So where will all the idiots go now....

[DeRigueurMortis]

Given hardware stores are considered essential my guess is that we will see the masses heading for B&Q to stock up on items for "home projects" they can do during lockdown.

Completely missing the point that the reason they can remain open is to provide supplies to key workers like plumbers to fix leaks that unless fixed would prevent people staying in their home.

I've also got a feeling that we will see people having daily "essential" trips to the supermarket to get out and about.

I still don't think some people are taking this seriously.....

It's also coming up to payday for a hell of a lot of the country. It's rare I find people who get paid in the middle.

Last week and this week, they will still only be able to do top-ups of the essentials. Like many who buy for the month, this doesn't include all the fresh stuff. Their everything is fastly depleting. They would have only been going in for the essentials. Not cleaning the shelves clean. And now, oh no, you cannot go shopping.

I expect there'll be selfish idiots who will end up getting into village allotments at 3am and thinking they're oh so clever nicking everyone's hard-earned veg cropS in a few months' time.

Moral bankruptcy at its finest.

I know where they will go.

To their allotments

I was wondering about this. I've got an allotment but not grown anything on it yet so it doesn't matter. But for lots of people it is a food source. And generally you're not close to other people anyway. Unless people start taking their kids and families and treating it like a party area.

Well it's obvious where some of the idiots have gone, but I'm very thankful to say they don't live in my community.

Went for a 20 min walk around the village.

It was very quiet.

The people I did pass all worked together to maintain a 2m distance - stepping into the road or a driveway if necessary to let people pass safely. Saw a few others in their gardens doing some cutting back/planting.

Everyone actually far more courteous than usual (not that anyone is usually rude) with everyone saying hello to each other and passing a comment or two. Have a brief chat with an elderly man (from 5m) in his garden and asked if he was ok/needed anything and he said he and his wife have been inundated with offers of help from neighbours to get shopping/pick up prescriptions so they are doing fine and apparently feeling quite special and cherished.

Viewed from my bedroom window I could see people in the village centre (where I live) queuing for the local mini supermarket and pharmacy. I never saw the lines get bigger than 4 people and again everyone was maintaining distance in the queue.

Equally people queuing for the most part were alone (rather than the couples/families that you'd expect to see).

My parents (village 30 mins away - high risk so been SI) have also had letters from both neighbours offering to help which is lovely (as it happens they are fine as DM always has a well stocked pantry and have managed to bag an elusive online shop, plus I dropped off a shop of veg/milk for them a week ago some of which DM has turned into soup and popped in the freezer along with some of the milk).

All I'm hoping for all the daft threads on here saying "can I still..." plus the reports in the papers is that a lot of communities are like mine/my parents and doing the right thing.

I’ve been looking at Flight Radar over the last few days and there are several flights a day from UK to Barbados which I find extraordinary.
The hospital there won’t be able to cope with a large numbers of cv sufferers.
I understand that Barbadians in UK would want to get home and visitors back to Britain but I wonder how long these flights will continue.