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.

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If you put it in CAPITALS people are bound to listen.

It's definitely give me insight into how police states take hold. The number of people willing to report on others, positively frotting at the notion of it......having said that, it's all keyboard warriors in my experience. People who I see when I'm out getting food or having a walk or run are just going about their business same as I am. No drama.

Yes complete agree. Most people are doing amazingly well and sticking to the rules. A minority are not and are breaking them.
Then there is group who are really enjoying judging, shouting, swearing at others to stay at home. They believe that they know better than everyone else and are the kind of people who make terrible bosses, or who are awful to have in charge of any situation. They don’t understand nuances and have no common sense.
If you put these sort of people in charge of anything they become so smug and enjoy their own authority so much they become completely blinkered to reality and think that they are always right.
Most people are just sensible, kind to other people and have enough life experience to understand that you shouldn’t judge someone before you know the whole story.

I got told that getting food for my 92 year old neighbour
and his disabled wife isn’t necessary. Apparently they can wait until the council provides for them. I happen to disagree

@longearedbat, you're making too much of the fact that I used "outside" rather than out. Absolutely people are allowed to be outdoors whilst on their own property. And I did specifically say that the regulations don't limit the number of times you can go out. However, the use of the word "need" is significant, and does demonstrate that there are sensible limits.

What is more annoying is the fact that so many think that the lockdown is to stop the virus in its tracks. No it is to flatten the curve, people will still get it. Too many think that by staying in it will completely go.

What I find most difficult about the level of hysteria attached to this is that it is really really terrifying for anyone anxious who works frontline. I manage a team of therapists in an acute hospital and they all HAVE TO come to work every day. One of them cries when I ask how she is. One I sent home for A/L yesterday as her husband is in such a state about her being at work he is having panic attacks. Another 2 have partners trying to get them to resign their jobs. One asks me every day off she can take annual leave if we are quiet.
The stay at home campaign seems to be trying to make everyone think they will surely due if they set foot outside their front door and yet hundreds and thousands of us have no choice daily and we are off to the place where all the most poorly Covid patients are being treated and we are having to go onto those wards and treat those people. To anyone if an anxious disposition it is terrifying and thus is not helped at all but the media campaign currently.

Yes agree TheGreatWave. It’s so frustrating.

@millicenmargaret the whole "I've sourced food for the whole family locally without leaving the house" brigade does my head in too. As a single mum with now no income (thanks corona), I have a tiny budget, of to be able to use local producers

A lot of people seem to think if we just stay home enough, the virus will disappear. And that the more severe you are (i.e. don’t even go in garden etc), the quicker it disappears. Sadly that is magical thinking, not reality

I agree.

It’s driving me nuts. Especially when they add “simples” to the end of it

I’ve got a friend, who has always been a bit controlling but she’s in her element right now making a whole load of rules up as she goes along and anyone who doesn’t abide by her ever changing made up rules is “literally spreading death!!!”

My DH is still working - he shouldn’t be working, essential workers only

Going out to do our horses - Stay at home and get someone else to do them. So someone else has to leave the house then

DD lunged her pony - that’s not permitted exercise, it’s walk, run or cycle only. Well, DD is exercising her pony, not herself and walk, run or cycle are examples

I take the dog to the yard with us and she has a good run around their securely fenced paddock while I poo pick. Dog gets a good blast of exercise and I don’t have to take her out again - not allowed. Dogs aren’t allowed in cars and have to be on their leads at all times

I bought a bottle of wine - only allowed to buy essentials, wine is not an essential

DH cleaned the car on our drive - you’re only allowed in your back garden

I’ve unfollowed her, it’s driving me crazy

I think lockdown has bought the crazy out in a lot of people, I have a friend who I always thought was pretty stable and sensible, she’s put a photo of herself standing on her driveway with a super soaker which she uses on people passing by who she believes are not going out for legitimate reasons! I mean wtf???

I agree completely OP

Someone I know too a picture of the queue at the supermarket with a comment saying all these can't be shopping for essentials.
I mean why not are you ? The policing of what people going out for is insane.
I did think it would calm down as the lockdown went on but I actually think it's getting worse.
The whole stay home and videos of themselves clapping the nhs , as much as it's lovely it's like they want some award for being a good citizen.

There are an awful lot of people who seem incapable of thinking for themselves and just crave detailed rules and regulations for themselves and others: carrots essential! Wine not essential! 59 minutes exercise good! 61 minutes exercise bad! They don’t get what the goal of this whole lockdown is: to minimise contact. So however long you go out, stay away from other people. Better to shop as infrequently as you can, but what that means depends on family size, access to transport, what shops are in your area. Common sense seems to be one of the biggest victims of this virus.

Oh God, yes. A citizen's medal is exactly what some are after ilovecakeandwine . Last night I saw a post with a picture of a scone they had made, accompanied by the explanation that they'd had to eat it with extra thick double cream rather than popping to the shops to pick up clotted cream, because they are doing what they're told and not leaving the house. Followed by an angel emoji.

1. Eating it with a less gooey cream is not a fucking hardship you have had to endure. If you'd said you'd had to dip it in single cream, I may have had a bit of sympathy but it would have been fleeting.
2. Fuck off with your policing and virtue signalling.

My eyes rolled so far back into my head I wondered if I would ever be able to get them back into position. This is the same person who is also very vocal about contributung to the NHS with their enthusiastic clapping.
I would be more forgiving if she hadn't spent the last few years spouting aggressive racist Brexit bollocks.

I really think it can be quite divisive by wealth as well-

All very easy if you can afford an organic local veg box delivery and have a nice big garden to live in. All smug and sitting at home boasting about not being out- passing comment on people living in flats who have to go out for shopping etc.

Angel emoji. FFS

I've said this publicly before so this may out me...

I expect conspiracy theories to actually reduce during this crisis. Because people who love CTs are getting close to what they crave, authoritarian absolute rules. If not formally from govt, then from the infection control vigillantes and tabloid media.

It's when the lockdown is lifted that the conspiracy theorists will go crazy again, they will miss their daily fix of simple answers and harsh rules.

I have a friend who I always thought was pretty stable and sensible, she’s put a photo of herself standing on her driveway with a super soaker which she uses on people passing by who she believes are not going out for legitimate reasons! I mean wtf??

I hope that she feels suitably guilty for burdening the NHS when she has to go to hospital to have the super soaker removed from her backside.

The the ones who froth at the mouth in anticipation of stricter lockdown rules if we don't comply with their interpretation of the law...to be fair some of the Police would be included in this - couldn't believe I found myself agreeing with Pritti Patel over the behaviour of the Police.

We have become a society where there is no nuance to any discussion. Every debate is about personalising and catastrophising. So just as with Brexit where everyone was either classed as a liberal elite remoaner or as an ill-educated racist gamon, now, if anyone starts discussing facts or debating government rules it is assumed that they are having parties in order to deliberately kill the elderly and vulnerable.
As a society this sort of behaviour has been on the increase for years, goaded by politicians, the media and social media. Unfortunately the arrival of C19 has simply brought it even more to the fore.
It is perfectly possible to abide strictly by the rules whilst also understanding that the actual risk at population level is very small.

Oh Hell yes, there are a lot of little dictators about absolutely bursting with self importance and looking for anyone to tell off.
So far I have been yelled at for sitting down in the middle of an empty field (by someone walking in the path), glared at for buying too much shopping (I'm buying for 3 households it's bloody hard!) told by a dog walker I shouldn't be in the woods with my kids because I don't have a dog and seen countless posters told they should be excercising more than an hour.
All the while my town is deathly quiet, there are more people walking around because there's nothing else to do but almost everyone is abiding by the 2 metre rule.
Those that won't comply, won't, and no amount of STAY THE FUCK AT HOME will affect them!

YANBU. Doing anything within the law should not be criticised. And people checking the law should not be criticised either. We are giving up most of our human rights. The least we should do is do the things we are allowed to do.

Yes, OP, they do. They also begin or end with 'I despair'. I think they fondly imagine it's as impressive as cursing with avada kadavera...