Not feeling sorry for people who chose to go on holiday during the coronavirus crisus..

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The amount of money the government is pouring out to rescue people who chose to go on holiday only a few weeks ago. Lockdown was over a week ago now!

I'm not talking about people who have been away for months (although really they should have thought about coming back early) or working abroad or saying goodbye to terminally ill family. Im talking about those who still thought they'd go on skiing trips or a family trip to India, despite the clear path that was coming. And then them grumbling about how slow the government has been to bail them out! The government has enough to spend money on right now.

We had to cancel a very expensive holiday as did a few people I knew. Why did they think they were special?

YABU they weren't to know and had a right to go away.

YANBU

If people in the west had taken what happened in China and then Korea seriously, a lot of deaths could have been avoided. By mid February, it was perfectly obvious that international travel was a stupid idea but so many people seemed to think it couldn't possibly be as bad in Europe/US as in Asia.

I feel sorry for them, as far as you can feel sorry for people who behaved stupidly and selfishly.

I agree that the media do whip things up with the DM sad face for anyone who expects to be bailed out by the government even when the problems they've got into have been down to their own stupidity. Some people are like children and think they can just expect to be rescued however stupid they've been. I think they're often the same people who say, 'no one is going to tell me what to do', and moan about the nanny state telling them not to smoke, eat unhealthily etc.

The government were ridiculous to not start warning people not to go after the first week of March when it was completely obvious the way things were heading. Anyone who went then, when they were talking about closing schools down, no one was going to the cinema and you couldn't get a loo roll was completely mad.

I completely agree with the point about critical thinking. I don't think I was actually taught this until I went to university. It should be a key part of the school curriculum. But then many governments don't want people to look behind the headlines because it suits them to manipulate them. Fake news is a real thing, but it's often the governments that propagate it.

jingmah
Clearly the uk govt did not have half a brain as they chose to do nothing back in January.