Anyone going out more than once a day are playing with OTHER people’s lives!
Not really mate
I'm in a bit of a quandary. My mum's neighbour has OCD (he told her this some years back, I'm not diagnosing him) which means he's followed exactly the same daily routine since his mum died about five years ago.
This entails him walking from the village where he lives the 3 miles into the town centre every day, without fail, whatever the weather. Scouring the 4 supermarkets and numerous other smaller food shops in the town centre for bargains. Walking back home, then visiting a few of the Co-Op/Spar type stores that are in the villages that surround the town every afternoon for more bargains.
My mum spoke to him from her doorstep over the garden fence last week. Asking him if he thought that his normal routine should be curtailed under the present social distancing guidelines? He replied that he thought that the government was "making a mountain out of a mole hill, it's only the flu" and he was going to continue with his routine (you can set your watch by his comings and goings). What worries me is he could definitely catch a mild dose of the virus and continue his tour of the shops every day. Or not realise he's got it and carry on infecting people throughout the area before it takes him down.
Am I the only other person (aside from the poster and moderator) to notice that a post has been deleted/removed?
Hmmmm.... they walk among us 🙄
@offcumden - your approach need not be any different to before the ‘lockdown’, if you have a concern for someone’s well being and/or safety, you can contact social services, or find out if he has a care worker assigned. And yes, before the avalanche of ‘the welfare services don’t have the resources, yadda yadda’, they may or may not, give it a go and if not, exercise leverage for the change that’s required, hassle your MP etc etc.
It has very little to do with preventing the spread of a virus.
It’s a celebration, an outpouring, of a particular brand of British toxicity.
There's nothing particularly British about it.
Here in Germany I know of several people who have had the police called by some Stasi wannabe because their kids were playing in the courtyard.
Kids aged 8 now have an official police warning. It's going to be psychologically tough for some of them.
I've friends who have bemoaned the number of people out and about in town, yet don't see a problem with them driving 100km to spend a week with friends somewhere a little less crowded. That one grates me, tbh. Really doesn't sit right with me.
I moaned at the GF for travelling across town in her car to give someone a b'day cake.
But on the other hand, do I stick to the rules? Do I ****.
We're allowed out for exercise. Just so happens that my exercise includes cycling 25km with a 3/4 beers, smokes, food and a picnic blanket and chilling in the sun for a few hours, albeit on my own or with GF.
Saying that, where I grew up "Snitches get stitches" was commonly scrawled across walls.
I guess you don’t have it then. So wouldn’t think like that? You’ve been tested have you? The words” anyone could have it, anyone can spread it” couldn’t be clearer from the government.
Alpin: yes that is stupid.... your gf should’ve been stopped and fined and ordered to go back home, and it’s your blaze’ attitude that other people also have and you’re ruining it for those who just want this over.
Now isn’t a time to rebel, it’s a time to join.... the longer people keep acting like fools the longer this will continue. My missus works on the frontline, I’m hearing all the truths the government aren’t telling you. This isn’t school anymore it’s a request from your own government ffs... You can have absolutely NO symptoms and you can then pass it onto someone who dies from it.... think. Please.
Saying that, where I grew up “Snitches get stitches” was commonly scrawled
And that’s why you live in Germany instead of some uk dump;)?
Always makes me laugh that faux hardman myth, everyone knows criminals make the best informants and are keen to do it.
Very few people are saying they have or definitely will report people. Very much depends on the scale and potential seriousness of the breach. There's a bit of perspective being displayed.
Yet all the "snitches get stitched/Stasi" crowd are leaping right off the deep end, even resorting to the "it's just flu" defence.
And it's the usual group of "stick it the man", "why should I accept societies rules" keyboard warriors.
I'm doing my best to stay within the rules and encourage other people to do so because I don't my pretty healthy elderly parents to die alone in ICU, or my son's 16 year old mate who's having chemo at the moment because some idiots had a house party and then went to the corner shop. It might be a small risk but it's a risk we are trying to reduce.
Always makes me laugh that faux hardman myth, everyone knows criminals make the best informants and are keen to do it.
😂😂 Stitches possibly less inconvenient to broken knee caps.
Have you ever been a guest of Her Majesty’s? I’m sure that’ll help an incarcerated, or not, informant sleep more soundly! The police would be grateful for your knowledge too 😉
Have you ever been a guest of Her Majesty’s? I’m sure that’ll help an incarcerated, or not, informant sleep more soundly! The police would be grateful for your knowledge too
Have you ever run informants? Thought not.
Anyone going out more than once a day are playing with OTHER people’s lives!
Or they may have mental health needs that allow for more than one trip out a day.
You don't know, keep your own nose clean let others do their bit.
No @kilo, I haven’t, nor do I have any desire to do so.
However, it would seem that quite a few £m per year is spent by police forces on their ‘covert human intelligence sources’ with some opinions claiming it is money well spent/invested, equally, others who claim that the quality of information can be unreliable and that whilst some prosecutions are successful following an informants information, these are predominantly the low lying fruit of organised crime as the fear of reprisals prevent the people within larger organisations from being dobbed on.
Which is what I was referring to.
So, moral of the story, when you get through to the police, perhaps ask them how much the information is worth before spilling any beans. Desperate times and all that.
I'd advise some of the contributors here to get out more, but you know...
Very few people are saying they have or definitely will report people.
Clearly, but that's not what some people want to think.
Why are people determined to see the worst, whether they are furious that someone else might exercise for more than an hour or think it's deeply sinister that we might disapprove of neighbors blatantly breaking the actual rules?
Especially when overall the country is complying incredibly well, the experts seem almost surprised how well it's gone and only the odd Tory politician is giving in to their base populist instinct and criticising the public.
I understand the mental health aspects of the argument, however I definitely don’t understand these big house parties and bbq’s and now the people that are dying I can imagine if you were to trace it back you’d find a lot are because of the reckless nature of others that said “it’s fine and I feel alright so I’m still going out”
Tragic really that some people are such morons......
Why are people determined to see the worst, whether they are furious that someone else might exercise for more than an hour or think it’s deeply sinister that we might disapprove of neighbors blatantly breaking the actual rules?
They’re not particularly mad at that but are at the groups mixing inappropriately mainly because there’s no time limit on the exercise.
Seen it lots when I’m working, on quieter/rougher streets of council estates, everyone out and after noon,Big gatherings.The wiff of skunk, booze and waltzer techno banging out, We are getting official signage made, stating we are Key workers and to ask people to keep 2m away,that we can display on the Safety barriers(which will arrive late next year no doubt).Can display it next to our selfmade signage,which states we are NOT installing anything to do with 5g
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000h8fs"
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Seems that we should all try hard to avoid spreading virus even if it means some inconvenience for some months.
Idiots across the road from us are currently having a BBQ/garden party. Lots of people there who don't live there.
Dob them in?
Yep
No, just piss on the BBQ
Wait till morning and hammer frozen sausages into lawn obviously.
IF, this was aimed at me...?
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SubscriberI’d advise some of the contributors here to get out more, but you know…
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SubscriberLol @chakaping
Very true, on all sides
On cue 😉😁
They’re not particularly mad at that but are at the groups mixing inappropriately mainly because there’s no time limit on the exercise.
Would you like to try that again? Struggling to follow you I'm afraid.
@Basil your link doesn’t work, please can you repost or just tap out the podcast/programme title? Thanks.
everyone knows criminals make the best informants
this isn’t something I’d thought about, but who else would have the information?
I can’t imagine someone getting kneecapped for letting the authorities know that their neighbours are flouting the rules on social distancing. Unless, of course, you happen to live on a truly ghastly estate.
Would you like to try that again? Struggling to follow you I’m afraid.
There is no one hour limit.
Expect lots more gammony rage if you dare to ride a mountain bike for your daily exercise...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/13/tell-neighbours-breach-lockdown-rules-say-police/
The police have basically said "thanks but no thanks" to the legions of curtain twitchers who have so inundated them with calls that they cannot possibly react to them.
Now, someone is bound to say "what is the link?" But remember, for most of the curtain twitchers this is an opportunity to address all the 'issues' they think are 'driving this country into the rocks'. For them it is bugger all to do with infection control and more to do with getting one over on people they don't like.
They'll change their tune after the first few neighbour-lockdown-rage deaths.
Should advise people to tut and give their neighbours a dirty look, then to go and post about it on the internet.
