To think people just like screaming stay the fuck home again and again no matter whether it’s relevant or not?

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Ok screaming may be an exaggeration.

But the minute you mention stepping foot outside the house so many posters keep repeating stay the fuck home constantly without even reading the post and the details. Yes sometimes it is relevant and appropriate but on many occasions it’s absolutely not. There are lots of genuine reasons for people not to stay the fuck at home. Not everyone has somebody to shop for them and online shops are difficult to get or the vulnerable person isn’t computer literate. Some people on here have decided for themselves what is essential and what is not despite it not matching up to governmental guidelines.

You do not need randoms off the internet to tell you how to do this lockdown. I am not sure why people ask on here TBH.

It's authoritarian and really doesn't have much to do with transmission of the virus. It's proximity to other people that spreads it - not the distance you travel or the level of fun you have. But this is a killjoy site. Always has been. I think the main reason i'm here is it reminds me of my enormous dysfunctional family.

I am sick of being preached at by sanctimonious so and sos on every possible channel of media. I am staying at home. You don’t need to tell me over and over again. The people who do need told are not the kind of people who will listen to or take on board your instructions anyway.

The best thing to do is mind your own household and leave others to mind theirs.

The majority of posts on here asking about, or talking about going out, are trolls on the wind-up.

Agree OP.

Stay at home and try to muster some intelligence.

And every other word doesn't have to be fuck.

Sometimes it’s not even people asking about whether it’s a lockdown issue on here. They mentioned an ongoing family situation and it gets trotted out stay the fuck home even though they didn’t visit the other family members. A significant amount of people are desperate to say it on here and have decided they know better deeming themselves to be judge and juror.

I think some are trolls but quite a few are not and it’s detracting from what the OP is actually posting about because some can’t get over themselves.

I think some of it is jealousy. They are feeling miserable themselves and get jealous at people who live rurally or who have valid reasons to be going out regularly.

People like to think they are superior to others, so they put themselves in charge to choose who is right and who is wrong. Just leave them to it and do what you want there is no arguing with stupid remember

I don't know. I asked about travelling to get baby items from outside my parents house and almost everyone said yes. So obviously people read that and didn't scream stay the fuck at home.

@Sereyus good advice and yes I shall

There’s a piece by Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph today saying the government has been startled by how obedient the country has been. They expected a lot more people to break the rules than actually are, which is messing up their calculations. It’s interesting how powerful social opprobrium is in this case... I think it’s so very public, breaking the rules. And eg lots of people might do drugs, but they won’t do them where anyone might see. So although many many people are prepared to break rules, they aren’t on this point. But I do find the bellowing STAY AT HOME deeply tedious.

Just read the law. It really is that simple.

YANBU
It's like their brains are on a loop, fuelled by some odd sort of aggression. Why 'the fuck' and all the FFS everywhere?

Stay at home and try to muster some intelligence

And every other word doesn't have to be fuck

It really doesn’t anyway unless you are lacking in vocabulary or Detective Debra Morgan.

Not so simple as reading the law @Arnoldthecat

metro.co.uk/2020/04/10/police-officer-tells-man-cannot-sit-front-garden-12537093/

Police couldn’t read the law it seems.

I totally agree with you op. We have become a nation of zealots and harpies. And 90% of the people screaming this shit haven't even read the actual legislation.

I find the reaction of this by seemingly many people really interesting.

Are there a large subset of people who yearn for a more authoritarian government + people who need to be punished?

It's eye opening for sure.

It's become like a competition of who can follow the rules best. Except people are going beyond following the rules to this 'stay home' all the time mentality. And when people do get out they always think their reasons for going out are somehow more valid than others. On my facebook people are moaning about all the people shopping (while they themselves are shopping) people moaning about all the people out walking (while they themselves are out walking).

Some people are rubbing their hands gleefully wanting a stricter lockdown when someone has posted they are struggling. People wanting to report others because they saw someone leave the house a few times.

I imagine the people repeating the same message again and again probably break the so called rules themselves while castigating others.

The key thing is that we are all voluntarily staying at home on the advice of the government.

We are not being punished and we are not imprisoned.

We still live in a free country and we are still free thinking individuals.

It’s up to you and you alone to decide what you are going to do at this time and MOST people will follow the guidelines.

Some people simply will not and these are the same people who sit outwith the bounds of normal society at the best of times. You can’t control them by putting a banner across your FB profile pic. You won’t change their behaviour or attitude by sharing a video of someone saying “stay the fuck at home”...

It seems like a waste of energy to me. Go read a book or bake some scones. Much more productive and likely to retain more friends at the other end of this saga.

Aye you're right.... it's crazy. Had a single male friend say 'just stay inside it's not hard!'... so yeah I've got two young kids and no garden. Hes sat there with a book and his beer in his garden....
And I am in no way flouting government rules... take my kids out for a walk in the woods every few days that's it... I've only even been in a shop once in the last three weeks..... yet still got shouted at for being selfish for walking in the woods....

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You seem to have ignored the fact that it’s not ‘up to you ‘ what you do as many of the guidelines have been enshrined in law.
Some are open to interpretation it is true but you can’t just do what you want.

@smileyaxolotl1 please point me to the part where I said people can just do what they want? Have you actually read what I’ve posted?

The best thing you can do is to follow the government guidelines.

Give absolutely no weight to what posters on MN think you should do. Ignore them.