Is anyone reporting breaches?

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I've read threads saying there are police forces who have online reporting for breaches but are these anonymous? I can imagine neighbourly relations being very strained if anyone reports them especially if the reports aren't anonymous. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is of the foremost concern but would people want to report neighbours even for the greater good and even if they were putting them at risk? My own neighbours are flouting the guidelines, mixing households and socialising in the garden, along with being out and about every day. I'm shielded and our gardens are very small and not particularly separate so we can't keep 2 metres apart easily. It's even worse if they have guests. Going out in the garden is the only way I can get out of the house for the next 10/11 weeks and I resent not being able to enjoy our outdoor space because the neighbours can't stick to the guidelines. And don't get me started on the amount of door banging they do all day. Grrr I don't like people!

MNers sometimes have a 12-yr-old's disdain for "snitching"
Or the disdain of petty criminals and frauds indignant about being shopped

Breaking these particular rules is not like e.g. having noisy parties in normal times

I'd report household mixing
if it's not just a brief 2m chat after dropping off food & meds

Obviously though, each household may stay outside in their own garden all day and night, if they wish
It only breaks the rules if someone from another household joins them

Nothing wrong with being in your garden with family from another home.

Except there is We are told not to mix households for a reason. If your brother has popped over to yours, he's probably nipped into his best mate's as well at some point. Who knows who else has been at the best mate's house? This is how the disease spreads.

It's completely different to, for example, taking shopping to your mum while still adhering to social distancing.

I'd report the buggers without a second thought. I did my own version of doing the decent thing(!)and glared at the bloke next door who thought it was fine to have his GF stay over and daughter and GC visit. I think he got the message as it hasn't happened since, but maybe someone else beat me to dobbing him in- don't know and don't give a flying feck, selfish people like him don't warrant it. I am front line NHS and have family in the highly vulnerable group so I have zero tolerance.

Some people get paid to be informants.
You lot are doing it for fucking free

I'd rather "inform" on a fucking idiot who constantly breaks the rules than see them infect someone, who might possibly die.

No wonder the numbers keep rising.

Ask a frontline nurse or medic if you should report obvious blatant flouting ie mixing of diferent households while they keep evryone breathing. Ask the people waiitng for cancer surgeries or scans if they are prepared to wait even longer just so the neighbours can have a bbq or sneak the grandkids to see granny. Its a no brainer really isnt it. I doubt very much though if anything would come of it not unless you all do something . Police would rather have a jolly around empty sea fronts and country roads posting nice pics on social media. People are in their gardens with others who shouldn't be. Where the hell do they think they all are! Therell be a huge spike in about 2 to 3 weeks time. And the same nurses and medics will still be there battling away. Thats if they havent died in the process. This country still doesnt know whats hit it.. The more that report it the more something has to be done surely?! Stop being so bloody british and get a backbone people are dying. All those selfish people who DO know they are flouting should be permanently tatood and refused treatment. Why wouldnt you give your details no one will know. Just do it or this so called lockdown will go on for longer and more PEOPLE WILL DIE

Oh and yes i have reported neighbours 5 separate households repeatedly gathering at grannys. You have to wonder what their motives are! And its still going on police have done nothing or if they have it hasnt had the desired effect. I couldnt care kess that they know i have repoeted them either.. That was a 101 call. Online reporting i would hope is more efficient. They put the whole of our street to shame. They are intelligent people. (well so i thought) who really should know better. Absolutley shameful.

I have reported. I have lost two people this week to CV

Do you people who report your neighbours spend a lot of your time watching them out of your windows? Why don't you find another hobby? I haven't got a clue what my neighbours are doing because I have better things to do than monitor their comings and goings.

I live on a small street so there's not many people who could be the person reporting. The neighbours have only been here a few weeks and I can't really go round for a chat when I'm shielded. Other neighbours are having their adult children round to visit or young adult children are mixing with others in cars. People don't give a shit I guess.

The neighbours who are in the garden with another household and going out several times a day are the newish ones. They aren't at work as are out most of the day in the garden if it's nice which it has been most days recently. We live within walking distance of the shops that are open and they go out in the car several times a day. I hear them come and go as the windows are open and they make a fair amount of noise so impossible not to know unless I was deaf.

This thread has shown that a lot of people don't believe in doing the right thing.

The comment about my health being fragile made me laugh though. I'm usually very active, walk everywhere and pretty healthy. I have asthma that is treated with drugs that put mean I have to shield. I'm not fragile ffs.

I would if I felt what someone was doing placed a group of people in danger.

This morning I heard a car beep in the street. I was in MH kitchen which faces the street and saw them pick up someone from the flats opposite.

I didn't report although I did roll my eyes! Reason being is if those people go out together they risk infecting each other. If they observe social distancing then they aren't any more risk to the general public than if they went out alone.
Also by the fact the person who came out had bags for life I'm assuming they picked them up to take them shopping. Imo that's different from a Bbq or party or trip to a beach!

I tried to report neighbours mingling last night via the online chat, it didn't get anywhere as whoever was replying kept quoting the 'if they are the same household' and didn't grasp that I was talking about two different households. I cannot report them today (mingling in the same garden) as it would be far too obvious as to who had reported them.

It’s very tempting, I didn’t know you could do it online so might consider it!

No. Our estate is terrible today, loads of people stood chatting at other peoples front doors and sitting in the park.

The police are patrolling though (it's a naice estate, think 'executive houses') and moving people on from the park.

I really couldn't bring myself to report people though, I have enough to worry about.

I think people are just viewing it as one long holiday. We have neighbours on either side who have each invested in one of the large stand alone swimming pool.

One has several household’s worth of children in while the adults are drinking, the other has the teenage daughter’s boyfriend over too.

I’m trying to explain to my children why it is only us that can’t see the DGPs

BigChoc

I couldn't give a stuff about rules for the sake of it.
If there is no danger there's no reason why you shouldn't.
My neighbours share a garden, both retired/elderly men.
One sits on a bench at his side, the other on a bench at his side. They are out for hours having a chat, neither has been anywhere in the past month and apart from an online delivery nobody has been to theirs either.

Same here, my ds1 and family have seen nobody in over a month, and neither have we, so we go over to theirs.
If anyone of us had mixed with other during this time, we wouldn't risk it.
Where theirs no risk, I'm not following rules for the sake.

Ask a frontline nurse or medic if you should report obvious blatant flouting ie mixing of diferent households

I guess you missed the threads where it was frontline workers doing this, yes doctors and nurses.

Nope, everyone is pretty good where i live. Not that ive noticed much, ive been too busy.

Do you people who report your neighbours spend a lot of your time watching them out of your windows? Why don't you find another hobby? I haven't got a clue what my neighbours are doing because I have better things to do than monitor their comings and goings.

Some people here are absolutely relishing the opportunity to whine about how Alison from number 14 left her home twice in one day, or about how the complete stranger in front of them in the Tesco queue had 'non-essential' items in their shopping basket. It's bringing out the worst in quite a few people.

I wouldn't dare - despite the fact that at least half our neighbours are still having family members visiting and in and out of here and their own homes daily. We live so close together that it would potentially make my life hellish if they found out it was us and it would be pretty obvious as we're the only ones in the middle of everyone who isn't following the rules to BE following the rules, and we've already incurred the wrath of one clique here for daring to object to 3am drunken garden singalongs under our bedroom windows basically and now have really pissed people off by having the kids put rainbows in the window.

Longearedbat

No i am an nhs worker. Believe me i have better things to do rhan watch my covidiot neighbours or online asking others opinions. Come home to see and hear these selfish people every day. Report online folks. Read the guidance first as to what is allowed and what isnt. It is inplace to save lives and save the nhs. Without those nhs frontline workers in particular we are in even more deep shit. I and every other nhs or keyworker do not go to work every day to risking our own lives just so people can carry on like it wont happen to them or they wont give it to anyone else. The nhs needs your help folks. People nees to report those who are flouting under your noses not just in well known beauty spots. This horrendous disease does not give a shit where it can breed. The police police need to act on reports. And if they cant perhaps its time the government stepped up to support them or get army help whatever it takes. Show a prescence. Actions speak louder than words. These people do not care. There are no consequences for the huge majority who break the rules. Its bad enough theres not enough PPE or not the right PPE dspite the rhetoric in the daily news briefings. Lets not ignore the scum who are not giving anything up. Not even for the very people who may keep them breathing.

Haven't seen anyone flouting the rules
But worried that people might think we are.
My mum and sister and I have to care for another family member, all his daycare got cancelled. But we’re all isolating apart from that. But the only other choice was to have multiple carers to see to him. This way we’re keeping the circle tighter and safer, we thought

And now our lovely neighbours one side are throwing a barbecue with the neighbours from the other side, I have had to get my washing in.

I think it depends why there are people going round to their house. For example I am 7months pregnant also have 2 children and my husband still has to work as he is a bus driver so when I have maternity appointments my mum will be coming over to look after my 2 children so that I can attend my midwife/hospital appointments and also when I go in to labour ahe will be coming over to look after the kids while hubby takes me to hospital and to be my birthing partner. I have asked my midwife and she said that is absolutely fine since kids can't attend midwife/hospital appointments and my mum hasnt been going out anywhere else. So I think personally to report someone without knowing the facts is wrong however if they are blatantly having parties and mixing every day then you should have a word with your neighbours

I am not particularly recommending reporting because as I've said before you can't really know the circumstances. For example perhaps these are people who have recovered from the virus? Probably not, but you don't know that. Or maybe everyone in that garden works with infected patients so are all exposed.

However...

Devlesko "complying with rules there for the sake of rules" is supposed to be the default. I assume you stop for red lights? I liked 1984 as much as the next guy, but we elected our government.

I used to know a guy was always boasting of how they wouldn't stop him drinking and driving "Drive better after a few beers I do" he'd say "don't let them tell you what to do"

Would make a better story if he run over some kids but he never did, but it never crossed his mind that the rule was there for a reason.

Another NHS worker here and yes I have reported even though I live in a flat and it wont be difficult to guess it was me. I dont know whats pissing me off the most, the blatant drug dealing and using or yhe barber taking up shop ourside.

Not every one on mums net lives in a cul de sac some of us live in London where the numbers are a hundred times higher than they are in other parts of the country. Im sick of the It wont happen to me attitude of these young men.