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AIBU to think this lockdown is pathetic

212 replies

Applepea1 · 14/11/2020 19:04

Why are so many places still open and not enforcing social distancing? I went to the garden centre today and they had a whole big Christmas section and it was packed, including a tractor for the kids to play on. There was no queue system to get in and all the Christmas displays were so close together it was impossible to keep a distance anyway.
I know I obviously could have stayed at home and will be in the future (apart from my local shop, one trip to Primark and a quite few trips to the pets shop for dog food I've done all shopping on line since March)
Most of my socialising is with school mum's and although everyone is aware we are only allowed to go for a walk in pairs they all stand together chatting in the playground. The primary school is next to a large secondary school and we have to fight our way through crowds of teenagers before pick up every day. The whole of year 11 are in self isolation as there's so many positive cases. My adult daughters boyfriend is allowed into work as they all tested negative last week. It just seems a limp excuse of a lockdown for me.

OP posts:
Feministicon · 15/11/2020 10:23

Not against the law just small minded, what do Churches and Easter have to do with it? Surely you aren’t saying Hindus shouldn’t be able to observe their religious ceremonies, because that would be shitty.

millymollymoomoo · 15/11/2020 10:25

Transmissions that are leading to hospitalisation and Onto death are happening IN hospitals. Depending what stats when you look at transmission IN hospitals and care homes combined ,which are Already the cases which happen to those already most vulnerable THIS is where govt should focus attention. Not stopping general public living. Transmission between teens and young healthy adults is not the problem

MillieVanilla · 15/11/2020 10:28

@Feministicon

Not against the law just small minded, what do Churches and Easter have to do with it? Surely you aren’t saying Hindus shouldn’t be able to observe their religious ceremonies, because that would be shitty.
No I'm saying how can a firework shop be deemed an essential shop? It's not essential. Clothes and shoes are essential but those stores are shut. Fireworks are a lot of things including a bloody nuisance and dangerous (2 years back a neighbour set some off in his tiny back garden which set his shed and another next door on fire, which led to the fire brigade having to come out and total inconvenience and nuisance to all of us near as we had to leave the house in case it spread further so I'm no fan of them), what they aren't, religious purposes or otherwise, is an essential. Setting off a colourful incendiary device has naff all to do with religion.
ImNotMeImSomeoneElse · 15/11/2020 10:30

Jesus. What happened to personal responsibility? Why should it be up to others to enforce social distancing? What do you expect shops to do? Assign every second shopper a member of staff to make sure they don't get too close?

AllsortsofAwkward · 15/11/2020 10:30

Lockdown is a waste of time, I needed a certain light bulb and tesco didn't sell them so went to home bargains and the shop was full this was at 9.30 on a Monday morning. People just don't give a shit anyone people had Christmas decorations and presents in trolleys full to the brim. The staff were clearly fed up and told me that if anything the lockdown has caused people to flood to the existing shops that are open to buy decorations and presents and therefore they will busier than ever.

Feministicon · 15/11/2020 10:31

Hmm, ok 👌 😂

MillieVanilla · 15/11/2020 10:33

@millymollymoomoo

Transmissions that are leading to hospitalisation and Onto death are happening IN hospitals. Depending what stats when you look at transmission IN hospitals and care homes combined ,which are Already the cases which happen to those already most vulnerable THIS is where govt should focus attention. Not stopping general public living. Transmission between teens and young healthy adults is not the problem
The problem is there is scope for transmission into the wider community from schools. The whole of my DDs year group is off all next week as 8 of them have tested positive and due to seating plans/school tracking over 300 of the year group were isolating. It's the same as at the other secondary school and their identical year group. And why is this the case? Because one idiotic family decided to have a birthday party for 60, including kids from both schools. Because teens are the way they are they were all snapchatting and hashtagging the school name. And now school is on year group rota due to teachers isolating, and as I said whole year group is off all down to idiots. And yes they are idiots. Everyone would like a party. Everyone craves normality. But that won't return until people use the common sense we are meant to possess and stay the hell at home and not have parties. There are calls for the party hosts to be excluded as this has caused chaos.
JustAboutPresentable · 15/11/2020 10:33

I’m wondering what this lockdown is all really about, too.

I couldn’t work out what ‘essential shops’ actually are over the last few days. The only shops closed on the high streets around me appear to be bookies and hair/nail salons. All the pound shops and newsagents are open. Every bakery and all the little Asian sweet shops were open with queues to get in for Diwali treats. Dry cleaners, key cutting shop, school uniform shop all open.

On Friday there were hordes of school kids swarming around every chicken shop and fast food outlet I passed. Went for a drive yesterday in to the centre of London and there were hordes of unmasked people crowded under shelters outside pubs, and a massive queue to get in to Borough market.

It’s not a lockdown. It’s all very confusing.

MillieVanilla · 15/11/2020 10:35

@Feministicon

Hmm, ok 👌 😂
Do you mean to be so childish? You tried unsuccessfully to finger point at me I've said several times, whatever way you try to paint it, a fucking firework shop selling nothing but fireworks is not a bloody essential shop. Stop with the woke crap, Diwali or not, guy Fawkes or not, a shop selling fireworks is not essential in any way shape or form.
Feministicon · 15/11/2020 10:37

Look, I don’t need to finger point, you have called yourself out..

Feministicon · 15/11/2020 10:38

If it was about fireworks you wouldn’t have mentioned Easter or Churches, I’m not woke just not a twat. I haven’t nothing further to say to you.

wintertravel1980 · 15/11/2020 10:39

No, it's not a lockdown. It's "new national measures" and, of course, they are not about shops. They are about the message from the top that is supposed to influence and reduce the level of interaction across different households.

Even crowded supermarkets with people constantly moving and not talking to other families are still relatively low risk. A house party is not.

wintertravel1980 · 15/11/2020 10:49

And yes, of course, the government was willing to stretch the definition of "essential shops" as broadly as possible to keep the economy going without diluting the headline message (COVID is serious - cases are going up - everyone needs to stop prolonged indoor socialisation with people outside of their households).

LoveMyKidsAndCats · 15/11/2020 10:53

Garden centres should be shut it's just silly. Why would you go.

MillieVanilla · 15/11/2020 11:09

@Feministicon

If it was about fireworks you wouldn’t have mentioned Easter or Churches, I’m not woke just not a twat. I haven’t nothing further to say to you.
DFOD
Feministicon · 15/11/2020 11:14

@LoveMyKidsAndCats

Garden centres should be shut it's just silly. Why would you go.
I didn’t even realise they were open until I saw this thread.
Thewoodfromthetrees · 15/11/2020 11:14

What is the big spat about between @Feministicon and @MillieVanilla....geez it's just a thread...

Feministicon · 15/11/2020 11:17

Definitely not a big spat ☺️ I’ve said what I felt and have nothing else to say about it.

Sparklingbrook · 15/11/2020 11:21

@Thewoodfromthetrees

What is the big spat about between *@Feministicon and @MillieVanilla*....geez it's just a thread...
It's like High School all over again. Grin
Feministicon · 15/11/2020 11:24

Oh yeah, remember those fights over religious festivals we had back in high school Grin

Sparklingbrook · 15/11/2020 11:34

@Feministicon

Oh yeah, remember those fights over religious festivals we had back in high school Grin
No different subjects just same exchanges. Grin
Feministicon · 15/11/2020 11:44

You went to a very different high school than me then 😁

ShesMadeATwatOfMePam · 15/11/2020 11:45

Ah the delicious irony in moaning that other people are not sticking to the rules, but you're ok to go out because you want a couple of plants.

Sparklingbrook · 15/11/2020 11:46

@Feministicon

You went to a very different high school than me then 😁
I think it was this that reminded me of those days-

I haven’t nothing further to say to you

Can sort of imagine a flounce down the corridor after.

MillieVanilla · 15/11/2020 11:51

@Thewoodfromthetrees

What is the big spat about between *@Feministicon and @MillieVanilla*....geez it's just a thread...
Oh I agree I just voiced that I couldn't understand how a fireworks shop was essential and she decided to accuse me of abject racism and continued to be goady so I went with the time honoured MN tradition of DFOD