FUCK OFF

[TheoriginalLEM]

Seriously, fuck off.

I live in a South East coastal town and today on my facebook ive seen photos of full car parks and hoardes of naice middle class people all gathered on the beach with "take away" beers in plastic glasses.

Just fuck off - that is not social distancing because you are outside. Fuck off back to London or where ever you came from, or just fuck off if you are local.

I managed to talk to my mum on the phone today. She lives in the next street but i think I have CV. She is 84 with dementia and other illnesses, she has carers and cannot understand why I'm not visiting her and can't hear me on the phone but i was able to talk to her today. I told her I loved her because im actually scared ive already passed this on to her and I won't see her again.

So yes I know its a lovely sunny day and all the shops are shut and yes it's great to get out and get fresh air but do not all congregate around a small beach area to drink beer you mindless fucks.

FUCK OFF

Upstairs neighbour waved her kids off to her mum and dads today. Is having a house party tonight. She has 3 kids ,one of them with asthma that has required 2 ambulances in the past year

*@TheoriginalLEM I think you may live relatively near me. I really hope you are wrong and neither you nor your mum has it. I think I do and every night I go to sleep terrified I'll wake up with it worse and then spend the night waking up a few times a night. I think I'm still in denial really as can't grasp the bigness of all this.

Someone I know on FB posted a load of photos from a popular outdoorsy place today. She said it was "heaving", car park full, cafe still open(!) with a queue and kids running about everywhere. She's trying to portray this "super home-educating-mum" (as are many) when it's just absolutely effing MORONIC to take them out to popular tourist places! (then post pictures bragging about your kids social distancing the right way).

She'd also taken her small kids into the supermarket just to buy flowers for the mums for tomorrow. I GET why you'd want to do that, I honestly do, but is that essential, really?

My sister went to a big shopping mall in the East Midlands today and said it was heaving with people. She’s not taking things seriously at all and is still going out and about with her kids wherever she pleases. It’s driving me to the brink of insanity!! I hope there’s a lockdown for a few weeks so people wake up a bit how serious this is

National Trust have opened for free with the idea there would be more places to socially distance. So why wouldn't people go for a walk for exercise? But sitting on the beach is taking the piss.

Yeah, and they're buying ALL the milk, meat, bog roll, pet food. Not the veg though so they may be so unhealthy from crap diet that they don't last very long.

One of our local pubs has a direction sign up "Locals >>, Londoners

I went to some gardens today but it wasnt very busy, incredibly easy to keep the 2m away from others. the official advice is actually you can go out for walks/a bike ride etc. but to maintain a certain amount of time. I think it's good for mental health as I have a 4 month old baby who's teething so I'm not sleeping either to get outside for a bit but obviously excersise common sense.

a packed beach I'm assuming would be hard to keep the 2m distance from others!

We've only been in our garden and the fields behind our house today, which we had to ourselves obviously. I don't see anything wrong with going to the beach though as long as you keep together with the people you're isolating with (i.e. family / partner) and with good distance from everyone else? Agree it's stupid to go shopping (other than for food essentials) or to the café though.

Hugs OP. You are right. They need to fuck off

Same here in my coastal town in the North. It was Packed today as in height of summer packed, with complete morons, all of them.

Like most coastal towns we have many, many elderly residents. We are pulling together to make sure they have delivered food/supplies to try and keep them safe. Shame the fools visiting today will probably make it worse for them

Hope you feel better soon OP

Yup. A couple of London families have come to their 2nd home in our very small village. We're rural, hospitals are miles away and stretched. WTF

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You are in quarantine. Don't worry about it

West Wittering beach has had to close due to the huge number of numnuts that flocked there today.

It is shocking. I despair of the stupidity of some people too.

All four of us have not left the house and have no plans to until we need food. Thankfully we can work/school from home now.

Thank you to all of you who can’t work from home.

National Trust has just closed its gardens, I believe. It had originally closed its houses while leaving the gardens open.

@TheDogsMother I hope any local shops you have know they aren't local and don't let them in if anyone else is in the shop. Then makes them pay by card.

Unfortunately this behaviour mirrors Italy and Spain. (Btw I'm in London and just seen pictures if my local parks today.)

Some people are stupid...you can’t tell stupid!

I feel you though, I live in a village in the south east and it’s car packed has been packed today with sodding tourists 🙄

Yes - I think I know where you are OP. We're rural but not coastal. Loads of people today. Car parks full. Big groups sitting around in the beer gardens of the (closed) pubs. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better and that's if people do as they're told.

Totally agree OP! Spoke to my DM today - she's 77 (fit and well generally) but DF is 76 with health conditions and she's so cross about what people are doing. She and my DF are doing their best to isolate but walking their dogs they walked around an industrial estate and the place with a CrossFit gym was open and all people inside training. She's utterly convinced they or at least my DF will die if they get the virus and started saying about "making decisions" - they have wills but I'm guessing they have some more immediate ones to make - she mentioned the dogs in particular. Why aren't people getting the message??!!!!

Daisy- that is sad. In fairness I had planned to visit when i was out if isolation but it's apparent that everyone is doing the same.

I have no problem with people goung to the beach but queing to get beer and then sitting all along the sea wall -FUCK OFF!!!

I ended up having a panic attack today as we went out to walk the dog and I couldn’t believe how many people were ignoring the advice and going round in groups. It really scared me. So now I shall have to stay in because I can’t deal with the anxiety of seeing all the idiots.

I couldn’t get a single thing on my 81 year old mother’s shopping list today because the supermarket in our town has been cleared out. I am told the local appliance retailer has sold every freezer in stock to hoarders. Only the wealthy can do this. How do they think all the people they rely on, from nurses to bin men, are going to manage and keep turning up for work when there is no food for them to buy?
My mother will have to go during the hour reserved for the elderly just to get fruit and veg. Fine for her, she is fit and still drives plus has us for support. I really worry about others.

@daisypond you believe correct. It's on their website for every single garden that they have closed them this weekend or until further notice.

To be honest we might as well send everyone back to school and work. If people can’t do this then it’s not worth ruining the economy over. The sensible approach was to let the well get it while isolating the elderly and vulnerable. But it needed mandating and the government didn’t follow through with it.