COVID - general discussion - Temp Locked

"I was delighted to see the whole shop floor cordoned off saying they were not allowed to offer non essential items, but coal and logs were on the essential side."

Hi Bakers, One of the problems, and there are very many, is that certain words and phrases get used incorrectly or out of context and one of the worst examples is the use of the word 'essential'.

There is no restriction on what you can buy-if the shop sells it you can buy it-it does not have to be 'essential' so it seems that they are, whilst no doubt feeling they are doing the right thing, needlessly losing potential sales.

yes, I did chuckle at it called exercise. No offense to any that practice that sport of course

I'm trying to find any advice on cycling on how far you can go. All it says is local area. Most forums/publications/cycling magazines say about within 6 miles from home. But as one cyclist said that could mean a circular trip of about 36 miles plus 12 getting to the circle and back, and of course nothing to stop you going round as many times as you like? 

While we have not needed to buy any clothes for ourselves, I can see that some clothing could be considered "essential".

OH was in Tesco just after Christmas and purchased underpants for Callum.  He is toilet training at the moment, and while he seems to have got the idea about emptying his "pee tank", and will now say when he needs to do so, the poo side of things is not going at all well.

If he has a poo accident at nursery, the soiled pants are binned, so the lad was starting to run out of pants!

Garden Centres are, of course, closed in Wales.

Up here too I believe

This “lockdown” seems a bit of a joke , loads of people out roaming the shops , so you can’t go in a clothing shop to buy a jumper ,but I can go in to a supermarket and buy one ! 

If there is to be a lockdown ( which I think there should be ) then let’s have a proper one and people should stay at home and not find excuses to circumnavigate the rules , the police should be able to do more to get people to stay at home !

The following post was made by member Ronhub, who had this this post locked by a Mod and asked by the Mod to repost here. He has requested that the Mod do this but I have done it for him. These are not necessarily my views but I do have a great deal of empathy with the sentiments.

Today, I did my weekly early-morning shop at my local supermarket and had a confrontation with two men who were not wearing masks. I politely asked them to put one on and received verbal abuse in return. This is not the first time this has happened, though not at this shop. Several members of staff positioned themselves between myself, another shopper who had joined in, and the two men, who were served as quickly as possible and ushered off the premises. I am very confident that neither of them would have any sort of exemption. 
A senior member of staff informed me that they had been instructed not to confront maskless shoppers, nor to refuse them entry or serve them.  

The news on COVID-19 infections is dire just at the moment and the situation is obviously getting steadily worse. The law about face coverings is clear and it is a criminal offence not to wear one in a shop. In addition, ‘premises where face coverings are required should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law’.  

Surely the supermarket has a duty of care to its staff and customers to enforce this law? Is instructing staff to do virtually nothing taking reasonable steps? Is is beyond the capability of the supermarket to identify these people using CCTV, credit card details or car registrations, and pass their details onto the police? Contrast this situation to the two women who were fined for going a walk last week.  

Three of my immediate family are NHS frontline workers and their experiences are horrendous, although I don’t think they tell us the half of it. I feel compelled to confront these idiots on my family’s behalf and on behalf of other NHS workers. 

If we wish to grow fruit and vegetables in our gardens this year we need these to be accessible via garden centres, in addition/rather than supermarkets/B&Q and other multiples - see Husky's post re jumpers above.

One of our local garden centres was advertising fireworks and reduced Christmas decorations before Christmas. I'm not sure I'll continue to support them despite being local and family owned. Difficult as they obviously have invested and need income. 

Amidst all the tragedies of the past year, this is possibly the saddest story of all - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55602149

Anything we need (apart from food - which is click and collect) we buy online. I’m sure there are sites that sell children’s clothing.