Neighbour has Grandson with her on Easter Sunday .

I hear tales like this do often. You ate in the right and they are very very wrong. You could report them....

People like that who think they are invincible make me so angry I have not seen my children or grandchildren for weeks and it hurts. They are all obeying the social distancing rules. But my DD who works fir the NHS now has symptoms of the virus. People who float the rules are spreading the virus and have put my daughter and her very young children at risk.

It has been said again and again that this virus is very infectious and spreads very rapidly.

If someone who visited their granny for Easter Sunday had been in contact with someone during the previous week who themselves was a contact of someone who unknowingly has the virus, then they could be incubating it, and be infectious without being aware of it. THAT is how infectious it is, and that is how it whips round a community like a bushfire in a bone-dry Australian forest. BUT THOSE INFECTED DONT KNOW IT UNTIL THEY HAVE BEEN INFECTIOUS FOR A WEEK OR SO!

In a week's time, the figures that have started to show a modest decline will zoom up again, and a week or less after that the hospitals will see the increase in admissions of beloved grandparents whose old bodies can't cope.

The bereaved will be broken-hearted - and some will only remember their Easter visit as "the last time we saw her was . . " If they had stayed away, they could be continuing to see her - and the medical staff who nursed her at their own risk could have continued to be with their families uninfected!

It's so annoying, I also missed out on being with my family in fact haven't seen them for nearly a month . My daughter-in-law drops off anything I need about every seven to ten days...She rings me to tell me she's on her way and leaves it by the back gate.

Yet I have a very dear friend who is in poor health, her husband is vulnerable. her son has severe asthma , his wife is on the vulnerable list and they have a teenage son. They all enjoyed their Easter lunch together yesterday. They are carrying on as if life is normal. We ring each other regularly and I beg her to stay safe!!

One of my son's friends died a week ago in hospital from the virus. My daughter-in -law's boss died this morning from the virus which he contracted in hospital!! It really is frightening.

My son has me under'curfew.!'

Apart from my earlier post,about my sister, my grand daughter was asked to drive a friend to collect a puppy, her father was very angry with her, but as he lives in a different country could do nothing,and apart from that she is visiting friends, and they her,
Why do some of these young ones think it doesn't apply to them

It's people like that who are keeping this virus going. So very selfish.

my sister has a neighbour who has been having visitors constantly but what makes it worse is the fact that she is a care worker in a home.

you could report them? if that had been me i would have said something....its not fair on us that are in lockdown. next time she does it ring 101 and report her.

Keep it simple.

My neighbours both in their 70's are not following the rules either. Both of their son's come to visit. Both work outdoors as gardeners so their mother thinks this is Ok (but they surely still have contact with their clients, receiving payment etc). I called over the fence to one of them and asked if he was trying to get his inheritance early. I have told their mother if she and her husband get the virus it is their own fault. One of the son's was there again yesterday all dressed up and had gone for his Easter Sunday lunch! As this son was leaving yesterday I was out watering my plants and I called to the father and said that his son's movements could be tracked via his mobile phone but he didn't respond. The mother still goes shopping with a scarf around her mouth! Her sons should be shopping for their parents and leaving it at the door. I get so mad as I have not seen my adult son's since Christmas. We were meant to be having a get together the week after Mother's day so that never happened. Some people just seem to think the rules do not apply to them and as other have said this is only going to continue the spread of this virus and the lock down will go on for longer. I too get very upset but I am afraid you can't cure stupid!

My brother, who is over 70 and has Parkinson’s Disease, and his wife who is also over 70 moved house from the Southeast to the Midlands last week. I am still seething at them.

Grannmarie that is brilliant.
On another note, is it being judgemental to be concerned about the actions of others? Are the actions of others something we are deeming unacceptable when we have no business concerning ourselves with what they do? Actions have consequences. Taking the example of my neighbour's ex. He picks up and takes out the children from 3 households. He lives in a fourth household. My neighbour then takes her girls with her when she does her grocery shopping. The parents (another neighbour) take their daughter ( who was also taken out with the girls) grocery shopping. The ex does his own shopping and similarly, although a presumption, so do the parents of the cousin. Just how many people are these 4 households potentially exposing to the virus if they catch it? Is it judgemental to be concerned about the innocents who could succumb to this virus? Is their behaviour truly acceptable? We would not consider dangerous driving acceptable would we? Why, is that? The answer is simple, it endangers the lives of innocent human beings.

Our neighbour has his daughter and her four kids over today ? I’ve already phoned 101 today about some builders who are working on a very non essential building - I’m not going g to phone them again, tempting though it is. I’m sure the police are inundated with calls about stupid these days.

It is very difficult when we see people doing stuff that they know they shouldn't. However, judging by some of the comments on here it wouldn't take very long to descend to the depths of the French revolution and the lettres de cachet. For those who don't knowe what they are, the French used to post pieces of papers with the names of people they wanted to report. Often for minor infringements, often people they just didn't like. Result was usually the same. Off with his head!

Are we chopping people’s heads off? My understanding was that police issue a warning or a fine to remind stupid people who haven’t yet grasped the information from the Govt, on social media, in the MSM and so on that their behaviour is incredibly dangerous and will ensure that this virus continues to spread and kill people.

So nothing like the French Revolution or les letters de cachet really.

Lettres

Thank-you for the posts everyone seems to mirror my own thoughts and there are so many stories about many who break the rules of social distancing.

Great post Cherrycezzy and the last line sums it all up, it endangers the life of innocent human beings.

SirChenjin I can understand your frustration particularly about phoning 101. My neighbour has had her last chance now after yesterday as she has broken the rules for about three weeks. I know the police will probably be inundated with calls but enough is enough next time I am doing it. That is unless an ambulance doesn't turn up first the way they have carried on.

You’re quite right to phone them 3nanny6 - if that’s what it takes to get the message through to her then so be it.

Stupid people, stay home save lives, is that not what's being said all day everyday.

My daughter gave birth to our first grandson a week ago and although my husband and I live about 5 minutes drive from them we haven't seen him yet and don't know when it will be allowed. It's hard enough already but when I hear others flouting the rules it makes it very cross.

We have been in lockdown here since the 13th of March, on the Monday after the lockdown, DD received two phone calls from Mothers of DGS school friends asking if she would look after their Children as she was at home all day. She works from home.
One even asked if the dog could be locked up as her little Prince did not like dogs.
DD said no and also pointed out that I live in a connected apartment. Just told well she can shut herself in.
Her comments to both of them were not polite at all.

Gosh!! Are we turning into a nation of 'curtain twitchers'? So many people on here being so very judgemental about other peoples behaviours, putting their halos in place with regard to their own behavior.
None of you have any real knowledge of any factors with regards to these neighbours. Okay, some of them may be flouting lockdown procedures, but others may have very good reasons for that
Okay...Let me give you another scenario - a real one unfortunately,. I have a relatives (both over 70yrs old) who drove a couple of hundred miles to visit their eldest son, their daughter also drove, separately similar distance to be with them and him. She has now returned to her home and husband and son.
Reason.....that son/brother is dying from cancer, unlikely to live more than a few more weeks. So, his parents and his sister felt the need to be with him and see him for a last time outweighed everything else. So, they flouted the rules - would you condemn them for that??
Not saying everybody may have such heartbreaking reasons - but unless you walk in someones shoes you really do not know their lives.
Be angry -yet, be angry with a government that deliberately ignored advice about this sort of pandemic and its effects on the health service four years back (Cygnes Report), be angry with government that wanted herd immunity process so as not to badly disrupt economics, be angry with a government that has spent a decade running down and down all NHS monies - even applauded in the House of Commons when their majority prevented a bill giving a wage rise to Health Workers was defeated.
Stop being angry at your neighbours and friends, who are just trying to cope with all the dreadful stresses and mental health problems that are being thrown up now/This virus will not be stopped until such time as a vaccine is finally found.
And, horrific as those thousand a day deaths are.....and of course they are.....take into account that nearly that number of deaths are normally recorded every day of the year for just two illnesses (cancer and Heart attacks). No daily briefings on those, ever.

I’ll be angry at everyone who chooses to spread this virus and prolong the agony for everyone whilst contributing to the ever increasing death rate. If those people find themselves on the receiving end of a fine for you ignoring the rules then they’ve only got themselves to blame.

For ignoring

I had written a long and exasperated comment on here with regard to the previous poster's very emotive admonishment to us nation of curtain twitchers suffice to say I've deleted it. I'm polishing my halo and condolences to your relatives. What difficult times we are going through