People demanding a full lock down

[Londongirl88888]

It really really annoys me! Most of us are following rules. Not even going for a walk most days. People are kicking off on my local corna page that theres more cars in town today. So they now think we need a full lock down.

Firstly it's the weekend. More people will be shopping due to being at work all week? People might be shopping for other family and dropping it off.

Theres a police statement that the a52 is really quiet and they are saying well done for listening.

People are allowed out for walks. It's important for dogs, children and adults to get air and move around. It should be one walk a day. It can't be controlled if 400 people choose to do just that between 1-2pm or only 30 do. So yes the streets may sometimes show more people. But most of them are probably just going for a walk. The only thing we have left for our minds and health.

I'm not talking about people having picnics,
Travelling for an afternoon walk somewhere,
Sneaking to see family unless they need help.

I'm saying the majority of people are going to be doing the decent thing.

I think rather than fully locking us down fine the minority sat in groups and doing the "wrong" things. Give them a full lockdown but don't punish the many decent people.

The parents/people in flats without gardens need to walk

Young children need to move.

We all need to move about.

Also i wish people would stop getting in a rage about cars being out. There are no online shopping slots. So thousands of locals will need to go out for food each week. Milk and bread etc will need buying for many every few days. Pet food needs buying. Prescriptions need collecting. Workers need to go to and from work.

A huge majority of people are following the rules. I'm sick of everyone being put into the same category. My kids have gone for their 3rd walk in two weeks just now with their dad. I'm sure people will be tutting and presuming we are another family out and not listening. They need to get out for 15 minutes today though. They are starting to climb the walls and get bored.

Far too many irate people at the moment.

doghairismyglitter well I'm just going by what the midwifes told me each and everytime I had my 4 children! But if you are right I'm pretty sure that in these circumstances children not leaving the house for a few weeks due to a pandemic and for their own safety, aswell as others is not going to do irreversible damage to a childs vitamin d levels and of course there is always good old vitamin chews/tablets for children!! So your argument is kind of irrelevant!

Absolutely agree with you op. 100%.

kravarza well bloody said

@Hanywany I didn’t bring up babies sitting in windows! You did.
I firmly believe children need sufficient vitamin d and calcium. So being outside and drinking milk is part of that. Something which doesn’t go against current restrictions.
Not everyone can get supplements. I only live within walking distance to one small supermarket & tried to get my sons multivitamins as they’ve finished the packet, and they don’t sell anything like it there.
So it’s not that easy. Not everyone’s lives are the same with easy access to big supermarkets and cars and large gardens, laptops, sky tv, all the trimmings that make isolation much easier. Some people have bare minimum.

My new plan is simple:,if you voted Tory in December then back of the queue for NHS treatment. It clearly was not if concern to you so bear the consequences.

doghairismyglitter neither did I so again not sure what your point is there! Also my children get plenty of calcium and vitamin d so again not following you there! And also you are very presumptuous to think that I'm off to the supermarket every 2 minutes or that I have a car and sky tv and all the trimmings etc! I think that you are making excuses to want to go out! As I said before there is a big difference between to need and to want! I just know that I wont be putting my families lives in danger because I just fancy a walk! You sound very bitter!

I feel it would be so sad for us sensible people adhering to the rules when others don't. The lad across the road disappeared yesterday afternoon in his car and came back today. He works from home which he shares with his girlfriend and her parents so where the f...k did he go. Next door neighbours children came round today and they spent the afternoon chatting in garden. I could hear one of them saying I hope people don't go to the beach because they will cause a complete lock down. I wanted to shout over the fence No the likes of you bloody well will. Plus three more sets of cars arrived this afternoon at different houses. It drives me mad. My son lives close by but we Facetime because that is what you are supposed to do. It drives me crazy because we are lucky as we have a garden so we could cope with a complete lock down but people with families in flats would really suffer.

My new plan is simple:,if you voted Tory in December then back of the queue for NHS treatment. It clearly was not if concern to you so bear the consequences.

This is a good one!

What exactly would be different if Corbyn was in charge rather than Boris (who is now is hospital)

Same people running the NHS, same medical advisors with regard to action on Covid. What would be better

@Hanywany I think that you are making excuses to want to go out! As I said before there is a big difference between to need and to want! I just know that I wont be putting my families lives in danger because I just fancy a walk!

I have been to the local shop twice since lockdown and walk my children and dog once a day. How the hell is that making excuses to go out?

I’m “putting my families lives in danger” for going for a walk and completely following government guidelines...?!?
Bloody hell there must be a lot of awful mothers on here for daring to take their kids for walks.

Congrats on your sanctimonious attitude

😊 Be my guest, twinkle2306, I have a 6year lab retriever who is very intelligent, can work out games, loves my daughters home from university for company and walks, what do you suggest?

@Rebootingagain things wouldn’t be much different yet, but the people who voted Tory were supporting a policy of underfunding it and grinding it down in order to achieve privatisation and money making opportunity. Which is fine, as long as they don’t want treatment from the chronically underfunded service.

Italy, Spain and France seem to be starting to flatten their curve, the Uk does not. Italy , Spain and France have a strict lockdown. The UK does not. It just isn't rocket science.

doghairismyglitter I haven't got anything against anyone going out to get essential supplies by all means whatever is essential! But again I see many people walking the children and the dog once a day going past my house in london and they really dont stick to the social distancing rules at all, so again I just dont see it as an essential in the grand scheme of things! And I have a big bullmastiff and 4 children and they haven't left the house at all for the last 2 months but there all well and happy and not undernourished, I have left the house 3 times for food and nappies, so again it all boils down to need rather than want!

It’s not a one size fits all. What some people can cope with, others can’t.

I don’t see any issue at all with someone exercising once a day. And it’s not breaking the rules at all. If you don’t wish to allow yourself, your dog or any of your four children outside for 2 months that’s your choice, but luckily at the moment other people can have the choice to walk outside and get fresh air. And while that’s an option I am most definitely not going to deprive my dog or my sons of it.

Where did you get that hair shirt hanywany? Silly me, obviously mail order

Milk and bread can be frozen. No need to shop so often for it.

LimitIsUp what on earth are you on about English please

"My DC have not stepped out of the house in 35 days"

Wow - not impressed!

Poor kids

English please? Have you really never heard the term hair shirt?

hair shirt

noun
1 a shirt of haircloth, formerly worn by penitents and ascetics.





adjective
1 austere and self-sacrificing."a hair-shirted existence advocated by eco-fundamentalists"







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doghairismyglitter you can imply I'm a bad mother as much as you want my children are not being deprived of anything we have a big house with lots of space and a large garden for all 4 of them to play, plant, grow and sunbathe in so we are very lucky to have that!

LimitIsUp sorry I take it you dont do sarcasm! As I just stated to op no one underneath my roof is being punished I have a big enough house and garden to keep all of my family and the dog happy!

Hanywany - you keep telling yourself that. Even if you lived in a massive 8 bedroom country pile in 20 acres (which you don't), it still gets 'old' if you never leave and never interact with anyone else. Still a prison - even if a gilded one

@Hanywany EXACTLY! You say going for a walk is “putting lives in danger” while you sit in a “big house with lots of space and a large garden”

Not everyone is so fortunate, therefore they actually need to get outside to have space to walk around and exercise!!
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Actually mine is a 5 bedroom 3 reception room gilded gothic victorian townhouse and I dont ever feel imprisoned because I am not and I actually like the company that I keep, so to describe it as imprisonment is very telling of your mindset and just how your feeling with regards to this lockdown and your household dynamic!!