Anyone noticed an increase in vaccinated people not social distancing?

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I have shopped in Lidl weekly thoroughout the pandemic with the occasional visit to Sainsburys to top up on things I can't get in Lidl. I always go at quiet times for obvious reasons. Yesterday I popped to Sainsburys at what is usually a quiet time (just after lunch) and there were definitely more people there but the majority seemed to be older people and people who were just wearing face shields (who I assume have a medical reason and are therefore vulnerable). On numerous occasions I had to step away from these people who got into my personal space ie within 2m, seemingly without a care in the world. As that was just one visit I put it to the back of my mind until this morning when I went to Lidl at 8.00am to do my full grocery shop. Once again there were older people (definitely over 70 - so I assume vaccinated) who got too close both in aisles and by moving forward at the checkout queue.
I am beginning to think that those who are vaccinated think that life is now back to normal (apart from the things that are still shut obviously) and they can go back to shopping ihow they did pre March 2020.
Would I be unreasonable to remind the next person who does this to me that I (along with many others) have not yet been lucky enough to be vaccinated so please keep your distance.
Anyone else noticed in increase in this behaviour or is it just me?
I am in Group 8 so hope not to have to wait too long for mine but will still respect peoples' space even when I've been vaccinated (as I have done throughout.

Also once the kids are back in school not much point social distancing

@Haffiana

they've been vaccinated I had to step away from these people there were older people assume they've been vaccinated they haven't been out for months they feel confident enough to venture out

This is classic 'othering'. The only common factor in all this is your othering older people and your assumptions about what they are thinking.

Exactly.

TheAuthorityofJackieWeaver I mean not standing 2m away in the queue for the checkout or not waiting for me to move away from the end of the checkout as I'm putting my card away and them moving forward to stand by the cashier instead of waiting further up the conveyor belt . But on the issue of getting things off a shelf I do try and wait for people to move away or say excuse me if they look like they're dithering and I only want to grab one thing. A couple stood chatting right in front of the fridge where an item I wanted was situated so I waited and then asked them politely to move so I could reach what I wanted. I appreciate this isn't possible when supermarkets are busy but when I go there's a maximum of 3 people in each aisle so it is doable.

@Poppycat10 I didn't say they deliberately breathed in my face. That's your words. They just didn't care how close they came to me and when they're breathing heavily, not trying to get out of the way in a narrow path, yes it goes in my face. If they're running and don't slow down in a narrow crossing point, I can't get out of the way. It's nothing to do with what the government have said, as I've hardly read any government propaganda, so you've made that up too.

It sounds like you're one of them.

I’m over 60 but not yet vaccinated and can pass for younger. Not necessarily when I’m in Lidl and not making an effort.

It exclusively in their late 30s/early 40s who get in my space to get to the shelves. COVID numbers are low here and I’m not concerned about that but it’s still as rude as it ever was. Women are generally more polite and young/old men either more considerate or more likely to realise I’ll call them out.

*exclusively men, sorry. Almost goes without saying!

I haven’t shopped for months because lots of people in them pretty much gave up on SD last summer.

I am vaccinated and am carrying on exactly as I did before. People of all ages have been coming too close in supermarkets for months but I take responsibility for myself by shopping at quiet times and removing myself from an area if I think someone is too close, although I don’t really feel too much at risk because most encounters there are fleeting.

Wondering if OP has children and is quite happy to send them to school where they will be crammed in with 30 others for hours on end. If she is, I doubt that a few close encounters in the supermarket are going to be her major problem.

Difficult to know who has been vaccinated so I assume you are assuming....

I don't go out much and only shop online or late at night when very quiet so it's still the same for me ...

Well I have been vaccinated but I have no idea what other people are doing because I'm still requested to shield. So on the experience of 1, no - still climbing the same fucking walls here.

There now at the supermarket loads or older couples shopping in pairs. I want us to back to normal ASAP but these couples make it harder to social distance they clog up the ailes deliberating. I don't want to social distance but it is the government's rules - I accept there are people who are nervous in the supermarket and therefore follow all the guidance but these couples who appear from my experience to be all at least in their late 60s but I would guess 70s clearly think they can do what they want.

I haven’t noticed a change here, we have people shopping in pairs and not social distancing, but it doesn’t seem to be any more prevalent than before christmas.

I’ve had my first vaccine and my partner has, we haven’t changed our behaviour.

My walking route takes me through our city centre daily. It was always virtually deserted and now older people everywhere

YABU for assuming it's because people have had the vaccine, as others have said people in supermarkets seemed to ditch social distancing in December where I live.

That being said, DH was working in someone's house recently and had to repeatedly ask the customer to move away (they are told before the visits to try to stay in another room, this guy was stood right next to DH!) but the customers response was "it's ok, I've had my vaccine!"

DH politely pointed out that he hadn't and at that point in time, neither had his wife who has asthma

You can tell if someones been vaccinated.
Their ears turn green.😉

Social distancing in the supermarket went to pot the minute masks became compulsory.

@Wingedharpy

You can tell if someones been vaccinated. Their ears turn green.😉

Either that or they’re all gathered around the Microsoft products.

I hadn't noticed much distancing from anyone really for months, in the first lockdown there was but not now, probably since we started wearing masks. I don't think anyone really cares apart from on here. Most people that get in my face though are younger than me so I doubt they have been vaccinated as I haven't.

I wouldn't know, I haven't been shopping since before Christmas.

Social distancing has been iffy for months. I've been avoiding the shops for that reason. But people have been complaining about older couples clogging up the aisles since the first lockdown. I don't mind that so much (a bit of empathy goes a long way), it's the rude bastards who barge into my space that annoy me.