Neighbour has Grandson with her on Easter Sunday .

I don't think it's that people don't understand, they just want to do what they want, because their particular circumstances are exceptional.

Some of the threads here are by people who apparently don't understand the most basic of social distancing.

Of course, there are people whose circumstances don't fit neatly into a pigeonhole, but most do.

People like this flouting the lockdown rules make me so angry!

The Octonauts will know for sure - and Captain Barnacles is the bear to lead us through this

Shall we market them? Not sure where the oxygen comes from though. Will have to ask the Octonauts.

You may just have hit upon a very good idea there...

If only we could all be put inside a head bubble for three weeks the virus would not be able to spread and would DIE!

Okay, just a bit of fantasising......

I can't get my head round what people don't understand about social distancing and not visiting family members - it's not like we are not told umpteen times a day in the news, social media and the newspapers! A friend and her siblings go and visit their elderly mother on different days - they seem to think it's ok if they're sitting in the garden or in the conservatory but even then they're touching cups, door handles etc which is also how this thing spreads.

It's understandable to feel envious of people seeing their GC but it's better to feel that way than to be mourning the loss of someone further down the line!

Yanbu

Oh, and while Boris recovering is obviously a great thing and no-one in their right mind would have wished ill on him it reinforces their flawed arguments - is that young(ish), fit, healthy people will be fine.

I can only surmise that too many people think that it’s old people who die or people who have underlying health conditions - and because neither categories apply to them they’ll be fine. A few younger ones have died, sure, but they could have died in road traffic accidents anyway, or perhaps they had underlying health conditions they didn’t know about - and anyway, 10000 people out of 66-odd million people isn’t that much really. So they come up with a reason to justify why they can still move about, and if they’re keeping their (very vague) 2m distance, what’s the harm?

If it’s something else I’d love to hear it to try and understand their flawed logic.

I really thought that the PM being so ill last week in intensive care would be the wake up call some people needed but it appears not.

You have loving and sensible DC as do we.
DD phoned today. She told me of several breeches where she is in rural Scotland. Some fence repairers (fencers) have moved in next door to begin work tomorrow.
DD was wishing we could move in next door instead. She says people up there are lawless and carrying on almost as normal.
And yet the death toll is truly shocking.
Over 10,000 now and that's just from hospital figures.

The WHO says this about the incubation period:

'The “incubation period” means the time between catching the virus and beginning to have symptoms of the disease. Most estimates of the incubation period for COVID-19 range from 1-14 days, most commonly around five days. These estimates will be updated as more data become available'

So, say, for instance, it takes 14 days (and a person is most highly infectious before they have any symptoms), then they are ill for a week, hospitalised for a second week, then die - that's a whole month between them catching it and appearing in the death count.

It's truly frightening thinking about the future 'cost' of all the Easter family get-togethers!

You know you are doing the right thing to keep your family as safe as you can.

Unfortunately there are some people who don’t think like that and as others on here have said numbers will possible go up in a few weeks and MAYBE we will see posts on Facebook etc that family members have the virus and getting many ‘likes’ of sad face emojis and wonder how it could possible have happened to THEM.

My DD (who lives too far away to come to the end of my drive) said to me yesterday, ‘I’d love to see you mum, I just don’t want you to get ill’.

In the meantime we message and FaceTime.

The thing is, it’s not just the family that gets it. One person picks it up at the supermarket, they then spread it to the rest of the family who then in turn make trips to the supermarket - and for up to two weeks they’re all spreading it about the place. That’s why households should not be mixing.

Have we really got so many stupid people in this country that they cannot grasp this basic science? It’s absolutely maddening - and as others have said, this is precisely why so many are continuing to die and why we won’t be rid of this flaming virus for months yet. Makes me so mad.

Lemongrove; this virus will be with us for a long time and I for one am waiting on the up-date about the lockdown next week.

One thing you have got right for me if neighbours keep mingling from the different family households then not only are they part of the spreading of the virus but they could easily infect each other. I watch and wait the outcome for them and certainly I would not be envious that I missed the chance to hold my grandson on Easter Sunday and followed all rules laid out to us.

I have said from the beginning that people won’t take this seriously until folk in their street, village, or town take ill, or even die, and the way the numbers are going that’ll be very soon.
You know you’re doing the right thing.

Isn't it astonishing how many people think that the rules don't apply to them!

We've had virtual hugs on WhatsApp* this morning.
But I have heard of other, seemingly sensible, intelligent people who were going to a friend's for a bbq, assuring a mutual friend that they would be keeping their distance. She was horrified too.

No, we'll never get rid of it if people continue to behave as if they are justified.

3nanny6, don't feel envious - feel either (a) sorry for her - or (b) angry.

(a) Her son doesn't love her enough to make protecting her from harm his top priority.

(b) Ignorant, stupid rule breakers are responsible for spreading this deadly virus, putting others' lives at risk.

I'd rather battle through the heartache than battle with the virus.

We'll never get rid of this virus !

Well, if they get the virus by all the mingling with family members, then am guessing you won’t feel so envious then.
You are doing the right thing, they aren’t.

I saw my youngest GC this morning with parents on their walk who posted a handmade card through our door and we waved from the window. The toddler was waving and smiling like mad at us and then got a bit upset as he wanted to get out of the buggy and come into the house. I had a bit of a cry when they'd gone. People like the OPs neighbour really p*ss me off when I think about it.

Bought some chocolate bunnies and a box of chocolates for DD and family and sent them a picture. They can get them later on . Had a nice video call from DD and the DGDs, but not from DGS as he was still in bed at 12.30!