Scotland lockdown from midnight.

[JoM]

Oh that's ok. I know how undermanned the police are xx

They seem to be on the ball around here. Our anonymous neighbour has now reported three neighbours to the police, no fines as yet but two were visited and one received a guidance letter.
We all strongly suspect that it’s the fella joined onto us.

[Kaz]

Blimey Jo, that's a bit unnerving

[TheOstrich]

Our anonymous neighbour ......

For all I'm in favour of the lockdown regulations, I don't think I'd particularly like an active vigilante neighbour living in the street ...... it might only cause further problems.

[saundra]

There are only 5houses in our street all have visitors except me well Scarlett comes about once every two 6weeks for a few hours
Now I could report them all but I don't

It's a coward way out and I should
Would you report your neighbours ??

[Kaz]

I agree with you both, Saundra and Ossie. I couldn't do it, there's a whiff of the STASI or Hitler Youth about it, where people were encouraged by the State to snitch on their neighbours

[saundra]

I'm really very lucky because I only have to ring a neighbour if I need help
Not many of us even know there neighbour name

[Kaz]

We have nice neighbours too. The one annoying one, whose garden backed into ours, was chucked out by his wife last year!

[Workingman]

Next door family of 4. Her sis lives with mum and dad. When they visit that's seven. Rule breakers!

Antonia down the road picks up her daughters yrs 7 and 9 from school. They walk back with two others in yr 8 but one from a different school. Rule breakers!

N-d-n has two mates from the same office round plus his n-d-n. They set up a pitch and put on the green out the back - three buckets with water and a splash of bleach - and play 9 'holes'. All keeping well apart. Rule breakers!

Would I snitch? Not a chance!

A big party with people drinking and coming and going would be a different matter - it's all relative.

[cromwell]

Lockdowns are nothing more than a holding action to try and fend off the growth of transmission until a vaccine can be deployed in sufficient volume to finally kill the thing off. Nobody is talking about what happens at the end of Feb, with only 10M people vaccinated and how much longer the restrictions will need to be applied for. Because it will not return to "normal" even in March.

Here's a thought. Come the summer, all's well. Smiles all round. Then the virus or another version of it shows up in November.
Will people accept lockdown then?
Exactly how long can this go on for?

[Workingman]

I do not like him but I see that Gove has stretched the end of lockdown out a bit saying that we "should be able" to be easing restrictions in March. His message is at least grounded in a bit of reality rather than those of the 'jam tomorrow' variety.

I suspect that most of us already knew that mid February was optimistic, to say the least, so no surprise for that to be confirmed.

Another podium presentation at 5pm: apparently.