Coronavirus Discussion

Yesterday we cycled from our village into Hull using old rail track and cycle lanes, stopped off at the marina for an egg and egg and bacon sarnie. We then cycled into the centre and the shopping queues were enormous, scuffling by the entrances with no distancing. Just what is it that people are finding it so important that they feel the need to join the shopping stampede.

I'm an infrequent shopper but when in town like to browse and usually come out with nothing, I suppose my behaviour will now be frowned upon as taking much needed space.

I'll give it a miss for quite some time. 

Just what is it that people are finding it so important that they feel the need to join the shopping stampede.

Its the Boris Bounce, he told us to get out there and shop until you drop to get the economy back on its feet, the fact that social distancing went out of the window as witnessed at the Nike shop is totally irrelevant.

I think whatever the distance "social distancing" is set at it will be meaningless to some. There is a guy on our estate who buys and sells fishing tackle and I saw him yesterday looking in a boot of a car with the owner no more than two foot apart. No masks. We went to the garden centre for the first time yesterday, mainly people of our own age, hardly any spatial awareness of what was going on around them. Probably during the lockdown proper we didn't notice this as we rarely went out except for walks. In those immortal words of Kenneth Wolstenholme many think it's all over!!! For us I think it's going to be a long time before we are comfortable going to something like a pub. Not that the industry is waiting on us as we didn't do it a lot before!!!

David

I was out with my wife-portering/bell boy & chauffeur. It’s times like this I’m happy I have a pickup. She loved every second of it👍🏻😊. I even bought some kecks👍🏻. It wasn’t crazy at Kingswood Meth, big queues mind but quite civilised, social distancing but I only saw about a dozen wearing masks & gloves.

I too know a couple who manage an eatery/pub.Their main concern is opening at 2metres not being cost effective whereas 1metre they’ll just make a profit but will need to churn🤷🏻‍♂️. Whatever the Govt decisions will be-damned if they do/damned if they don’t.

Yeah it's not everywhere Rocky, we saw them outside Primark, just a mass of people, and even 'Shoezone' had queues🤷‍♂️ Shoes are handled frequently by many, I just don't know how that operates in a safe manner. I need more time to return to some kind of normality.

All those 2 metre signs and pavement stickers, will they black marker them to 1 metre or pay out again to the printers 

As someone who doesn’t ‘do’ shopping the lockdown hasn’t been too onerous.  Everything I want I can get on the inter web so mixing with folk just isn’t a problem.  From day one of the lockdown there were people who didn’t and wouldn’t obey the rules so I don’t expect any difference now,  There’s a guy I’ve met on a number of occasions whilst walking and he just won’t distance at all so I put on my mask and walk on the road, his response is always the same, your effing paranoid.  I just put his behaviour down to him being totally thick

I reckon they’ll rely on word of mouth. Although some folk do their own thing regardless of advice or even rules&regs🤷🏻‍♂️

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i went to Homebase yesterday, traffic has certainly picked up since the opening up of lockdown to shopping. There were no queues but i found it difficult to follow the arrows when you are looking for items. Fortunately it wasn't that busy that you could not maintain social distancing but there was a queue at the tills nicely spaced apart.

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