Astute, you are right that lockdown will be tough but I don't think people are underestimating it or wanting it, it's just that it might be a price we have to pay to slow this thing down long enough to catch out breath.
The problem many have is they haven't thought out how bad lockdown is. And some say it should have happened before people got the virus.
No visiting family. Especially not the vulnerable ones. Not even able to take your dog for a walk. Not even being able to go for a walk where nobody else will be.
Life stops. I have been doing it for a week now. My job where I work is very important. I am ready to work 7 days a week when others can't get in. There is 1 person a shift doing my job. I live alone in England so know what it is like to have nobody around. I enjoy my own company. But how many weeks/months could I cope with it? Then think how many single people there is in the UK.
Again, you are completely missing the point.
I just pointed out why some people would go to the pub after work and that there is probably more risk at the moment when going to the supermarket.
Thank your son for me pleaseMy son is working on the covid 19 ward & doesn’t have the right protective kit. There are not enough respirators, so the actions of that idiot owner of Wetherspoons by not closing leads to a spike in infection which demand for them outstripping supply. The medics will be making decisions on who lives and dies! Self discipline from all of us is required for the greater good.
BRB guys, off to kill a child because school shootings still happen in America so it’s morally OK.
Firstly, no one is saying panic buying is great.
Secondly, can’t make this any simpler: Food. Is. Essential. Beer. Is. Not.
In all seriousness, you’re right about the supermarkets. I’m avoiding them but will have to go soon as I’m running out of things. But equally we do now have a food supply issue that isn’t easily sorted and it seems supermarkets are starting to ration. Not sure what can be done about that.
BUT: that doesn’t excuse you from going to the pub. If you want a cooked meal there’s millions of delivery options these days. It’s just looking for an excuse.
It's not just the lockdown is tough but how strict the measures need to be to enforce it.Astute, you are right that lockdown will be tough but I don't think people are underestimating it or wanting it, it's just that it might be a price we have to pay to slow this thing down long enough to catch out breath.
LinkAnyone who is in any doubt should watch the Sky News report from Italy today. We have to do what is necessary. No ifs no buts.
It isn't me merging it.
I fully understand that people NEED to eat, people don't NEED to queue up for hours every day in their hundreds though do they? Acting like packs of wolves when the doors open.
I am just pointing out that at the minute, because of the behaviour that is allowed to go on in supermarkets there is more chance of getting infected in those. Yet if somebody goes to a pub they are murdering their granny.
At the moment, there's a lot of focus on closing pubs and people who go in them. Somebody unneedingly queuing up with their hands on a trolley for an hour with hundreds of others is fine though.
It's not just the lockdown is tough but how strict the measures need to be to enforce it.
In France we read here they had to put the fines up as not enough people were put off by the original levels set.
Again, my fridge is completely empty and have to get basics every day from the shop over the road. I don't want to take the piss and buy too much as a lot of old people also go there and get their stuff. I have needed to do a "big shop" for weeks but I hate shopping even when it's normal so there's no chance I am going when it's full of ferrel rats.
Yeah I could quite easily get a takeaway every night, if I wanted to spend 3 or 4 times as much and wait hours for it.
The stores should alter their times for certain people, a time for old people, a time for key workers and people working from home etc and a time for people who have fuck all else to do other than act like cunts for some bog roll. (I know they have OAP hours but it seems most of that time is trying to stop people from getting in).
They should be limiting the number of people in them at any given time so people are spread out and there's enough for everybody.
Tremendous whataboutery.
I've said people shouldn't go to pubs, not supermarkets.
Those who say we should have done it before people got the virus certainly are. It could take 18 months to have a vaccine.Astute, you are right that lockdown will be tough but I don't think people are underestimating it or wanting it, it's just that it might be a price we have to pay to slow this thing down long enough to catch out breath.
But, it’s just the flu with no vaccine...Anyone who is in any doubt should watch the Sky News report from Italy today. We have to do what is necessary. No ifs no buts.
I feel you man. My corner shop is the M&S BP which isn’t exactly cheap but it’s where I’ve been living off for a couple of days. My backup plan of Amazon Prime Now has run out of stuff, I’m dreading heading out tomorrow to do a proper shop, not even sure where I should go.
Are takeaways that much more than pub food though? I barely eat in pubs so genuinely don’t know. I’d have assumed restaurant prices.
So you are not concerned really about viral spread then
So you are not concerned really about viral spread then
FFS why do you lot find this so difficult to comprehend. Not all activities are the same or as important.
Going to work or going to buy food are important.
Going to the pub is not.
Is that so hard to understand?
As I said earlier they have gone from €39 to €135 for the first offence. Then well over €300 for the second offence. Some people are cracking already. Not been a week yet. All some want to do is visit family.It's not just the lockdown is tough but how strict the measures need to be to enforce it.
In France we read here they had to put the fines up as not enough people were put off by the original levels set.
FFS why do you lot find this so difficult to comprehend. Not all activities are the same or as important.
Going to work or going to buy food are important.
Going to the pub is not.
Is that so hard to understand?
I made an example of someone working in a supermarket whose clearly at much much higher risk. Surely it’s only a job they should stop if they are in contact with older people they should stop
You're either being deliberately obtuse or you're just incredibly thick.
You know what the answer is here. It's much easier for the government to tell everyone not to do certain things than try and cater for individual circumstances. All about lowering the risk, but as I said, you know that.I made an example of someone working in a supermarket whose clearly at much much higher risk. Surely it’s only a job they should stop if they are in contact with older people they should stop
I made an example of someone working in a supermarket whose clearly at much much higher risk. Surely it’s only a job they should stop if they are in contact with older people they should stop
I think they are showing up the governments mix and match policy making no sense whatsoever.You're either being deliberately obtuse or you're just incredibly thick.
No you just come across as a selfish Tory c**t to be honest
The aim here is to slow the spread as much as possible to allow the NHS to cope without destroying the economy. That means stopping everything we can. Clearly food supply is not one of those things. Your desperate attempts to find a gotcha are getting silly.
You know what the answer is here. It's much easier for the government to tell everyone not to do certain things than try and cater for individual circumstances. All about lowering the risk, but as I said, you know that.
No you just come across as a selfish Tory c**t to be honest
Surely it’s only a job they should stop if they are in contact with older people they should stop
I understand the words you are saying, but they are different points. You can’t ask people not to buy food, you can ask people not to do unnecessary things. They are different, it isn’t that we are all missing your point - it is that your point makes no difference to the rights and wrongs of continuing normal social practices in a pandemic. Such as going to the pub vs buying food.Again, you are completely missing the point.
I just pointed out why some people would go to the pub after work and that there is probably more risk at the moment when going to the supermarket.
Or being realistic.You're either being deliberately obtuse or you're just incredibly thick.
I think they are showing up the governments mix and match policy making no sense whatsoever.
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