How seriously are you taking social distancing?

[Giraffe]

Very seriously. I'm going to work as I have to, but after that doing nothing socially.

However my daughter works at the Black Rabbit in Arundel and told me it was as busy as normal last night and full of elderly people. Just think the less people do what they are asked then the more likely a police/army enforced lock down is. Just don't understand it.

 

[Palacefinder General]

I’ve just been down to M&S for the weeks food shopping - full of oldies carrying on as if nothing has happened. On the way home I go past a small garden centre - car park full and elderly people everywhere.

They clearly haven’t got the message.

M&S (Prestatyn) was stocked as normal as far as I could see.

As said before, the home curfew advisory was to come into effect this weekend for the over 70s I thought, unless they’ve shifted it.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Why were you given the test out of interest? Isn't the guidance that if you have symptoms, but you're not in any distress to just sit it out at home?

How long was the time from test to result?

I am on a clinical trial,everyone entering the building is being tested. It's a private clinic. I would rather the NHS staff got the tests but unfortunately nothing I can do about that.

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[narly101]

Firm has enforced working from home for the foreseeable.
Cancelled every single social event I had planned from now until end of June.
Stopped seeing my parents, parents in law, and only going to shops when I need to.
Still going to my local for an hour a day to keep sane. The only people going there are regulars and we're all keeping well away from each other. Pub staff are wearing gloves, and hand sanitiser on tap.

I'm firmly of the same opinion that if the elderly are still making trips outside and "not giving a shit", then there's no hope for them, or others they come into contact with. The arguments I've had with my mum about stopping going to the coffee shops to meet her mates, or going shopping..... She's even made her own worthless hand sanitiser from aloe Vera and vodka

 

[Swansman]

Very seriously. I'm going to work as I have to, but after that doing nothing socially.

However my daughter works at the Black Rabbit in Arundel and told me it was as busy as normal last night and full of elderly people. Just think the less people do what they are asked then the more likely a police/army enforced lock down is. Just don't understand it.

Same situation here. Our state epidemiologist today said far from enough people - especially in the high risk group - is following their advice.

As I see it is a consequence of not being clear enough about the numbers of death this could result in. A lot of people on this board dont want to hear about it and its the same in society, but the problem is that it creates a false sense of safety and people keep doing their usual shit.

Unless governments start saying "if you dont do as we say hundreds of thousands or possibly millions could die", its not happening. As it is they are pointing at the curve and just assume that everyone understands exponential growth and what it means, but thats not the case.

My feeling from day one has been that these "recommendations" just wont do it - please lock us up for our own good.

 

[dazzer6666]

Very seriously. I'm going to work as I have to, but after that doing nothing socially.

However my daughter works at the Black Rabbit in Arundel and told me it was as busy as normal last night and full of elderly people. Just think the less people do what they are asked then the more likely a police/army enforced lock down is. Just don't understand it.

Got any pictures of the pub ?

I think this is it - they (over 70s) need to be clearly and unequivocally told they are in lockdown - not just 'advised'. Get it on TV, Radio, the lot and make it very blunt. They do seem to comprise the vast majority of those not complying with the guidance around here at least. My mother is 74 and hasn't been out at all other than a brief visit to the shop across the road (she says, anyway).

 

[narly101]

Same situation here. Our state epidemiologist today said far from enough people - especially in the high risk group - is following their advice.

As I see it is a consequence of not being clear enough about the numbers of death this could result in. A lot of people on this board dont want to hear about it and its the same in society, but the problem is that it creates a false sense of safety and people keep doing their usual shit.

Unless governments start saying "if you dont do as we say hundreds of thousands or possibly millions could die", its not happening. As it is they are pointing at the curve and just assume that everyone understands exponential growth and what it means, but thats not the case.

My feeling from day one has been that these "recommendations" just wont do it - please lock us up for our own good.

BoJo has continuously driven the "liberal democratic country" line in all of his recent speeches. Problem we have is a vast majority of people see him as a bumbling ****, and don't pay any notice. The situation is serious, but they've played it down. My 72 year old mum (who voted for him) even said to me on Monday, "why should I do what that posh git tells me to?"

 

[Palacefinder General]

You get the impression that many people here in Sussex will carry on as normally as possible until the mortality stats start rising locally, and in amongst all the scathing ‘keyboard’ NSC condemnation and outraged judgements for doing so it is perfectly understandable why people would do that.

 

[vagabond]

Well said. Sitting around moping for weeks and months is the worst thing to do. Just get on with your life a say "**** you" to coronavirus. We need more people with your attitude.

And this ladies and gentlemen is why we need a lockdown in this country.

People are either ignorant of what social distancing is and why we need to do it, or worse, they understand but don’t give a shit about other people.

Lock em down Boris.

 

[goldstone]

Someone needs to put forward some alternative viewpoints and here's one you should all read:


Liberty shackled and the future blighted: RIP Europe, 312 – 2020. We had a good run
By Laura Perrins
-
March 18, 2020

THE same people who tell us that we cannot under any circumstances torture a terrorist to save the lives of 1,000 people, perhaps 10,000 innocent people, as torture ‘fundamentally compromises our democratic values’, are the same people who tell us we should shut*the entire country down*over the coronavirus. So far, it has killed 56 people in the UK.*
On Monday, the Prime Minister, perhaps having little choice given the pressure put on him by the hysterical media class, decided that yes, we will crash the entire British economy and restrict the liberty of freeborn citizens because of the coronavirus.*
No doubt the schools will be closed, suspending the education of an entire generation of children.*
There will be bailouts of industry after industry, the cost of which will be borne by that same next generation whose education we will destroy. It is not their fault the open border lunatics wouldn’t hear of closing the border in January. Yet, as usual, they will pay the price.*
This time last year, anyone who said we should restrict the freedom of movement on non-citizens over Britain’s*external borders*were painted as a bunch of fascists. Today, the British public have their free movement restricted to the greatest place on Earth – their local pub.*
If you want to know what a Godless, meek and weak society looks like, mark 2020 in your calendar. It was the year we knew Europe was done for. Country after country is put in lockdown, police arrest citizens who go to the shops, all because the big bad germs are coming to get them.*
But people will die, I hear you shout. We all die. We are not entitled to immortality. I’ll take my chances, as I’d rather die as a freeborn citizen doing the things that freeborn citizens do, than cower like a dog in a kennel because the Government has ordered me to do so. I won’t do it.*
As France goes into lockdown, they’ve stopped rebuilding Notre Dame – the magnificent cathedral that went up in flames last year. It’s a sign, I tell you, like the flames itself, it’s a sign. That cathedral was built by people of faith in the medieval times, times when a mouth ulcer could take you out. Today, they down tools over the flu.*
It is coming up to 80 years since the Blitz and I keep hearing the Blitz spirit is coming back. Is this really what the British public did in 1940 – squabble over toilet paper and stop going to the pub, when actual bombs were falling on their actual heads?*
Is this what British manhood did – say yes, Mr Prime Minister, whatever you say Mr Prime Minister, I’ll hide in my bedroom for 14 days because I have a cough? Or did they get on the boats and bring those soldiers back from Dunkirk?
And they got on more boats a few years later and landed on the beaches in Normandy to be shot to pieces by German machine guns. What would that generation say now if they saw this – healthy adults locked in their houses on governmental say-so? It’s astonishing.*
I don’t think I’m wrong on this. I do think this is a hysterical over-reaction to save the face of a socialised health system and bloated, decadent European continent that has been blowing the cash on IVF for the over-50s, sex-change operations and millions of abortions for decades. Today, the reckoning came. We knew it would come and now we have been found out.*
So we scramble around to find cash for ventilators while we lock law-abiding citizens in their houses. Don’t bother telling me we live in a liberal democracy any more, when people will willingly sacrifice their liberty off the backs of a whipped-up media class and Government scrambling to limit the damage, long after the best times for key decisions have been made.
RIP Europe, 312 – 2020.*We had a good run.*

 

[The Clamp]

Brighton & Hove busses are now accepting pensioners bus passes 24 hrs a day. Jesus wept

 

[Weststander]

Very seriously. I'm going to work as I have to, but after that doing nothing socially.

However my daughter works at the Black Rabbit in Arundel and told me it was as busy as normal last night and full of elderly people. Just think the less people do what they are asked then the more likely a police/army enforced lock down is. Just don't understand it.

Renamed, The Death Wish Arms.

 

[schmunk]

I will be... ...going for runs on Ilkley Moor

Don't forget your hat!

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Someone needs to put forward some alternative viewpoints and here's one you should all read:


Liberty shackled and the future blighted: RIP Europe, 312 – 2020. We had a good run
By Laura Perrins
-
March 18, 2020

THE same people who tell us that we cannot under any circumstances torture a terrorist to save the lives of 1,000 people, perhaps 10,000 innocent people, as torture ‘fundamentally compromises our democratic values’, are the same people who tell us we should shut*the entire country down*over the coronavirus. So far, it has killed 56 people in the UK.*
On Monday, the Prime Minister, perhaps having little choice given the pressure put on him by the hysterical media class, decided that yes, we will crash the entire British economy and restrict the liberty of freeborn citizens because of the coronavirus.*
No doubt the schools will be closed, suspending the education of an entire generation of children.*
There will be bailouts of industry after industry, the cost of which will be borne by that same next generation whose education we will destroy. It is not their fault the open border lunatics wouldn’t hear of closing the border in January. Yet, as usual, they will pay the price.*
This time last year, anyone who said we should restrict the freedom of movement on non-citizens over Britain’s*external borders*were painted as a bunch of fascists. Today, the British public have their free movement restricted to the greatest place on Earth – their local pub.*
If you want to know what a Godless, meek and weak society looks like, mark 2020 in your calendar. It was the year we knew Europe was done for. Country after country is put in lockdown, police arrest citizens who go to the shops, all because the big bad germs are coming to get them.*
But people will die, I hear you shout. We all die. We are not entitled to immortality. I’ll take my chances, as I’d rather die as a freeborn citizen doing the things that freeborn citizens do, than cower like a dog in a kennel because the Government has ordered me to do so. I won’t do it.*
As France goes into lockdown, they’ve stopped rebuilding Notre Dame – the magnificent cathedral that went up in flames last year. It’s a sign, I tell you, like the flames itself, it’s a sign. That cathedral was built by people of faith in the medieval times, times when a mouth ulcer could take you out. Today, they down tools over the flu.*
It is coming up to 80 years since the Blitz and I keep hearing the Blitz spirit is coming back. Is this really what the British public did in 1940 – squabble over toilet paper and stop going to the pub, when actual bombs were falling on their actual heads?*
Is this what British manhood did – say yes, Mr Prime Minister, whatever you say Mr Prime Minister, I’ll hide in my bedroom for 14 days because I have a cough? Or did they get on the boats and bring those soldiers back from Dunkirk?
And they got on more boats a few years later and landed on the beaches in Normandy to be shot to pieces by German machine guns. What would that generation say now if they saw this – healthy adults locked in their houses on governmental say-so? It’s astonishing.*
I don’t think I’m wrong on this. I do think this is a hysterical over-reaction to save the face of a socialised health system and bloated, decadent European continent that has been blowing the cash on IVF for the over-50s, sex-change operations and millions of abortions for decades. Today, the reckoning came. We knew it would come and now we have been found out.*
So we scramble around to find cash for ventilators while we lock law-abiding citizens in their houses. Don’t bother telling me we live in a liberal democracy any more, when people will willingly sacrifice their liberty off the backs of a whipped-up media class and Government scrambling to limit the damage, long after the best times for key decisions have been made.
RIP Europe, 312 – 2020.*We had a good run.*

That was on Twitter, and as someone introduced it :

"In case you’re after a simpleton’s hot take of the situation"

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Brighton & Hove busses are now accepting pensioners bus passes 24 hrs a day. Jesus wept

Corporate Manslaughter.

 

[dazzer6666]

Brighton & Hove busses are now accepting pensioners bus passes 24 hrs a day. Jesus wept

Exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. Brilliant.

 

[The Clamp]

Exactly the opposite of what they should be doing. Brilliant.

All
All of the them cramming onto the bus at exactly the same time every day. ****ing insane.

 

[juliant]

Had a falling out with my mum earlier today. Rang her for a catch-up and to make sure she and dad are ok. She then told me my dad who is 80 and asthmatic popped into the family shop yesterday to see how it was and the manager (my brother) went nuts at him for coming in. The shop has my brother with young kids and the other workers too. I simply said to my mum totally agree with brother and how i thought it was a bit selfish. All she said was your dad had to go out for his mental health as he doesn't want to be sat indoors all day. Jesus wept they just dont get it

 

[Marty___Mcfly]

Brighton & Hove busses are now accepting pensioners bus passes 24 hrs a day. Jesus wept

I think it's so they can get to the supermarkets which are reserving early hours / 8am-9am for the OAPs.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Someone needs to put forward some alternative viewpoints and here's one you should all read:


Liberty shackled and the future blighted: RIP Europe, 312 – 2020. We had a good run
By Laura Perrins
-
March 18, 2020

THE same people who tell us that we cannot under any circumstances torture a terrorist to save the lives of 1,000 people, perhaps 10,000 innocent people, as torture ‘fundamentally compromises our democratic values’, are the same people who tell us we should shut*the entire country down*over the coronavirus. So far, it has killed 56 people in the UK.*
On Monday, the Prime Minister, perhaps having little choice given the pressure put on him by the hysterical media class, decided that yes, we will crash the entire British economy and restrict the liberty of freeborn citizens because of the coronavirus.*
No doubt the schools will be closed, suspending the education of an entire generation of children.*
There will be bailouts of industry after industry, the cost of which will be borne by that same next generation whose education we will destroy. It is not their fault the open border lunatics wouldn’t hear of closing the border in January. Yet, as usual, they will pay the price.*
This time last year, anyone who said we should restrict the freedom of movement on non-citizens over Britain’s*external borders*were painted as a bunch of fascists. Today, the British public have their free movement restricted to the greatest place on Earth – their local pub.*
If you want to know what a Godless, meek and weak society looks like, mark 2020 in your calendar. It was the year we knew Europe was done for. Country after country is put in lockdown, police arrest citizens who go to the shops, all because the big bad germs are coming to get them.*
But people will die, I hear you shout. We all die. We are not entitled to immortality. I’ll take my chances, as I’d rather die as a freeborn citizen doing the things that freeborn citizens do, than cower like a dog in a kennel because the Government has ordered me to do so. I won’t do it.*
As France goes into lockdown, they’ve stopped rebuilding Notre Dame – the magnificent cathedral that went up in flames last year. It’s a sign, I tell you, like the flames itself, it’s a sign. That cathedral was built by people of faith in the medieval times, times when a mouth ulcer could take you out. Today, they down tools over the flu.*
It is coming up to 80 years since the Blitz and I keep hearing the Blitz spirit is coming back. Is this really what the British public did in 1940 – squabble over toilet paper and stop going to the pub, when actual bombs were falling on their actual heads?*
Is this what British manhood did – say yes, Mr Prime Minister, whatever you say Mr Prime Minister, I’ll hide in my bedroom for 14 days because I have a cough? Or did they get on the boats and bring those soldiers back from Dunkirk?
And they got on more boats a few years later and landed on the beaches in Normandy to be shot to pieces by German machine guns. What would that generation say now if they saw this – healthy adults locked in their houses on governmental say-so? It’s astonishing.*
I don’t think I’m wrong on this. I do think this is a hysterical over-reaction to save the face of a socialised health system and bloated, decadent European continent that has been blowing the cash on IVF for the over-50s, sex-change operations and millions of abortions for decades. Today, the reckoning came. We knew it would come and now we have been found out.*
So we scramble around to find cash for ventilators while we lock law-abiding citizens in their houses. Don’t bother telling me we live in a liberal democracy any more, when people will willingly sacrifice their liberty off the backs of a whipped-up media class and Government scrambling to limit the damage, long after the best times for key decisions have been made.
RIP Europe, 312 – 2020.*We had a good run.*

What a load of utterly moronic dribble.