Bad taste to enjoy lockdown

[schooba]

To think it's bad taste for people to enjoy lockdown?

I think some people are sleeping and in total denial to the damage of it.

[flirtygirl]

Stupid thread op.

So in a war zone you would never want kids to play a game and smile. A mother who may not be able to feed her kids tomorrow, (a common tale the world over) can't joke and keep her kids happy today.

Stupid bloody attitude.

My dad died, buried last week. I can still bloody see that compulsory miserable would be wrong. Lockdown is not hard for everyone. Not everyone is suffering. Life still goes on. People should make the best out of any time. If you were in a refugee camp right now or a war zone, you would still have to live your life and make the best of everyday. Especially when you do not know what tomorrow may bring.

Same as now. Make the best of it. Enjoy whatever you can enjoy. It makes a mockery of the deaths not to carry on and live when life is for the living.

You can still want action over the deaths.
Even the fact the ONS figures are 20k higher than the government figures makes me angry as they are still fudging the truth. Also they do not mention the excess deaths which are 60k here in the UK and more elsewhere too.

But I will still plan things and live and try to do the best for my kids and have some enjoyment and why wouldn't I? Why wouldn't anyone?

[ssd]

You sound really bitter op. I'm furloughed and yes, I might lose my job eventually. Will that make you feel better then?

[flirtygirl]

And of its in bad taste now then it's on bad taste of every known day of human history. As someone is always sick, ill, worried, stressed etc.

It's bad taste then that everyone (who works) on this thread gets to go to work and have a social life whilst I'm at at home carer for a disabled child for £66 carers allowance per week. Its bad taste when you get a Pret at lunch and go to the pub or gym after work. It's bad taste when you go to a theme park or national trust home on the weekend whilst others are indoors not able to afford to go. Its bad taste to have the funds to cook a ever changing delicious meal whilst others east toast or plain pasta.

I disagree with those a few pages ago saying that only the priviledged are enjoying lockdown. Of course you can be stuck in a flat with kids and no garden and still enjoy lockdown even with a wage cut to a already low wage. Everyone is different. It's not just the middle class who may enjoy lockdown. Someone on minimum wage can of course enjoy lockdown even with 80% of a low wage as they don't have the 50 hours a week to work or they are working them from home with no long grueling commute.

So many complain about commutes and they drive relatively shoer ones. Imagine how much worse it would be to take 1, 2 or 3 buses. Government regulations say you have to take a job 90 mins from home if offered one and you are unemployed. Imagine taking 3 or 4 buses for a few hours to meet this requirement. Lockdown brings a respite from this and other things. Why would you not enjoy any positive in your life?

And enjoyment of one's life does not and never will negate that others may be suffering. It is not a "let them eat cake" situation and not saying to turn a blind eye to the suffering. Though most do that every day at the nos of people starving to death and children who die before the age of 5 around the world.

It is just carrying on and drawing comfort from where you can. It's not turning your back on things or ignoring them and it's not not working to change the injustices and unfairness for many. It is simply finding enjoyment when and where you can.

[vanillandhoney]

There are so many people suffering under this lockdown and it's a kick in the teeth when there people benefiting."

There are always people suffering. Doesn't mean that life has to turn into a competition over who can be the most miserable.

I wonder when it's your turn to benefit from life, whether you think that's in bad taste because others are suffering?

[Yearcat13]

I personally dont know anyone suffering under lockdown. And the people I know are not privileged. My serevely mentally I'll brother is thriving because the world has aligned to his fears. My sister works for the NHS, her life is the same. My mother is vulnerable but lives in a council estate and has bingo every Saturday and socialises everyday on her balcony. I'm a teacher and as I'm in Ireland as am of from today on holidays.

[LemonadeAndDaisyChains]

YABU.
You're miserable so everyone else should be, is that it?
I could see your point if they were lacking in empathy for others, but YABU if you're just thinking everyone should be dragged down into misery with you.

[DurhamDurham]

It's so weird that some people think that by living as grimly and miserably as possible that they're somehow immune to the virus.
If you're following the rules and social distancing you're as likely to get it whether you're enjoying yourself or not.
I'm loving the great weather and slower pace of life. Doesn't feel like bad taste to me.