How many of you are still going out and what area are you in?

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Just interested to see what is happening in different areas around the UK right now. From high coronavirus areas to low coronavirus areas.

Cornwall. I’m a TA and have been going to school. Won’t be going anywhere much after tomorrow. Live very rurally - I’ll need to go to the shops but that will be it. Unless I’m on the rota for looking after the kids of key workers. I’ll have to take the kids shopping with me though. No one to leave them with.

Scotland - the dc have been home all week and we are only going out for essential food/pharmacy shopping. Thinking about trying a very socially distant walk tomorrow though, as we’re all feeling really cooped up.

My quiet neighbourhood has lots of older residents and they’re definitely still visible in our mini supermarket.

People are also still hanging out in the local pub apparently, according to a neighbour we saw today who’d walked past it.

Very low cases area and rural. Only going out to nearest town for essentials (once a week) and daily short drive to farm to look after my horse. I take the baby out for some air down the lane but as we are in a tiny hamlet I don’t see anyone else. If I did would keep far away.

There’s several horse owners at the farm but we go at different times as much as poss and stay far, far apart. If I was to have symptoms (or my DH) and we isolate I have cover for the horse but can’t rely on that for months so have to go out for that for the foreseeable (and it keeps me sane to get some fresh air).

DH works from home (permanently) and we are not seeing any friends or family.

Morning walk on beach (more people than usual today)
DH or I will go to supermarket
Talking to my mum through her living room window from the street and taking her supplies

That's it.

SE, cancelled everything, I mean everything. Socials, hospital appointments, supermarket visits you name it. Can't believe some people on here still going about their day as though it were any other day. How bloody selfish and thoughtless.

Yep,I am still going out even though I have the flu.
The online grocerys Tesco and Sainsburs have no delivery slots neither have any other the other stores I have tried.
So got to go out to get my food and supplys.
But even when I get to Tesco or Sainsburys they have got nothing, shelves are bare.
So I end up going round the corner shops to get what I need.
The corner shops have more but it's still a struggle as what they have sells out very quickly.

Went out to day used the pubic toilet near the station was talking to a man who was in the ladies because he said the gents toilet had no toilet paper.
And No I did not stand 6 feet apart like Boris Jonson was saying.
I takled to a taxi driver I now she says she is not going to stay at home if they make us go into lockdown next week.
She is going to carry on working because she needs the money.
Made me think I might just defy the rule and go out and let the police and the army take me to prison.

I think it's wrong of the government to force us to stay at home if we don't want to.
This is a England and supposed to be a free country not a police state.
Since when is it a crime to leave your home and go for a walk?
Maybe we should protest against this.
Many people I have spoken to are not happy if this lockdown happens and don't want to be locked in their homes for months and months.

This whole situation is an outrage
There is now no food in the supermarkets because the store staff are not putting it out.
So I and other people are fed up with it. As i and am sure others cannot eat the foods we want, we can't even get toilet paper.
And I am worried about ending up starving from lack of food.
Which could go on for months.
Now the government wants to take away our freedom by confining us in our homes.

Fare enough for those who are infected, either care for them at home or take them to hospital.

But those of us who are not the government should just leave us alone and let us get on with our lives.

Central Scotland. I'm self isolating due to raised temperature in the last couple of days.

London / yes going to work ( NHS ) , walking dog and gym while it remains open and normal weekly grocery shop .

I have no idea what some people are thinking. If you have symptoms - stay in.
There is enough food.
There is no need to buy an extra freezer.
There is no need to go to the pub under the guise of 'support local businesses' - they will probably end up closing due to lack of demand and it's costing them more to serve you a flat G&T than it is to their profit.
If everyone did a little (stay indoors, only bought what they need, stopped thinking 'well this doesn't impact me because I'm fit and healthy') then this would be over a lot sooner.
I'm 36 weeks pregnant and due to have a baby in less than 3 weeks, I've cancelled all my plans 2 weeks ago. I buy what I need, I have fore gone luxuries such as nails and hair. I haven't seen my friends and I can't see my family (health conditions outside of myself).
The next few months have been robbed from me, like so many others. My partner is a key worker and has NO choice but to leave when all he wants is to protect the health of our house hold.
Genuinely think some people will start to listen and understand implications when they are impacted.
Those of us with family members who are super high risk understand the fear because we've lived it every day for years prior to this. Knowing a flu could take someone we love out. My 70 year old Dad is alone in France on lockdown and considered high risk. He is separated from my Mum & he is missing the birth of my first child - of which I am terrified, because who wants to have a baby when the NHS is going to be under excessive strain? Because this is easily spread and people's chosen actions can dictate a better outcome.
If people feel unable to sacrifice a month of socialising for the greater good then as a nation we are in trouble and I embrace lock down.
Plenty of people will suffer during this for a multitude of reasons. But if you can follow the advice, then do, if you can't (self employed in particular) I totally understand the predicament you face. But if those that could, did, then at least everyone else would be a bit safer and this could be over sooner.

I'm in Newcastle. I had to go into town on Tuesday to pick up a prescription, it was eerily quiet. DH is working from home so when he finishes in the evening we go for a very short walk just to get some exercise, we don't speak to anyone apart from when we have to pop into Aldi for food. We don't drive and I'm disabled so we can't carry a great deal, which is why we nee to pop in every other day or so. I wish we didn't have to.

Other than that, we're in the house.

North west here. Still going out to work (carehome) and for for shopping. Been walking the dog but that’s all.
Life here though seems to be just carrying on.
Bars/restaurants still pretty busy, town centre still busy and a lot of teenager groups hanging about.

Leicester - Still going to work (NHS) and popping to supermarkets and my parents (under 70 with no health conditions) but no socialising/unnecessary shopping/soft play/baby groups etc and I've cancelled my dentist and laser hair removal appointments

@MissyJane2 that had to be a joke post, right?

No one can actually be that ignorant and selfish!

Scotland- OH is out to work- he dis a 15 hour shift yesterday, IT getting clients set up to allow staff to work from home, I have to go to the post office ( I work from home but stuff has to be posted) DD's University is closed, but she is working still part time.
My elderly mother is catching the bus into the city for lunch with a friend.

Made me think I might just defy the rule and go out and let the police and the army take me to prison.

I think it's wrong of the government to force us to stay at home if we don't want to.
This is a England and supposed to be a free country not a police state.

It is dipshits like you that will ensure we have to have a lockdown.

missy "This is a England "

This is a UK web site- not an English one.

I'm in the north east. We both have to go out to work (key workers, can't wfh). Kids still in school, finish today. Going out for food shopping only otherwise. Parents over 70 normally provide childcare but now they are self isolating. We will try and worked around each other but where childcare is needed we will need to rely on friends or if desperate school. I'd love to stay in, it's not an option.

Southeast, ‘self isolating’ as pregnant. Have a nearly 3 year old DD. We aren’t going anywhere except walks / bike rides where we won’t see anyone, or at least won’t be near anyone. DH is working from home now too.

It’s social distancing not lockdown. It will get to lockdown. But if you aren’t high risk, don’t associate with high risk and live somewhere where there’s no cases I can understand why people don’t want to lock themselves down voluntarily. It will come.

Been on voluntary lockdown since Wednesday. Myself and daughter go out for a walk in an open space once a day. I'm going to have to go food shopping twice a week because I don't drive, so tomorrow will be the first shop, hoping there is some food in the shops and not too many people about.

Sorry I'm in the southeast, in an area where people commute to London.

Midlands, still going out - to work and grocery shopping

Yorkshire - still going out for walks only (staying 1m away from anyone I pass)

@MissyJane2 if your post isn’t a joke, you’re one of the most selfish people I’ve encountered.
Why the hell would you still go out and let the police and army drag you home It’s nothing to do with the government forcing us into our homes and you wanting to be a little rebel..this is real, they’re asking us to stay in our homes to stop it spreading, because people are dying.

I’ve been stuck in my house for a week; do I like it? No, but I’m not a selfish arsehole. None of us are high risk, none of us have symptoms, but you don’t have to have symptoms to spread it! So you can be ‘totally healthy’ and actually infecting innocent people.

Karma is all I will say.

South West. I'm going to the village shop daily (staying two metres away from everyone) to collect milk, bread and other staples for several elderly neighbours who live alone, are confined to barracks and not online. Needs must.