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Just got a letter to show the police when out

293 replies

incognitomum · 25/03/2020 16:28

I'm a care worker and my boss has given is all letters to prove we're legit to be out and about. Am wondering if there's new measures coming? I've seen plenty out and about today when driving home.

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MiracletoCome · 25/03/2020 20:40

PickAChew. I’m happy with the online radio times, it’s DH who likes the paper version, he is a bit of a dinosaur

TabbyMumz · 25/03/2020 20:41

I dont see why you need a letter to say you are a keyworker, when it's not just keyworkers going out. He has quite clearly said if you cant do your job from home, you can go to your workplace. Also lots of people will be driving to do their foodshop, of driving somewhere to walk.

Leflic · 25/03/2020 20:52

Thing is you are told to “stay home”. It’s the nipping out that they are trying to stop. So yep.If you go food shopping buy a paper. But don’t nip out to the garage for a paper , then go food shopping later, then go to the chemist for a prescription, then go for a nice long bike ride.

Same with driving. Yes drive to somewhere local if you must. But no you can’t drive from Guildford to the Devon coast and claim you are getting exercise.

chomalungma · 25/03/2020 23:08

People are told not to nip out.

B&Q are open.

B&M stores are open.

Why aren't they closed?

Rubyroost · 25/03/2020 23:10

@MigginsMrs I've made nothing up. This is my opinion, the less you go somewhere the less chance you have of a. Transmitting the virus and b. Catching it. Nucoka sturgeon is an idiot if she's encouraging people to go once a day! Also I realise in the situation where people are panic buying this may not be possible. Hence why I said, where possible. Regarding comment about elderly having only one type of exercise a day with a walk to the shop. They can still walk to the shop, just don't go in!!

Rebellenny · 25/03/2020 23:18

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MigginsMrs · 25/03/2020 23:27

You did make up the “no more than once a week” thing and did not say that that was your opinion. That was not said by the PM and is not in any official pronouncements. I agree NS is a plonker for all manner of reasons, however she did not encourage people to shop once a day, she said it should be no more than once a day. We will go as little as possible but it’s probably going to be difficult to limit it to less than twice a week. We couldn’t get any meat in the supermarket so had to make another journey to the butcher.

Wingedharpy · 25/03/2020 23:33

Absolutely agree that ALL shopping is done in 1 trip.
I mentioned "nipping out", but this is the 1 and only trip my relative's partner will do that day.

Genuine question: Is it better to undertake 1x 3 minute visit to local shop daily or, take fewer visits but spend 3 x longer out as you have more to get?

Rubyroost · 25/03/2020 23:33

I don't have to say its my opinion. It's mumsnet, that's what mumsnet is. I said that people should....

Rubyroost · 25/03/2020 23:34

He said essential trips... Interpret as you want essential trips. If you really think it is essential to shop once a day then you're put of your mind.

Rubyroost · 25/03/2020 23:36

Essential in my mind is to do a welly shopping trip, but even less if poss. And yes I'd say longer trip but less often as it seems you'd be exposed to less and expose others to less that way. But I understand what you're saying there.

MadamePewter · 26/03/2020 00:00

Obviously alcohol is essential in a pandemic

Stinkynincompoop · 26/03/2020 00:01

Genuine question: Is it better to undertake 1x 3 minute visit to local shop daily or, take fewer visits but spend 3 x longer out as you have more to get?

I was thinking this. Supermarkets seem to have so many empty shelves that instead of going infrequently, before the lockdown we would often go to 3 shops just to find what we needed on our list. Now we want (and should) go less often but I'm worried that we wont get a weeks shopping in 1 go. A small corner shop near us has most things but is way more expensive and doesnt have large packs of stuff.....but the benefit is there is usually only about 3 people in there.

StormyClouds · 26/03/2020 00:49

If you're going out just to buy a sodding newspaper, you're inherently selfish and I hope you are fined.

Fuck right off. My exercise is my walk to the local shop to buy a paper. There will be a maximum of two other people in there- no-one is at risk.

It's not hard to see how the Nazis were elected and found people to spy on their neighbours when we literally have people wanting their fellow citizens to be fined for walking down the street to buy a newspaper.

Authoritarians rely on turning people against each other to justify increasing their control.

MigginsMrs · 26/03/2020 00:57

If you really think it is essential to shop once a day then you're put of your mind.

Or maybe you can’t manage to carry more than a few items at a time due to frailty/age? Or the shelves are empty when you go and you keep going until you can get what you need? Or you only have a tiny fridge and freezer and can’t store much food? Yes most people don’t need to go the shops daily but some might need to go more often than once or even twice a week.

Isadora2007 · 26/03/2020 01:00

My daughter shops every day as she has to walk with a buggy and a toddler so can’t carry loads of shopping each time. Maybe she could manage every second day... but saying people should only shop once a week is ridiculously short sighted.

TabbyMumz · 26/03/2020 07:37

People are being quite nasty to teenagers by me. I get that some are flouting the rules, but mine went out for their allowed daily walk yesterday and lo and behold later on there was talk about it on our local fb page saying they saw 2 teenagers out and they should be locked in etc. Itz very very quiet by us, in the whole half hour they were out, they saw 3 people.

JustDanceAddict · 26/03/2020 07:41

You can take one walk a day so that’s not illegal
I wouldn’t buy a paper for the sake of it even as part of walk as it’s more interaction

Itsnotthatcomplicated · 26/03/2020 07:44

Ffs no one has been fined for buying a newspaper. If that's even happened, it's because they are consistently going out and ignoring the advice. Probably popped out for milk, then bread, then a paper. But I doubt it has.

You can go out and and do you exercise. That could include popping to a shop on the way back.

I do exactly that. Save going out twice. My dad is in the police and its absolutely allowed.

Supermarkets have not blocked off chocolate aisles, ffs. People do talk shit.

Or rather people always have 'a friend' who definitely knows everything AND talks shit.

Itsnotthatcomplicated · 26/03/2020 07:45

There was the woman on Facebook claiming she knew someone who had been fined £250 because her teenager was out.

Given it's a £30 fine, she must have had 8.3 kids out?

People need to stop talking shit

Itsnotthatcomplicated · 26/03/2020 07:49

@Isadora2007 when I was young mum was a single parent without a car. She would shop on her way home from work, every afternoon and walk back.

To those of us that have been in this position get it. People judge by their own lives. They forget that not everyone has the same advantages that they have.

My mil always said I was ridiculous for taking the car and doing a big shop. Be ause she used to go everyday. Apparantly I could get the bus and save petrol money.

She was forgetting she could get the bus for free, she

Frouby · 26/03/2020 07:53

Police were parked outside the spar across the road yesterday morning. Don't know what they were asking but as cars pulled up and people were getting out they were stopped and spoken to. Probably 2/3s didn't go in the spar, got back in their cars and drove off.

I presume they were being asked what they were planning on buying and if it wasn't essential turned away.

I think this is a good thing. We should just be shopping for essentials to protect retail staff from more unnecessary exposure. I'd be pretty stressed working in essential retail and deemed a keyworker but have the 2 meter rule breached every few minutes by people buying a magazine, a bar of chocolate and a bag of crisps.

cheeserem · 26/03/2020 07:59

So much he said she said... all I hear is "my neighbours friends sister said that she was stopped for buying chocolate"
Or "my sisters boyfriends mums cousin said her bags were searched." Best one is "Someone in my Facebook said...." oh well must all be true then!

userxx · 26/03/2020 08:00

presume they were being asked what they were planning on buying and if it wasn't essential turned away

Wonder if wine is classed as essential?

BarbaraofSeville · 26/03/2020 08:26

If they are doing that, it's ridiculous. I know that people are supposed to limit trips out, but without searching people's houses to see what they already have in, who can say what's essential and what's not?

If you've no milk, you can do without after all, unless you have small children, it's not essential, you can always have your tea and coffee black.

And why are they allowing newsagents and off licences to open at all, if that's the rule. Nobody needs newspapers, alcohol, sweets or crisps so if that's what's being enforced then those shops should be told to close.

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