Aibu? Are you really following lockdown rules?

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I work and kids are at school but I've been following the lockdown rules. Not met anyone. I know I could bubble up as I'm a single parent. Anyway i spoke to my sister and parents today and they have all met up together. Sister has 2 kids and a husband, the kids go to school and they both work. My parents are still relatively young and work, no health issues. They also still have my other sister at home who also works. I was abit shocked but they just laughed and said they don't care they will still meet up. I'm not pissed off I'm more disappointed with them. Aibu for feeling like that? Just been told I need to lighten up as i told them they are breaking the rules.

Grumbly you can exercise with your household. It’s one other from a different household.

We are following the rules but we are pretty exposed.

DP works out of the house (construction)
2 primary aged kids (each in a different bubble of 120 kids)
Youngest is in nursery
MIL provides informal childcare 3 afternoons a week.

I WFH but do the school and nursery drop offs every day and pickups 2 days a week.

I go to the shops once a week.

Kids go out for a scoot or bike ride or canal walk or park on Sat and Sunday.

Same as pre lockdown.

Only thing this lockdown has changed is we don't have swimming lessons.

Pretty much so .

Our life is pretty low risk . I WFH, DH also at home as not currently working . We have our main shop as click n collect, will do smaller top up shops but not in shop for long .

We may drive further than necessary for our outdoor exercise and may see adult DS and his GF in our garden . It can be reached without going into the house and we will sit several feet apart as we did earlier this year . It may not strictly be in the rules but it is very low risk . We won't be inviting them into the house .

Oh and I'm going to have to go to the shops again as I can't get an Ocado slot again for a couple of weeks (unlike past 6months where its been fine) Am also going to have to scramble for a hairdressers appt in Dec, can't help but think the Gov may be making the run up to Christmas even worse than it usually is.

Yes, obeying the rules here. Get up, go to work, socially distanced and ppe, go home. Dh the same, dd is at home, walks the dog. Shopping is delivered, we are buying for us and MIL. MIL is in our support bubble as she lives alone and is starting the alzheimers journey (or "going a bit dotty" as she puts it). That's life for us all, so there's 4 of us following the rules.

@Benjispruce2

Grumbly you can exercise with your household. It’s one other from a different household.

Thanks, in that case I'm following the rules to a T. Just can't keep track of what they bloody well are!

Yep but as usual tons of selfish bitches on MN think the rules don’t apply to them. They think their world is ending because they can’t meet their pal for a coffee or get their nails done.
Makes me so cross.

Well my life is completely different:

My DC are at uni and I can't visit
My mother and step are 100 miles away and I can't visit. Step has had his cataract op cancelled; mother her injection for trigger finger.
I got to work one or two days a week and see 2 or 3 colleagues and manage my team of 18 over zoom daily.
Me and many colleagues have had to take a pay cut
DH's work has been greatly cancelled since March although he remains on full pay and there is an enormous backlog.
We can't meet friends, we can't go to church, we can't go to the theatre or the cinema, to parties or dinners.
DH mother has developed Alzheimer's because lock down has been hard.
The shops are shut as is my hairdresser.

It is utterly ghastly and a completely disproportionate violation of civil liberty.

Oh and for us we still have two good salaries and security and more than enough money and live in a beautiful house with a beautiful garden.

And it still sucks. My heart truly goes out to those who are suffering financially and emotionally. I am sorry. X

@GrumblyMumblyisnotJumbly

Well I did a bike ride with the 4 members of my household (DH and DC) today which is over the exercise with 1 other rule so strictly speaking I have broken the rules. I can't really get het up about our family exercising outdoors together when one of my DC is in a year group bubble of 360 and we are told that is fine!

I've been diligent all the way through up to this, even leaving a close family member on their own in the first lockdown which was awful. One of my DC had to self-isolate through half term due to a case at school so we complied and are cutting non-essential contacts. People simply can't rein themselves in though, some people locally were adament they would still do trick or treating as usual despite our local council requesting people celebrate in different ways. It feels like an uphill battle, if people can take the piss they will and lockdown2 feels like its not going to get community spread down enough.

You are allowed to exercise as a family

Copied from the government website - In general, you must not meet with another person socially or undertake any activities with another person. However, you can exercise or meet in a public, outdoors space with people you live with, your support bubble (or as part of a childcare bubble), or with one other person.

I am sure there are 101 posters before me who have given their reasons why the law doesn't to them.
But in answer to the OP - yes I am.

I am following the rules. I am clinically vulnerable apparently, however I just don't go out because I have nowhere to go.

When everything closed last time I just gave up. When things opened I went out twice, then places got busier and it wasn't so pleasant so have only been for a food shop every 2 - 3 weeks.

I speak to neighbours, from a distance. I use 99% alcohol to sanitize hands and doors handles etc. I wash my masks properly.

But, I see no point in doing anything else. However, I don't want to be ill or cause anyone else to be ill so I stay away from people.

No rule following here, and also refuse to wear a mask and put alcohol on my hands several times per day. Business as usual here

The roads in Cornwall this Sunday evening were quite busy. Looks like many people are visiting other households still. The NHS is going to be overwhelmed.

I have to admit, we're not. I took my (young) children for a walk today with a friend and her (young) child. So, allowed. Then we ran into another friend and her (young) child. And then other friends with their (young) child. We were all distanced from each other while the kids ran around playing. They all go to nursery together.

I don't really care tbh.

Following the rules, more because I can’t go anywhere to meet friends as they live all over and we used to meet up in London for a day out.

I'm following the law ie the actual rules not the mumsnet rules. So I'm not going out for 1 hour once a day and shopping once a week. I'm shopping as and when I need to and meeting single persons for walks in the park.

Tbf we weren't going In DPS house anyways so not much had changed

I think I'm following the rules. I go to work (care worker). I do food shopping. I live alone but visit my son and he visits me. Usually we see each other once a week. He also lives alone. He works in hospitality so on furlough again now.

Absolutely not. Fuck this useless lockdown shit.

the actual rules not the mumsnet rules. So I'm not going out for 1 hour once a day and shopping once a week.
Where is anyone saying that you have to only go out for an hour or shop once a week?

I'm not following the rules because Covid is BS 😀

You can shop and exercise as much as you like/need and always could .

Yep, following the rules. They are easier this time around which helps.

I haven’t 100% followed the rules. If I see someone I know in a shop then I will say hi and we chat for 30 seconds or so.

Yeah we are. Have a close family unit and we enjoy each others company. I work in one of the highest risk for exposure jobs and want to minimise the risks to my family.
The very people flouting the regulations are the ones who’ll keep us locked down for longer.