Piss off out the countryside

[orangeandbananas]

Aibu to think the idiots who have all fled from towns to the countryside are incredibly selfish.
I live in a small rural estate.
There are quite obviously people from towns and cities coming together on gatherings suddenly 'embracing' the countryside.
Ok fine; but they apparently can't stick to the public footpaths where they can all infect each other. Instead they keep coming off the footpath and walking the mile to our estate from it and hanging about.
The average age on our estate is 70+. I don't know anyone else that is under 70 and many are 90+ I haven't seen anyone leave their houses for a long time but today I saw a very elderly frail man take a walk on the estate and he was leaning on a bench when a load of teenagers came right up to the boundary of the road to our estate and I saw the man try to get away but he couldn't fast enough and nearly fell over from trying.

We live in isolation anyway generally. This is the first time we've had to deal with so many people coming through our field off the public footpath.
I wish they'd stay away. I also wish less risk people would understand what social distancing means. If they're venturing into our estate I've no doubt they're off gallivanting on to further farms etc. Which can only heighten the problems we face today. These dc are not from the rural area. I've never seen so many cars parked near the footpath. It's so daft it's upsetting.

Boris has warned we will have to go to lockdown. Is this really what people want?
Get out of the countryside if you don't live here. It's obvious so many elderly people live here. Come back in better times.

How will they bring the virus if they just walk and keep away from others?

How will they bring the virus if they just walk and keep away from others?
Because they're not all doing that, loads of people visiting the Highlands and Islands in caravans. Like it's a bank holiday rather then a pandemic.

@sistersist3r visitors will use restaurants, shops and toilets. Visitors have accidents, some come ill equipped, some get sick. That's normal and under normal circumstances it's par for the course. Unfortunately the current circumstances are not normal and our tourist spots are generally very popular as are the shops, cafes and toilets, therefore high potential for cross infection and extra pressure on services that are already stretched.

No cafes or toilets where we walk and most cafes are surely closed now anyway. I wouldn’t be going in one if open, locals are just as capable of spreading cv and v diff for safe distances in a cafe.

Just because you don't, doesn't mean that others don't. If locals are just as capable of spreading infection then why take the risk? When people are going out in camper vans and caravans then that's not just popping out for a walk and some fresh air.

People are fleeing to their holiday hoes

Obviously a mistype.

Should be "holiday Ho's"

As for the teenagers in the shops touching drinks. Adults or teenagers in shops are no different. Still carry germs etc. Yes they should of only touched what they needed. Yes they should behave. But there maybe a time in the next few months that I have to take mine into the shops. They are 5 and 2. So far I've not had to. But food is getting harder to find. Don't judge parents for having kids in shops. No it's not ideal but what can some do? We can't leave them at home

Hell of a difference between "teenagers" who can understand why they shouldn't mess about, and "5 and 2" who will find it harder (though I'd expect a 5 yo to understand not to do something, personally, even if they didn't know why.

How will they bring the virus if they just walk and keep away from others?

Drive to Snowdon from wherever you live, walk up and down it, drive home ... all without using a loo?

Actually if I had a camper van I would take it when I went for a walk so I could use the toilet and make a cup of tea. Not to stay in over night.

I don’t use a loo when hiking all day.

I wasn't for it at all - but seeing this I believe the law should temporarily be you must stay in the property you are registered as your main house for council tax & should need to have documentation to be more than 100m from your property - one person out once per week to collect provisions or certified as a key worker to and from work.

I don’t use a loo when hiking all day

What?!

I can't go an hour - I must have watered every patch of nettles between Land's End and John o' Groats.

Do you think people in the countryside thought this this when thousands of children were evacuated to it from the cities during the war?

Good grief.

There is no advice here to stay in your own area though.

There's a fucking tonne of it. What part of "stay at home" is it too hard to understand?

A lot of them are staying overnight, which is the problem, hence various MPs and msps, asking people to leave and go back home

People are struggling to get essentials as it is, without a shedload of tourists coming down unexpectedly instead. You may not catch it on the moors, but if people are bringing caravans and going to their holiday homes, they aren't here for a walk, and they will need to stock up, going to a shop or supermarket packed with locals and other holiday makers. So transmission just explodes all over the country when they all go home.

Ww2 evacuation ? I suspect the emphasis was on bombs not a viral pandemic.

I'm beginning to wish this virus targeted stupid people. Then at least it would serve a purpose and maybe the country would function better soon.

No more idiots panic buying. No more idiots travelling to other places to spread the virus. No more people travelling to buy more shit they don't need.

My local Tesco this afternoon had barely anything in it, no bread, no toilet roll, no soup, no tinned food, no flour etc. Why the fuck are they panic buying flour? Half the morons probably can't even bake. And all they are doing is creating waste, and depriving people who need that food.

I cant get bread flour I am 100% sure that most people buying it have never made bread in their life.

Exactly ginny. They bought it, what the hell are they gonna do with it? So many people can barely cook, let alone bake bread.

Others could actually use that.

My local Tesco this afternoon had barely anything in it, no bread, no toilet roll, no soup, no tinned food, no flour etc. Why the fuck are they panic buying flour? Half the morons probably can't even bake.

Good luck trying to buy a bread machine.

Yeah they will need a bread maker. I don't.

Ha! That was my thought too Ginny. I don't believe all that people are making bread. It will just go in a bin in 6 months🙄

Stay at home

@SudokuQueen, agree, the idiots have come out in force and making life so much harder for everyone.

The #comebacklater on Twitter asks visitors to please come back later. Seaside and countryside areas already have high numbers of retired and vulnerable people and cannot cope with the additional numbers in and around public areas.

There will be other days to visit these areas!

Time to have the troops out on the streets with guns. Suspend the HRA and imprison these disease spreaders in some Butlins camps and they can stay there until this is over.