We aren't going to lockdown! Stop scaremongering!

[BuyingaHome]

We aren't going to lockdown tonight.

Stop scaremongering.

Maybe at the end of the week or next week. I reckon 10 days. But not tonight.

Even still, you can still go to the supermarket, pharmacy and walk the dog.

Stop scaremongering!!!! You're sending people's anxiety through the roof!

My niece's partner, who isn't very bright, is saying "but he didn't say it was lockdown" . FFS, driving me nuts.

This is why he should have made it clearer and used different language. Because there are too many thick people in the U.K. who can’t understand a simple instruction and too many arrogant people who think they’re above the rules.

We’re arrogant and thick as a nation. Embarrassing.

XingMing
All my neighbours are over 80. It is I that have been trying to get them supplies not other way round you ignorant twit!

In France here.
Yes you are on lockdown.
Boris has copied Macron verbatim, with a bit of Angela Merkel ( only gatherings of 2 people allowed).
He’ll probably ban attending funerals too. People are dying and being buried alone in a Italy and Spain.

I wonder how he’s going to spin the fact that you may need paperwork and have to self certify and carry an ID to go to the supermarket.

😂 don’t feel too daft OP.

BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz tell him hes talking shit.other countries have co parents and it is deemed as essentail travel.i kniow of a few in spain,

We aren't going to lockdown tonight.

Looks like you were wrong there OP.

Oh dear.

I just had to come back to this thread for the comments 😂

Finally.
People who arent key workers forced to stay at home.
Police will be involved.
Hopefully this includes locking down air travel.

And people called me crazy. Over reacting. Scaremongering weeks ago. All I did was absorb then and still what is happening abroad at the moment. That is heading our way. I'm surprised people who can, haven't already run into hiding anyway.

Me too

OP must be feeling a little silly now

kateandme

Yet on another thread posters are saying No to the OPs question of whether her dd should go to her dad's for contact.

Erm.....yes we are....

People who arent key workers forced to stay at home

No. People who cannot do their job from home can still work.

CurlyhairedAssassin

Exactly! Too many people need literal instructions.

Ffs there are some really really dumb people around.

This could quite easily have been avoided.

But, the lemmings couldn’t do the smart thing...

It's shit though - lots of employers will not entertain their staff working from home even if it were possible with a bit of extra IT equipment.

New Urban Dictionary entry:
Usage of verb "scaremonger" on mammy forum threads: (came into common parlance during 2020 Covid 19 crisis)

Used by one wishing to sound bossy and authoritarian whilst really having no fucking clue what's happening outside of Cloud Cuckoo Land where they have made their nest. Usually accompanied by shouting at, or swearing at, anyone who points out they are, in fact, being a tedious arse. Often found in a sentence following either of these: "I'm reporting this" "a five second Google tells me you're wrong".

I wonder how he’s going to spin the fact that you may need paperwork and have to self certify and carry an ID to go to the supermarket.

Self-certification achieves very little. My PILs are French and they have already said that "most of their friends" just prepare several documents, put them in different pockets and remember to show the right version depending on when and where they get stopped.

UK and German measures (banning gatherings of more than 2 people) are actually much more sensible.

Looks like you was right OP 🤦‍♀️ nothing to see here, move along. It's just a very mild flu

@CurlyhairedAssassin you're spot on. I presumed everyone knew what he meant when he said "don't go to work and stay at home" but they didn't, they thought he meant "TIME OFF WORK! stay at home if you fancy it" likewise the bloody panic buying.

So what have the police been told, after 835 start accompanying people home, issuing warnings and tomorrow go in with the fines?

OP must be feeling a little silly now

Indeed!

It's shit though - lots of employers will not entertain their staff working from home even if it were possible with a bit of extra IT equipment

A bit of extra IT equipment is probably beyond the reach of most businesses at the moment.

"My niece's partner, who isn't very bright, is saying "but he didn't say it was lockdown""

Then perhaps he, along with other knucklescrapers, won't understand that it's a lockdown, continue to go out and mingle and Darwinism will do it's worst. Or best depending on how you look at it.

Government now froze all rail franchises in other words temporary nationalisation. Airports will close completely along with ports. So 3 weeks then they will see if they can ease.
Good luck all behave, follow the rules so these necessary measures don't have to last too long. Look after your elderly relatives. Help each other.