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?

Unless you have symptoms

You can have no symptoms and still be a carrier.

@Connie222 aww congratulations! Just saying to my DH that's hard if you both want to find out the sex but only you can go (obvs lol!) You could always ask the sonographer to write it down, put it in an envelope then you can find out together 💐 stay safe, well, and healthy everyone 💐

Mum just called work after being off sick with 2nd degree burns to check what the position was. They told her, in no uncertain terms, that she is remain at home (self isolation) for the next 12 weeks as she is classed as vulnerable. She is 73 and dad and I have underlying illness.

I do not understand why the OP cant make this sacrifice.

bTW Just confirmed that Sainsburys will be open to the elderly and vulnerable on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8am to 9am only.

@BrownEyedGal1512 - what do you mean you don’t know why OP can’t just make this sacrifice? She posted saying she won’t be doing any of those things that are mentioned in her opening post and how she had been called extreme for that. People not to actually read before replying.

My grandma died yesterday and we can’t even go to the funeral and then I hear people moaning about life being so hard because they aren’t being allowed to go out whenever they want and it’s their risk to take. I’m really not sure quite how much of a moron you have to be to not get that it isn’t about you catching it - it’s about the fact you will then spread it to others and all these people who then need treating put our NHS workers lives at risk, their families lives and make it so there aren’t enough beds for everyone needing treatment. These people who keep insisting they should be allowed to take the risk themselves should all be added to a list of people who will not be treated if it’s a choice between them and someone who did stay in when told to. That still doesn’t address the damage the cause by spreading it though. On the news yesterday it was speaking about how effective social distancing is. They said on average everyone who has it will pass it on to 2.5 people by just going about their daily life and that one person doing that will result in 400 people being infected 30 days later. If that one person distances themselves on only passes it on to an average of 1.25 people (so half the original example) this means that at the end of 30 days only 15 people will have been infected rather than the 300 in the first example. That is absolutely unbelievable and something that everyone should be striving to do their part to achieve. I think that this virus has shown up just how awfully selfish we are as a nation - far beyond any other European country. In Italy where they have lost 6000 people, the shelves are still fully stocked - they don’t have the level of entitlement that we have here with regard to this and to sending our children to school when not necessary. What is being shown of our country to the world actually makes me feel ashamed to be British :-(

Why can't you go to the funeral? Yesterday's guidance says you can go to funerals if you are immediate family and stand apart in the church.

Sorry for the losses people have had. So very sad.

Yeah, immediate family can go. However if you live in different houses you would prob be best travelling in separate cars rather than the same one in order to stay 2m apart in transit and lower the risk of catching something.

Defoe:

“It was very sad to reflect how such a person as this had been a walking destroyer perhaps for a week or a fortnight before that; how he had ruined those that he would have hazarded his life to save, and had been breathing death upon them, even perhaps in his tender kissing and embracings of his own children.”

My DPs have finally realised we can't get together for DM's birthday. DF texted today to say that because of the fines being put out that he supposed that meant we wouldn't be able to visit. We didn't think they were still expecting us at all so I'm actually surprised that it's the threat of a £30 fine that's made them realise and not, you know, the fact that we could all get dangerously ill.