Bring back the lockdown!

[Rangie]

I find it strange the way people queue obediently six feet apart outside the supermarket, but are all over each other once inside.

I had to endure a big-titted blonde reaching across me to get something from the top shelf.

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Must have been an awful experience 😄😀😃

[STEMO]

I find it strange the way people queue obediently six feet apart outside the supermarket, but are all over each other once inside.

I had to endure a big-titted blonde reaching across me to get something from the top shelf.

Did you refrain from 'avin a nibble' 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I was wearing some Hai Karate aftershave that I had left over from the seventies. Never fails to get the ladies wet with desire.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/n7nPRFQFgmQ

The encounter went something like this.

[STEMO]

https://youtu.be/n7nPRFQFgmQ

The encounter went something like this.

You managed to fight her off then. Good man.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

https://youtu.be/n7nPRFQFgmQ

The encounter went something like this.

You managed to fight her off then. Good man.

I had no choice. The other option being mammary suffocation.

[STEMO]

https://youtu.be/n7nPRFQFgmQ

The encounter went something like this.

You managed to fight her off then. Good man.

I had no choice. The other option being mammary suffocation.

I can think of worse ways to go 

[ronnyd]

Ah, Valerie Leon, also in the Carry On films. As for shopping, out local Sainsbury has notices saying only one person per visit. There was a family of four wandering up and down and blocking the whole aisle. 

[mars]

I was in my local Asda store about 2 weeks ago and they have arrows telling you which way to go and lines 2 metres apart etc. Most of the people were being very sensible except for a couple of people going against the direction of the arrows and zig-zagging about from one aisle to another

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

I saw on TV that the police have no power to enforce the social distancing rule,so why have it? I must say that while out with the dog today and also while doing my monthly shopping everyone round here still seems to be abiding by the rules.

It's guidance, in the same way as "wash your hands a lot" and "give that handle/ trolley/ etc a wipe down before you use it". If people do it it's expected to reduce the risk.

In an ideal world we wouldn't need to make laws, just pop some guidance out for people to follow until this is all over.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I saw on TV that the police have no power to enforce the social distancing rule,so why have it? I must say that while out with the dog today and also while doing my monthly shopping everyone round here still seems to be abiding by the rules.

It's guidance, in the same way as "wash your hands a lot" and "give that handle/ trolley/ etc a wipe down before you use it". If people do it it's expected to reduce the risk.

In an ideal world we wouldn't need to make laws, just pop some guidance out for people to follow until this is all over.

Yes, indeed.

My theory is that the infection / death rates have been lower in some Asian countries due to their populations being more inclined to go with the flock, to do what the authorities tell them all the time, and not express their 'freedoms' as we do in the democratic West. 

Democracy, and our history to obtain it often with the British giving their very blood and flesh to get it, means we have learnt to question; to rebel when things seem unjust, and general expressing a greater degree of expressing our freedoms by revolt as and when necessary.  Us, the French in particular, and Americans as examples, will participate in a full revolution if our liberties are  brought into question.   The good people of Hong Kong are trying to follow the democratic tendencies the British gave them, but they are amateurs compared to the French, and under the constant threat of China are struggling to go forward.  But their infection rates, like South Korea are lower than ours, so perhaps their is a lesson to be learnt there!

[78bex]

My great grand father policed the British Empire with his regiment between the wars.
I`ve got a foto somewhere of him with his mates sitting around  dirty great big machine gun
I think they used it to persuade the locals to stop expressing their 'freedoms' 

[Lizzie Zoom]

My great grand father policed the British Empire with his regiment between the wars.
I`ve got a foto somewhere of him with his mates sitting around  dirty great big machine gun
I think they used it to persuade the locals to stop expressing their 'freedoms' 

Oh yes, the Great Days of Empire that kept the rabble, peasants, under control.

Some of my teachers in the past, and colleagues of my military father, were really quite proud of that!

The truth is though that the British Empire was far more 'liberal' that many that had gone before, and considered really kind compared to the likes of the Soviet Union, and I suspect of the China today

[ronnyd]

My great grand father policed the British Empire with his regiment between the wars.
I`ve got a foto somewhere of him with his mates sitting around  dirty great big machine gun
I think they used it to persuade the locals to stop expressing their 'freedoms' 

Oh yes, the Great Days of Empire that kept the rabble, peasants, under control.

Some of my teachers in the past, and colleagues of my military father, were really quite proud of that!

The truth is though that the British Empire was far more 'liberal' that many that had gone before, and considered really kind compared to the likes of the Soviet Union, and I suspect of the China today

But dissent was still ruthlessly suppressed when it was deemed required. 

[Lizzie Zoom]

My great grand father policed the British Empire with his regiment between the wars.
I`ve got a foto somewhere of him with his mates sitting around  dirty great big machine gun
I think they used it to persuade the locals to stop expressing their 'freedoms' 

Oh yes, the Great Days of Empire that kept the rabble, peasants, under control.

Some of my teachers in the past, and colleagues of my military father, were really quite proud of that!

The truth is though that the British Empire was far more 'liberal' that many that had gone before, and considered really kind compared to the likes of the Soviet Union, and I suspect of the China today

But dissent was still ruthlessly suppressed when it was deemed required. 

Very true, but due to the nature of British governments eventually progress was made by "the peasants" to win their rights, often after sweat and blood being spilt, but "the people" got their in the end.  The Chartists of 1838-48 saw results in the latter half of that century, into the twentieth, and even the likes of India eventually won their independence, although more due to Britain being bankrupt than for any kindness!!