I appreciate different sides to this. I am duty bound to be present at work while almost all other staff, and all usually in my office, are working from home. The premises is shut except for GP access by intercom. It's an eerie and sometimes ovetwhelmingly depressing place to be. I try to shop on way home but there has been no fresh and limited other food for days in the all of the 3 supermarkets on tjenearby main road. By the time I get home my adult son I live with has gone to work. So I already feel isolated with the threat if having to be even more isolated hanging over me all the time. Never mind the bigger worries like not making rent, which I'm putting off until I (can't) sleep. I can't visit vulnerable family who are miles away. So I really do get why people may feel the need to go to a pub after work just to see people and share their worries. The elderly chaps that meet in the local spoons in the morning having been up for hours because it is their only social time and they are lonely. Why wouldn't they go? The worst aspect if this situation I have seen is the anxiety, together with isolation it is heartbreaking.
I also understand people saying going out in this way is selfish and putting others at risk, as I have vulnerable friends and family as do most. So yes, it's difficult but please let's not judge others for what, to them, is maybe what keeps them going. We are all different and have very different ways to cope.