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?!

@AnnieCartwright
Yes, these people are stupid.

And some of them are here.

I need my veggies, tinned food is shit, it's fine to go and see my mum because she isn't going out. Darwinism in action.

The attached is the police guidance. Not once a week for shopping and it gives pretty clear guidance about what’s reasonable. Most of us are acting reasonably and not hysterically.

It's all a case of "I'm alright, Jack"

Oh the irony of it.

What you're basically saying is sod everyone else struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts, sod the poor,sod the disabled, sod those struggling with abuse and neglect, sod anyone struggling in any way.

Because non covid victims don't matter. Because they're collateral damage.

Because from some fucked up,weird reason you seem to get off sneering and jeering at them,thinking you're oh so much better.

You're the "I'm alright Jack" .

@PrincessConsueIaBananaHammock👏👏

Great Post (cant do anything else on my pc)

maybe the increase is that category of people who are now allowed out three times a day for exercise.

maybe it is people transporting their children between homes.

maybe it is people picking up prescriptions as they have now run out of the months worth they had in. (like us)

maybe more people are going out on more shopping trips as they have eaten their way through the contents of the cupboard and have now got to replace them.

The UK is beingb very compliant. The Government needs many ofu s to go uot to work otherwise there will be no NHS, no tax money to pay nurses' wages. Unless we go out to work and travel at work those safely at home will have no pension income, no universal credit, no food parcels and no NHS. The regulations allow everyone to go out to work unless (a very few) they can do the job at home or work in a banned industry like a pub.

Also the lock down has been far too long already and is not in the greater good now.

You're the I'm alright Jack

Isn’t half of MN? These boring posts telling people what to do without acknowledging all of the many reasons people have given

@Willow2017

Going out more than once a week isn't breaking any rules.

Except for the rule which says you should go out as infrequently as possible.

People going out every few days because they insist on fresh "veggies" doesn't sound like one of the limited purposes listed here. They must know themselves they're talking bullshit.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do/coronavirus-outbreak-faqs-what-you-can-and-cant-do

I personally don’t know anyone who has had CV and recovered or sadly passed on. I don’t think we can carry on like this with no real plan.

The NHS in terms of CV is not on its knees. The other illnesses are another matter, child abuse, people in peril because the schools are shut. Working at home will not generate the work load from before. If you have young children or older ones who need home schooling it will be a nightmare.

We all take risks every day. This is another disease we need to live with. I do wonder if we have gone too far.

I get the feeling the scientists are in charge and would like to spend months pouring over stats, data etc and then months later come to a conclusion. They have jobs for life. Money will never be an issue for them.

We need to call the government to task about the lack of a plan, the number of people dying from non CV. The economy is in the process of being destroyed.

We've been using the car.

We've not went to a proper supermarket as I'm having fortnightly deliveries. But we go to the local shops for fresh bread, etc. a couple of times a week, sometimes more. Sometime walking and sometimes to the small supermarket one further away so a drive.

I've been into work twice, though working from home. I needed to collect a couple of bits and sort something out there.

Dh has been i to work once or twice a week to sort the mail and collect/drop mail. He's also had to visit clients to drop essential money or files off too.

Mil is living with us at present and has been back home once a week, via the motorway, to collect roost and new clothes etc. FIL died three weeks ago so need to collect some important post every so often.

All four of us go for a walk dialysis - sometimes individually, sometimes together.

Although we have been out and about a bit it's all 'allowed' and more importantly it's all fairly low risk with minimal person to person contact.

I agree OP, it’s weird how a week or so ago the roads were dead, people were managing not to go out but now the roads are just as busy as they were before lockdown. The fact some shops are now opening (B&Q for example) means people have more excuses to go out. Have also noticed more people visiting others on my road, people thinking it’s ok to visit family as long as they sit in the garden. People are trying to find ways around things, making excuses because they are bored.

I go out once a week in my car to go and buy food. I go for a walk a few times a week, I haven’t seen any family or friends for 5 weeks, yes it’s frustrating but it’s what we are being asked to do.

Except for the rule which says you should go out as infrequently as possible.

Except you don't get to decide what's possible for someone else. I know people that have lasted a month so far, I know people that go every few days. There have been posters on here that swear you don't need to go more often than once a fortnight.

It's personal and subjective, and up to the individual, not some random on MN that likes making up non existent rules.

OP, with an attitude like yours, give me one reason why I should willingly adapt my lifestyle in any way to benefit you, up to and including saving your life. Actually, no - don't bother. Just go and sit quietly in a corner and polish your jackboots until they're shiny.

Well said SuckingDieselFella.

Very true, Lovemusic33.

@SuckingDieselFella as infrequently as possible is different for every individual. Twice a week to the supermarket is as infrequently as possible for me. That's it.

I think the OP is just jealous that people are going out to buy fresh food whilst they’re stuck inside eating tinned veg and looking out the window who dares to leave out their front door

More people are going back to work.
I wasn't furloughed, but the field teams were mostly furloughed and are going back. Numbers of people on the roads will rise. And op, is non of your business.

Why are we going back? Is it because the owners don't want to lose the business? Because they don't want to permanently close and make 1300 redundant? Is it because the remaining field teams have been working on the nightingale project and do loads of work for the nhs? Is it because without out work the NHs buildings can't stay open. They can't use lots of their equipment, if we don't work. Is it because they didn't have to close in the first place?

Guess what all of the above.

And the H&S exec is giving the go ahead in lots of industries.

More people will be going out and they will still be in the guidelines.

We can not continue making covid the priority. There needs to be balance. We can not keep denying medical support to those that have non covid health issues. We can't keep ignoring that a shit economy leads to more deaths.

There needs to be balance.

The hysterical people are hsyeryical for one reason. The lockdown has given judgmental, miserable busy bodies and excuse to act like that's and get away with it, by claiming moral superiority. If things start to get anywhere near normal they will lose that and they can't stand it.

What's the point of threads like this? You can't police every person's actions and behaviour without taking each individual's different circumstances into account. We are all going through the same thing and it just seems like more negativity and blaming. What are you actually hoping to achieve with this thread?

Doesn't matter cause OP is only agreeing/commenting on people who agree soley with them. Not understanding that people have basic human rights and go out for a variety of reasons. OP is clearky making uo false scenarios in their head as bored, watching through curtains and cussing because they are indeed too scared to face human population 🙄

What's the point of threads like this?

OP wants a medal

I totally agree that people shouldn't be going out on non-essential journeys. However I would like to know the makeup of the families only food shopping once a week. We are a household of 4 adults. We need 4 adult sized breakfasts, lunches and dinners a week that's 84 meals a week. I am trying to do one supermarket shop a fortnight then a butcher's shop once a week but my it's difficult and I do need a local shop top up midweek. I've deliberately not ordered online to free up those slots for others who can't get out. .

Re exercise, I am also fed up of seeing people picking up on social media posts saying 'well if you visited XYZ you must have been out for longer than your allowed hour. THERE IS NO ONE HOUR RULE.
Oh and then there's the 'why are all these people walking/running/cycling past my house when they've never exercised before' brigade. A) you were usually at work so have no clue who was exercising when b) some are having to find alternatives to the gym and c) yes some are exercising for the first time and bloody good on them. There is no law that says you can only exercise if you exercised previously. Plus the fitter we all are the better for everyone.
Lockdown itself I am absolutely fine with. My stress is coming from people slating people for the rules they've made up or not comparing like with like.
Anyone on here who would like to tell me how they feed 4 adults a day 7 days a week on one supermarket shop ( not online for reasons previously mentioned) then please post me your 3 meal a day x 7 day meal plan and associated one shopping trolley shopping list.
Rant over !

This is a deadly pandemic, and people are more worried about not getting their usual brand of breakfast cereal. It really is pathetic.

Do you know what's really pathetic? Sad individuals who have nothing better to do with their lives than spy on their neighbours and live in competitive misery while making up their own ridiculous rules that bear no relation to anything from the government.

You can't police every person's actions and behaviour without taking each individual's different circumstances into account

But people like op, want to. They loved that everybody had to be as miserable as they always are.