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?

I can’t look at the local FB page at the moment. I have no doubt it’s full of ranting and frothing. I hate people sometimes.

A lot of people in this world are unremarkable and have nothing to really offer. The fact that they can ‘win’ at being ‘the best’ at lockdown makes them feel like they’re actually making a difference in a world they have no control over.

That’s my armchair psychologist take on it

We don't have this where I live. I've only really seen it on here!

We also haven't had massive supermarket queues etc. We've had a lot of community spirit and niceness. Our town facebook is mainly jokes, nice pictures of the countryside and people organising deliveries to old people. Not quite sure how our town slipped through into the brightest timeline but it's been a pretty heartening one to live in so far.

I have only seen it on here really, haven't seen a single post on fb shaming anyone. Just a few very generic, stay at home, save lives mottos.

All these people sound fucking mad. I'm in Glasgow haven't came across any nutjobs yet.
I went to the supermarket earlier, everyone was pleasant standing the correct distance everyone was chatting to each other.Inside everyone walked the right way round.
When I got home 2 neighbours in their gardens waved over and had a chat.

Your neighbours would have a field day with my car, I’m well over 40 miles away from where my is car registered. As when the lock down happened I was at my partners and we chose the time was right to stay put, however I can’t move the rest of my stuff due to our current environment.

Just because a car isn't registered locally doesn’t mean they are tourists.

lokoho you’re really lucky. It’s so odd as our local FB page is normally really lovely - the page itself is more aimed at tourists that follow the fishing boats and all the locals post nice photos of their walks, the fishermen post their catch etc. Then all of a sudden it’s just photos of the main street with comments declaring everyone shopping to be selfish idiots.

I have heard that Police are going to stop cars which are registered to other areas.
I literally moved into a new house 3 days before the lockdown. I have not changed the registration of the car or done any of the usual things because it all happened suddenly in the end.

I have also heard that Police are expected to treat all DV situations well. I hope that is the case. I am terrified t go out in the car in case Police stop me and maybe don't realise that I had to leave suddenly and for good reason.

Those of you commenting about people sat on benches in parks.

Could people be angry about it and shaming people because of the chance of them touching the bench and then possibly passing on the virus that way if an infected person had previously touched the bench?

No idea if that could act happen but could explain why they feel people should not be sitting on benches.

I sit on a bench in my daily walk, I have bad knees and I can't stand up or walk for too long. No one ever said you couldn't stop to rest during your exercise!

I've seen that sort of thing in relation to a Cornish seaside town we like going on holiday to. To read the locals' posts online, the dreadful tourists are flocking in wafting virus everywhere before sitting on the beach for hours and crowding the main streets.

The trouble is, whenever I look at their webcams, the town and the beaches are virtually empty. I want to suggest to them that they try checking what is actually going on rather than frothing at what their neighbours tell them, if only in the interests of keeping their blood pressures down.

Yes, I feel my luck! I was chatting to my next door neighbour this morning (at a suitable distance!) and we were saying maybe it's because this is a small market town in steep hills -- the town part is tiny so if you go for a walk you're up the hill straight away and you'll not see a soul. So we're not suffering the same kind of psychic pressure. On the other hand you have the sea so maybe it's just random.

It has been eye opening.

Given that history shows us that populations can be turned on each other fairly easily I suppose it shouldn't be that much of a surprise, but I had assumed that liberal democracies had a bit of inbuilt, cultural protection. It would seem not.

Yeah, the witch-hunt is on pretty much everywhere. My car was purchased second-hand in the North West, but I now live in East Anglia. Not everyone has been a local for their whole lives. I am having more deliveries than usual because DH and I are expecting in May, and we can't get the essential baby items in stores, but don't want to risk not having the appropriate stuff when the baby arrives. Also, I have a Canadian accent. The number of people who have asked me in shops (when chatting with the cashier!) if I am on holiday is astounding. People really do assume the worst.

There's nothing anywhere to say you can't sit down during your exercise.

Boom “ but I had assumed that liberal democracies had a bit of inbuilt, cultural protection. It would seem not.”

This. I am so disappointed in my country right now.

Iklboo “ There's nothing anywhere to say you can't sit down during your exercise.”

Correct, but my sisters already been stopped and told to move on because of sitting on a bench. Maybe it’s a London problem,. I didn’t stop on my jog today - fear, my asthmatic lungs will feel it later - and I see the same runners in the park who feel the same, or stop for a bit and look round furtively.

Lambeth council has taped off benches.

Given that history shows us that populations can be turned on each other fairly easily

Absofuckinglutely. It’s frightening.

It’s terrifying. It worries me far more than cv19.

Weirdly though it can go both ways. An ex friend of a relative of mine has been plastering facebook with accusations that my relative who lives opposite her has been watching her every time she goes out, which she does multiple times a day. Then a bitch fest occurs with lots of 'Oh hun you are just helping everyone get their shopping.' Etc. She has even accused my relative of videoing her to even more 'Oh hun that's so bad you need to sort her out' !!!!

None of this is happening. My relative is currently very ill with COVID and other health issues and is now hiding in her house.
I just hope she gets bored and her friends stop encouraging her and it stops before something bad happens.

This really has brought out the best in some and the absolute worst in others.

Are ferries still going between Ireland and the UK for passengers? All passenger traffic to the Channel Islands has stopped (don't know about IOM) until May I think. There's the odd flight to repatriate residents I think and that's it. Everything else is freight only. No chance of getting there as a visitor and they've got a two week quarantine anyway.

Hey Also haven’t seen your sanity around for a bit! Good to see you!

Last week when I drove to get some (essential) shopping, I drove past a nearby village which had a large handpainted sign on the roadside reading "No Entry - Residents Only". I found it quite creepy.

I live in a tiny village with a large residential care home. Could you imagine us putting up such a sign so carers and staff could not enter? It has always been here and serves the community.

As my dh pointed out, do the other villagers ever leave their homes to go shopping in the nearby town. How would they like them to put a sign up by the supermarket saying Residents Only? Works both ways.

This situation has made me realise that it doesn’t take much to turn people into Nazis. Or to accept living in a Police state. It’s terrifying.
Also , there are a significant number of people who are totally selfish.

I'm on my local area facebook page and some residents think they can police everyone. At times some people have a point but sometimes they are just busybodies - I don't agree with the posting of people, kids, reg plates etc. The other day someone put photos up of their neighbours in their garden including their kids because they didn't like the fact their neighbours were out in their garden and someone else put a photo of two kids because they were riding their bikes. Sometimes I think these groups do more harm than good.