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Are these things allowed in lockdown?

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ComeOnEileen2020 · 23/03/2020 20:45

These weren’t included in Boris’s list but are things affecting me currently:

Car due for mot Friday (need to wait til then for pay day). Need it to get to my essential job.

Hermes/other courier deliveries - I’ve sent loads of stuff this weekend that I sold on EBay. Non essential. Old baby toys. They’re waiting to be delivered to my buyers. Will they still be delivered or should I start refunding?

OP posts:
Ellie56 · 23/03/2020 21:53

I don't live with my children, when will I see them?

You can't visit them and they can't visit you. You'll either have to skype or phone them.

ViciousJackdaw · 23/03/2020 21:54

B&Q isn't an essential food shop so should be closed

What if there's a household emergency though? Leaking toilet? Burst pipe? We will need access to parts and tools.

CrazyToast · 23/03/2020 21:54

People. The rules were made clear. This is to save your life and your family's life. It is not open for negotiation and 'but what if I....'. It's harsh and inconvenient but life as you know it is going to stop for a while. Adjust. People are going to die if you dont.

KittyMcTitty · 23/03/2020 21:54

@ButiLoveHim32 you said it!!!

LawAbidingCitizen · 23/03/2020 21:54

I do not have a garden and so have to take the dog out for a wee during the day. She goes out with a dog walker for a long walk but needs a comfort break first thing and at various points in the day. I will have to take her out but hate to do it as i always follow the rules (hence name change).

SciFiScream · 23/03/2020 21:55

I'm hoping for more clarification. My SIL is moving next week. She's moving from a local authority property so has a very firm date. No chain and the flat she's moving into is empty/available right now.

She won't be using the services of a moving company it will just be her family group moving from one property to another.

I hope she's allowed as the dates are not within her gift to influence. The council will want her out ASAP in order to give a home to a family on the waiting list.

She's a key worker.

She'll follow whatever guidance she's given of course.

WilburWeathervane · 23/03/2020 21:55

@ComeOnEileen2020
Call DVSA not DVLA. No mention of extension yet, don't ask me how I know Wink

NotEverythingIsBlackandwhite · 23/03/2020 21:56

I think they need clarify dog waking. Normally do a couple a day and go for a run. I’m guessing that is all too much. Just a walk with the dog is not really exercise.’
He talked of exercise for people, not dogs. You will be able to go out for a run once per day as your exercise (and take your dog for the run with you). Go for a long run.

Hollyhead · 23/03/2020 21:56

@MozzchopsThirty

It's people like you that are going to kill thousands BECAUSE YOUR DOG LIKES 3 FUCKING WALKS

Explain how someone walking their dog three times a day in a deserted rural area where you see no one is going to kill thousands?

lyralalala · 23/03/2020 21:56

Actually the governments just issued on insta that you can go to work only if you’re a key worker. Which is not what Boris said. He said if it can’t be done from home. If it’s only key workers that means factories and offices shutting down. That’s going to take the economy down. Businesses will go bust. But he specifically stated if it can’t be done from home. Not just key workers.

He said only if the work is essential AND can't be done from home.

NeurotrashWarrior · 23/03/2020 21:56

Fuck, car is at garage getting essential things done for mot, which runs out on 31st!

GirlYouHaveNoFaithInMedicine · 23/03/2020 21:56

I am not sure why using your dog wanting multiple walks as a way to excuse yourself from the new rules is a worse crime than using the virus as an excuse to be so incredibly rude to people. Both people are trying to justify bad behaviour because they want to do the behaviour and don't want to be badly judged for it.

It's not to save lives because rude aggression is the very weakest way to change people's behaviour so using it must be less about the effect it has on the other person and more about the way it makes the aggressor feel.

Bluntness100 · 23/03/2020 21:56

The winners are those with the most boring lives and nothing to lose. Or those who love sticking extremely close to the rule book- the jobs worth lot

I’d have that deleted if I was you, it’s too ridiculous for words. The rule book is to save lives. It’s not about being a jobs worth. Grow up.

EggysMom · 23/03/2020 21:57

I need to drive about 50 miles tomorrow to take calpol and baby food to my sister as her 7 month old baby has a temperature I would say that counts as "medical need" though it has to be asked whether she could get somebody closer (neighbour, friend) to get this for her at the same time as doing their essential food shopping.

lyralalala · 23/03/2020 21:58

Explain how someone walking their dog three times a day in a deserted rural area where you see no one is going to kill thousands?

Because it's not one person walking their dog three times a day. It's thousands of people walking their dog three times a day.

SisterSist3r · 23/03/2020 21:58

Car mot on Wed, will be necessary.

Notthemessiah · 23/03/2020 21:59

Explain how someone walking their dog three times a day in a deserted rural area where you see no one is going to kill thousands?

Because if you don't stick to it, why should anyone else?

midgebabe · 23/03/2020 21:59

You can do deliveries to someone self isolating, you can do essential care.

So yes, drop the calpol on the doorstep

1ForAllnAllFor1 · 23/03/2020 21:59

I have dentist appointment for teeth filling tomorrow, anyone reckons it’s not allowed?

Yeafortwo · 23/03/2020 21:59

My dog gets 3 half hour to 45 minutes walks a day, I'm quite happy to shorten them but you can't just take a dog out once a day, that's bloody cruel!

Oh ffs 🙈 I'm a dog owner, just take it for a long walk once.

midgebabe · 23/03/2020 21:59

Erm, dentist peering into your mouth...bet that's a great way t9 spread germs

Bluntness100 · 23/03/2020 22:00

He said only if the work is essential AND can't be done from home

That’s not a logical interpretation , essential can mean essential to get paid, essential to stop the business going bust essential does not mean only a key worker, it is not a direct correlation.

If indeed he meant only key workers then he should have said that. Because the definition of essential will differ based on who says it. Many people will feel it’s essential they work so they get paid. Take a self employed kitchen fitter for example. A guy running his own take away. These people may well think it’s essential for them to go to work
Because they have bills to pay. A business to stop going bust.

RickOShay · 23/03/2020 22:01

Well said @NuclearWinter
People are just trying to make sense of the new restrictions.
Living rurally means you could take your dog for 10 walks a day and see nobody.

Notthemessiah · 23/03/2020 22:01

He didn't say only if the work was essential. This is the exact line from the guidelines as to when you can go out:

Travelling to and from work, but only where this absolutely cannot be done from home.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/874714/Full_guidance_on_staying_at_home_and_away_from_others.pdf

So anyone thinking they or their DP can simply not turn up for work tomorrow is mistaken.

flowerycurtain · 23/03/2020 22:01

To all those saying it's fine to go out lots in the countryside I really hope you don't get hit on your bike or on a run on our normally quiet country lanes but the feed lorry bringing feed to our livestock. The hospital may not cope with you. The ambulance may take ages to get to you.

Just do the bloody rules wherever you live!!!!!! The selfishness of people on here astounds me. Al week it's been "lockdown,
Lockdown, lockdown". Now it's happened it's "oh, well that doesn't apply to me, I have to walk Fido 3 times a day and run 3 times a week. "