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).

I thought a dolly was one of those sink-plunger things that people used with a wooden crate in the Olden Days to do their washing.

It is (a washing dolly aka a posser) but it's also a low cart or trolley.

OP, wishing you much health and and strength. I also have mental health issues and so do some of my friends. I’m very worried about a lot of people right now. I hope you find solutions that work for you.

Well clearly YANBU. Do you really think anybody thinks people won’t get fed up of this? What’s the alternative though? If you just wanted a moan though then fair enough.

According to large numbers on here you should be able to @squishedgrapes It's not as if you've got to worry about a bomb dropping on you while you're doing it

I thought pp meant a wooden dollytoo!! Bit extreme🤣🤣

Has it got a post cycle or not OP ?

I’m fit and healthy and absolutely low risk. I’m absolutely fed up of it already. I miss theatre and restaurants and my friends and the gym and my grocery deliveries and my mum and church and the holiday we booked and just freedom. I haven’t left the house for 9 days and even though I’m an introvert it’s doing my head in. But I’m sticking to the rules and I’ll do what’s needed until it’s safe to stop. Compared with massive, painful loss of life, staying home is a small price to pay.

@cantata these are weird times for us all . I wish you strength.

Shame on you for even posting this. FFS there’s people out there that can’t afford to eat and you’re on here whining about a washer dryer? I can only assume this post is a joke? If it’s not this is the highest level of cuntiness I’ve seen on here.

My thought too. People are dying and you're worried about a washer dryer?

I’m fit and healthy and absolutely low risk. I’m absolutely fed up of it already. I miss theatre and restaurants and my friends and the gym and my grocery deliveries and my mum and church and the holiday we booked and just freedom. I haven’t left the house for 9 days and even though I’m an introvert it’s doing my head in. But I’m sticking to the rules and I’ll do what’s needed until it’s safe to stop. Compared with massive, painful loss of life, staying home is a small price to pay.

I for one, thankyou.

I think some people will be finding this harder than others. I don’t like working from home with a toddler, and not getting out, but it is manageable if I think about ways to deal with it.

What must be horrendous is going to work in a hospital without the correct PPE: wondering if this is the day you’ll catch it, or whether you’ve already caught it.

Or being the parent of a small child undergoing chemo. Terrified that the health practitioners working with your child have it on them.

Or your loved one being immune-suppressed because they had a transplant. So terrified they’ll catch it and leave you a widow in your 30s.

If me staying home means someone more vulnerable doesn't get this virus then that's just fine. I'm going to work when asked (work in school). I'm doing my 30 minutes exercise away from other people and I'm staying in as much as possible.

Yes, it's shit. Learn a fucking language. Do some online learning. Read a book. My washer/dryer is 10 years old and will probably bugger up very soon. If it does under these conditions then I'll wash what I can and get on with it. Not the end of the world.

I'm sick of it already and several friends have text me out of the blue to say the same thing. A week ago everybody was begging for lockdown - now every day I see more and more posts saying people can't cope, the economic fallout will be worse than corona, etc.

Give it a few weeks and people will be restless and breaking lockdown constantly. The way to beat the virus is to stop doing the things that make us human, and that's not sustainable.

Apologies for the dolly confusion! I meant one of these things.

If you paid for a disconnection and reconnection service then you should receive this or a refund of this service. If you only bought a new appliance then YABU.

It's hard for you and many others

Your only option is to COMPLY

OR

Go to sleep at night with your conscience telling you you did the WRONG thing and people could die. Also fines if you can't cope and break the guidelines.

The better people comply the quicker it will be over

Manage your mental health by getting some apps for calming. Also try online therapy.

You have to try, you can't just say
'I can't, let's give up, I'm sick of it all'

You must know how this thread is going to go. "My grandad survived Siberia and you're moaning about [insert really any issue whether MH or practical], you selfish XXX"...but yes FWIW I agree with you. It's fucking hard and extroverts in particular are a bit fucked psychologically. All my colleagues think I'm a nutjob because I get on conf calls and discuss literally anything, like recipes!!

OP
Have they actually said that’s what they’ll be doing?

I find that surprising

If the alternative was you going to the launderette, then the viral load would be a bigger issue?

I give it another page before someone brings up Anne Frank, some bloke who was a hostage for 5 years, and calling everyone "selfish" because their husband is vulnerable and how dare you murder him by taking your dog out twice.

Also "man up", "woman up", "get over it", "MH is treatable", "bloody entitled snowflakes" - it's like MN Lockdown Bingo!

Beijing “ A week ago everybody was begging for lockdown”

I certainly wasn’t and I’m quite enjoying it! I only know one person who wanted lockdown.

@runrabbitrunrunrun A friend of mine committed suicide when his baby was four months old. He had everything going for him, and I went to a funeral at which a baby was happily gurgling, having no idea his father was in the casket in front of him. So I guess he just didn't "get a grip" then? Is depression just some middle class affectation, to you?

This lockdown just sort of reminds me of all the months I was unemployed, but with my husband there and without the distraction of mooching around charity shops every day.

Think I'd enjoy it a lot more if I had a garden!

My washing machine broke

I managed to plumb it in. Move it in. The lot. I'm a very tiny woman too!

Nobody is listening to us

So what do you suggest as an alternative?

Hard as it is there is no choice unless you want more deaths on your conscience.

People get fed up that they're not allowed to poke people in the eyes, or drive at 99mph, or pick things up from a shop shelf and walk out without paying.

Who cares? The law is there to deal with the people who get fed up with doing the sensible thing. Nobody enforcing it will be interested in why people were fed up with it.