All these people talking about how “everyone else” is breaking the rules so why should they stick to them, you do know that it’s not just about the NHS, it’s about risks to yourself as well?
If everyone else is breaking the rules then you not breaking them means you are no more likely to catch COVID than you would have been if everyone else stuck to them. But if you decide to break the rules then you are increasing the risks to yourself
And people using the DC argument, DC is irrelevant here. If DC jumped off a cliff would you feel that it would be fine to jump off after him?
Yes, this is about non cohabiting partners, but there are a lot of people who can’t see others with who they are not cohabiting, their children, their grandchildren, parents whose ex’s are shielding are unable to see their young children, and it’s shit for everyone.
I agree that on MN the response to non cohabiting partners is crap, and that those relationships are devalued compared to cohabiting partners.
But not cohabiting with someone does sometimes mean that you just can’t have the benefits that cohabiting people have. Times when e.g. children are sick, or when one or the other is sick, or just the evenings where you just don’t see each other, all of which would still happen regardless of lockdown and which cohabiting partners will always have above non cohabiting ones.
I have a non cohabiting partner of seven years. My relationship is no less valid than if we’d lived together, but it does have more limitations on the basis we don’t live together, and there are reasons why we don’t.
And his coming to see me wouldn’t be a wise move right now. I am shielded, he lives over 100 miles away and would need to get here via public transport. But my needs are no less than those of someone whose partner happens to live down the road.
Remember when you stick to the rules because of everyone else you are everyone else