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.

[Apc2604]

Gromit. The home delivery will be left outside the door for those self isolating. Noone has come into our house except the man that mended our boiler a couple of weeks ago when the virus was not in our county. Even then my husband took the boiler cover off and put bit back on again. Boiler man only touched the inside workings.

[Gromit]

royfromaus

The UK is not properly testing for coronavirus, so our data is incomplete and therefore meaningless.
The high number of fatalities in Italy is because they have a more elderly population than we do.

[Theland]

Roy @ 01:04 - That graph is so alarming.
It certainly shows that it's going to get much worse.

[Gromit]

Apc2604

The items in your home-shop will have been on a supermarket shelf for days, if not weeks, and been breathed on by thousands of shoppers, and maybe handled by several of them. Coronavirus can survive on a surface for 72 hours, so I don’t think you are as safe as you think you are.

[ummmm]

My nephew asked how the virus was passed on. I said it was by touch so door handles and light switches etc....he then came in with a big bowl of hot soapy water with dettol and bleach and cleaned every door handle and light switches in the house...including outside.

I love him :-)

[Gromit]

Amused by the Metro newspaper front cover

- Public must help by social distancing.
- Queen urges everyone to come together.

[eyegone]

Wont stop going to work, high risk I suppose as I work in a shop, will avoid anything unecesary, have not stock piled, feel just as normal, but if I though I was at risk of spreading anything I would self isolate.

[chelle7272]

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.

[jno]

as best I can, but shopping must be done.

[Cloverjo]

I totally agree, chelle. Back in the day when I was a poor, lonely single mum before the days of mobile phones I used to sit at the bottom of the stairs and cry at the thought of not seeing or speaking to another person until the next day (No landline either). And I’m an introvert.
Loneliness is a killer.

[waterboatman]

Who's going to do the shopping?

[dannyk13]

Yes, I would be foolish not to.

[emmie]

i am generally at home, but i have a hair appointment later today, but no shopping slots online for weeks so not sure how i am supposed to go on..

[Cloverjo]

Do you have neighbours, emmie? I’m sure someone would be happy to get you some stuff.
I was at the hairdressers yesterday. Business as usual.

[bhg481]

My wife had the common sense to cancel her hair appointment. Having a hairdresser standing next to you and breathing all over you is not the best way to stop the virus spreading.

[joggerjayne]

Not many people go in pubs any more. That's why so many have shut down.

Thousands and thousands of people go in supermarkets. That's why they are taking over our communities.

So the Govt tells us to avoid pubs...

And creates a situation where the whole population squash together in the massive checkout queues at supermarkets.

If CoViD-19 spreads widely, I can guess where everyone is catching it.

[joggerjayne]

Tragically, The Ivy in The Lanes closed last night, until further notice.

It's the best of the Ivy restaurants (yes, better than the one in Soho ... just). If you come to Brighton after the apocalypse, you must try it.

[ummmm]

Not many people go into pubs anymore? Are you serious?

[Zacs-Master]

There are still thousands of pubs open and thriving (or there was until CV). There has actually been a reversal in pub closures of late:
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-many-uk-pubs-closing-2019-every-year-where-best-pub-104845572.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB51YoSkGfLz8TQcPCYTWVHbPc5DsfbOzPO4hqYZs684Fg2Elq6nVkOCgjv_HN6gg0muHUCXPJ_w5cN6osLGWfMXMZdrsEaJTmN4q0G-xnVnNLTtauP2lqqy2typOFzkufUzQXQiRlwppAmNyL1N9NB24h_7CFhXJfiHmFWEpshM

I’m not sure how closing pubs has any effect on supermarket queues.

[allenlondon]

The Chinese got it right. Comply, or get locked up.

The UK should follow their example.