People who aren’t quite getting it...

[MadameBee]

I wouldn’t comment IRL and am not part of the Stasi post on FB with “reported to police” written in capitals which I am quietly finding quite amusing.

But a few people are posting are posting stuff on SM with “and before you judge me XYZ”

Friend who posted last weekend “having a bonfire this afternoon so just letting all my neighbours on here no so you can shut your windows” erm - you aren’t supposed to be having bonfires because of the risk of added pressure on the emergency services if something goes wrong, everyone is cooped up inside and it’s foul and some of those people might be shielding because of impaired lung capacity.

Photos of children on a bouncy castle in the back yard, “before you judge me there was no contact and the guy cleaned it all” yes but the point is it’s not exactly an essential fucking journey is it?!

And the people moaning about traffic on the roads - erm you were there too but your reason is “justified” because you are a key worker? “The park/beach was so crowded” so I came home - BUT YOU WERE THERE TOO!!!!

You totally did.

You can’t tell someone what they were or weren’t insinuating 🤣🤣 You perceived it as that and I have told you, it is not what I meant - accept it!

Bored of this now. Live and let live. Hide out in your nuclear bunker and leave the rest to get on with their lives. It’s tedious now.

I don’t want to sit at home on my own that’s the bloody point.

If everyone accepts the rules apply to all of us then we can all get on with our lives a lot sooner.

It’s like when you all have to stay late at school because a couple of fuckers have been playing up.

Those same people will be the first to be up in arms when we have to have another, more severe, lockdown.

Noooo we will just continue doing what we're doing...

If it's affecting you so badly, as you claim it is, then drive for your exercise and have a chat with your children.

If you don't want to do it then that's on you?

Most people who aren't strictly observing lockdown will have what, to them, seems perfectly rational justification for their decisions. And sometimes they simply make no sense. I was talking to an older lady sitting on her doorstep (obligatory clarification of 6 metre distance), who said she'd been nowhere and seen nobody for almost 3 months, as she lives alone.
Nobody, apart from her sister, and her daughters, and her grandchildren, who she babysits, and the young niece who was inside at the time. I don't live in curtain-twitching distance. Those are the ones she mentioned to me. But she genuinely believes she's doing lockdown to the letter. No, of course I didn't say anything. What would be the bloody point? She's far from being the only one, and I'm not talking a small percentage doing their own thing here.

Sorry but I'm glad we didn't follow Spain that was horrendous keeping children locked inside for 6 weeks without any form of exercise lockdown is bad enough in this country but they would have had mass riots had they tried to enforce what some European countries done.

I don't think there's harm in people going out to exercise or walk as many times as they want if they are social distancing I think we should be allowed this more come Monday.

I do though disagree and think it takes the piss when others end up going round to family or friends houses like PP have said I'm missing my own family so much my DCs are missing their grandparents and great grandparents but we have all stayed away only speaking to each other via FaceTime that and we wouldn't be able to go even if we wanted to my parents live a good 2.5 hours drive away and my in-laws a good 1.5 hours away so we couldn't just pop in the car.

I am hoping that by June they will allow us to see our family and friends again I don't think I can cope any longer if they keep extending this 🥺

Are bar b qs ok op or not?

If everyone accepts the rules apply to all of us then we can all get on with our lives a lot sooner.

It doesn’t sound like anyone in your OP has broken any rules though.... except for the confusion over a bonfire or not (which again, I still hate and still feel should be banned all the time!)

My neighbour works has people around, going in the house, kids playing with hers, drinking wine Staggering really. They mustn’t give a shit

I guess for some people, if your having contact with numerous people throughout the day while at work then what difference does two or three more people (whose movements are known to you) make.

haven’t been stopped once when working

Ahh, another person who is still going out to work deciding that everyone else is doing lockdown wrong.

I really want to have a bonfire as I've got loads of garden waste but it definitely advises you not to have one on my councils website as it may aggravate symptoms for people with Covid 19, so I haven't had one yet. The tips are closed as well (I think.) I hate fly tipping but you can see why it might increase at the moment.

noone in your OP has broken any guidelines tho

Coronavirus: councils tell residents to stop lighting fires to help people with respiratory conditions

www.which.co.uk/news/2020/04/coronavirus-councils-tell-residents-to-stop-lighting-fires-to-help-people-with-respiratory-conditions/

The bouncy castle guy was 'doing his job that he cannot do from home' which is well within lockdown rules. Alternatively the parents could have collected it on the way home from their food shop, halving a relative or friend, collecting medicines. The lockdown police are getting increasingly tiresome especially when half of it is perfectly fine with the government but they make up their own set of rules

I have to go to work, I have no choice.

People are allowed to travel for work. That includes delivering bouncy castle. Everyone who is prevented from delivering bouncy castles is somebody else furloughed and financially supported by the government, so obviously we need to keep those people in work where possible, and delivering a bouncy castle is really quite low risk.

I have to go to work, I have no choice.

This is probably also the case for the bouncy castle hirer

MadamBee....you're a tad waspy today. There's a bit of a sting in your tale of woe...
Some people will break the "roolz"; some people will make the "roolz" up and some people will follow the "roolz" to the letter (not sure if it's A, C or D). It's all part of our mighty leader's great plan.

You can't lock families up for weeks on end. I'm not sure about dementors but that sure as shit would drive them demented.

I suggest that you focus on looking after yourself and smile at the sound of children's laughter. Getting yourself upset won't change anything.

I am a SW which is pretty essential work. CP and all that.

Unfortunately I haven’t seen two of my children for some months as they don’t live with me.

Get a life! Had enough of all these wannabe Stasi curtain twitchers.

I do have a life, one I would like to keep and not lose through catching a potentially deadly virus. That’s the point isn’t it, but clearly common sense doesn’t really seem to exist anymore.

Then stay locked up in your house. Then you won't get the virus .

I have to go to work, I have no choice.

Meaning you get to leave your house every day and go out and see different people and different things. How about you cut some slack to the woman across the road has been cooped up with her kids for 6 weeks, not going anywhere or doing anything and got them a bouncy castle so the could have some fun and fresh air? Which isn’t actually against the rules. And the guy who brought it can maybe feed his kids today because of it and isn’t breaking any rules either.

People who are still going to work every day have no idea what it’s like being stuck at home for weeks on end. They have their own shit to deal with but can you imagine the outcry if people at home started to tell key workers how they should deal with their own situation?