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.

I know what you mean OP I am getting so sick and tired of people on social media shouting STAY AT HOME!! It's driving me crazy.

Everyone by now surely knows this and are following the rules as best they can.
Anyone who isn't doing that by now just doesn't care and ranting STAY AT HOME is going to make no difference to them but drive all the people who are following the rules completely mad.

Yanbu. It's like some fucked up evangelical religion, where 'stay at home' has replaced amen after everything they say. Another month and it will be a recognised religion, with online services where they praise one another with the clap and ominously chant stay at home. With organised Sunday lynching for anyone following the legislation, rather than the deranged interpretation of the hysterical wankers.

Its annoying especially as we can go out occassionally

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

Neither do I, especially when you get muppets telling you when it's ok to ignore the rules.

I suppose the reason it's not great is for people who have things like anxiety or are predisposed to stick to rules, there was a thread where someone was reading 'just stay indoors' so much they asked can I go in my garden.

Seems like a foolish question but not everyone is in the right place to assess these things as they are intended iyswim

Lot of stuff on the news tonight saying people are heeding the law and you can do this and that and police have been told to back off. I think that after scare scare scare, the they are trying to soften the message a bit.

MN is worryingly bonkers at the mo. Just as an aside. I'm not seeing this looniness irl.

I think a lot of people are so used to having control over x many elements in their lives, now they're either WFH/furloughed or have been made redundant, they can't cope with feeling unimportant. So, they try to micro manage what their neighbours do, others out walking do, what people online do, etc.

Obviously it's fine to point out when someone is clearly breaking government guidance, but the amount of rules that they have made up out of thin air and are trying to get everyone to adhere to is staggering, to be honest.

For example, people going berserk because someone went a walk longer than their self imposed 1h limit. No one has given us a time limit so where the fuck has this magical hour came from?

I just pity who's holed up with them. Must be a nightmare.

Yeo, it's so tedious now.

People are allowed to go shopping. They're allowed exercise - and they are allowed to have a sit down mid-walk or run, they don't have to stop dead. Pictures on Facebook from busybody "spotted" groups shaming people sat on benches with a bike beside them is fucking embarrassing.

I posted the other day asking if people think it's acceptable to take my kids for a kick around on the very quiet village green and some posters were adamant that we are ONLY allowed to walk, cycle and run and for maximum 1 hour not true! I was asked why I think I'm so special that I can break the law like this

The only time STAY AT HOME isn't yelled is if you have a supermarket delivery booked and you aren't a 102 year old quadriplegic who lives on a hill 50 miles away from civilisation. Then if you do stay at home and book a delivery you are the most selfish person in the world. I was told the other day on MN I'm selfish because I wouldn't cancel my delivery slot - I'm a single mum of 2 and my DD has asthma. But not taking her into the supermarket made me akin to a Gestapo member because there's definitely someone out there more in need of that slot than me and i should just take her and let her potentially die for the sake of an elusive stranger (this seems to be a MN only opinion mind. No one IRL gives a fuck who does and doesn't get a delivery in).

It's the thing that's driven me around the bend the most so far, and that includes living with and attempting to educate a child with SNs and ride out the volatile, irrational sibling battles exacerbated by living with ASD.

I've stayed within the spirit and purpose of the guidelines.

I've been running frequently to maintain my mental and physical wellbeing. I've exceeded the imaginary hour rule because my longer routes are rural and more isolated. I will pass far more people by staying within the fictious hour. Other than yoga, I'm not working out at home, it's not a mental escape, it's uncomfortable and sweaty and prancing around on carpet on a concrete floor is an excellent way to get injured.
Tonight, I've had to leave the house for a second time today because at 23:30 I still had two bright eyed bouncy children who needed to walk off the energy. Thanks to the clarification of guidelines for SEN I know this is permissable, and there is a 0% chance of accidentally murdering someone because there was nobody there to murder. From previous experience of late night running, this is not unusual, lockdown or not.

I've been leaving the house weekly for shopping, so other than that and running/ family exercise, that's been it. I haven't seen DM since February because I cancelled on her in early March due to having a cold and with Coronavirus growing in the news, we erred on the side of caution.

It's frustrating constantly seeing Stay Home and variations on the theme of it (plus all the overzealous CoronaStasi stuff over trivial/ non-incidents) when logically I know I'm behaving decently, and within the spirit of what the guidelines need to achieve. As to the people itching for total lock down, arrgghh!!!

I am getting sick to death of certain radio presenters scare mongering (police are going to start demanding to check your shopping to make sure that you've only bought 'essentials') or preaching at us about obeying lockdown rules then going on about their numerous shopping trips,visits to friends etc.

CoronaStasi Love that expression!

Apparently 90 percent of the people advised to stay at home Are actually doing just that. Staying at home bar essential shopping and exercise. No amount of "stay the fuck at home" social media posts are going to make any difference to the 10 percent . They will do what they want. They know the advice. So posters need to stop insulting the majority and just 'shut the fuck up'

I am going to have to go out at some point in the next few days to get some shopping as my food supplies are getting dangerously low. I'm not looking forward to it one little bit because I know I will probably get someone saying something to me,or muttering and tutting at my audacity,even though it will be the first time that I've ventured further than my balcony for nearly 4 weeks.

It is annoying. We live with Dc in a flat and need to go to the park for exercise. Also think most times it is passed on is within the home i.e. having people round.

"I will probably get someone saying something to me,or muttering and tutting at my audacity"

Really? But they would surely be out as well. Just ignore them.

So we had a person post a photo on Facebook of our local park looking pretty empty and earnestly telling the town she was proud of them for getting the message and staying at home - not that she was staying at home, she was out for a lovely walk - and not being annoyed by other people doing likewise. It was very funny - the penny must have dropped as she deleted her post quick smart maybe after getting a wee bit of grief!😂

It's competitive misery on here though. Very few are happy unless you sit in a darkened room and spend every waking moment terrified. Terrified? Oh come on, the time to be terrified is when someone has a loaded gun pointed at your head.

It's not weird though. It's just human. People are making painful sacrifices every single day and when they see others making exceptions it hits hard and makes them resentful. That's really not a surprising reaction.

You can only take care of your own behaviour.

I’ve read many posters say they want people to be terrified because that’s the only way we’re going to get through this. Terrified people do not make good decisions - it is not a healthy state to live in. 20% of primary kids are scared to leave their homes - those poor kids - when this is over there will be one hell of a mess to clear up.

The rules on this partial lock down are crystal clear to those with a brain. Do you need a total lock down stating nobody can go out - for whatever reason? Just stay indoors until we tell you that you can go out again.

Have people always been this thick? Or is it just since the start of this partial lockdown? 🤔

I agree Againandagain. I have seen some posters advising pregnant women not to go for their appointments which aren’t ‘essential’ apparently! I heard an item on the radio today suggesting that the number of ante natal non attendances and a reduction in people going to A&E is beginning to make people in the NHS worry some patients are missing being treated for something important.

Agreed @TeensArghhhh. It's not easy but it's also not complicated. The more people comply, the sooner we all get to visit family, go to beach, do normal life. GO TO PUB ❤️

You know @nettie434 if that's the case it just signifies that we've lost the ability to apply common sense and in those circumstances no legislation will help us.

Why would you ask for advice on here or take advice from here , Posters are just anonymous randoms of no consequence and can post anything they want within MN rules. Just do as the official government guidelines say.

’ve read many posters say they want people to be terrified because that’s the only way we’re going to get through this.

I'd hope the rational people won't be, because I'm failing to see a reason to be.

I'm in the so called high risk category where I have to shield and I know the chances of it being a good outcome if I get it are very slim (even getting a cold sore this week has seen the doctors prescribe strong antivirals as it's dangerous for me). Living in a terrified state over that is no good to my family, it's no way for my children and wife to live, it's unfair. All we can be is sensible and reduce the risk as much as possible.

The way I look at it is, if at the end of the day I'm on it's list of people to get, that's the way it is.

I think people are finding it difficult when we are subjected to the hypocrisy of people in authority than are flouting the rulings. Dr Catherine Calderwood. Chief Medical Officer for Scotland trying to hit it home of the importance of staying at home, yet was caught flitting from her home to her second holiday home! Unbelievable. At least she had the good grace to resign.

Boris Johnson, opening boasting that he had mixed with patients in a hospital and shook hands with people he came across. Unfortunately that backfired on him.

I am fed up of the 'do as I say and not what I do' attitude and mentality of the very people that are supposed to be guiding and leading this country through this, yet fail to lead by example.

I am sticking to the guidelines as much as I possibly can. I do have to venture out for medication that I have to get for various conditions I have. I try and keep shopping trips to the minimum.

I think the majority of people are sticking to the rulings. Some are not simply not understanding the basic of instructions. Only yesterday in a Tesco Express. Upon entrance, a member of staff policing the entrance and exit of customers. You are told when you can enter the store, based on one out, one in. Also told to follow the arrows and to go around a one way system. Seems pretty straightforward to me. No problem. Then on guy (forgotten one item, kidney beans of all things) decided in his wisdom to turn around and walk in the complete opposite to the direction of the arrows! Passing all of the customers that are patiently waiting behind him, all 2 metres apart! And all for a can of crucial kidney beans. Unbelievable!!

I really feel for retail staff as there is only so much they can do. As for the politicians, I can totally get why people are becoming lax in adhering to the guidelines when they read what the advisors are doing.