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?!

OP, remove the stick from up your arse, and have a glass of wine or something

And if you are fine living indoors day in day out that's great. Some of us need fresh air daily

value When I went the other day to get something for ds, I saw that they have only gone and changed the packaging, I almost cried. Thankfully it is cereal and we decant it into plastic storage so all being well I should get away with it.

People have no idea of the struggles we face.

The Police guidance says it’s reasonable to leave home to buy “several days worth of food”. The guidance is not once a week. So, by all means shop for items of food every 3 days or so. That’s within the guidance and deemed as reasonable. I think people are now doing this and it’s fine.

I'm also going out to work five days a week in my non-essential workplace that is still open so I don't have a choice. There are two metre markings on the floor so we are two metres apart when we clock in and out or to use the kettle, the rest of the time social distancing is impossible.

No one ever said you could only go shopping once a week.

I had an emergency appointment at the opticians today. It was too far to walk. Mae culpa.

Some for genuine reasons, others are falling over themselves to come up with reasons to justify why they are special and the rules don’t apply to them. I don’t have anyone vulnerable in my family and am happy to stay home so what other people do isn’t particularly bothering me but I’m sure I’d feel differently if I did.

OP, I will not.

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

Because we don't drive and to get cat food, dog food, cat litter and then our shopping on top of that requires at least 2 trips

I am driving once a day to take my exercise, in accordance with the clarified version of the guidance at a flat woodland area where I won't need to sit down because of stupid hills and physical conditions I suffer from, and where I shall remain moving at an appropriately "exercisey" pace for a longer period of time than the 3 minutes it has taken me to drive there.

I shall continue to do so. So sorry OP - you can't control people via the internet. If you'd like my contact details so you can grass me to the police and get exactly the same answers...

#BeKind.... or are we back to #BeTotallyVileNowItsNotTrendyAnymore now?

Because everyone is cottoning on.
Local parks and beach are as busy as they would be on an average day.
The police where I am have stopped breaking up groups because they don't have the resources to deal with it. Building and engineering is opening up again.
Nicola Sturgeon is going to force the hand of whomever is pretending to run England this week.

Probably because the sun is out

I see people shopping twice a week or more, regularly. WHY?!
Because shops dont always have everything you need in one visit?
Because you might have forgotten something or thought you had something in that you didnt?
Because you cant get everything for a big family for a week at once?
Because you cant carry a weeks shopping for a family in 2 carrier bags half a mile home?
Because maybe they are shopping for other people and cant get it all at once?
Nobody knows why people are doing it nor should they its none of their damm business, and its actually not banned so there is nothing you can do about it.
You must be bored if you are counting the neighbours out and in all day.

The attitude of "I want to and therefore I will and sod anyone who is affected by my actions." is rife on mumsnet anyway.
Lately its been the "I want everyone to do as I say so even if I have got it all wrong or even though I dont have a clue why someone is doing that I still think its my god given right to 'report' them to somebody or rant about them on MN" Brigade thats practically taken over on here recently.

I would imagine a lot of people are shopping twice a week because they couldn't get everything they wanted the first time...

People are not just going to work, they're going shopping and even visiting people.

And you know this how?

The government briefings have been consistently saying that the levels of compliance with lockdown and social distancing are high. Higher than they had predicted, even.

Some businesses like B&Q are starting to open up, using proper social distancing. DH went to Halfords today to pick up something he needed for the car so yes he was on the road. On his own, to pick up something he'd pre-booked online to collect. Perfectly safe.

All this "STAY AT HOME UNLESS YOU ARE DYING" stuff is getting a little tired. We know the rules. We know we are not allowed to get close to other people. We're not daft.

You're that Valerie woman from Somerset on the BBC news who's standing on her drive noting down how many cyclists go past, aren't you?

No.

This has been by consent up until now.

But give it to the end of the month.

That might be ok.

Get into June and there will be civil disturbance.
Not in the provinces, but London, Manchester, Liverpool...

One day you are going to have to wake up and really know which side of the bed you are sleeping on.

I think OP is a parody, and this thread isn’t first time I’ve thought that

100%

Maybe we should formally ask permission from CurtainWitcher to leave the house? Do you want to make a form we can download?

I don't understand this attitude of "because you might have forgotten something in your shop you can go out again to get it". We shop approximately every 8 days (and yes I know we are lucky that we have a car, and that our finance and storage space allows us to leave that long a gap. This week we forgot onions in the shop. Our bad - we'll have to adapt recipes and cook without onions for another week or so. Why put ourselves at risk making another trip to the shop for something so trivial?

*It's natural selection in action
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Well not really cos most of the people going out and about are highly unlikely to die of covid are they?!

Get a life OP.

@ TheGreatWave Glad you sorted your dilemma. I absolutely hate when food brands do promotions and change the packaging, it’s so stressful.

I go out everyday with dc for exercise, sometimes we combine this with shopping for my elderly parents for whom i am a carer for. Sometimes longer than an hour as one dc has asd and needs lots of exercise. Without exercise said dc has worse aggression and on top on being verbally aggressive, will physically hurt us during meltdowns or anxiety attacks.

I have to shop for two further vulnerable families as well as my own and it is too much in one go.
I have managed to put my back out this week so everything is taking longer and I can hardly move today but have to carry on. Dc do not help, dc have to come with me. I can not leave them at home alone.

I have to take and pick up dc from their dads for contact.

Have also had to do separate meds pick up for the people mentioned above.

Sometimes OP people's lives are not simple. Sometimes we are responsible for more than just the people we live with.

Your either incredibly dense or incredibly entitled or possibly a mixture of the two.

Simply put, other people won’t have the same life and choices as you so how you can judge them from your window I don’t know.