I got an email from my local supermarket explaining that delivery guys could no longer come inside the house, and asking me to keep two metres away from him. I would no longer have to sign his screen, he will do that. Delivery arrived two hours later, the delivery guy didn't seem to have had the memo, asked us to sign the screen etc.
This morning royal mail delivery guy put my parcel on the wet front door step and ran to the gate when I opened the door. He said he has to sign for my parcel, once establishing that I am happy with it. Amazon guy did the same.
Locally, people still seem to be attending events, planning events, proceeding as normal. It's weird. Meanwhile the supermarket has no loo roll, pasta, rice, cleaning products, paracetamol, and they're rationing tins. But the local corner shop had loo roll, disinfectant, paracetamol, and spray cleaner. So people are preparing, but meanwhile the local facebook group is posting a lot of very angry things about people stockpiling things, and talking about an overreaction.
How they feel this evening, now that Spain has announced a lockdown on Monday, and Norway, and Ireland has locked down, and we are looking like idiots for carrying on carrying on I don't know.
One of my facebook friends works for the local health authority and said that there is no noticeable increase in people needing ITU beds in Lincolnshire, and sounded as though he thought I was overreacting, telling people to keep away from groups of people etc. Meanwhile the deaths in the UK doubled today.
We are now joining the #StaythefuckAtHome group, except for my daughter's boyfriend who is still going to work. I'm hoping that the hotel he works at will decide to shut down once people are no longer socialising, but at present socialisation continues unabated in Lincoln. The fools believe that the Government will tell them what they need to do in order to keep safe, and if they haven't told them to stop, they won't.
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