Are people forgetting we are still in lockdown?

[Scousebird26]

Hi all!
Hope everyone is safe and well!

I don’t know if this is the same for anyone else, but I took my dog for a quick walk over the field today and it was just full of people enjoying the sun - I totally understand going for your daily excercise, but there was families having picnics, groups of people playing football, people on the streets talking to each other who deffo weren’t social distancing! It was like just an ordinary day!

I totally appreciate people are getting fed up, me included and there are many of times I’ve just thought fuck it, il go and visit family/friends but I haven’t. I don’t want to make this whole thing worse.

Is this the same in other home towns or has mine just forgot the situation we are all in?!

I live in a seaside tourist area. The council have asked people not to visit but its the kind of place that everyone flocks to as soon as the sun comes out so they can go to the beach etc...Its proving very hard to keep people away

I went out to drop off some things at a friend's house yesterday and the roads were much busier than I had expected. Lots of the cars had more than one person in them as well. I live in the south east and this was round 2pm.

We need vitamin D and to be outside, amongst a billion other things.

Lots of the cars had more than one person in them as well

And?

As long as they’re members of the same family I don’t see any problem. You have no idea what people may be doing

DH and DD1 have gone to work together this morning.

Couples/families driving short distances for a walk

DH and I or DD2 and I travel together to do our horses twice a day

@Springersrock

But... but... travelling more than one person in a car significantly increases your risk of not being miserable.

Selfish selfish selfish.

If I am miserable, why shouldn't you be?

I just went to the local shop (for essential supplies!) and there weren't too many people about. I saw a mum taking her kids for a walk, there was another customer in the shop when I arrived, and the shop keeper's wife was just setting off on her delivery rounds. One the way back I saw a chap riding his bike, the Postman, someone unloading shopping from their car and a couple walking their dog. So not excessive at all.

We do need to keep the measures in place for now, to get the number of infected people as low as possible (but it won't be zero) to avoid a sudden rise when we come out. But it is perfectly possible to go outside without breaking any rules or putting anyone at significant risk so I do not know why people are complaining that others are doing so.

I've been all for people going out and getting sun and exercise. I've been making sure my family does it. So don't want us all to lose that.

But up until last week everyone round here were doing that responsibly. Now they're not. They're meeting up with friends, all out driving, shops are opening.

That has to happen eventually, I know. But in a controlled and organised way. This way everything we stayed in for is going to be lost. Everything we stopped working for. Everything government has payed out billions for.

There's no one on the streets to police parties in parks and woods and houses. There's no PM to voice that we are still in lockdown and must continue to obey the 'rules'.

Those frothing about what everyone else is doing...whilst they are clearly doing the same otherwise HOW could they see them? Makes me laugh...a lot
I was just going to say the same thing , I haven't experienced any of this because I'm staying home . I go out for my exercise and yes I see people but they are doing the same .
I see people at the supermarket and that's it .
I have seen people from the same household sat on the grass but I see no harm stopping for a rest especially if you have young ones .
I also know that when people say see their family it's just a wave from the window/ driveway so still social distancing.
I do agree some people are taking it from one extreme not leaving the house at all to some others seeing family / friends etc as it's 5 weeks in now and also we've had these people who pulled kids out a week or so early and now getting fed up .

But shops opening is fine provided they are the type of shop that is allowed to open and they have appropriate distancing measures in place. A lot of shops decided to close in the short term, so they could design a safe way of working. They were never obliged to close.

Remember that the number of Furloughed workers is something like 3x what the government expected, which suggests that an awful lot of companies have closed that did not need to.

One of the routes for my daily walk takes me alongside a motorway for a bit. This morning the motorway was noticeably busier than it was a couple of weeks ago (though still much less busy than normal).

However, lorries and vans made up the vast majority of the traffic and that fits with the theory that businesses are starting up again and people going back to work. I didn't see many cars at all.

Our icecream van started coming back round yesterday, much to the kids delight

Some busybody shot out of her house and noted the license number and literally stood in her doorway ringing to report him. DH mentioned this when he got kids icecream, and the guy laughed and said shes not the first but he has a license off the council so she will get nowhere..

What sort of a dickhead reports an icecream van for fucks sake. Making me dislike her a lot tbh, the way shes going on with this. She reported a terminally ill neighbour for his daughter visiting once and bragged about it, meanwhile her sons been visiting with his kid for the past week...

I wouldn’t want his ice cream, they normally handle the cone and money without gloves and with same hand!!

I've seen lots of groups especially teens together on bikes and hanging out around shops.
I dropped some stuff to my mums door the other day and she lives opposite a park with play area and sports area. There must have been 200 people in total on the green and sports pitches ( someone's cut the chain according to the fb page)

No one was distancing in tesco it was madness.

I wouldn’t want his ice cream, they normally handle the cone and money without gloves and with same hand!!

I suspect part of him getting the license to 'reopen' is based on him following some very..harsh rules, unless he is just concerned about his health..as he changed gloves before us, and after. Which also seems a bit of a waste (a LOT of plastic throughout the day surely...)but..makes sense too as gloves are pointless if serving multiple people with the same ones really.

Either way, still find her a twat for behaving the way she is. Half tempted to report her for breaking the rules as she seems so determined to try and get others in trouble, despite not following them herself. Utter dickhead.

I've been sticking to the rules. I'm not aloud out for 12 weeks. It is those sorts of people that make me well, why the fuck shouldn't I go to the shop or walk the dog, if they can't stick to the rules. Why should I but I do it because if I catch it I will die. Healthy people don't seem to have respect for the vulnerable. And please themselves.

In my part of SW london, riverside busy today. Benches and grass had many groups of friends chatting/sunbathing. Some picnics. It was an area police has patrolled in previous weeks but seems to have stopped.

I've been sticking to the rules. I'm not aloud out for 12 weeks.

^ except you are allowed out, you advised not to but legally you only have to follow the same rules as everyone else. Fortunately the government are not actually incarcerating hyper-vulnerable people.

Ice cream van would be an ideal way to spread the virus and the epitome of non-essential.

Definitely ! My neighbour works in admin in the nhs and her husband is furloughed . They are in and out all the time . Buying plants , I am sure they are visiting people too . Daughter in and out ! It annoys me because she works for the nhs !

Just as I read that I heard an ice cream van! Yes it's probably non-essential but you're free to buy ice cream or not as you see fit I suppose.

Takeaway coffee is also 'non essential' - same with pubs starting pizza deliveries, chip vans, Amazon orders of jigsaws and so on. We've been pretty much encouraged to use those things to keep businesses going. Hence why delivery drivers are classed as essential.

I'm pretty much fed up with everyone making up the 'laws'. It's a public health issue, not a public order issue. By saying you can go to work if you can't work at home, then loads of people can go out. So long as they are respecting social distancing in public (assuming that only some can in work - not in care homes or nurseries etc), then there is nothing anyone else should be able to do about it. Bloody curtain twitching and FB scolding is exactly what is wrong with this country.

Seems the government was right to treat the public like feckless children, based on some of the comments in here.

So much for solidarity.

I was just saying on another thread. Only today I’ve:

• been to work where no one was social distancing

• been to Tesco where no one was social distancing

• been for a jog where no one was social distancing

• and my neighbours who told me off last week for evening out over an hour ... are now having a BBQ with visiting family (well I assume the couple is family)

• I almost forgot that postman just handed over a parcel to DS, where as usually they put it on the floor and back off.

If it a like this now, imagine how it’ll be when the schools and shops open. Social distancing will be pretty much over.

DH was saying the same last night and said at that point he reckons we’ll just be told to wear masks and possibly gloves.

How can we forget when there are so many helpful people reminding us left, right and centre? There's a global pandemic going on don't you know?