enough tax money to pay nurses' salaries etc) so when I have to do work stuff like got to the post office I put on gloves, i stand apart from people by a big distance and I wash thoroughly when I get home.

@SingleDadReally I don't think what @Xenia's son and his friend did was anything as extreme as you describe.

If they were both respecting the social distancing guidelines, which it sounds like they were, keeping a clear distance of 2+metres, and they went out for a ride in the fresh air, that's a far more benign and less harmful pursuit than people who sit in a pub with a big crowd, or in a restaurant for a whole evening with no ability to keep a safe distance.

Simple explanation

DH set up Skype today so our children can socialise that way. There is also group Minecraft play going on. Tomorrow there will be a country walk on a remote footpath. That’s all we can do.

Thanks for the "simple explanation" patronising I know the science thank you.

I just think you'd be better off not wagging your finger at people unnecessarily.

It’s not patronising at all. People are still having unnecessary social contact. I work in NHS finance and have volunteered to put all that down and more directly support the frontline. I’ve filled a form in last week declaring that I have no medical problems and who my next of kin is.

As you're NHS surely you can differentiate between two people going on an outdoor bike ride versus people congregating en masse and knowing which is worthy of concern and which is very low risk and unlikely to cause widespread Corona virus cross infection. If you look on some of the other threads on MN, where large parties of people are having social gatherings with takeaways, they're the people to have serious concerns about!

Yes that means no haircuts. We will all look like we've escaped the 70s by the end of this

Yes or in my case, Animal from the Muppet Show