Coronavirus: Will You Comply With The Government’s Advice?

[naomi24]

Whether you fall into the group classified as ‘at risk’, or are over 70 and advised to remain at home, or younger and fit but requested to abandon your social life, will you comply - and if not why not?

Me? I think we are duty bound.

[Musictv2019]

I'm already complying I haven't been out since Friday so I wrote a few shopping lists and my parents bought the groceries for me.

[brainiac]

david, in my local Tesco today it was impossible to practise distance procedures - the queues at the tills were crowded and jammed together, just as on any other busy day. Not a single person in a mask.

[ChillDoubt]

God, Chill, that’s terrible.
I have to admit to being in the ‘it’ll be fine’ group.
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Had colleagues with the same mindset a few days back, CJ.
The Senior anaesthetists and intensivists have been informing us that we are roughly 2 weeks behind Italy, so that’s when they’re expecting it to spike over here.
The scale of what is in the offing is now dawning on many and the mood is growing less jovial and more somber by the day.
Heed the advice and warnings, PLEASE, I implore all of you.

[anneasquith]

Thank you Choux. X

[albaqwerty]

It is serious.
Coronavirus is a notifiable disease.
A cold and the flu are not, there's the difference.

To those who think they'll be fine, you may have an underlying health issue which so far has been undiagnosed, so stop being selfish and think of others.

[choux]

Welcome anne :)

[DarceyK123]

The distance thing is impossible in most scenarios.

Found it ironic when taking my mum to the special pensioners hour at Iceland and at least 100 of the most vunerable people were all huddled together in the close proximity of a queue.

Sounded like a good idea from the supermarkets but probably not in reality.

[Gromit]

I have not been complying.
I work in a store and we probably get 5000 shoppers a day through the doors, so avoiding 20 mates in the pub Doesn’t make sense.
Thankfully, every one in my little group of about eight is still coming out. If we don’t, then our favourite bars will be out of business in weeks, gone forever.

[ladybirder]

There was a doctor talking from Italy on the News tonight whose wife and child are in Britain. He said he was watching us carefully and we are on the same track as Italy and it would explode here, worse than Italy, in a few weeks. I can't remember it exactly I wish I could. Did anyone else see it? He's so worried about his wife and child.

[david small]

I avoid shops and people. Just sit by the sea with my wife. Then home to my studio to paint.

[albaqwerty]

Gromit, one of our local pubs has closed for ''a while'' according to the notice on their door. Others are staying open.

LB, I saw some of it (was interrupted by a phone call) I felt for him, poor soul.

[Gromit]

Ladybirder,

Italy has been hit harder than us due to social reasons, not anything else. They have an elderly population than us, a quarter of all are over 65. And there is a lot more Contact between the young and old than in the UK. So if we do see a huge increase in cases, it will be for different reasons that Italy have been hardest hit.

[royfromaus]

It does seem odd that going to the supermarket competing with marauding herds over toilet roll is ok but go to a virtually empty pub and you're a pariah

[ladybirder]

Gromit I wish I could find a link to what he said so you could see it exactly.
Alba thanks, do you remember which channel it was on? Definitely BBC or ITV.

[albaqwerty]

absolutely definitely BBC :-D x

[Gromit]

royfromaus,
At 8am this morning our store was as rammed as a Saturday afternoon. Literally thousands swarming about. After work at 4pm, I went to the pub on my way home to just a handful of people in each hostelry. So to me, the advice makes little sense.

[ChillDoubt]

Thankfully, every one in my little group of about eight is still coming out. If we don’t, then our favourite bars will be out of business in weeks, gone forever.
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Exactly the sort of bloody-minded idiocy that is seeing Italy and France moving to consider even further draconian measures in order to get the population to comply.

Really do wish some of you could spend the day with me tomorrow.
Consider the selfish actions you’re taking and ponder on who amongst your group you may possibly infect(and vice versa), and whom in their homes and domestic circumstances they in turn will go on to.

[royfromaus]

What about the hundreds in each supermarket, ChillDoubt?

[ChillDoubt]

What about the hundreds in each supermarket, ChillDoubt?
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Wear a mask.
Go at a quieter time.
Follow the social distancing rules as much as you possibly can.
Stop making f#%*in’ excuses!!

[royfromaus]

Masks don't work.
How does everyone go at a quiet time?