Your Method Of Easing Lockdown

[naomi24]

Some people here seem to be in a permanent state of confusion over what I think are quite simple guidelines for the gradual easing of lockdown and for getting people back to work….so here’s their opportunity to shine. If you were in charge, how would you do it?

[Ken4155]

Deskdiary. In a word, no.

[theshedman]

Really says it all about diddly. I have asked her to answer on another post she made but no answer as usual. This is part of a post she denies making but it is there for all to see, "I'm prepared to take my chances and end lockdown - smallish steps at first but then everything open by the end of June. People can make their own choices as to whether they want to continue living as self-isolating hermits or whether to get a life back (even if that ends in death).
Doesn't seem like she cares about anyone except herself.

[Togo]

No confusion here. I have been nipping to the local shop when needs must, queued up to get into M&S when we wanted some items of food that we enjoy from there. Kept busy in the garden, although not so much since Sunday after it went cold, and sorted out my fishing tackle ready to get poolside. We are already planning a little excursion or two to stretch our legs now that the restrictions are easing and have tried to stay happy and positive about the future. We have even rebooked the apartment on St Ives quay where we should have stayed at the end of this month for 2021. I soon found that one of the crucial factors about staying positive was to keep off this site, particularly the threads that have been constantly negative and doom laden by dint of one or two serial complainers and moaners loading up with their angst and malcontent.

[diddlydo]

To whoever said it would be disrespectful just to nip into the 2 aisles I wanted in the supermarket - dream on. It's being super-thoughtful as it means I spend less time in the shop, thereby speeding up the queue for those who are waiting outside.

[diddlydo]

Shedman - and you seem to have interpreted my comment above as "end lockdown now" which you can see is not what I sad. Small steps now and everything open by end of June.If people don't feel happy about re-joining the world, nobody will force them to. Stop twisting things.

[theshedman]

I didn't as you say twist anything. It was copied and pasted so it is exactly as you put it. You also put something very similar on another thread. You also said " Shedman - please desist from attributing remarks to me that I didn't make." You did say them so just admit it for a change instead of trying to make out someone else is to blame for your misgivings.

[sherrardk]

Diddlydo, it’s not being ‘super thoughtful’, it’s being a self-centred conceited ***. If you only need to be nipping in, don’t go - wait until your shopping is ‘essential’.

[diddlydo]

Shedman - I stand by the comment of mine that you pasted. My view hasn't changed but you seem to have interpreted it as meaning "end all lockdown now" which is not what I said. I can't spell it out in words of fewer syllables.

[fiction-factory]

Well have I missed your suggestions, diddlydo, on how the easing could be improved as you have repeatedly said how inconsistent they are and how there is no logic to them?

[Theland]

Health & Safety law should be enough, we are all our own safety officers.
1) Check risks for your own safety.
2) For your colleagues safety.
3) For the safety of the public.
Surely we don't need a rule for every minute situation if the three principles are followed?

[fiction-factory]

I think we are moving in this direction, Theland.
Do you think things like when to open pubs, restaurants, football grounds, theatres, schools, hotels, hairdressers and holiday flights should be left to the business owners and public now though or should government decide on restrictions/timescales?

[Togo]

// It's being super-thoughtful as it means I spend less time in the shop, thereby speeding up the queue for those who are waiting outside.//

Interpretation. It's being selfish, inconsiderate, greedy, aggressive, and ill mannered, and I justify it to myself by being pompous, smug, insular, needy, and ignorant.

[Theland]

FF - Yes.
Office, factory, shop, all should take on the responsibility for doing business safely themselves.

[sherrardk]

This should help (contains swearing) https://jimmeruk.com/stayathome/index.html

[chrissa1]

I was in Sainsbury’s yesterday and adhered to the aisle footprints even if I didn’t want to visit one. While I was there I saw a woman constantly going against the laid out way with no trolley. When I got to the end of the shop and joined the “socially aware” queue, I found her full trolley in the last aisle alone, while she ferreted around the shop by herself, picking up various things.

She was constantly going against the required flow of shoppers.

It was unbelievable.

The rules are there to keep us safe. This idiot clearly didn’t think they were meant for her. Grrrrrr.

[woofgang]

Theland that's not reasonable in the circumstances. Firstly they need advice on what "safe" is and secondly its not like its one person making their own decisions, taking their own risks. What offices, shops and factories do affects employees and customers. Employees are entitled to health and safety protection by law and while some bad decisions that shops make may be obvious to customers and they can choose whether or not to patronise that shop, others may not be so obvious and can put customers at risk without their knowing.

[tomus42]

Every time I've been shopping there's been at least one or two arrogant thickos that think they're too good for the rules charging up and down the aisles like diddly proudly describes himself as doing.
There are alot of them about.

To answer the question I don't find it too confusing so I don't have any other suggestions. At some I think people are expected to use a bit of common sense rather than have every detail of how to behave spelled out for them.

[diddlydo]

I'm glad I shop in Waitrose who credit their customers with some intelligence without the need to have a one-way system or footprints on the floor.

[chrissa1]

Ooh. Get you, diddlydoo. ;)

[brainiac]

The arrows on the floor of my local Tesco are a total waste of time, as many of the aisles are blocked with Tesco pickers and their giant damn trolleys, occasioning constant performances of The Covid Dance, as other shoppers come towards you. And, in spite of queueing, they still let too many into the store in the fist place.