Neighbour+friends+toddlers+sheilders

[Boopboopbedo]

Honestly don’t know if I need to get some perspective or not but I feel I haven’t been able to use my garden so far today because my NDN has had a friend over with her toddler to play with NDN toddler. They’re not big gardens with low fences and the children are running in and out of the paddling pool. They’re normally a nice, church going family who’ve observed lockdown as far as I can tell (haven’t been watching them all the time though obvs). Not the NDN’s little girls birthday. At the clap tonight I was going to ask about it as in the row of 4 houses, 3 have clinically vulnerable people (who also aren’t out in the garden). They mightn’t know this as they’ve only been here 2 years but if you don’t see them out and they have deliveries it’s a fair assumption. AIBU?

You can be annoyed about them having a friend over but dont bring it up when you see them later. It will be super awkward and will just make you look like a busy body.

@saraclara
Thank you for that info! It was at the start she just called me saying that I was shocked but never thought to look into it. I will pass the info on to her thank you so much.

I cant believe people have sent fake message like that why on earth would people do that

You're very welcome @2020hello! It worries me that there may be thousands of vulnerable people like your nanna who have been scared into never going out of their door. I'm surprised that there's not been more publicity about this fake text.

Someone on MN said they hadn't let their teenager out of the house since lockdown because they're shielding someone. I bet they got that text too. And I worry for that teenager's mental health, as well as the older people stuck inside.

FGS get a grip