Am I missing something? Everyone seems to have gone back to normal?!

[Aberforthsgoat]

So much traffic here today, we live on a main road and it's been quiet for weeks now but today it's suddenly back to how it was pre lockdown.
Loads of people out on the streets, in quite big groups, a massive load of runners in a group just gone by and earlier a huge group of cyclists
And I've not been watching out particularly we our living room looks out over the road and I've been stuck under DS with the windows open and just looked up when I've heard noise.
Do you think people have had enough and just gone back to normal after all the media articles this week?
Did I miss an announcement? Not being disingenuous honestly wondering, I can't find anything online

Omg I thought you had been stuck under your husband and were bored so looking out the window 😂😂😂 but yes people seem to be doing whatever they please.

This is really annoying me to hear people are out and about doing normal stuff.The roads was extremely busy today like a normal Sunday or actually resembled a week day post lock down,it was that busy.I have been in since lock down.Only going out for food essential trips every couple of weeks.People are so ignorant.So now we will see new cases of the virus and be back in lock down and stricter.Its not a joke,I have lost a family member to this who was fit and healthy.It seems to me that a lot of people won’t realise how dangerous this is until someone they know dies.Just stay in for f sake.Its not hard !!

Seems fairly quiet here still. But, so far, we have survived on limited supermarket deliveries and the milkman and now I will have to drive to shops as can not get any deliveries. Do have one click and collect at ASDA in 11 days. If others are in the same boat then traffic will increase.

Did notice that my elderly self-isolating neighbours had a visitor at the weekend.

I am seeing family and will start to see friends that are willing.
We know a lot more about this virus, and the data as it stands now confirms that your chance of dying of Covid is the same as the flu.
The hospitals are not overwhelmed , in fact, in the U.S. Doctors and nurses are losing jobs because healthcare is being suspended.
Hospitals are EMPTY.
We need to start asking WHY we are driving the economy into the ground for a virus that IS similar to the flu.
People are dying from lack of healthcare.
We need to end the lock down wether the government says to or not!

We need to end the lock down on our own. Please watch the following video to understand why this is now a major overreaction that needs to be STOPPED:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xfLVxx_lBLU

@isolatedbunny that video won't play for me but I haven't seen any data that shows your chances of dying from Covid are the same as flu?

@aberforthsgoat
YouTube dr. Erikson covid debrief

Yep, it's pretty much back to normal around here, plenty of cars on the roads, self employed back to work and people having some work done to their houses.

Chap who sorts our gardens and hedges out from time to time is starting back up this week and doing ours on Friday.

@KindredSpirit1 I'm surprised there hasn't been a riot or two by now. The longer the government say nothing, the more chance it could happen.

Isolatedbunny So why are their epicentres of death around, where people have gathered together? There was for example an epicentervaround a Birmingham church & of course Cheltenham had far more deaths - why if this is the same as the flu are there so many more deaths (U.K. deaths are up by 75% which equates to 40000 more deaths than normal ONS figures)

Well , Boris is back today and the DM are already reporting he may lift restrictions before the 7th May.
Obviously his own recent health worries might be brushed aside by other people concerned about the economy and the lockdown breaking down by people going out more etc.
I'm sure many will want this and many more won't.
Have to see what happens this week.

I think people have had enough.
It's been 4 weeks since employees were furloughed, at the company I work for. That's a long time.

It'll be 50/50 again: those who will want it extended and those that will want everyone out and about and back at work ASAP!
I feel this week will be interesting as many people might put faith in Boris's return to lift the restrictions a lot more. They are either going to be fuming or happy.
He'll be under a lot of pressure.
Maybe MPs taking a pay cut might be a good p r move but that won't happen!

@Isolatedbunny I’m interested in your view, I don’t happen to agree at this point but I'm interested. Why are you taking what this ‘expert’ is saying over what others are saying? How come as PP asked is it worse where there were gatherings? What would the outcome have been if we hadn’t had this lockdown? How many beds are too many ‘spare’? Surely the government would have been slammed if there hadn’t been enough? How is it similar to flu when it’s causing so many deaths? What’s the ‘r’ number for flu? Sorry that turned into a lot of Qs!

Like when there is a bank holiday, or easter weekend, or a hot day. It gets worse. It was sunny and hot this weekend. After 4+ weeks, some inside for longer, people are fed up.

That's why they went out, to the park, bbq'ing.

The Government knows that people can't / won't keep this up for much longer.

The Government will be lucky to get another 2 to 3 weeks, of this.

Apart from those higher risk and elderly who have chosen to a self isolate for 12 weeks i.e. 3 months :

I don't think Joe Bloggs on the street with primary kids will do it for more than another couple of weeks.

Yes, far more traffic here (A roads and B roads).

More people on the business park at work (I have a remote viewing App for our cctv). People simply going for a drive. Loads more shopping. Many more people visiting friends and family.

I'd expect more traffic at the weekend but here it is still fairly quiet.

I can’t wait to go for a drive! I was so pleased to receive an outpatient appointment for one of my sons for mid June as it’s 18 miles away yay!
(ignoring the fact that we might be allowed to go further afield by then, but at least it’s a definite in the very empty crossed out wall planner).

I don't think Joe Bloggs on the street with primary kids will do it for more than another couple of weeks.

Who are these people, surely they are most of MN though you speak as if they are something different, are MN people not average Joe Bloggs on the street.

The government are losing control and they know it. People like myself are weary and assessing their own risks.

I’m Joe Bloggs on the street with primary kids and although I think serious questions will need to be asked about how this was handled, ill do it for as long as we’re told to.

New Zealand seems so far to have cracked it by locking down early and strictly but more importantly by saying to people to act as if they themselves carry the virus. If you thought this way, you would not want to be responsible for passing it on and possibly causing the death of another person. You would put others first, and do your best to self isolate and stay at home. I am put in mind of some very special care homes where the workers are living in and staying locked in with their residents in order to safeguard them. One care home in the Isle of Wight has their carers volunteered to live in tents in the garden so as not to come and go into the home, possibly causing a risk of infection to both their own families and the residents. We need to be kind and we need to put other people before ourselves. People are more important than the economy, there will be no economy without people.

Where other countries locked down earlier, they won’t need to be in lock down for as long. Sweden currently isn’t in lockdown but residents have applied the same sort of rules as we have here

Where other countries locked down earlier, they won’t need to be in lock down for as long. Sweden currently isn’t in lockdown but residents have applied the same sort of rules as we have here

People are forgetting that the govt WERE advising people to social-distance, catch coughs/sneezes, avoid crowded places, work from home, self isolate if they had symptoms, etc., but far too many people ignored that advice and so the lockdown followed.

Thousands flocked to Cheltenham and Anfield. Thousands were still leaving the UK to fly on holidays abroad!

The week before lockdown, cafes and pubs were told to apply social distancing or encouraged to close if they couldn't. Many didn't heed that advice, hence why they were forcibly closed on the Friday evening before Mothers' day weekend.

We're in lockdown because too many people ignored the advice. Perhaps the population are more sensible in Sweden???

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This is really annoying me to hear people are out and about doing normal stuff.The roads was extremely busy today like a normal Sunday or actually resembled a week day post lock down,it was that busy.I have been in since lock down.Only going out for food essential trips every couple of weeks.People are so ignorant.So now we will see new cases of the virus and be back in lock down and stricter.Its not a joke,I have lost a family member to this who was fit and healthy.It seems to me that a lot of people won’t realise how dangerous this is until someone they know dies.Just stay in for f sake.Its not hard !!*

Sorry for your loss I totally agree with you. All these people "getting bored" will only bring a hard lockdown sooner and they can't say they weren't warned. I think that's definately going to come before any relaxing of the rules because people still can't follow the rules. Just from my street alone where I can see outside my window there are 4 houses where family members (that don't live there) keep coming and going as they please, my next door neighbour had her mates round for drinks yesterday afternoon and when my husband told her partner to step back for social distancing his response was "don't be ridiculous it's all a load of bollocks" - hopefully they will be volunteering to be at the back of the queue when they require a ventilator (makes me very angry)