FFS just because you CAN go to 'The Range' doesn't mean you should

[Torri67]

Nor any of the other shops unfairly dodging the lockdown closure by claiming they are essential (someone on another thread's, local shoe shop, local branch of Next) etc.

It's bloody ridiculous. The more we are out and about, the more this virus has a chance to keep spreading. Don't click and collect from your local business, place orders online from them or phone up and arrange delivery.

Just stop f**king going out. If you don't HAVE to go out for work, essential shopping - ie food or medicine, just stay at home.

If you don't, don't moan when bloody Boris is on our screens on 2nd December saying the lockdown is extended.

Oh and what's Pond Land lol, can your fish do without food
If not find a fancier one more to your liking

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair

I have a 3 year old....do you know how affected she was last time?

I'm so sorry. My friend's child went from a happy, chatty 6 year old to a child who stopped talking and was pulling out her hair because of her distress. He is in therapy trying to cope with the fall out of having not being able to stop her falling apart. That's precisely the kind of person who needs to pop out to a shop full of cheerful rubbish and escape the world once a week or so. That's why I can't stomach threads like this - his is just one story and there are millions more out there. No one has any idea what is going on for other people and keeping up a routine and getting out the house can be hugely therapeutic. It's not just 'four weeks' after a summer of shopping, it's a vital bit of normality after months of stress and fear and disruption.

Yep. Ds2 has barely left the house since March. Ds2 is so anxious about having his special school taken away from him again that he's developed a tic disorder.

Stop telling folk what to do. Theres enough of that already. If a shop is open and I want to go in then I will.

@Quaagars

Oh and what's Pond Land lol, can your fish do without food If not find a fancier one more to your liking

Autocorrect has found a lower class of bargain shop than the one I regularly use.

@rumandbiscuits

Where is line drawn here OP?

I am a support worker and am currently supporting a homeless man who has been offered a flat but he has no means of furnishing the property because the local authority aren't able to help him due to the local second hand furniture store they use being closed and due to his circumstances he is not able to afford to furnish this property himself. Therefore he has had to refuse the flat and stay in his temporary accommodation due to having a number of health problems which deem him extremely vulnerable. So to you 'the range' or a second hand furniture store isn't 'essential' but to other people it's a life line. How dare you preach to people you don't know about where they can and cannot go. Concentrate on your own life and get your head out of the fucking clouds.

Also news flash if we all do as you want and stay in for 4 weeks this virus is still going to be here in December it is not going away!!!!! Lockdowns don't kill the virus! Lockdowns kill the economy!

I really don't think OP was talking about these exceptional circumstances.

Also lockdowns reduce the rate of spread of the virus to the extent that the NHS doesn't cease to function for everything else non-covid related. It may well affect the economy but it will also save lives.

Also @rumandbiscuits could someone not help your client to acquire second hand furniture online? Although being extremely vulnerable they would probably be better staying put to avoid exposure when moving etc.

@ProfessorInkling

Are you one of those people who got all frothy about others popping out for chocolate and wine in March?

Almost definitely!

Also lockdowns reduce the rate of spread of the virus to the extent that the NHS doesn't cease to function for everything else non-covid related. It may well affect the economy but it will also save lives

People know that though
Lots of people still being sensible

It's also not healthy to get scared to step outdoors.
Don't mean you personally, just in a general way.

It is pretty pathetic people can't manage four weeks.

@Carouselfish

It is pretty pathetic people can't manage four weeks.

How are you spending the upcoming month(s), then?

It is pretty pathetic people can't manage four weeks

What do you do then (genuine question)
Like to know what everyone does, that's why I spend so much time on MN lol

Sparkly things

@TicTacTwo No but i really fancy the Quality Street Purple One Latte

Who the fuck do you think you are?

Do one!

If a shop is open and I need or want something I will bloody well go.

OP I commented earlier on in the thread about going to The Range for decorating supplies and homeware and I’m so glad you came back to give us peasants your blessing

When I go on Saturday i most definitely will enjoy my illicit peruse around the shop. I will also be following all guidelines re social distancing and masks etc as I’m sure the majority of other shoppers will too.

My local one is at Aintree retail park and there are so many other shops I could visit but i don’t need to so I won’t. That’s the difference here, we’re shopping for things we need. Enjoy your halo you deserve it for having a resolve of steel for being able to stay away from the shops for four weeks...you’re a better woman than me.

have just remembered there is a Home Sense there too and I’ve never been

@PickAChew

Reckon this thread has more socks than pound land, mind.

Are you one of those people who got all frothy about others popping out for chocolate and wine in March?

Nah, more like bread and milk.

@KatherineJaneway quite right, you can always use cheese in coffee anyway.

The hospitals ARE NOT OVER RUN, I work there I worked through the first "wave" it was empty. ICU beds always work on about 96% capacity anyway always have. So everyone needs to calm down, stop getting their information from the MSM, rolling over giving into the scaremongering propaganda. How about OP stop ramming your opinion down everyone's throat, do you not think the British public are fucking bored to death with the droaning of "stay at home, save the nhs".. how about they save us, isnt that what we PAY them to do? We didn't need a second lockdown, didnt even need the first, this would of been over months ago if we just cracked on like Sweden. So, if people want to go to the Range then let them, none of your business and I'll be doing the same to save my sanity from this crap.

@CourtneyB123

The hospitals ARE NOT OVER RUN, I work there I worked through the first "wave" it was empty. ICU beds always work on about 96% capacity anyway always have. So everyone needs to calm down, stop getting their information from the MSM, rolling over giving into the scaremongering propaganda. How about OP stop ramming your opinion down everyone's throat, do you not think the British public are fucking bored to death with the droaning of "stay at home, save the nhs".. how about they save us, isnt that what we PAY them to do? We didn't need a second lockdown, didnt even need the first, this would of been over months ago if we just cracked on like Sweden. So, if people want to go to the Range then let them, none of your business and I'll be doing the same to save my sanity from this crap.

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Plumber just been here to fix a problem (the plumbing in my house seems to have had it's own version of covid this year, I've had plumber out 4 times in 5 weeks for leaks, lived here for over 20 years and it's never happened before.) He's gone round to The Range to get something he needs, it is the nearest place he can go as in my town we don't have a B&Q, Homebase or a plumbers merchant, our local hardware place has closed down in March and not reopened. I nearly told him he was ruining the lockdown but then decided I wanted the leak sorted.

Not sure if ruining the lockdown is down to me, him or the gods of plumbing.

The hospitals ARE NOT OVER RUN Do you work in all of them? My DIL is running a covid ward and she seems to think her hospital is over run.

What is The Range?

A Shop