People still out and about at hairdressers etc

[madroid]

Today I have seen a neighbour returning from the shops with about 5 clothes bags. A hairdressers over the road with loads of people in having their hair and nails done. And the pub up the road was still open with about 50 punters in tonight.

AIBU to wonder why they think they are immune to catching the virus with a 20% chance of ending up in hospital?

Meanwhile my dd is a doctor who is putting her life on the line to treat these selfish idiots when they inevitably get ill.

They've struck entirely the wrong note with the communications portraying it as something that you only need to worry about if you're old or have an underlying health condition and that children aren't really affected. Children have been ventilated in Italy and a man in his 30s with no underlying condition died yesterday (in the Netherlands if I recall correctly)

Couldn't agree more

For weeks people were told for nearly everyone this is just like a mild cold for nearly everyone. Some people still believe this. Even on MN people who said a month ago what was going to happen here were attacked for scaremongering and had posts deleted.
Minimising is done so as not to scare people, it is also dangerous.
People will die because of businesses staying open. You have to act as if you are infected.

@Nirvana1979 where are these ski resorts?
@Lysianthus Rush have now closed.

@etinox up in Scotland. They are staying open all weekend. 🤦‍♀️

Natural selection, innit. Stupid will go first🤷🏻

I saw all of this yesterday in the nw.

If it was just natural selection then fine go ahead idiots, but it's not. It's random. All and any can be affected.

Meanwhile my poor dd puts her life.on the line to treat these selfish idiots.

Even on here, stupid young mothers saying their children's mental health or their own will be affected if they don't see family. Better than dead dear. I despair.

I work in a non essential retail store and currently still open It has really surprised me this week the people who are bot adhering to government advice..and the amount of elderly coming in is concerning.

My work won't let me WFH. Staff in our other branch are allowed but not at our branch. I work in an office with 10 people and a further 30 in the factory.

They just can't be arsed getting a laptop and setting me up. I have a 12 year old. My boss told me she'll be fine on her own...

Are hairdressers not shut already?
I’m due to have my hair done, it really needs doing, my appointment is next week, but I’m scared to go.
I’m have 4 co- morbidities.. I don’t know what to do..

Cancel your hair appointment, without question.

Stay at home
Idiots
Near me loads of people offering beauty treatments
Really !!??
Yet if you’re younger than me and need a ventilator you will get it over me . And I will die from this .
So fuck you and your nails hair teeth eyebrows . You’re ugly on the inside . You can’t fix that love

Sunbed salon offering Mothers Day Special...bring your mum along 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@Truckman this is how I feel too.

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser

“Natural selection, innit. Stupid will go first🤷🏻“

If only it were that simple. Sadly they’ll take a fair few bright folk with them.

It's baffling. I'm seeing a different side of people who I previously thought were responsible & sensible

I agree with a PP that people have been lulled into a false sense of security. People need to be frightened into staying at home

What @Chouxalacreme said with bells on 👏

Watched (from car) two sad old men rattling the doors of a Wetherspoons this morning. One turned to a passer by, to ask why.....clearly hadn't heard the news.

Is there some confusion about social distancing?

As far as I’m aware that’s what we’re meant to be doing. Not self isolation unless showing symptoms.

People still have to work.

Today I’m going riding and then going for afternoon tea. We checked with the tea place and they’re still open but have limited numbers so they can have tables further away.

We know where we are (jersey) that complete lockdown will happen soon and we don’t know how long for. So we’re continuing as (relatively) normal for as long as we can.

I thought all cafes and restaurants had to shut too? Only take away allowed.

Even on here, stupid young mothers saying their children's mental health or their own will be affected if they don't see family. Better than dead dear. I despair. it’s not stupid to consider mental health. Once this is all over (and it will be) we do need to consider the repercussions, not only of the virus but also of the measures people have had to adopt to avoid spread.

And we’re not all in self isolation at this point, it’s social distancing. And while I certainly don’t agree with the notion of needing to get your nails done or go to the pub, telling everyone that seeing family is wrong is unreasonable.

By that token we’re talking of depriving a child of contact with a parent for an indeterminate. Amount of time for instance. There absolutely needs to be some common sense, but there also has to be some acknowledgement of people’s MH needs as well.

I am self isolating, well not entirely as my DS lives here and works in a supermarket and is able to go out and get e.g. my prescriptions. But I am not seeing anyone else. Me and my partner are separated for the foreseeable future, my parents who don’t live locally are unable to see me. They did actually offer me the opportunity to go and stay with them as they’re pretty much not going out either, but I have all my hospital care here so to move it for that time period wouldn’t really be possible, or reasonable in the current climate. So i am literally stuck at home on my own for the foreseeable future to avoid catching the virus.

However I can protect myself while also acknowledging that in some instances others have different aspects of their lives they need to look out for, such as their mental wellbeing.

Interesting that pretty much everything these days is considered “triggering” because of mental health, and now that we have a virus in our midst mental health is expected to go out the window and be completely dismissed.

The following businesses and venues have been asked to close:

Food and drink venues for consumption on-site, such as restaurants and cafes.
Drinking establishments, including pubs, bars, nightclubs.
Entertainment venues, including cinemas, theatres, concert halls, and bingo halls.
Museums and galleries.
Spas, wellness centres and massage parlours.
Casinos and betting shops.
All indoor leisure and sports facilities, including gyms.

Where I am none of the above facilities have closed. It will happen at some point here but until then...

Even on here, stupid young mothers saying their children's mental health or their own will be affected if they don't see family

I think you are totally out of order saying that!!!!

Everyone is stressing in different ways. 'young mothers' are not 'stupid' for worrying about their children not seeing loved ones. Don't be a twat.

We’ll be in lock down by the end of the week because people are fucking stupid.