For reporting large gathering

[specksdrugsandsausagerolls]

Name changed for this because it might be outing. My neighbours are horsey and have about 30 acres of land.

I bumped into the husband this morning on a dog walk and asked him what the big marquee was for (they have all kinds of horsey events on there throughout the year - camps etc). He said it was his daughters 30th so they were having a hog roast and disco tomorrow night. He then said me and my partner would be welcome to join if we wanted, I just smiled and thanked him and then as I carried on my dog walk I got more and more irate thinking of all the people coming from all over to my neighbour for this party - I wished I'd said something but honestly I was so surprised they were doing it!
His wife then invited me via FB to the FB event - it has 120 invited with 87 marked as "going".
I'm not a fun sponge, really I'm not, but with coronavirus I think this is wholly unnecessary. I'm also not usually the sort of person to think of reporting people but we're rural, we have been blessed with low numbers, I'm angry they're doing this. WIBU to report them and if not... how?!

what really annoys me is that most people are not shit scared, but are simply doing their best to protect themselves and the population. However, there is a small minority who choose to only follow guidelines when it suits them.

Is it any coincidence that the biggest increase in infections is in the under-40s? Yet- ironically- they aren't too ill with it BUT can kill older more vulnerable people.

I didn't see my mum (90+) for the whole of lockdown and have not hugged her since March.

My adult children are going out to work and mixing with others. They each live some distance away, have seen us less than a handful of times in 6 months, and certainly not hugged us since lockdown because they understand they may be infected but asymptomatic. Obviously I find this very hard.

We - and millions of other families- are still making sacrifices to help ourselves and others.

So, it really does make my blood boil to see people being selfish especially if they are young and unlikely to be seriously ill if they catch Covid BUT can still infect the community.

Most of the posts here from people taking a liberal attitude are from young posters or others who like to minimise the illness.

All I want to say is 'It's not just about YOU'. What you do ripples out and will impact on other families who are doing their best to minimise the spread. The reduction in infections is because of measures in place. If they go, infections will increase as will deaths.

@JinglingHellsBells

what really annoys me is that most people are not shit scared, but are simply doing their best to protect themselves and the population. However, there is a small minority who choose to only follow guidelines when it suits them.

Is it any coincidence that the biggest increase in infections is in the under-40s? Yet- ironically- they aren't too ill with it BUT can kill older more vulnerable people.

I didn't see my mum (90+) for the whole of lockdown and have not hugged her since March.

My adult children are going out to work and mixing with others. They each live some distance away, have seen us less than a handful of times in 6 months, and certainly not hugged us since lockdown because they understand they may be infected but asymptomatic. Obviously I find this very hard.

We - and millions of other families- are still making sacrifices to help ourselves and others.

So, it really does make my blood boil to see people being selfish especially if they are young and unlikely to be seriously ill if they catch Covid BUT can still infect the community.

Most of the posts here from people taking a liberal attitude are from young posters or others who like to minimise the illness.

All I want to say is 'It's not just about YOU'. What you do ripples out and will impact on other families who are doing their best to minimise the spread. The reduction in infections is because of measures in place. If they go, infections will increase as will deaths.

This.

@RichardMarxisinnocent
Unless I am some sort of weird group of just one person, there is a third group - those who aren't back to normal, who are still following the guidelines, but who are doing more than just exercise and a bit of shopping, because the guidelines allow for us to do more than that

Same, I read that comment thinking, no, there's three groups, and I'm in it too!
I'm still following the guidelines - wearing a mask when I need to, socially distancing as much as I can, and not doing big meet ups.
Doing more than just exercise and shopping though, am meeting up inside relatives/friends houses now (to the amount of numbers/households allowed)
Big parties are just a piss take though and definitely not allowed, so yeah, why should the actions of a few selfish ones spoil it for the rest of us being sensible?
Long as it doesn't result in more lockdowns because of said pisstakers!

@beingniceiscool11

You'd be being a massive fun sponge and busybody if you reported. It's not illegal. They'd also know it was you who reported. Absolutely un-neighbourly curtain twitcher behaviour and it sounds like something out of a dictatorship nightmare where neighbours are reporting neighbours to the government for having fun and holding a 30th birthday party.

Most pubs and restaurants will have a similar number of people all in during one day/evening. People are mixing in huge numbers in schools and workplaces as well. Let them have their fun - if you're social distancing, washing your hands etc then you yourself have no risk.
It's debatable whether there's really much of a risk anywhere anymore due to the fact the government here and in the US are admitting that the numbers they published of COVID deaths... only a small percentage actually died from COVID. A lot of road traffic accidents and deaths from other causes was put down as COVID to make the number looks huge and get everybody really scared. Look it up - the Centre For Disease Control in US has admitted that only something like 6% of COVID deaths was actually from COVID itself.

This is utter drivel. The statistics have been misreported - 6% of people had no underlying conditions. Just because the other 94% had e.g. diabetes- doesn't mean the didn't die from covid

Ironic that people were arguing the toss on the rights and wrongs of holding a party for 120 people (when the limit in the guidelines was 30) less than a week before the permissable number has been cut back to 6.

This thread hasn't aged well... in less than a week!!

@Chicchicchicchiclana

Ironic that people were arguing the toss on the rights and wrongs of holding a party for 120 people (when the limit in the guidelines was 30) less than a week before the permissable number has been cut back to 6.

Nothing ironic at all.

The LAW then allowed the gathering to go ahead. That was the law THEN. Guidelines are not law.

That is why the Supreme Court, in a different time, overruled the government’s misleading of parliament.

Be careful in what you wish for.

I'm not wishing for anything, strange comment. As far as I know the new 6 people maximum figure is also a guideline rather than the law. At the time this farmer invited 120 people to his daughter's party the GUIDELINE was a maximum of 30 people and yet there were a number of people on this thread shrugging and saying no biggie. Quite likely it's attitudes like that which have led us to a place where these fairly drastic new restrictions have become necessary. Annoying for those of us who have drastically curtailed our social lives (dh and I have been out for the evening once in 6 months to an outdoor event where we met up with 4 people) for all this time.

@Manolin this is the underlying problem in all of this - because apparently the majority of the country cannot conduct themselves sensibly without an act of Law requiring them to.

Cases were rising last week when this even took place, just as they are rising now. Anyone with any moral compass would recognise that a party with 100+ people is a stupid idea. Yet we need for it to be made illegal for people to think of complying. Mindless stupidity.