My town is NO different today

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So nothing except the gym and maybe the weatherspoons has closed.

Heaving full market, shops busy.

Police say they wont be checking or enforcing anything at all.

So what was the point?

Our town was dead yesterday - I had to grab some medication for one of our horses from the vet and so had to drive through town. Half the shops are closed and hardly anyone about.

I’ve been to do the horses this morning and roads are empty. DD went on a quiet hack on the bridle way and saw no one

Hopefully people are starting to get the message a bit

Although, we live in a holiday area with a lot of coach holidays for older people - coach loads are still arriving so maybe they’re not.

Boris Johnson has admitted that Italy's health care is better than ours. Ours isn't in a good shape at all but we have to dig deep and try to get on with it now. People need to read and listen : his admitting our own system is broken.

it’s the old and infirm who go out and recklessly catch it that will be doing the most harm

I really thought this nonsense had stopped after Friday. There are no degrees of harm. Everybody should be staying at home. All of us have an equal chance of spreading it. Just stop demonising and othering sections of society.

@HasaDigaEebowai "Just stay at home and make do with what you have for goodness sake. Popping to the shop every day/few days is going to make things worse.

That's all very well but when you can't do a weekly shop (because the shops have been decimated by panic buyers), there are no online delivery spaces, and so you can only get a couple of days food in at a time, it becomes necessary to "pop to the shop" (or as I like to call it, buy food) every couple of days.

The shops do have things to eat, just not necessarily what you would ideally want.

I know not everyone prepared for this but there is a ridiculous amount of complacency. The scenes on the news yesterday of groups wandering around town centres as if everything was normal were shocking.

@HasaDigaEebowai believe me, I am aware of that.

I am also aware of the government's pleas not to buy more than you need for the immediate moment. They had a press conference on it yesterday at 2, you might have seen it.

Sure, I could be as bad as the panic buyers and buy 6 boxes of cereal and all the cans of beans. I wouldn't have to leave my house for a bit longer but I'd also be leaving others without, possibly those who are more vulnerable than I am.

So I'll continue following the government advice to only buy what you need for the moment.

I'm a total introvert. On a normal weekend I will actively look for excuses not to go out. I'm not some idiot who thinks the rules don't apply and who wants to go down the pub. But I still need to go out to buy food.

Everyone treating this like a bank holiday

The shops do have things to eat, just not necessarily what you would ideally want.

We had the weirdest meal last night but we are trying to use up everything in date order. We don't want to waste anything right now. So we had full stomachs just with some strange combinations of food.

I agree that everyone should be staying in just now unless they must go out but it’s the old and infirm who go out and recklessly catch it that will be doing the most harm.

Nice to see ReginaBambina saying that those older should stay indoors. On another thread last week she was calling me selfish as a 67 year old former nurse who said I wasn’t coming out of retirement for the crisis.

I just went for a socially distant walk in a housing estate. Three showhomes open !! FFS

MIL went to a big shopping mall yesterday. I had a serious chat with her the other day and she said she knew what I was saying and she’s taking it seriously and being sensible. Her DH has a serious health condition too. What is wrong with her???

I just went out for eggs (nightmare in itself!) and people were hugging on the street before going their own separate ways. And big groups of people socialising outside the ice cream parlour and grocery store.

It makes me feel like perhaps I'm deluded, scurrying around in my mask, walking into the road to avoid people and scavenging for bloody eggs!

I wonder if a regional thing
My brother in London and says it’s dead

I’m in south east commuter town. Dead.

Where are these bustling hives of activity?!

Have you seen Whitstable? Look on the BBC website.

Quite a lot of people seem to have interpreted Jenny Harries' 'yes you can go for a walk if you need air' into 'you must go for lengthy walks, very far way every day because that government lady told us to'.

The cafes converting themselves into pop up takeaways isn't helping.

I wonder if a regional thing. My brother in London and says it’s dead

London definitely isn't dead. Maybe in tourist areas but residential areas near parks or shops are HEAVING!! I tried to go for a walk today (first time outside this weekend) and they were people everywhere! Way busier than usual. And very little attempts were being made by most at social distancing. I came home as it just felt too risky being outside with so many people wandering around.

Everyone appears to be carrying on as usual here. According to Facebook the local park was heaving and people couldn't find car parking spaces......

@Piggywaspushed

I’m trying to find that picture on bbc on Whitstable being crowded you refer to but can’t. Could you link please

Here you go :

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51995092

The whitstable shack with one family ordering

And then the people behind them in the queue a good 2 metres behind them?

Ah the one under it
Yes that’s appalling
Not crowds though. A dozen daft people

Depends on how you look at photos really : but it doesn't look like one family to me and there are at least 25 people in the bottom photo, which is cropped. Plus the Matlock Bath bikers...

Anyone who doubts how serious this could get needs to watch the SkyNews report from the hospital in Bergamo.
A hospital that would put many of ours to shame.
Go online and watch it if you have not already done so.

Same here I feel like my brain mite explode I'm so angry, people are out on fucking strolls, nipping to the barbers, shops, hanging out outside coffee shops to get takeaway coffee in groups I have to add!! taking the kids out for a fucking kick about, walking the dogs still all socialising, hanging about!! Just generally normal life!! Utter Selfish selfish cretins! Im in london, in my house, looking out my window so not amongst any of them!!

Well if it makes you all feel better, my town was quite quiet. People were dodging each other to stay more than a metre apart. Supermarket was a bit busy, but again, queuing at more distance.

LonginesPrime that sounds like me yesterday