How seriously are you taking social distancing?

Arthritic Toe said:

I think the police are getting this wrong. Just seen pictures on the local news of them leafleting people who have driven a few miles out of town to exercise. One of the 'offenders' was making the point that all the city parks were packed (this was Bristol), so he'd driven a few miles out of town to somewhere quiet, so he could exercise while maintaining a safe distance. Surely this is to be commended. What with this, and that report yesterday that the Derbyshire police had dyed a lake black to deter visitors, they seem to be running round like headless chickens with no sort of coherent plan whatsoever.

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GT49er said:

This insistence that you mustn't drive to somewhere to take your daily permitted exercise does seem rather OTT. If you go for a walk outside your house you may have to be crossing the road to avoid people; your local park may be busy. On the other hand, you could get into your car (with the windows closed of course) and drive a few miles to somewhere where you can take a walk, probably without even seeing another person - tbh, that seems very sensible.

But it's banned ..................

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KZNSeagull said:

New rules are our Tesco, I expect they are nationwide:

* There will be a queuing system to get into the store with all customers having to go through this, it will start at the end of the parent and baby parking. There will be colleagues outside to marshall this.

* The main trolley bays at the entrance to the store will be closed and customers will need to get a trolley from the ones in the car park.

* We will restrict the numbers of customers coming into the shop at any point and have colleagues manning both the entrance and exit to manage this.

* The customer toilets are now closed to customers. They are only available to colleagues.

* There are queuing systems in place at the Customer Service Desk, Pharmacy and Checkouts. Only 2 Customer Service Desk tills will be open at a time.

* Self Service will only have 2 tills open. The basket till will not be open, and we will only open every other mainbank checkout.

* There will be a single queuing aisle down aisle 2 which will be manned and customers directed to the next available till from there

* We are receiving Perspex screens for the mainbank checkouts, desk, pharmacy and PFS

* From tomorrow night we are putting a night shift back on to fill fresh which allows us to reduce the number of customers and colleagues in this area in the morning.

* There are t-shirts and name badge surrounds coming in next week promoting keeping 2 metres apart.

* We are happy for colleagues to wear gloves and mask and we will be getting a supply of these in. However, the government advice is still that hand washing is the most effective protection. To facilitate this we would want every colleague working on a checkout to come off their till every twenty minutes to wash their hands. The Team Support will manage this.

* There will be a one person one trolley rule in principle however there will be some obvious exceptions to this...such as a parent on their own with young children.

Managing the number of customers coming into store will help, but if any colleague at any time feels uncomfortable in the aisle they are working on as there are too many customers in that aisle at any point, please just take yourself out of that aisles until the customers have moved out of the aisle.

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Billy the Fish said:

I've not been near anyone for well over a week now. I think there's an element of personal responsibility at play - regardless of what other people are doing if you follow the rules you definitely won't get it.

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dazzer6666 said:

This.....quite simple really isn’t it ?

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Mr Banana said:

If I get sick or snuff it then it's no loss

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Triggaaar said:

Not so simple when you or your partner works for the NHS, or some of the other key industries.

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loz said:

I take my dog and walk him on the Ashdown forest, park somewhere quite and have a walk and mostly don't see another person. Well as you say they have stopped that so this morning walked out of my back gate to walk down the lane that goes on quite a nice walk round the village and saw 30 people doing the same, yes we all kept our 2 meters apart but it seemed a bit silly when I would not normally see a soul.

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jonnyrovers said:

My neighbours have got a little gathering going on today in their garden. They are a couple in their thirties with a little girl. The mum is 36 weeks pregnant. The dad's elderly parents are there. There's another young couple with a kid.

I'm no curtain twitcher but this is really pi$$ing me off. What do I do?

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jessiejames said:

Have you a gun?

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jonnyrovers said:

Sadly not. But if I did, who gets whacked first?

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jonnyrovers said:

My neighbours have got a little gathering going on today in their garden. They are a couple in their thirties with a little girl. The mum is 36 weeks pregnant. The dad's elderly parents are there. There's another young couple with a kid.

I'm no curtain twitcher but this is really pi$$ing me off. What do I do?

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Napper said:

are the women fit ?

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