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?!

Oh Frequency that's awful it's hard enough our youngsters going through this as it is without being posted on social media! Shame on these so called adults they have no idea how these restrictions can effect mental well-being

Just shows how stupid the British public is.
I assume since you didn't specify OP that you are including yourself?

As dh and I were about to get in our car, my ndn came down her path
Gosh, I bet we were 3 metres away
Anyway she told me a relative had passed away..not covid
But she can’t go to the funeral as she’s over 70..shes 71 and was walking to the shops about 1/4 mile away
What a load of fucking bollocking nonsense
Shall, I just shoot her Next time I see her
Jeez...it’s ridiculous
I couldn’t Even offer her a lift

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The police would be better utilised in stopping gatherings of people in parks which is still happening and noisy gatherings on street corners at 2 am in the morning with no action taken.

This should’ve been happening pre covid. I know it wasn’t ...but it should’ve been
I’ve never seen so many police in these last few weeks on my trips out

I'm very lucky that I now have a car.

Before that I used to go shopping with all my kids (5 of them, all teens or nearly teens) and we'd each have a rucksack and a couple of carrier bags so I could do the weekly shop.

If it were now of course I wouldn't be able to take them all with me so I'd have to do it on my own which would mean several trips to the shop a week to get what we needed.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a car (my "luck" is that it's a motability car for my son) so they may have to shop several times a week for their family.

Fed up with people judging every passing person. Get a fucking life!

I have no idea now many times a day people go out round here because I have better or more interesting things to do than stare out of my window making notes on how often Mr Bloggs at no.28 has been out and and how long for. (And yes, one of those better things to do is go on Mumsnet)

I agree Frequency. My twins are non identical and even aged 2 people in a creche assumed they were not even brothers - one very blonde and skinny the other brown hair and rounder - actually these days fitter rather than thin as a rake. I have told them not to meet up with their friend from school who is Indian origin as there is no way anyone would believe he was a step brother. If they have met him by accident (we live near) then they keep 2 meters away from him.

People should just mind their own business and do what they can to keep earning money to pay tax which pays the wages of nurses etc. Not sit there snooping on others. If you want to do something useful volunteer to collect medicines for the sick as my son does or you can come up my road and pick up all the litter the litter louts are dropping on their walk (which I collect on my bit of the road - private road so no council litter clearance or bin emptying)

I'm just waiting for the first photo-shaming of "look at these two silly women/men out together socializing" and then it turns out that they are a same sex couple.

People need to mind their manners and stop photographing people.

I don't understand the fresh food going off in a week thing. The milk we bought on 24 April has a use by date of 2 May, so nearly 10 days. I can understand using all the milk before a week if you have a lot of people in the house but not having it go off in that time. Bread can be frozen but lasts several days anyway usually, especially if you get some sort of flat bread (pita or wraps or naan) for later in the week as they are longer life.

Also we get a box of vegetables and fruit once a week. Some of the vegetables need to be eaten earlier in the week but others last ages so if you eat it in a sensible way the veg last for the whole week easily. I still have some pumppkin from two weeks ago that is absolutely fine to eat this week. Most of the fruit delivered lasts much longer than a week. Cheese lasts for months if it is not opened and weeks if opened but wrapped properly, eggs last weeks.

Meat and fish are probably the only thing that might last less than a week (which we rarely eat anyway)

I can understand problems with storing enough food to feed your household or in carrying enough home if you don't drive but the needing fresh food more than weekly because it goes off is not my experience.

If my neighbour posted photos of me online complaining about how many times I walked past their house, I'd be tempted to walk around the block repeatedly past their window until their curtains fell down or their brain fell out.

More seriously lots of businesses which closed due to social distancing restrictions are starting to return to work, so there are more people going to work and many businesses (particularly local businesses) are starting to adapt to lockdown by finding ways to provide home delivery when they didn't previously.

As long as measures are in place its difficult to argue against in business sectors which were permitted to remain open and never technically shut down in the first place.

We would have to have an even stricter lockdown to counter that, and at this point that would be a politically difficult thing to do when it looks like control measures are working and the data is on the downward slide.

bumblingbovine

I need to go out once or twice a week as we don't have the room to store fresh food otherwise. I can't freeze bread or milk as we have food in the freezer for dinners. I don't have the space for veg (don't eat fruit) in the fridge. I prefer to freeze meat and fish for dinners and top up with the fresh stuff regularly.

If my neighbour posted photos of me online complaining about how many times I walked past their house, I'd be tempted to walk around the block repeatedly past their window until their curtains fell down or their brain fell out.

I'd smile and wave every time as well!

You could stop and do some 'exercise' - a few stretches etc, just to spice it up.