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?!

CurtainWitcher - I live in a shared house with 3 men. 1 is my son who was supposed to be sitting his a levels. The 2 other are men who are SE & working.
I’m not sure why you ask the question

Going to a supermarket seems pretty none essential, people should be eating the foliage from their gardens of course. Businesses should also not reopening, plenty of air to keep them going.

It's natural selection in action.

@johnsonsfiat
they said " WHY?

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

So was specifically saying they saw people shopping more than once. people are explaining why. Transport rates are up but Ive never been asked if any of my journeys are essential or not so how can they comment?

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

You are not the police, mind your own business.

We have not been to the shops as we get all our shopping delivered - some people think we are wrong to do that (but I don’t care) but I also don’t care what other people choose to do as long as they are not reckless.

There have been a lot of people out. I was out doing food deliveries yesterday and was surprised at the number out.

I suspect people just no longer care that much and are fed up of being fed constant crap by the government.

As long as social distancing is observed, that’s what is important.

My DD goes to the shops every day at lunchtime- she has anorexia and eats a ‘normal’ amount but only if she chooses it. She is not capable of telling me what food she wants a week in advance, and if I don’t let her go the shops, she just won’t eat. If I ask her what she wants to eat tomorrow, she will get distressed and just break down. Yet right now most access to her mental health team is vastly reduced

It’s not ideal, but as long as she’s reaching x amount of calories I cannot do much else

I myself go several times a week as I shop for parents, my friend who is shielding, occasionally another relative who shields... I can’t do it all in one trip.

I always observe social distancing and go when it’s quiet

Wind it up and watch it go

I think you're right, Bercows.

Also it’s very well getting delivery slots but we live in a very urban area and delivery slots are like gold dust

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

Get a hobby and stop spying on how often people go shopping.

Maybe people are going for family members or people self-isolating as well? I often have to do 2 trips as I’m shopping for multiple households and can’t fit all the shopping in one trolley full.

Oh yawn... Another thread about how anyone doing things differently to the OP is stupider than them. What people could manage without five weeks ago they now can't.

I get a delivery AND go to the shop 3 times a week

OP, as several people have already said, it is sometimes necessary to go out to the shops more than once a week. I am very lucky to have a car and be in good health, so I do a big shop once a fortnight and I also do all the shopping for my parents at the moment so that they can properly isolate.

But my MIL (who lives quite a distance away from us) lives alone and can’t drive. When lockdown first started, she was able to shop once a week, and supplement what she could carry with other things from her cupboards. But now she’s used up a lot of her supplies. She can’t carry a week’s worth of food (some minor health problems e.g. weakness and tremor in one arm). So she’s going out every 3 days. I imagine lots of people who don’t have a car have to go out more than once a week.

If there are people going out for non-essential journeys, why do you think that is a problem? The NHS is able to (just about) cope with the number of patients. The number has been gradually coming down, as have death rates, since Good Friday. We cannot track and trace or hope to eliminate this virus from the population, so herd immunity is the only way forward. This can be achieved by people getting the virus, or by vaccination. Vaccination is a long way off - the economy cannot survive that long on full lockdown, which would lead to many more deaths as funding cuts really start to bite down the line. So a few (non-vulnerable) people going out a bit more is not a bad thing - if numbers are relatively constant, we get to herd immunity faster, and in a safer way than having sudden peaks and troughs.

I'm going out twice a week to shop for food.
I don't have a car so can only get what I can carry. I also have to walk a couple of miles each way to get to even just a small shop.

It's shit but ds and I need to eat.

I don't think the OP is referring to those of you who need to go out more frequently. She's thinking about the people who could well remain home but go out either because they don't care about the rules or because they're bored

I don't think the OP has any way of knowing who is out because they need to be (according to her rules) and who isn't. I went out to the shop two days in a row because the first day they didn't have any nappies in the right size for DD. I imagine if OP had seen me strolling down the road to the shop two days running and then on the second day only coming back with one item she'd have been furious at my rule-breaking, because she would have no way of knowing that if I didn't go twice, my 10 month old wouldn't have nappies.

Fresh food doesn’t keep. Bread? Milk? Salad stuff?

I go shopping twice a week - can't carry more than a couple of days 🤷‍♀️

One of our trips tomorrow will be driving ds around tocalm him down so that he doesn't hurt himself all day. I'd love to not need to do that one.

Many people aren't prepared to have their lives disrupted or inconvenienced. Many people are inherently selfish. The attitude of "I want to and therefore I will and sod anyone who is affected by my actions." is rife on mumsnet anyway.

I think you'll find that some businesses are starting back in a small way, and more people are now going back to work.

We've heard from a number of our commercial customers this week, they had been closed completely, but are now beginning to start manufacturing again.

If you haven't got a big freezer how are 7 days of fresh food not going to go off? I've been to Aldi today, bought a weeks worth of fresh stuff, but the longest date I could get was 29th April.

I also went for a 2 mile walk along the promenade this afternoon (drove there took 5 mins) then called into Sainsbury's as Aldi didn't have any skimmed milk. So there.

@Johnsonsfiat the OP made specific reference to people going to the supermarket more than once a week. Not everyone's personal circumstances allow them to buy and store large amounts of food.