This 'vulnerable' label ----

I've seen plenty of people ignoring the rules around here. A running group in the forest emerged near the road, split into couples, then ran to the pavement. Us dog walkers saw them, although they were obviously wary of passing police cars.

A few people were openly lying sunbathing on the green today. A group of teenagers congregated in a garage opposite the end of my garden, smoking weed and listening to music, on Sunday, until I shouted at them.

People nearby have several visitors frequently for parties and barbeques in their gardens. Their children and grandchildren visit. Yes, I've reported them. Whether the police have had a word, I don't know. If they have, it's made no difference. i just despair, I really do.

And I've been outside the house to a communal car park to turn my car engine over.

I haven't seen anybody congregating outside because I haven't been out and I live in a cul de sac. To be honest, I've hardly seen anybody at all - even from a distance. I've had a supermarket and an Amazon delivery and I'm waiting for some medication to be delivered. I don't watch TV, but I do belong to local Facebook groups. With very few exceptions, people are saying how responsible everybody is. The only complaints seem to be about dog walkers who are leaving more poo than usual.

Well coronavirus is less scary than some peoples homs lives

But the media has hugely inflated reports of people congregating by using old photographs etc. Local police forces have been THANKING the public for the levels of compliance they are seeing

Police moved on a large group of 14/15 year old boys from our local woodland last night. They'd been congregating for the past few evenings to ride their bikes on grass tracks. I can't work out where their parents thought their kids were night after night.

I'ce bought hobby supplies.

I can't see what is wrong with that;

Well "no non essential journeys" doesnt just include journeys you take yourself, it also includes journeys you ask others to take on your behalf.

Delivery companies cant triage this for you.
E.g. a new sink: how do they know the difference between someone who just fancies a refurb and someone whose only sink is broken?

They cant specify what is/isnt essential the onus is on the petson ordering.

Is your delivery really an essential journey?

ExD, I can understand how you feel particularly living where you do.
My Godson is a Police Officer based in the Lakes and has been astonished at the behaviour of many people.

Apart from putting people and themselves at risk it seems unfair that second home owners could take a much needed ventilator from a local person.

My 24 year olds has had to endure a month+ of a much more rigid lockdown in the Czech Republic, he is working from home and lives alone so
it’s been a hard few weeks but he has got on with it.
So seeing neighbours clearly flouting the rules is upsetting.

Staying in is a walk in the park compared to what previous generations have had to endure.
It is inconsiderate and arrogant behaviour to break the rules yet if these people get ill they will receive the same treatment as those of us who did as we were asked.

I'ce bought hobby supplies.

I can't see what is wrong with that; I have been told that delivery may be slower than usual because of implementing safer working conditions. If such firms did shut for the duration there may well not be jobs for peoplemtomreturn tomafter this is over.

I have not been out but I know people who still do. And I could hear the jolly roar of dozens of motorbikes speeding round our roads at the weekend.

They are the ones who should be stopped and anyone else who flouts the rules.

notanan2 have you not seen police moving people on, on beaches in parks etc on TV

I have seen misleading OLD footage of local beauty spots used on the news/media and even the local police have stated that its misleading and their drone footage of the area shows people following the rules!

notanan2 have you not seen police moving people on, on beaches in parks etc on TV
It seems to be mostly young people who are flouting the rules, several here been moved on, after cycling groups getting together,and having parties in each others house or flats, perfect breeding grounds for a virus

Its the behaviour of some young people that concerns me - to my mind they don't seem to realise they too can catch coronavirus - not just we golden oldies.
I'm in the Lake district - and really don't want to get on my soap box and start describing the behaviour of 30 - 40 year olds with children who have self isolated in their holiday homes, and are behaving as though the countryside is a playpark where they can mix as they please in the fresh air.
Groups of two, we're told, unless a family group, should go for a walk/run/etc ONCE a day (don't ask me why its just once) but not groups of young people in canoes on the river.
Sorry to being such an old grump.
Just because you meet someone on the shores of Ullswater in the open air doesn't mean you can't pass on or catch virus.
Most young people are being very sensible, but a few are being very irresponsible and self deluding.

I live in the NE and there are STILL issues about the amounts of people visiting the coast and countryside.

Not to mention the helicopters that fly over, to police the idiots still out and about in groups.

I think that the younger generation will get the message as news of younger people with no pre-existing conditions falling ill come in.

Who is carrying on as if live hasnt changed?

Everything is shut
People are either out of work, adjusting to WFH or keyworkers whose jobs have changed beyond recognition from how they worked a couple of weeks ago.

Who are these people with unchanged lives?

Its only on GN that Ive heard whiffs of people carrying on as normal e.g. buying hobby supplies..