Why are people not listening?

[uncle_rico]

I have just driven from Middlesbrough to Redcar and back (I didn't get out of the car at any point I might add) and the amount of people on the streets is frightening. Stewart Park is rammed, like a summers bank holiday. Every supermarket car park is full to capacity, hundreds of people walking around Skippers Lane like its a normal Saturday afternoon. There's gangs of kids all over, groups of at least 20-30, not a care in the world. Some pubs are still open too, and I know they want to get rid of their stock, but this is so serious they are all putting lives at risk.

There are so many videos and photos on social media of towns and cities across the country that are exactly the same.

They are going to have to put the country into lockdown, there is no other way to control people. The government have trusted the population to do the right thing, but so many are not listening. Drastic action needs to be taken before its too late.

 

[Norfolkred1]

When they start to see relatives going down with it, then and only then will they see the error of their stupidity, when its too late.

 

[Wev1]

The basic answer is because they're thick or just selfish, and what didn't help was two years worth of talk saying "don't listen to experts" and "people can't predict the future".

The general mentality of around half the population is "fcuck everyone else", but what they don't realise is this virus is a statistical certainty to come back around and will start killing them.

 

[the_holgate_roof]

how come pubs are open, the last day of trading was last night, Boris said they wouldn't open today?

 

[Norman_Conquest]

The basic answer is because they're thick or just selfish, and what didn't help was two years worth of talk saying "don't listen to experts" and "people can't predict the future".

The general mentality of around half the population is "fcuck everyone else", but what they don't realise is this virus is a statistical certainty to come back around and will start killing them.

A woman I know returned from Italy two weeks back and turned up for work in the Monday. She received a call telling her she had to self isolate and go home immediately. This woman’s done everything but stay at home and visited her immediate family.

 

[Norfolkred1]

A woman I know returned from Italy two weeks back and turned up for work in the Monday. She received a call telling her she had to self isolate and go home immediately. This woman’s done everything but stay at home and visited her immediate family.

She should be arrested.

 

[Erimus74]

A woman I know returned from Italy two weeks back and turned up for work in the Monday. She received a call telling her she had to self isolate and go home immediately. This woman’s done everything but stay at home and visited her immediate family.

Norman she is the problem selfish stupidity

 

[spanishman]

She should be arrested.

That is why you should be in lock down already. To stop this sort of thing happening.

 

[kuepper]

I felt more risk of getting it in Aldi this morning than in my gym or local, congested aisles and massive queue of hoarders for the checkouts. Supermarkets should have a limit on numbers inside any one time.

 

[spanishman]

I felt more risk of getting it in Aldi this morning than in my gym or local, congested aisles and massive queue of hoarders for the checkouts. Supermarkets should have a limit on numbers inside any one time.

We have security guards and sometimes police limiting the entry to ours.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

That is why you should be lock down already. To stop this sort of thing happening.

Her stock answer when challenged was ‘I feel well.’ She might do but her selfishness is putting us all at risk.

 

[spanishman]

Her stock answer when challenged was ‘I feel well.’ She might do but her selfishness is putting us all at risk.

The most dangerous ones are those who have it without symptoms.

 

[ForssAwakens]

Which pub are open?

 

[Cardiffdaffs]

how come pubs are open, the last day of trading was last night, Boris said they wouldn't open today?

Exactly. What pubs are open? They are now flaunting their licence regulations

 

[American_Mary]

I drove past the Southern Cross about 30 minutes ago and the car park was full and the doors open and lights on inside the pub, couldn’t see if there was anyone in.

Surely any pub or restaurant breaking the instructions of the government should have its licence revoked.

 

[Wev1]

A woman I know returned from Italy two weeks back and turned up for work in the Monday. She received a call telling her she had to self isolate and go home immediately. This woman’s done everything but stay at home and visited her immediate family.

This is the problem, you have people like this that act like knob heads and will be saying the following, in order:
"It won't come here"
"I don't have it"
"I won't pass it on"
"There's hardly any cases"
"Only a couple of people have died"
"It's only old people"
"The death toll wasn't THAT high"
"You all said it would be millions"

So, I think there's like 10 or so known cases in Teesside, which means about 500 unknown cases according to the experts, so there could easily have been 4 with the virus out last night (less than 1% of those infected, going out) and in a tight area could have easily passed that on to 5 people.

For every person that gets it, the general consensus is the amount of people infected doubles every 3 days, so this happens, just from 4 people going out and passing on to 5 each.
Day 1: 20
Day 3: 40
Day 6: 80
Day 9: 160
Day 12: 320
Day 15: 640
Day 18: 1250
Day 21: 2500
Day 24: 5000
Day 27: 10,000
Day 30: 20,000 - based on 3% death rate that's 600 people dead

Even if you take the numbers down to a 3rd and put the death rate at 1%, it's still 30 dead.

We're effectively following Italy, about 2 weeks behind them, and today (in one day) they've had 793 die!

 

[Nobby_Barnes]

I see the situation in Spain is deteriorating Spanish man, report I read said Madrid intensive care running at twice the capacity and they are building field hospitals, the numbers in intensive care up by 41% in last 24 hrs.
We are following a similar path, it's very scary....

 

[gravy173]

Haven’t people been advised to exercise - I wouldn’t think they’d be a better place than in a park, plenty of space to stay 2m away from each other.

 

[bear66]

I drove past the Southern Cross about 30 minutes ago and the car park was full and the doors open and lights on inside the pub, couldn’t see if there was anyone in.

Surely any pub or restaurant breaking the instructions of the government should have its licence revoked.

They can still provide takeaways

 

[spanishman]

I see the situation in Spain is deteriorating Spanish man, report I read said Madrid intensive care running at twice the capacity and they are building field hospitals, the numbers in intensive care up by 41% in last 24 hrs.
We are following a similar path, it's very scary....

Yes. Madrid was one of the main centres of infection in Spain. With around 9,000 or the 25,000 cases. Followed by Catalonia with over 4,000. Here in Andalucia we have around 1,500. However only just over 50 of them are in our province (Almería).

I am guessing that London is going to be your Madrid.