[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I fail to see what those two women did wrong at all

They did nothing wrong! At least our two queens have become celebrities overnight.

[reece(:]

Pubs and restaurants shut till May...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/p...n-b812413.html

[arista]

[user17866]

Originally Posted by arista

[Women arrested for allegedly leaving
her house more than once in a day. 'I was sitting on a bench']

Originally Posted by Cherie

we have no reason to believe that is what she was arrested for other than the caption? don't take everything at face value, she would have been fined rather than arrested if leaving home more than once was the reason



we cant expect the police to police this and then criticise everything they do when we don't know the full story

Originally Posted by Ammi

....teeerany, teeerany I tell ya...

...there’s a vid in this link, Cherie...it’s not the full story as such, but a bit more of what was happening...


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...vid-rules.html

...also for Cherie...

Video of woman arrested for ‘sitting on a bench’ was staged, police say...


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/video-woma...194140961.html

[arista]

Yes Ammi
Great for the Metro Front Page

[“Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.”
Two of those detained were later “de-arrested” after
supplying officers with their details and
were subsequently fined, police said.]


Yes a £200 fine is better


[."teeerany, teeerany I tell ya.."

Yes a Instagram poster]

[user17866]

...it was all staged by anti mask protesters...?..wasting police energies and resources like that during such times as these is just the lowest of the low in self centred-ness and lack of consideration....

[user17866]

...this was a conversation we had at home yesterday...that for some it seems almost a challenge to try to manipulate the safety restrictions and lives being at risk and maybe even lost because of those manipulations, don’t seem to be being considered by all, sadly....



COVID-19: Lockdown rules 'not boundaries to be pushed against' - as minister admits to supermarkets concern...

Lockdown rules are "not boundaries to be pushed against", a government minister has warned - as he admitted there was concern at non-compliance with social distancing measures in supermarkets.

As the second week of England's third national lockdown begins, ministers are considering how to achieve greater enforcement of social distancing and mask-wearing in supermarkets.

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government doesn't "want to go any tougher" than the current lockdown rules, but suggested there could be a tightening of existing restrictions.

"The lockdown is actually pretty severe, we're asking people to stay at home, don't go out, if you have to go out it's only for exercise," he told Sky News.

"This virus loves social interaction and we are all pro-social animals, and it's the worst thing we do is to socialise.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...ncern-12184783

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...this was a conversation we had at home yesterday...that for some it seems almost a challenge to try to manipulate the safety restrictions and lives being at risk and maybe even lost because of those manipulations, don’t seem to be being considered by all, sadly....

This is my feeling. The objective is to save lives, not see how imaginative people can be in stretching the guidelines, and I find it very annoying. Those people highlighted earlier in the thread having a coffee .... they want to rebel and complain or they wouldnt have contacted the press to get their pictures in the paper

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...this was a conversation we had at home yesterday...that for some it seems almost a challenge to try to manipulate the safety restrictions and lives being at risk and maybe even lost because of those manipulations, don’t seem to be being considered by all, sadly....



COVID-19: Lockdown rules 'not boundaries to be pushed against' - as minister admits to supermarkets concern...

Lockdown rules are "not boundaries to be pushed against", a government minister has warned - as he admitted there was concern at non-compliance with social distancing measures in supermarkets.

As the second week of England's third national lockdown begins, ministers are considering how to achieve greater enforcement of social distancing and mask-wearing in supermarkets.

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government doesn't "want to go any tougher" than the current lockdown rules, but suggested there could be a tightening of existing restrictions.

"The lockdown is actually pretty severe, we're asking people to stay at home, don't go out, if you have to go out it's only for exercise," he told Sky News.

"This virus loves social interaction and we are all pro-social animals, and it's the worst thing we do is to socialise.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...ncern-12184783

well said of that minister


going to the supermarket should not be a day trip for fun (which is what our PM Rutte also has said longer time ago over here)

[Nicky91]

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics...c3ae74fc74cf09

WHO experts will arrive in China on thursday to begin their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

https://apnews.com/article/pandemics...c3ae74fc74cf09

WHO experts will arrive in China on thursday to begin their investigation into the origins of the coronavirus

Poxy China Wet Markets

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...also for Cherie...

Video of woman arrested for ‘sitting on a bench’ was staged, police say...


https://uk.yahoo.com/news/video-woma...194140961.html

Thanks Ammi, I didn't bother looking it up, but the idea that people are being arrested for stepping outside their front door twice is just ludicrous, like how would they know she had been out twice

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...this was a conversation we had at home yesterday...that for some it seems almost a challenge to try to manipulate the safety restrictions and lives being at risk and maybe even lost because of those manipulations, don’t seem to be being considered by all, sadly....



COVID-19: Lockdown rules 'not boundaries to be pushed against' - as minister admits to supermarkets concern...

Lockdown rules are "not boundaries to be pushed against", a government minister has warned - as he admitted there was concern at non-compliance with social distancing measures in supermarkets.

As the second week of England's third national lockdown begins, ministers are considering how to achieve greater enforcement of social distancing and mask-wearing in supermarkets.

Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government doesn't "want to go any tougher" than the current lockdown rules, but suggested there could be a tightening of existing restrictions.

"The lockdown is actually pretty severe, we're asking people to stay at home, don't go out, if you have to go out it's only for exercise," he told Sky News.

"This virus loves social interaction and we are all pro-social animals, and it's the worst thing we do is to socialise.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-...ncern-12184783

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

This is my feeling. The objective is to save lives, not see how imaginative people can be in stretching the guidelines, and I find it very annoying. Those people highlighted earlier in the thread having a coffee .... they want to rebel and complain or they wouldnt have contacted the press to get their pictures in the paper

It's so depressing, Mr C took the dog to one of our local country parks yesterday so he could have a run off the lead, but he turned back and came home as he said it was rammed and safer to walk around the streets which are empty

[user17866]

...a personal annoyance with street/pavement walking...is that if people are about to pass, going in opposite directions etc...the obvious would be, one go to the left and the other to the right so it’s still possible to keep the two metres...?..but so many just walk right down the centre and nowhere near two metres between you...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...a personal annoyance with street/pavement walking...is that if people are about to pass, going in opposite directions etc...the obvious would be, one go to the left and the other to the right so it’s still possible to keep the two metres...?..but so many just walk right down the centre and nowhere near two metres between you...

Hold your breath.

[user17866]

Originally Posted by arista

Hold your breath.

...yeah, it would be nice not to worry about holding their breath as well, though and just hang in to my own...

[Novo]

pathways in 2021, such an inconvenience

[Strictly Jake]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...a personal annoyance with street/pavement walking...is that if people are about to pass, going in opposite directions etc...the obvious would be, one go to the left and the other to the right so it’s still possible to keep the two metres...?..but so many just walk right down the centre and nowhere near two metres between you...

Yeah or as I have encountered quite a bit recently is old couples coming towards me so I walk really close to the road in order to give them a lot of space and they decide instead of allowing the distance I have given them they walk even closer to me! Happens in shops too. The amount of people that try and get close to you is ridiculous. I do online shopping all the time now and any bits of milk or whatever i get from the shop at the corner. Im avoiding supermarkets where i can!

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...a personal annoyance with street/pavement walking...is that if people are about to pass, going in opposite directions etc...the obvious would be, one go to the left and the other to the right so it’s still possible to keep the two metres...?..but so many just walk right down the centre and nowhere near two metres between you...

all the people round here walk on the road, pavements are so 2019, they did the same during the last lockdown. Catch covid or get run over ... run over seems to be the choice de jour

[user17866]

Originally Posted by Strictly Jake

Yeah or as I have encountered quite a bit recently is old couples coming towards me so I walk really close to the road in order to give them a lot of space and they decide instead of allowing the distance I have given them they walk even closer to me! Happens in shops too. The amount of people that try and get close to you is ridiculous. I do online shopping all the time now and any bits of milk or whatever i get from the shop at the corner. Im avoiding supermarkets where i can!

...yeah, 3 or 4 people taking the whole aisle width space having a conversation, Jake...it’s a good plan to do an online shop for most of your stuff...

[user17866]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

all the people round here walk on the road, pavements are so 2019, they did the same during the last lockdown. Catch covid or get run over ... run over seems to be the choice de jour

..at least there is very little motor traffic atm so you have a ‘dodge’ chance to weave in and out etc...