Neighbour breaking lockdown

I can tell the difference between a single person arriving at the house and a carload of relatives arriving. But then I'd probably know if my neighbour had carers coming in.
Northern - I'm sorry for the stress of having a husband in chemo (and an unpleasant neighbour) but personally I would appreciate a neighbour whose notices that someone's car hasn't moved when normally it does, or that the post is still stuck in the letterbox many hours after the postie's been.
Shame we've lost everyone sharing a friendly milkman or even a paperboy/girl; so the COVID legacy has to be that we look after those around our area.

Chill

Chill ?That's ironic.I am in the main.Well actually I have a high temperature.And I worry about my DD who dons full PPE to work on an ICU. And not currently being able to leave my house until my temperature has been down for 48 hours to go care for my very elderly mum who I cook,clean and care for.I think different circumstances do colour your attitude somewhat.

I suggest you stop curtain twitching and get on with your own life!! .... Are you actually telling us you are perffect in all your actions and deeds?? I somehow doubt it!

What a nasty comment.Was that directed at me ?

Please don’t. As long as you don’t go near them, all fine for you. The rest is their problem. This whole lockdown thing is so badly managed.
Did you see pictures of Westminster Bridge for the nhs clap last night? Rammed with people. Police all around. Including Cressida Dick!

I see that Godwin's Law has raised it's ugly head on this thread! Can anyone SERIOUSLY compare letting the police know about lockdown breakers to the bloody Nazis??? At worst it will mean a fine, most just get a lecture about how they should be behaving. These people are affecting all of us and making sure we won't be out of lockdown any time soon.

Report them. If there are circumstances we don't know about, they can explain that to the police.

They really don't seem to understand how the infection is transmitted - or are too selfish to care.

Sorry to teach people how to suck eggs, but there are obviously some who don't understand …

If just one of those people is currently in the incubation period (ie infected but not showing any symptoms), there is a serious risk that the infection will be passed to all the others, who will then go on to infect others, etc etc.

People who are prepared to break the rules massively once are unlikely to respect it in all other circumstances. It really is people like this who are causing the spread and means that any attempt at a return to "normality" is dangerous.

I agree with you Saetana. It really is a pathetic comparison.

The big problem is that all these Law Breakers that mingle and mix, are undoing all the efforts of others therefore we could end up going round in circles. With the virus taking longer and longer to disperse.

These people think "I'm all right Jack, I'm not going to get it"!

Well lets face it this virus has no boundries.

Craftycat, on a bit of a lighter note, love your comment about OH never going to be allowed to retire after this, when we both retired a friend asked how we coped with each other 24/7, my reply was, we tried to never be in the same room together, try it, it does work!!

The worst thing I find about going out is the way people completely disregard the rules. I'm walking through pathway to green open space and have to stop to pick up dog poo and the people behind me, who were a decent distance to start with, just carry on walking towards me. They don't stop and wait. Only if it is painted on the floor in supermarket queue. And I was standing waiting to pay at till yesterday when a man came up to my shoulder and said are you in this queue? I told him to stand back and told him where to stand and he did. So perhaps speak your mind directly to them? Perhaps some people have to have it spelt out. Or perhaps there is a good reason whereupon you could thank them for letting you know. tbh I'm just quite pleased with myself saying: 'Stand back'. Will definitely do that again. And I think a scarf/mask helps.

I wrote a comment further up with my own conundrum on this.
Basically why can I chat to neighbours from a distance, people I see on a walk and my Daughter from the end of her or my drive but then it's classed as a "rule break" for her to sit in my (large) garden and chat still at distance.
Since then I've had a convo with my immediate neighbour who told me that her and her hubby have cycled to a friends house and stopped for a cuppa in their garden, but sat apart. Her hubby is a police officer ?‍♀️
So I've come to the conclusion that the problem is assumption.
We see people going into back gardens etc and assume they are partying, sitting together eating and drinking or going into the actual house.
Unless you have proof of the above I think you should keep out of others business.

Yesterday 20:07Chardy
That's the point they normally dont bother with any of the neighbours for any reason, but this one time they thought it would be a good idea to phone the police to report my husband leaving everyday to have his treatment

Hi Northernandproud It reminds me of when my 31 year old non driver husband was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. His work paid for driving lessons and I gave him my car and bought another second hand one so he could have independence for as long as he could, which was so important to him. Some very do good green neighbours from quite a few doors away knocked on our door and said it was unacceptable that we had two cars. I told them he had MND. They moved away not long after. Lets hope they didn't make assumptions again. That was a long time ago but glad to be able to get that off my chest.

dontmindstayinghome I feel for you. Seems to me that you are using common sense in what is a very difficult situation. I always liked the saying, "Never judge a person until you have walked two miles in their shoes." Something like that anyway.

my neighbour`s girlfriend has returned here this evening, 100 miles and she travelled to her own home 2 weeks ago. I am really quite cross about this, no doubt they will be giving me all sorts of explanations and will be chatting at a distance but this time I am going to be cool towards them. I won`t report them but they obviously do not care about other people, shopkeepers and the like. I will be ok as I keep my distance but . I don`t curtain twitch, I saw her car