Do you know anyone who's not self isolating when they should be?

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Do you know anyone who's not self isolating when they should be?

social damage CV is causing, IMO, will have far longer repercussions than CV itself will

Agree but you basically get lynched for saying that here.

My manager only did it for 3 days then went back.

Yes my neighbour. His partner was bedridden for the last week and they were both out the front today with other neighbours!

Yes. My 90 year old mother insists on walking her dog each day. We have had words and had the usual 'if we both get it and die I expect you'll say jolly good riddance' because I dared to tell her its selfish. She has a couple if acres they own that the dog could be walked in.

• it's selfish *of acres

Do you know someone doing this op or are you just starting an outrage thread?
I'm noticing a strange phenomenon on here where people seem to find some kind of pleasure or reassurance from pointing the finger at their friends and neighbours.

It's not pleasure, is it, it's annoyance they are putting others at risk.

Me. I'm overweight and asthmatic. But I can't get a delivery slot and neither can my over 70 mother or over 70 pil (who fall into the very high risk category). So what choice do I have? My family needs to eat.

I am limiting leaving the house to truly essential things, but as I'm shopping for 3 families that still means trips more often than I'm comfortable with due to the limitations on shopping.

I know people will say ask for help locally, but I tried, there is nothing. I have no choice, no matter how much I hate it.

I've managed to get a delivery slot for next week, hopefully that will enable me to just need to drop food at my parents house. (delivering to doorsteps, no contact there)

My best friends husband is carer to her 73 year old mother with severe Alzheimer's. On the day of the lockdown he took her to a coffee shop and posted on FB about how crowded it was, picture of elderly mother in tow. He's a vile, selfish human being and we've had a massive falling out because of it but I don't care and would say the same again. God I hate him

Someone from work, has 'a cold/Covid' but apparently it's still ok to go to the shops for food as long as you take precautions..

Soap, it's lynch mob mentality. Some people on here certainly seem to relish it.

I go out. I exercise every day and I’ve been to the shop once in 10 days. I have to go again tomorrow as I live alone and don’t drive - I can’t physically carry anymore food / supplies to last longer.

But I’m not ill, ensure I stay away from people in case I’m a carrier, and am under 70. I exercise on my bike so am able to get away from others.

I too hate the creeping vigilantism I’m seeing.

I think outliers really don’t matter. In epidemics it is getting the majority to do the right thing.

I do have some sympathy for both the old and the young not being perfectly observant, though. The young are being asked to make a massive sacrifice of their best years to help the old whom they already feel have not done their generation any favours. And the old may want to enjoy one of their last summers on Earth a bit.

Of course, if there is not good compliance many will die unnecessarily but the choice may be ushering in totalitarianism by the back door, aided and abetted by the amateur ‘Stasi’ on here.

There are no good choices and making a choice to minimise death over life pleasure and economy will also cost many dear.

I think we are going the right way but it is not clearly more moral than more deaths and herd immunity. It is a complex question.

Well @RishiSunakFanClub Perhaps if the people you are a fan of released the data to the supermarkets which ITV News just showed they havent done yet it might help.

There was a woman with MS on ITV News and her son has asthma and they cant get food.

I think outliers really don’t matter. In epidemics it is getting the majority to do the right thing.

I agree.

Inform on your neighbours and be a good citizen

A hairdresser who was told not to come into a old People’s block of flats to do their hair so she invited them to come to hers and said she’d do them there!!! I honestly despair at some people. Apparently she needs to earn a living.

Well I know a lot of nhs staff with asthma, diabetes, heart disease, diabetes, morbid obesity or a combination of illnesses etc who are all working.

Not personally. All my friends are strict, not going out except to walk the dog, communicating via whatsapp and HouseParty, only shopping when they have to and using local delivery services rather than the big markets. We are all parents of teens and they have all been in since last weekend.
However, my first time out this week to the shop and I saw at least a dozen people well over 70, a few for sure over 80, walking about (I saw younger people, mainly joggers and dog walkers, all who seemed to be adhering to social distancing). A few may have been off to the shops even though there are alot of local delivery services but there is a possibility they don't know about them.

@RishiSunakFanClub they are doing the right thing. If they don't have symptoms they are social distancing, not self isolating as per instructions.

No, but I know my XH is self-isolating so he does't have to see his children.

@larrygrylls I agree completely.

Most people socially distancing barring my grandad (lonely so keeps popping out, poor health, a friend trying to arrange a big playdate at hers on watsapp group and teen spitters and swaggering and brushing up against people.

Others following guidelines or working.

www.itv.com/news/2020-03-27/vulnerable-fear-starvation-in-coronavirus-crisis-writes-chris-choi/