70 Year Olds Are Being Told To Stay Indoors For 4 Months

[bobc1941]

How are they going to carry this out will we all have to carry identity cards and get a prison sentence if we are found having a walk in the park ?

[riptide]

I think this is just going a bit too far. Totally unrealistic, they expect people living on their own to stay indoors for months on end without seeing anyone. How are they going to get shopping if they do not have the internet and no family to help? What happens if after 4 months it still continues, are they going to say you still cannot go out. How on earth can they monitor it all, have the army on the streets checking everyone’s details, ridiculous. Older people are not stupid and I am sure would not put themselves at risk. I do believe however that people with compromised health problems would be wiser to isolate themselves, even now.

[Theland]

Riots in the streets as grandad and grandma and their families turn up with the pitchforks and build barriers to confront the Police and the Army.
A civil war.
Grey gangs looting the shops for vitamin pills and support tights.
Get the camouflage gear ready, tea bags and powdered milk, we are going to war!

[emmie]

i don't know anyone who is going to abide by this at all.

[Theland]

Maybe I would be allowed out on my mobility scooter if I carried and rang a big hand bell and shouted, "Unclean, Unclean."

[1ozzy]

Just think how the Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons must be rubbing their hands together in glee.
Not to mention Vacuum Cleaner Salesmen.

Captive audience at last!!!!

[Theland]

And the undertakers getting bigger mortgages :-/

[Theland]

A business opportunity, notices for the front door :-
NO CALLERS. INFECTIUOS DISEASES HERE.
QUARANTINE RESTRICTIONS APPLY.

[johnk]

LOL Theland!!

[waterboatman]

How are we supposed to do shopping!

[waterboatman]

oz there could be a big rise in doorstep murders! :o}

[rowanwitch]

Maybe supermarkets can offer granny hours , staff wear masks, no younger people allowed in unless they are bringing an old person or if they drop delivery charges and reduce minimum order size for over 70s. Our local Asian run supermarket has always done a phone and delivery service for people in our sheltered housing scheme, the local pharmacy delivers, and I am trying to organise a couple of volunteers to help with other running around.

[fiction-factory]

I don't know whether you have misunderstood or have been listening to an unreliable source, bob, but the you missed the word 'advised'- although I do think the term that will be used is be 'strongly advised'.

[waterboatman]

Excellent rowan. Well done you. xxx

[rowanwitch]

I have also offered access to my computer for those who want to use electronic means to shop or contact family.

[puzzled54]

Theland, sounds like you are feeling better !!

[fiction-factory]

>I have also offered access to my computer for those who want to use electronic means to shop or contact family.

That reminds me- I must disinfect my keyboards more frequently. (Once a year isn't enough any more)

[tamaris]

I live alone and have no family support. I get very lonely as it is. I can't imagine having to be completely cut off for 4 months.

[ichkeria]

The Spanish have been sending drones out ordering people to stay indoors.
Crazy

[allenlondon]

A month or two back I was a simple elderly person, various ailments, but not complaining, just getting on with surviving.

Now, I am a FEARFUL simple elderly person etc.

Is that what was intended? Dying is bad enough. Dying frightened is far worse.

Allen

[TheDevil]

Like a pensioner will do what they're told anyway. They'll do what they want.