AIBU to think that a street party is obnoxious?

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A lot of my neighbours have decided to stand in a circle, quite far away from their own houses. They're drinking, they've got loud music on, they're dancing away having a jolly old time.

AIBU to think this is ridiculous? Nevermind that it's a direct contravention of the lockdown rules, they don't know what other people in the street are dealing with - there could be bereavements or seriously ill relatives.

I get we're all fed up of lockdown, but this kind of shit is how you catch coronavirus from the supermarket trip, despite following all the other rules.

The mental health,anxiety, agoraphobia, addiction and other crisis that we will face after this is enormous. Anything we can do to SAFELY be happy is good.

Absolutly, and it can happen. I think we're going to have to look at how we can live as normally as possible WITH this virus awating a Vaccine some year or so away, well less if you really want to skip the safety testing.

We cannot carry on as we are it will result in many social and econmic problems. OK some things may be difficult but around our way some places have got decent staratiges in place.

Even the chippy has re-opened just say distanced a bit away, then next customer came in only when we call you.

Worked very well supermarket style:)

As a key worker these gatherings are infuriating me.
I am rushed off my feet. I am risking my and my family’s health, I am on the front line and working from home more hours than usual.
I honestly don’t get what is wrong with people.

I wonder if they bothered to find out which shift working key workers they were going to be waking up with their noise. Or how many key workers working from home were affected by my the noise.

Let’s clap for the NHS then tomorrow we can do a street conga, breathe and cough on each other and wake up the nurse next door who is catching up on sleep.

People are stupid.

YOur neighbours ABU if they are now gathering in one place - yes.
However, I don't agree that having a street party is obnoxious, where folk stay socially distant from one another.
Many, many communities are being built / have been built from this terrible situation we are in. There is a saying, isn't there, about always being able to find the good, in any tragedy. One good thing that has happened in roads all over the country, is the developing sense of community.
Local news programmes regularly have a little 'good news story' on how "all the neighbours came out to sing Happy Brithday to Betty who is 93 today and isn't able to see any of her family" or "how this cul-de-sac have started to sit in their front gardens / driveways and have a chat with neighbours they never had taken the time to get to know before.
@Pika09 is absolutely right that you can't go through life not smiling and laughin because there 'might be someone you know who is bereaved or worried about someone who is ill'. Unfortunately that is always going to be the case. Overwhelmingly, the bereaved or concerned wouldn't begrudge others celebrating a positive in their own lives.
Lots of roads are talking about doing some kind of street party for VE day. A sensibly organised one, where folk stay a suitable distance isn't an issue.

Ridiculous! Drunk people can not social distance!

A friend has had street bingo but they all kept their distance but once alcohil is involved distance is not possible, I work in a pub so known how drunk people react!

What is it that some people aren’t understanding?

A lot of my neighbours have decided to stand in a circle, quite far away from their own houses. They're drinking, they've got loud music on, they're dancing away having a jolly old time.

AIBU to think this is ridiculous? Nevermind that it's a direct contravention of the lockdown rules,...

Your initial post specifically says that at that point in time, they WERE socially distancing. You then went on to say this was in contravention of Lockdown rules - it isn't.

I'm afraid you come across as a bit of a misery. I wouldn't enjoy my neighbours having a party in my road, but to complain about it at 8:20pm when at 8pm every Thursday at present there's a tremendous racket of banging & clapping, cars revving up & the off air horn then people having shouted conversations with their neighbours....

Obviously your update says they aren't social distancing now, but you showed so much indignation even when they were!

Oooft the very idea makes me cringe.

A few neighbours are planning a street party when this is over. I’m planning to politely decline and be away

Your neighbours are of course being unreasonable not maintaining social distancing

I think anyone playing their music at a level where others have to listen to it is a cunt v unreasonable.

@ohMyDarling. Well said, and thank you for all you are doing.
Sadly in life you will always get people like @Pika09 who don't give a monkeys about how their behaviour is affecting other people.

You’re being sanctimonious OP. Lockdown isn’t working, it needs to be slowly lifted and we need to learn to live with CV-19 and the fact that people are going to catch it and some will die. Otherwise our society as we know it will be destroyed. My young adult daughter will have her future snatched away from her and I won’t get to see my ageing mother in the last years of her life. I’m getting angry and utterly pissed off at how the politicians are treating us like children. As for the mindless, virtue-signalling clapping, don’t get me started (and I work for the NHS).

People die all the time as other posters have said. Life can never be without risk. I’m heartened by the fact that people are deciding to think for themselves. I just hope the government will see sense about refusing to lift lockdown before it’s too late.

Two different issues, people not self isolating...not on. People enjoying themselves having fun while socially distancing, absolutely fine.

Oooft the very idea makes me cringe.

A few neighbours are planning a street party when this is over. I’m planning to politely decline and be away grin

I would do the same.

I hate mingling at neighbour hood parties! So I can see the benefit/appeal of a socially distanced one. Stay out for 20 mins in your garden, then say (Shout) “well getting a bit chilly, nice to see you all” and then run off. Job done. Assuming that everyone doesn’t get to drunk and migrate to my garden.

Hopefully, OP, they will head indoors soon.

You’re being sanctimonious OP. Lockdown isn’t working, it needs to be slowly lifted and we need to learn to live with CV-19 and the fact that people are going to catch it and some will die. Otherwise our society as we know it will be destroyed. My young adult daughter will have her future snatched away from her and I won’t get to see my ageing mother in the last years of her life. I’m getting angry and utterly pissed off at how the politicians are treating us like children. As for the mindless, virtue-signalling clapping, don’t get me started (and I work for the NHS).

People die all the time as other posters have said. Life can never be without risk. I’m heartened by the fact that people are deciding to think for themselves. I just hope the government will see sense about refusing to lift lockdown before it’s too late.

Just this and from an NHS worker - true.
Life has to change and people adapt to actually HAVING a life.

@Mummyshark2018

Hope you will all be safe then . I know someone this week who died I think 2 days of contracting the virus at age 62 .

Let’s just hope it does not affect you .

Locally. essential services and food shops are open on a click and collect basis, Our butcher takes orders by phone, packs order and we pay by card. Then we go to shop , announce name and our box is placed on the hatch for collection. It works, and minimizes contact. The butcher's contact person knows exactly who I am, who I'm married to, my son's occupation, and chats on the phone as if we were face to face. It's very friendly, but we have been customers for a long time. In this situation, I really appreciate a long term solid relationship, because if you ventured in off the street, I doubt you'd be served.

Call the police. Unless your username is genuine and you’re worried about being rumbled!

I just can't help but think these fuckers will be the ones that infect everyone following the rules.

You do realise that if you follow Da Rulz to the letter as you clearly are, then these fuckers cant infect you? Thats kind of the point

FFS......

Your initial post specifically says that at that point in time, they WERE socially distancing. You then went on to say this was in contravention of Lockdown rules - it isn't.

But they were in contravention of the rules right from the start - they’d left their houses for none of the permitted reasons and they were a social gathering of more than 2 people. It’s selfish idiots like this who will cause lockdown to go on for a lot longer than it would have done.

People on their own property, appropriately spaced, fine.

Big group in close contact, getting lairy and disruptive is the league that the police will be interested in.

Life is for living. For each of the worst days of my life, it's been the best day of someone elses.
Should people born on Sept 11th never celebrate? Should we all mourn for 240,000 every Boxing Day?
Making a mockery of guidelines and totally flouting them is not on, but people are allowed to make the mist out of the moment too. Appropriately though.

But they were in contravention of the rules right from the start - they’d left their houses for none of the permitted reasons and they were a social gathering of more than 2 people. It’s selfish idiots like this who will cause lockdown to go on for a lot longer than it would have done.

No they werent. And its fuckwits that dont get Da Rulz that are part of the problem, making their friends and neighbours feeling like they are living in a police state.

On their own property, in the garden, appropriately distanced is perfectly acceptable. The fact that they later mingled is wrong, but when the OP posted they were not in direct contravention of the guidelines at all.

They were never in their gardens. They were 2m apart, but leaving the house to meet people is against the rules. It doesn't say "meet your neighbours but stay 2m apart"

You're not supposed to go out for social reasons AT ALL.

@BogRollBOGOF absolutely!

I can still catch it if I follow "Da Rulz" because I have to use the same supermarket as these nobheads.

Or maybe @Meadowland "people like Pika09" are the people who understand a bit more than some others on this thread, that actually weeks, turning in to months of isolation, and staying in, is going to do a lot of long term damage to a lot of people, and that, humans are wired to be part of communities and to interact with each other.
Not everyone has laptops or the internet or the skills to skype or facetime or zoom (etc) their family, and most people need human interaction of some kind, for their sanity and quality of life.

"People are always dying". Fuck off. People are dying in huge numbers up and down the country right now due to this. This is not normal life when yes, people die at a regular rate and many family and friends are able to attend the funeral. Show some bloody respect for the silence sweeping through us. It's there for a reason.

You can't argue with stupid OP. And stupid is widespread these days.

@HildegardeCrowe

In your mind, what is the goal of lockdown? I would be interested as I am getting the impression you have understood this point entirely differently to me.

Also, in your mind what would happen if lockdown were lifted now, whether in slow measures or all at once?