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?!

No! I will not stop going out to suit you.

I will shop as and when my family needs food and I will explain myself to nobody. Not even you.

Have you nothing better to do than watch what your neighbours are doing every day?

The rules haven't changed, so why do people think there's any justification for changing their behaviour?

As has been explained repeatedly, there has never been a rule that says you can only shop once a week.

The thing that puts me off is the queuing but I guess that’s less off putting if you’ve been furloughed and have a lot of spare time.

Because life goes on and there's no end in sight and people are fed up I'd imagine.
The police round here do not give a toss, I've seen groups of people that the police are meant to disperse, they don't bother.
If you want to be properly annoyed go over to the aibu page and have a look at the grandparents thread ..

Well, DH drove to the supermarket today, and will have to go again tomorrow as there was no pastry (and a few other things) so I can't now make tomorrow's dinner. We can't just eat sliced tomato for dinner without any pastry to put it on. He also drove to donate blood today. I don't drive, which is why I am referring to his journeys. Most days he doesn't drive anywhere.

The stock in shops changes every day. Today you can get something you couldnt get yesterday and if you need specialist foods then there is no guarentee you can get them with one visit a week. Plus if you cant carry a weeks worth home nor store it in your fridge then what are you to do?
If you have 4 or 5 adults'teens now all at home all day every day thats a helluva lot more shopping than normal.

They need to either give up lockdown or enforce it -properly, for everyone, with big fines. look at the travellers they clearly arent social distancing but no one does anything. general people who get stopped get a piddly 30 fine. so the people who are socially consious are staying at home and the others are doing what they like with no consequences to themselves

They need to either give up lockdown or enforce it -properly

Why? What if it turns out that a loosely enforced lockdown is actually really effective at bringing down the curve while retaining public consent?

Better that people break the rules by having drinks in the park than actual house parties - or worse riot.

I shop for my family of six, plus a neighbour, plus my elderly parents, plus my husband's elderly parents. I simply cannot fit it all into one weekly shop. I HATE standing in queues and being breathed on by morons but, unfortunately, that's what has to be done. I'd much rather be at home, sitting in the sunshine, but instead I'm collecting shopping and prescriptions and delivering items and feeling judged.

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

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.

We have to shop approx 3 times a week. DS has allergies and will only eat certain foods which means we have to go to several different shops. Some business are reopening in our area, takeaways mostly. I assume that is causing extra traffic.

The estate where I live is full of complete thickos - bbqs on the front, hopping in and out of each others houses, hanging out on the square, leaning in car windows to talk to each other (I can see all this from my front window before anyone thinks I am out there). A fucking joke. It's like lockdown doesn't exist here.

b) the general level of forgetting/being unable to get essentials in a single shop should be much the same now as 4 weeks ago

Not really, people would have had some food to keep them going, which is now running out, they may have had enough things in the house at first to do but that is now all done /used up, people have time on their hands, weather is improving, so they might as well go and buy supplies to do jobs around the house and garden.

They need to not be ridiculous with issues like that, otherwise they will lose public confidence and policing by consent will crumble.
Mmm, crumble.

@Ilovemypantry

Sadly not, but in fairness we didn’t take the car for exercise, we walked locally and I did go shopping on the way home from work.

But still, it feels like I am out and about quite a lot more than other people.

Because sometimes one shop doesn't have everything I need, so I go again the next day - bollocks.

I'm agree with the poster who mentioned onions - if you're missing something, improvise! This is a deadly pandemic, not the Great British Bake Off.

Buy tinned, dried and frozen fruit and veg, for when fresh isn't available. It's not rocket science!

I'm starting to think this country is full of entitled spoilt brats, who live in the lap of luxury compared to a huge proportion of the population of the planet, but just don't realise it. This is a deadly pandemic, and people are more worried about not getting their usual brand of breakfast cereal. It really is pathetic.

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.

How would the OP know any of this? I have been subjected to dirty looks from a neighbour recently and I really wanted her to say something when I returned from the Chapel of Rest where I viewed my husband of over 50 years for the last time. People's lives can't always be placed into little boxes.

mrsBtheparker So sorry for your loss.

mrsBtheparker

people are more worried about not getting their usual brand of breakfast cereal.

Well, yeah, I am ok. Well maybe not more worried, but most certainly worried. I guess though you think that he would eat anything rather than starve.

How little do you know.

Awww and you're the only one hardened and experienced enough to handle it all stoically? The big sibling following the rules without question,stiff upper lip shaking your head at the pathetic,weak little brats.

The lockdown Is not a fucking sport or competition. No one gets a medal. No one cares if you're better at staying in than anyone else. No one cares how many people you see when you're curtain twitching.

Quarantine Olympics going on in every town.

People are fed up and for some the attitude it’s hasn't happened to them so they don’t want to be restricted anymore

Most definitely this week traffic has been heavier and more people are out. Though social distancing is in place as marked out in shops etc I think less people are observing now like they were a few weeks ago

This shall probably see another rise in numbers in a few weeks time

OP not everyone can get a delivery slot, or find the correct things in one slot. Gov are now saying we can go out more than once a day, drive for exercise... So that'd be why, but, no we must listen to a curtain twitcher who's on her high horse 🐴🙄

Because sometimes one shop doesn't have everything I need, so I go again the next day - bollocks

Oh shut the fuck up I work in a supermarket and we dont have some things in for 4 or 5 days at a time until we get another delivery. So bollocks to your "bollocks"

if you're missing something, improvise! This is a deadly pandemic, not the Great British Bake Off.
Bit fucking difficult if you are allergic to things or have kids with a limited diet due to health reasons. Or are you going to suggest as has been suggested before on threads like this that disabled kids should starve because bread and milk are not essentials?

Frothers like you, who rail at people without knowing their circumstances are the reason I won't take my SEN son in the car for his exercise again (even though I am permitted to). If he hadn't been with me the woman who shares your narrow view and screamed that I should "stay the fuck at home, what about the NHS" would have needed the fucking NHS herself. So why don't you wind your neck in.