AIBU to think I'd rather take my chances with the virus...

[User3billion]

...than give up any more freedom?!

I'm in a tier 3 area and I'm so done. I'm sick of people in tier 1 areas preaching on social media about what we should and shouldn't be doing (especially given it can vary from one tier 3 area to the next). I'm sick of feeling like a prisoner in my own home. I'm sick of not being able to trust a single thing our government says.

I don't understand how we've got to a point in the UK, in 2020, where it's ILLEGAL to visit family we don't live with. And what's worse is that people are happy to go along with this! It's all kinds of wrong.

We deride other countries that deprive their citizens of their civil liberties and yet here we are.

1182 votes and 54% voted YANBU.

Surprising...

Btw I agree with you OP. YANBU.

Interesting result yes, I can't see the votes or vote myself as voting never appears on my tablet. I would have voted YABU.

Could be the same people voting more than once. I use a private browser (for everything I do online). Every time I log in here I get the option of voting again.

I don't think it's surprising. The selfishness and "it won't happen to me" is as prolific on here as the "lock the vulnerable up and send them a bun every so often then I can go trick or treating".
The irony is the I'm not going to follow the guidelines/wear a mask/ etc posters tend to be the same ones doing the most complaining that this is never ending without ever quite joining the dots and working out they are part of the reason why.

It’s not about us though is it and OUR chances?
It’s about protecting vulnerable peoples’ health.
We’re all bored of it but we have to just keep going.

@Callardandbowser

It’s not about us though is it and OUR chances? It’s about protecting vulnerable peoples’ health. We’re all bored of it but we have to just keep going.

It’s not just boring though is it? Lockdown is putting millions out of work, people who will then lose their homes and not be able to feed their families. These people will generally be young and for whom the virus wouldn’t be harmful. This is a huge sacrifice to ask people to make for (mostly) pensioners who won’t be impacted financially in any way.

we are trying to save other people, if not our selves.

No pockets in shrouds though, @iheartNiles.
Does it matter that those pensioners for whom there might not be a financial impact might be disproportionately affected by a dying impact?

@TheSeedsOfADream

No pockets in shrouds though, *@iheartNiles*. Does it matter that those pensioners for whom there might not be a financial impact might be disproportionately affected by a dying impact?

Young people are not dying from this in significant numbers, so your comment is irrelevant.

I haven't mentioned young people.

@TheSeedsOfADream

I haven't mentioned young people.

So why are you relying to my comment, I was talking about the financial impact on young people and you started talking about them not having pockets in shrouds.

No, you were talking about the elderly not being financially impacted and I pointed out that they might not be, but nor can they take their money with them if they die from Covid because we, as a society, decide they are not worth protecting. Given they are disproportionately affected.

Selfishness means taking decisions based on how things affect you and your family with little consideration on how it affects others.

I very much doubt the majority of those who voted YNBU don't have a family member or close friend whose die from it or ended up with long term ill health.

I am fortunate to be in that position to but a friend of mine has lost her sister. She was only in her way 50s, no known medical conditions, she was just a bit overweight. She left three children without a parent (she was a single mum with father not much in the picture).

It's easy to assume that it won't happen to you. I hope it doesn't. That's not even considering those whose cancer will be missed or not get the essential surgery they require in time to beat it because of it.

@Likeafriendivealwaysknown

I’m amazed at all the posters on this thread who say ‘lockdowns don’t work’ followed by how they didn’t keep to the rules of the lockdown. Honestly the lack of critical thinking here is ridiculous.

This is the most pertinent post in this entire thread.

@DM1209 you have all my thoughts, both for your daughter, and for you. You must be absolutely beside yourself.

(And thank you for posting here.)