Stop going out!

[CurtainWitcher]

Watching today's update and the cars usage graph shows that people are starting to drive for non-essential journeys again.

WHY?

Why can't people just stay at home?! Stop driving around! I see people shopping twice a week or more, regularly. WHY?!

I call bullshit on the majority of people who claim to be exempt from common sense rules.

OP they have since changed these guidelines. I personally only leave if necessary, no milk in the house or we just do daily exercise. But, if people are sociak distancing, then, what difference does it make?

Sitting here on Mumsnet bitching about your neighbours for going out, isnt helping, it's only riling up your emotions for what, a good argument? Why not go tell them? Write a note to Boris and say 'oh well ae need stricter guidance' until then people will do as they please as we have a right to. Until peolle are physically stopped, fined, told exactly what they can and cant do people will do as they wish.

Stop being so angry at the population of UK who are stuck in limbo and be angry at ohr shitty government for not doing the correct thimg.

I am working from home and can hear the cars on the road behind me, at the beginning of lockdown there were very few, but every day there are more. I definitely want to go out more as time goes on, but am resisting - I do understand it, and real reasons like looking after others notwithstanding, there are a lot of people making excuses because they are desperate to get out.

@Frompcat

Have you watched a TV programme called "the news"? Obviously not.

Like I said... emotional intelligence of a rock.

-The lockdown Is not a fucking sport or competition. No one gets a medal. No one cares if you're better at staying in than anyone else.

This absolutely isn’t why I’m evangelical about people needing to stay in as far as they can. It’s not about lockdown for lockdown’s sake. It’s about saving lives.

For me personally, I care about my family not getting ill. I care about my elderly parents not getting ill. That’s why I’m staying inside as far as possible and would really like my parents and people who live near them to do the same.

I understand PP who’ve said that the bigger picture/people they don’t know aren’t their priority. I’ve said from the start that ‘protect the NHS’ doesn’t work as a strap line.

Most people don’t care about generically ‘protecting the NHS’. They care about protecting their children, and their elderly parents, and their immuno-compromised cousin.

But in order for this to happen, you have to hope that people who live near you/your parents/your cousin are doing the same. And you doing the same in your community protects someone else’s parents. We all need to take a bit of responsibility here.

But there are no rules on how often we can go out for essentials. It says as infrequently as possible and that is dependent on an individual's circumstances.

SuckingDieselFella

That was a brilliantly witty and devastating comeback, thank you so much. Please do explain the risk of my seeing my mother and my sister, who live together, when none of us are high risk, when all of us have been isolating, and when none of us have so much as been to the supermarket for the past 3 weeks?

I watch the news daily and have done since the start, when most people were saying the worrying was hysteria (I disagreed).

1. mind your own business op

2. why does everyone feel the need to explain themselves to the op?

3. I think this is a wind up

Ringthebells WHY shop twice a week when we're supposed to do essential journeys only??

Don’t you ever forget anything, or run out of stuff? I did a full shop this week, the kids have eaten stuff I thought would last. I’ve been and bought it again. The guidelines are just that guidelines not law.

You must have a lot of very big windows in your house if you see all this going on when you only leave the house once a week to shop!

Also, do explain how we are all doomed, as I wasn't aware the virus had a 100 per cent death rate, although honestly reading some of the shit on here you'd think it did.

A lot of people are going back to work as well, that's why there's more traffic! A lot of businesses panicked and closed when lockdown started and now they've realised they can and need to reopen again. So people are going back to work.

I call bullshit on the majority of people who claim to be exempt from common sense rules
Call bullshit on this OP. This says I can take my child out of my local area, more than once a day for exercise. I doubt you'll read this though, you are too convinced you are right.
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/uk-coronavirus-rules-autism-learning-disabilities-lockdown

I'll tell you where we do need busybodies: scrutinising the government. Getting testing sorted out. Doing something about those rumoured empty hospital wards. Communicating with us about the exit strategy, which they are flatly refusing to do. Making damn sure they pay that grant to self-employed people, whose livelihoods have been snatched away. (June is very late for this, should be much earlier; some people are struggling to put food on the table!)

wanderings

Exactly.

It's all a case of "I'm alright, Jack" and sod everyone else they're putting at risk.

As long as they've got hold of the right type of orange juice for their fussy children, delivered some "essential" cream cakes to Grandad and a "supporting her mental health" birthday card to Aunty Ethel, they don't give a damn. Bugger everyone else's health.

I call bullshit on the majority of people who claim to be exempt from common sense rules.

Common sense as to why people cannot get a weeks shopping for them, their families, vulnerable relatives, neighbours, etc all on one shop? Plenty of that on here.
But I have yet to see you responding to any of them with an once of common sense never mind empathy.

Because people don't think the rules apply to them because they're special.

Because they don't think it will happen to them.

Because they don't know anyone dying from Covid19. People who are young and previously fit and well.

Because people are stupid!

I think people are starting to realise lockdown will not eradicate CV . You could lockdown for 6 months then what you are still in the same position you are now.

@CrowCat

1.I agree with all of your points

1. Put very succinctly

1. Well done

Hear hear AnnieCartwright

Cheers @leafygarden have fun with this thread, I'm off for a bath

@CurtainWitcher so no one should do shopping for elderly family members? Let them all die, is that your strategy? Also how do you know this? Have you even asked or are yoj playing the assumption game and getting yoursekf all irate for no apparent reason then playing keyboard warrior instead of actually talking to people?

I don't have to explain my reasons to you, @CurtainWitcher. However, I will.

I go shopping every day because I have a joint condition which means I can't carry much in one go. I don't have a car. I don't think I should be taking a delivery slot from someone who is not physically able to leave their house. I don't send my teenagers, as I can't guarantee they will stick to the 'rules'. I stick to all the social distancing guidelines etc.

But I also do it for my own mental health.

Because people don't think the rules apply to them because they're special.
Going shopping more than once a week isnt breaking any rules and it is something a lot of people have to do so your 'they think they are special' argument is a bit blinkered and completely unrealistic, along with Ops "I am doing lockdown better than anyone else" bragging.