to be so disappointed in people

[MrsBricked]

kids from 4 different households all playing together outside mothers looking on in the middle of the street.
I’m a key worker and I know one of those mothers is too. My kids go school with some of these children. I utterly disappointed and surprised.
What’s the point going out clapping once a week then taking risks like this?

I’m feel weirdly angry about it. Life is hard at the minute but they are all educated and I though sensible people I’m so shocked they’ve done this.

Why 25% think is ok please explain as I do not get it?

YANBU. It’s ridiculous.

I only said yabu because there is no point in clapping anyway.

Also, report it if you're that bothered.

YANBU. Selfish and irresponsible, not only because they're taking unnecessary risks with their own DC's health but because the more people flout the rules like this the more likely it is the rest of us will face tougher restrictions.

Lots of this going on near me, too

It's ridiculously selfish, I'd be the same

You’re not being unreasonable, some people are being selfish twats but can’t/refuse to change as why should they as they say ‘I got rights you know’.

Ignore em, which is easier said than done, believe me I know! (Lost it this pm with my neighbour). Sadly this situation has shown the best and the worst of people. There is no cure for ignorance.

Go smash a plate or scream into a pillow, get that anger out!

Yeah my street were a bit like this, right til the first ambulance rolled up for me. Since then everyone's taken it all a lot more seriously. I guess it all feels a bit make believe until you start knowing people who get sick in your community.

Same - neighbour has been looking after her grand daughter with daughter and fiancé going round regularly. They live very locally but still - the rules are don't mix households. Also her 16yr old & 20 yr old daughters have been going round to friends (know this as my eldest ds has the 16yr old on his snapchat) and sitting drinking in the gardens. I wouldn't be so unreasonably annoyed if said neighbour wasn't such a stickler for the "rules" in every other part of life!!!

A friend of mine went shopping for painting stuff for the house and immediately claims it’s for mental health benefits so it’s ok. She didn’t need to tell me she had even gone but clearly knows it’s not essential, particularly when she keeps phoning to cry she has no money. My DH and I are NHS and he has had corona and was really unwell so this winds me up no end. Mental health would be worse if she contracted it and passed it onto her entire family.

I am not saying that YABU. However I wonder why we are trying to keep children apart from each other when at the school next door to me all the children are playing very close together in the playground.

Will just add that eldest ds is 17 as otherwise my ds could sound dodgy!!

My neighbours were regularly doing this too, BBQs with extended family and other neighbour friends. Lots of kids running round the garden one day, the nest just the 2 they have, then a group again.... All has gone much quieter since we've had 2 ambulances in the road. I don't understand the mentality behind no giving a fuck about anyone else but self. Or do they think they have an invisible forcefield around them. Learning the hard way is too late to learn sometimes.

Emotions are heightened and it is difficult to so desperately want to see my elderly Nan who is isolated in a room in a care home, or my mother is is over 70 with COPD and a full time carer to my sister, who has a disability... knowing that a friend of mine’s partner is carrying on as normal and has had his mother over and his mates etc. It’s irrational, maybe - but still very upsetting.

YANBU
When dh and I went to the park earlier, there were 4 adults with 5 kids. The adults were at least 2m apart. The kids were playing on bikes and sort of distancing. Then it went to pot as they approached the parents. As they are in the open, the risk is greatly reduce. But they didn’t observe the rules. I get children want to see their friends. But adults need to be adult about the situation.

Email the school, they’ll have a quiet word with the parent. Ours does.