To think everyone is going to get very fed up with all this?

[cantata]

The thought of John Lewis dumping a washer-dryer on my doorstep and expecting me to remove the old (integrated) one and carry and plumb in the new one makes me wonder.

AIBU to think we're going to get fed up with this social distancing malarkey before very long?

(I hate it anyway, as I need people around me for my sanity. And not my teenagers 24/7).

This will be an issue though if a washing machine breaks, we have to wash our clothes. Lots of people will need their boilers fixed, appliances repaired or replaced and it's easy to tell someone else to handwash a families clothes or put an extra jumper on.

Well I would rather get fed up with it than die.

I am quite prepared for me and DH to stay at home for a couple of months if it means neither of us will catch it.

I am already sick of people complaining. We have been in lockdown for SIX days not six months

I can imagine it is frustrating, but the delivery guys cant come in your house.

Yes people will get fed up but hopefully they see the sense in sticking with it.

AIBU to think we're going to get fed up with this social distancing malarkey before very long?

Who on earth could actually not be fed up with the whole thing? We all (or nearly all) put up with it for our own good, but there's nothing remotely positive about it.

It's hardly torture or such hardship, but it's a pain in the ass for everybody. Yes Ann Frank had it so much worst. As much as most of us are trying to make some kid of holiday out of it, we would all be running out of the door if we could, and personally I would be jumping on the first place to a foreign beach!

It feels like about six years, lynsey.

I would say there's a pretty good statistical possibility that it isn't a question of "lockdown or die".

However, I don't fancy hand-washing the laundry generated by one adult and two teenagers on a regular basis. Or drying it.

I’m going off piste here but I’m getting mightily fed up of posters referring to the Third Reich , the Stasi and George Orwell on MN these days.
We’re trying to control a pandemic!

Justincase, It's hardly torture

Yes, solitary confinement is torture. Being trapped in a tiny box with teenagers is that in spades.

’whatever the currently-out-of-work-jobsworths on MN might say.’

I don’t think people are jobsworths for telling people they should be following social distancing rules tbh.

@cantata one of the factors against restrictions was that it was known there would be a damaging effect on mental health, increased isolation and neglect, particularly in the most vulnerable in society. All the modelling recognises that long term restrictions will not be workable, that’s why there has been a focus at timing restrictions for when they will be most effective.

It may not be ‘lockdown or die’ for you, cantata. It’s very much ‘lockdown or people will die’. And I know people will anyway, but many, many more without lockdown.
Yes it’s a pain in the arse, yes YABU for moaning about it.

I’m going off piste here but I’m getting mightily fed up of posters referring to the Third Reich , the Stasi and George Orwell on MN these days.
We’re trying to control a pandemic!

I was just about to type WTF is with all the Stasi mentions? Not ok, people!

I agree op and I'm a frontline worker! I can't see people keeping this going for weeks/months.

I'm also a single parent and of a teenager and it's really tough!

Theoretically if you have a back door into the kitchen/utility room if you’re proper posh.. couldn’t you all evacuate to the front of the house and let them have access to the kitchen.. no need to hover over the guy plumbing it in anyway. Even regularly once you’d signed for it you wouldn’t stay within 2m of the guy constantly.

There’s obviously got to be a way round things like this for the sake of disabled/elderly/pregnant/just plain old can’t do it people.

Girlie, that's a kind post. Thank you.

Ditto Strawberry.

Cardi, happy to be told IABU (though obviously I think IAB eminently R).

In fact, the whole social distancing thing is having a massive and very bad effect on my (already fragile) mental health .If I can't get my effing washer/dryer delivered and plumbed in as planned, that will be the final straw.

It's not good for mental health, I get that but get some perspective here..it's a washer dryer, it's not the end of the world if you can't get it yet.

Luna, good point about disabled/pg/elderly people. There must be a way.

@cantata you also have my sympathy. We are all going to have times where this lockdown will be difficult and for some that will be more then others. Some will be in a more fortunate position to deal with the lockdown (secure financially, large property and garden or just have a more suited temperament).

No, not the end of the world. But would you like to come and hand-wash and dry my king sized bedding, Pippi? I certainly don't fancy it. Not to mention the Teenage Towel Mountain.

Order yourself a dolly from amazon to arrive before washing machine and spend some time learning how to plumb in a washing machine. It’s actually not very difficult.

Yanbu

We are suddenly a zero income household and things are looking grim. From both the virus and the associated effects. We can only hope the government plans help us somehow.

The way I see it now, either people are going to get sick and some die from the virus.

Or people will get hopeless or angry etc and die from the economic effects.

People are currently in denial of the latter.

We as a family will of course do as we’re told for now, but I’m not sure how long society can sustain this.

I think the government need to start working on a new plan to quarantine the high risk groups.

That's probably true, Strawberry.

I need people. I have no income now. I have a tiny house with no garden. My temperament needs people - real people, not people on a screen - around me all the time.

It is thanks to RL friends that I clawed my way out of suicidal depression a few years ago. I really, really need not to be isolated.

I also need a functional washer-dryer.

YANBU OP.

Fell running and climbing is something that has massively improved my mental health in recent years and it's literally stopped me from having a breakdown.

Now I can't go because I'm not allowed to drive to exercise. Fine. I get it. It's important.

But now my local Facebook group is full of people whining about people using the local footpaths. So now I'm worried about even taking a local walk in case it offends the Corona Stasi. I'm already struggling with stress and anxiety and now the one thing that helps me has been taken away.

It sucks. It really does. And I'm fed up of hearing how I should just accept it and get on with it, like that's an easy thing to do. I understand why it's important, but I can still feel shit about it.

This can't go on for too long. The long term effects on mental health and the economic fallout will be awful and probably claim just as many lives in the long run.

Juan, I did say upthread that I have plumbed in many a washing machine in my time. However, I'm stuck with an integrated one which I can't physically manage.

Wise words, Wendy.

and [huge amounts of empathy], Tossacoin. You said it for me.