To think some people are just loving it?

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So many people seem to be taking so much pleasure in being absolutely furious with everyone else at the moment and I’m just amazed by it.

I live in a very touristy town, our local FB page is currently full of posts of people who have searched car registrations in their road and found some that aren’t registered to the area. Dozens of posts with photos of people queuing up outside co-op asking whether everyone will only be buying essentials, photos of very elderly sat on a bench saying that they might as well just kill themselves now, couples holding hands clearly being ABSOLUTE SELFISH B*S!!

All these posts followed by so many angry comments and talk of slashing tyres, complaining about hearing Midlands or London accents, comments that police should be throwing kids in prison.

I know it’s a scary time. It’s absolutely unprecedented and we’re underprepared and walking into the unknown. But I genuinely find the sheer rage that seems to be coming from some people quite frightening. I have to take my kids with me whenever I leave the house and I just know that someone will comment on it soon. I only have a tiny courtyard of outside space so I’m taking dc on a long walk with me every morning. Dc2 is only just 4 but I feel I can’t give him a drink as we’re walking along in case someone accuses us of having a picnic.

Is anyone else concerned by this? Anything I can do at all?

lemontreebird yes, in SW

OP it is for exactly this reason I have deactivated my FB account. My news feed was full of people ranting and talking shite. It was constant. So I’ve left. Might go back when this has all settled down. Might not.

Some people just love to piggyback on a crisis to create a bit of drama and feel self important.

I think I may even be in the same town as you OP. You are right, the Lockdown Olympics are in full force here, despite the fact that I would say pretty much everyone is 'behaving' themselves and we have a very low infection /death rate.
Its aggressive and power hungry and controlling. Someone posted a video of their (one a day) walk along the harbour for people to enjoy. Out came the STAY AT HOME passive agressive response, when the poster had done nothing wrong.
I think some people will be very disappointed when this is over, as they won't be able to sit in judgement over their neighbours anymore.
On the plus side, Devon and Cornwall police will never have recruitment issues again...

YANBU. I'm sick of seeing and hearing all the vitriol about what everyone else should and shouldn't be doing.

Look after yourself, wash your fucking hands and shut up.

I have anxiety and I'm finding this all difficult enough to cope with without fretting I'm going to be abused for leaving the house or having the wrong thing in my shopping trolley.

I understand it affects other people when some flout the rules, but it's obvious some people are incredibly sad/bored and taking it too far.

Maybe people are just scared stiff and are finding their own ways to deal with it, appropriate or inappropriate. DH is ranting at the Government, other people are ranting at their neighbours.

Er, you've started a thread in order to moan about people who police the behaviour of others? Can you see the irony OP?

“ But I genuinely find the sheer rage that seems to be coming from some people quite frightening”

So do I. I’d really like to go for exercise after dark but it’s a rough area so I can’t.

Totally agree OP. It really shows you who people really are. Curtain-twitching busy-bodies!

MereDint “ DH is ranting at the Government,“

Much better than ranting at neighbours.

I absented myself from FB early on, I dread what kind of nasty stuff is on there, it doesn't mean I miss out on the nice stuff though, plenty of people share stuff on various little what's app groups I am on.

It’s horrible. People reporting their neighbours to the police for meeting a daughter or for washing a car too close to a pavement. What is wrong with people? We all have to get through this and society has to hold together afterwards.

Quite apart from the fact that the police don’t have time to follow up anything much less than a 20 person party.

The level of interference, entitled prying and small minded spite is frightening.

YANBU. There people who, encouraged by their media, spend their lives convinced anyone who thinks or acts differently to themselves should be corrected. Up til now it’s not been socially acceptable for them to get stuck in and tell everyone how wrong they are but C19 has given them the excuse/justification they’ve always wanted and by God they are going to go for it.

HeyLottie33 yes, sounds like it could be the same town!

FleecyMoo I’m not policing anyone’s behaviour or calling strangers selfish bastards because they have a Birmingham accent. I’m just observing that I find it frightening just how thin the veneer of civility is for some people that I thought were fairly normal.

Crikey I bought my car from a dealer 300 miles away as it was significantly cheaper! Does that mean I'll be targeted?

People are unreal!

A woman had her tyres slashed yesterday here and a nasty note left on her windscreen about leaving the house too often, she is a call handler at NHS 24.

Luckily the community pitched in to have them replaced for free.

The level of nastiness from a lot of people scares me, I wonder if they will still be like that once it is over.

I so agree with you OP and like iklboo it unsettles me as it feels reminiscent of Nazi Germany. People shouldn't be judging each other and turning on each other right now. People have no idea what everyones circumstances are. Their child may have autism, they may be a key worker and people don't realise, they may have moved to a new area a week before lockdown, they may be suicidal and that one extra walk out could be the difference for them. My view is that I have to concentrate on looking after my own family and controlling our movements. It's down to the authorities to control other people.

The behaviour of people in community pharmacies over the last few weeks has been unbelievable - I was almost lynched for walking to the front of the queue despite telling people that I worked there.

It is an excuse for nasty bigoted individuals who can no longer pick on minorities without being accused or charged with a hate crime to take it out on others because they get some perverted kick out of it.

They have been on the down low, they never went away.

I really don’t understand the mentality of the misery brigade.

Surely if you’re managing to use this time to do things that bring you joy and keep your mental and physical health intact then that can only be a good thing for keeping everyone home?

If you bought a bottle of wine to drink in your garden with your essentials shop or you took your kids on a bike ride then you’re much less likely to get thoroughly fed up and think about popping to have a covert catch up with your mate?

@FleecyMoo - is that you, Alanis Morissette?

I agree op, I live in a touristy location at the moment. We are renting a holiday cottage!!! Because a month before the Covid 19 thing kicked off here work started on our house (also around 15 mins away by car from here). We had to rent this place for our build. The back of our own house is now open and we are stuck renting this holiday home. We can’t go home and have been here since February.
Feel in such a weird situation as we are getting dirty looks from plp here when we go out for our exercise. And also getting judgement from friends when I have to drive to wfh in our other house (holiday home has no internet).
Sometimes things aren’t black and white. I know this is necessary but it’s bringing out such weirdness in plp. I assume most plp are doing what’s right and it’s only a small minority breaking rules. God knows what effects this will have on society long term.

I think people are bored. They are suffering, they are fed up , and many of them can't understand why they should have to put up with that crap but others can ignore it without consequences.
And they are right.

An example: the advice is to stick to essential travel. Locals around here are getting increasingly frustrated by people travelling from towns around, for no good reason, to join the supermarket queues, make the problem worst and then moan about the queues. These "travellers" HAVE supermarkets where they are from, so no real reason to be here at all.
That behaviour is not acceptable.

Hateful individuals are always hateful regardless. Aibu is full of them - but the usual target is normally men, not people who ignore the lockdown. Only a different target in some cases.