Huddling photos on Facebook

[FlamingJuly]

Have I missed something, and I will preface this by saying I do have quite severe anxiety so I genuinely might be waaaay off here, but I keep seeing photos on Facebook taken this weekend of people all huddled around a table (birthday celebrations) or red and sweaty (marathon) or just out for meals or whatever. When I say huddled I mean they are literally touching, or all heads in the photos. All from different households? I thought we were supposed to be keeping two metres apart? AIBU in saying that no wonder we can't keep virus numbers low if people still do this?

I've been seeing a lot of this on social media lately - I'm considering deactivating my accounts to have a break from it as I find it really stressful to see, and I'm finding it harder to resist the urge to comment 😬 ( I also suffer from anxiety so my opinion might not be the consensus)

Yes yes yes. Seems no-one on my friends list understands you are still supposed to keep 1 metre distance. So many people hugging on Friday then different people on Saturday! I am starting to feel I am the only one adhering to the rules. May have to take a break from seeing people's photos.

Oh tell me about it.
I've seen captions "Social distance picnic" for example (over the summer) where people are clearly less than 1m apart... People holding their friends children, lots of "huddling" when you know damn well they don't live together.
It's very frustrating but even more so when you realise that these are the people who tend to talk the most about covid, how bad another lockdown will be and how restricting the rules are (that they don't follow!!!!)

I’ve stopped seeing people who do this. Not worth the risk.

I guess if you go book a table in a restaurant or pub, you will not be 1 metre apart at the table

This is why we've not gone back to meeting up with friends, or going to pubs, restaurants etc. We've met one friend outside and enjoyed a walk, keeping our distance. That's it.

We also chose not to return the children to school (multiple reasons, don't want to bore anyone!). We therefore thought it would be extremely hypocritical to be socialising with friends when the children aren't back in class. We thought we'd give it until half term and then see what was happening with the numbers, if they were reducing, or at least stable and relatively low, we'd start to ease off. As it happens, numbers are increasing and currently around 10,000 cases per day (the correct figures for the past few days) so we're going to carry on as we are.

Avoid them in RL if you are nervous?