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?!

What's the point of threads like this?

Don't you know it's the misery Olympics here on MN?

I wonder how all these I need to shop every day posters would manage if there are food shortages for any reason in the future. This thread certainly highlights how people don't prep, and how little resilience they have. I hope there isn't a second peak and another, stricter lockdown.

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

Yep

Unless the OP is shielding they’ve also been out shopping and possibly on a walk

If I can't get the 'right' brand of something, I'll not eat anything at all. So if I can't get the right brand of something, yes, I will be going out the next day to get it. Would be lovely if I could just ignore my mental health issues, but I can't.

It highlights how people can't see beyond their own circumstances. If people think everyone is merely dealing with boredom in their home they must really have it easy. Boredom. I wish.

and how little resilience they have.

And there it is.

Love how people love to make themselves seem like they are better people, than people who don't live like them.

I am wfh. Doing 10-12 hour days. I can go shopping every 10 days and rarely get out for exercise.

I am lucky enough I have the money to shop once every 10 days. I am lucky I have the storage, the finance, the car to get it all in. That doesn't make me better than anyone else. It certian doesn't entitle me to start telling people like op that going once a week isn't required. They could go longer. It doesn't give me the right to look down on others who aren't in my position.

If you think you are better than other people, ita pretty much guaranteed that you aren't.

Unless the OP is shielding they’ve also been out shopping and possibly on a walk

Not necessarily. We’re not shielding - we’ve had a grand total of two supermarket deliveries since lockdown started (family of 5), supplemented by deliveries from local fruit/veg box companies, bakeries and butchers. Not been in a shop for 6 weeks+.

We have been for one walk in 6 weeks. I know that’s not for everyone, and no issue with people doing things differently (within the guidance) - but it is possible,

The people screaming at others to stay indoors indefinitely won't be happy with any easing of restrictions.

Personally the world is a large place and I love visiting it so I can't wait until I can do that again. I can't imagine ever being happy to have an insular life where my own home is enough but I have always realised that their is risk in lots of things I do and you have to weigh that up with the joy of living.

The people screaming at others to stay indoors indefinitely won't be happy with any easing of restrictions.

Hopefully they will scream themselves hoarse as more and more people go back to work.

we’ve had a grand total of two supermarket deliveries since lockdown started

Most supermarkets seem to be keeping their deliveries for vulnerable people

We dont order online Deliveries for that reason

As you say though as long as it’s within guidelines

Its the OP who seems to be making up her own rules

I have been out on a walk to visit my mums grave and buy stronger painkillers for dd though

Id love to do online deliveries

Really don’t like food shopping anymore!!!

I may be shot down here, but my thoughts are that...the gov have no exit strategy; people are starting to get restless; gov do care about the economy; right from the beginning, they showed us the stats about how much we were moving about (vehicles/public transport), I wondered why they needed to show us this from the start; they have supported the theory of herd immunity without overwhelming the NHS (which would bring attention to the woeful underfunding of the NHS). Last week they ‘unofficially they seemed to relax the rules through police forces issuing further guidance (you can drive to exercise etc.), and more shops have opened. I think they want us to get back out there gradually, without them actually officially saying it, because that would make them culpable. By not officially saying it, when the shit hits the fan, they can blame us.

By not officially saying it, when the shit hits the fan, they can blame us

I agree weather I thought the same with the weekend before lockdown

I waited an hour and a half in the queue for Morrisons online delivery, only for it to be my turn and surprise surprise no slots available.. at all!
Fun times.

And to be fair hairy if the OP didnt go shopping or on walks that would’ve been the first thing she said

(Apologies for the multiple posts, i always think of things once ive pressed the post message button 😳)

I have been out on a walk to visit my mums grave and buy stronger painkillers for dd though

Rufus .

I have tried to avoid getting supermarket deliveries for that reason (leaving them for others) but I don’t actually think they’re restricted (just bloody hard to get!)

The local businesses that have adapted to delivery seem v keen for business, understandably, so don’t feel guilty about using those!

It is helping keep me sane, not having to shop. I think I’d find it v stressful at the mo.

@Bercows do you realise that not everyone has the money or the space to prep?

Because life isn’t as simple as people may think. People may need to feed themselves or their starving children and have no choice. People may need to shop more frequently. I think the blaming and finger pointing is becoming very waring. Trust that the majority of people don’t want to catch this illness and are trying to do the right thing. But also not everyone has a safe home, and food on the table. We are not all in the same boat.

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

Excuse me but I didnt get the memo where it said that you or the OP decides how infrequently is 'infrequently'?

I decide. I only go out for shopping when I absolutely need to. But I dont have an expandable fridge or freezer, I cant store a whole weeks worth of food in it for 3 people. What other people do with bigger families is based on their needs. Having more people at home all day every day = much more shopping than usual so its impossible for some people to get it all at once.

shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine,

It doesnt say 'essential shopping' it says basic necessities like food and medicines both are classed as necessities there is no list of essential food, no banned list, no 'once a week and starve till next week'.

Why is this so difficult to understand? Oh yes because all the curtain twitchers couldn't stand in judgement of others if they had to admit they were interfering busybodies without any basis whatsoever.

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.
Like others have said, many businesses are opening which = many more people going to work = more cars! Unless you consider going to work "an excuse"?

Thank you hairy

We dont seem to have any local deliveries cos I would like to support them, though i have found out this week that two takeaway places are open in the village so might try them

Im finding shopping stressful, I thought i was good at multitasking but apparently reading a shopping list while trying to follow arrows on the floor completely throws me!! Who knew!!

christ you sound insufferable ....

I hope people like the OP stay inside FOREVER! I bet in 5 years time they’ll still be posting that on here.

I wonder how all these I need to shop every day posters would manage if there are food shortages for any reason in the future. This thread certainly highlights how people don't prep, and how little resilience they have. I hope there isn't a second peak and another, stricter lockdown.

Fuck me. It's not enough for the shopping police to say what you can and can't buy, now it's how many times you go out to buy it in a week totally regardless of the reasons why, like no transport for big shops or limited storage place for frozen and refrigerated foods.
Who the fuck are you to decide that people need to go hungry, or without cleaning stuff or pain relief because their own personal circumstances aren't the same as yours and they might need to shop more often than once a week?
I live like that, I buy a bit of shopping every day because it suits my lifestyle and finances. I have adjusted that as much as possible, I shop every 2nd or 3rd day now, mainly because stuff is heavy and I walk there and back. It's generally all been used by the time we get to the second/third day.
Guess we should learn some resilience and eat the plants in the garden or something when the food runs out......

*I saw that woman on the news, keeping a tally chart of cyclists going past her drive. Christ, what a small-minded attitude towards lockdown. People trying to get out for fresh air and exercise and keep their mental and physical health in good shape. Of course there will be more than normal!

She's got a miserable existence.*

I saw her too, what a bloody busybody

It's natural selection in action.

From the beginning of the thread... I keep hearing this, but what do you mean? That people who go out are so stupid they're likely to die, and that you take a callous attitude to their death because they brought it on themselves?!

Anyone under 45/50 in good health has an incredibly small risk (much smaller than, for example, the risk many women take by getting pregnant) of getting seriously ill, even if they catch the virus (which they probably won't, on their second shopping trip a week). Natural selection would be letting the virus rip through the population with no legal or societal mandate for locking anyone down, and letting anyone old, unhealthy, or cursed with the wrong genotype die. Thankfully, we're not doing that.

Also, griping endlessly about people going out to the shops more than once a week is rhetorically ineffective. Instead of carping, the people who benefit most from lockdown should be grateful if those who benefit least (and may be actively harmed by it) have been assenting!