What proportion of people do you think are still following the rules?

[KizzyWayfarer]

Round here, although I’m sure lots of people are still social distancing, a significant number seem to be having friends over for barbecues etc. It’s quite depressing. What do you think - among people you know, do people care or are they just doing what they feel like now?

I think people are tired of it now and can see the numbers decreasing so think it's ok now to start doing things they wouldnt have done weeks ago.

Some people, like our neighbours, never followed it, boyfriend kept appearing and staying, daughter had friends over, going the park with friends down the road and the other night had friends over for drinks in the house. Annoys me slightly, because these friends run a bouncy castle business and all over their website they are saying they are up and running, can put bouncy castles up in peoples gardens, have been social distancing etc, when I know they havent.

I don't know a single person in real life not following the rules, nor have I heard of any.

What I do see is a large volume of anonymous strangers on social media such as MN claiming that everyone is breaking the rules.

Forgive me for being sceptical, but I'm not convinced that all these people's imaginary friends and neighbours actually exist.

Let's not forget that foreign states have a known campaign of disinformation. It's certainly not in our interest to break lockdown.

www.standard.co.uk/tech/twitter-bots-coronavirus-messages-social-media-a4447071.html

"Twitter bots make up nearly half of the accounts spreading coronavirus messages, scientists reveal"

Most people seem to be in my immediate area, except one neighbour.

There's either a lot of adults live together or a lot of coincidental meeting of friends going on in the park, or a lot of people not sticking to the rules round here! It's still lockdown here but i think most people have already moved onto the next phase. The volume of traffic on the roads has noticeably increased too.

We have followed them religiously up until now.
Tomorrow me dh and Ds are travelling to my parents garden - my son has asd and has missed his grandad desperately- they are best mates.

We will however follow social distancing the garden is huge ds can play on the swings, paddling pool whilst parents sit on the patio - we might even have a socially distanced water fight.
I will take our own food drinks towels etc and they even have an outside toilet that we can use.
Breaking the rules - yes but I’m doing the best for my ds who is terrified he is not going to see grandad again.

I don’t know anyone who is and I can’t understand why anyone still is, because the rules are lunacy. I can now lawfully have my cleaner come and spend several hours traipsing around my entire house and, if they were infected but asymptomatic, potentially leaving traces of the virus all over every surface; but I can’t have my mum in my house to visit me. It’s considered fine to stand 2m away from a bunch of strangers in a supermarket queue and far less than 2m away from even more strangers inside the supermarket; but I can’t go and sit with friends in their garden on the way home from that supermarket.

I’ll stick with the rules which make sense and let everyone else equally risk assess and sense check their own decisions.

Yesterday afternoon two houses on my street “broke the rules” by having family into their gardens.

I imagine they were following their instincts.

I've no time for people who have big gatherings etc, but anyone being sensible and careful while not following the rules, so what. The rules stopped making sense a while ago. We should all take responsibility and and make our own decisions while being careful to consider the impact of pur actions.

I would say the majority are doing their best and in ways that are unlikely to put anyone at risk. Our own 'packed beach' still has loads of space to spread out. I've not seen anything in my town that makes me think oh well, here comes the second wave.

I think most people are sticking to most of the rules, most of the time.

They are just now bending them a little.

I would say it’s a lockdown that is being followed 90% of the time but is being bent 10% mostly at weekends.

I think that’s the best you are going to get after this long.

Yep, I've stopped social distancing from my boyfriend after two months of not seeing him at all and I saw both my parents together (outside) as it made no sense to me to see one then the other if they live together. But I live alone, work from home, haven't seen anyone else at all and haven't been in a supermarket for months, so I figured my risk to them is low. I'm not concerned about their risk to me. I'd have held out if the government had given us any indication of when we might be able to meet partners, but I wasn't prepared to go months on end with no contact with any people.

I think the majority of people are still following the "spirit" of the rules. We locked down completely pretty early, before the official date, but then we could. But I am also pretty relaxed about others who couldn't using their common sense and conforming as much as was possible.

We had DD back from London, a couple of days before lockdown, some would say that was not acceptable. But as we have stayed in since, there was no issue.

I think people meeting up with a small bubble, in advance of government advice, is fine. Most people are sensible, and many have in fact done more than was asked of them, some have done less.

I am very much an advocate of trusting people to make good decisions. We don't live in a dictatorship, thank god, and you will always have the idiots, some of whom were fined. In general however, I think people have been pretty good.

The bigger problem we are facing I think, will be persuading people to get back to normal, or as normal as can be.