It’s driving me absolutely daft. We all know about lockdown. It’s impossible to avoid your life being affected or even dominated by lockdown. Yet on every MN thread or social media post, some po-faced Head Girl type HAS to ask ‘How on earth are you doing X and Y during lockdown?!’ or snidely say ‘I assume you will of course be following social distancing guidelines’.
Examples: a thread today about dating. ‘How are you dating during lockdown?!’ Surely it’s not too big a leap to think it doesn’t have to be physically dating at the moment? Another one recently about a woman’s behaviour at the gym. Any idiot could have worked out that the incident either happened before lockdown or the OP is in another country - but no, out come the lockdown police.
I posted on a Facebook group called Terrible Art in Charity Shops and was instantly asked how I’d taken the photograph during lockdown. Through the fucking window! What did they expect me to say, that I broke into Oxfam and rooted through the stock room? In our local group, I’ve seen people offering to give away items like children’s bikes that could easily be left in the front garden - the two parties would never have to meet. From some of the responses, you’d think they’d suggested coming over for an orgy.
Is there anyone who really thinks they’re being helpful by doing this? Or are they just showing what good little boys and girls they are, desperate to tell teacher if anyone is naughty? And if so, can we keep them indoors after lockdown is over?