To think the MN covid sleuthing is pathetic

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OP: I was at a busy restaurant last night and the waiter was rude to me
Posters: Where are you that allows busy restaurants? You clearly arent respecting lockdown

1. Not everyone lives in the UK
2. Why do you care?

Can you imagine the posts once the vaccine has been issued to say half of even 3/4 of the population. I can do XYZ because I’m vaccinated - you haven’t been so shouldn’t even leave the house. It’s going to be fun.

@VerySadPandaBear

Yanbu, it's annoying. In Australia they are living fairly normal lives. It also derails the conversation

I take it you know no-one in Adelaide?

I do think it's been the highlight of some people's lives - they'll be lost when it's all over!

What will the Covid and Lockdown Police do with themselves once the pandemic finally runs it's course? Or the Mask Police?

They are the people who have been in their element this year. They will have to find something else to behave like arses about.

I agree that it has been ridiculous. Some people just can't seem to understand that others don't live just down the road from them, and may even be anywhere in the world.

The number os threads started by Australians during UK awake hours has got to be tiny

Then there's a much bigger overlap between Aus and UK awake hours than you think!

YANBU it's so bloody irritating!

Covid police everywhere.

Honestly they're so bloody sanctimonious and irritating

It's like, let's read a thread and no matter what the question scan it for every detail that might break Covid rules.

I do think it's been the highlight of some people's lives - they'll be lost when it's all over!

This

I never properly realised how England centric the UK is until this year. The sheer arrogance of some (many) English posters who assume that English COVID rules are THE RULES. Agree that these sorts of call outs on threads are tiresome and derailing.

The worst is when people do it really passive aggressively - 'I assume you're not in the UK [by which it turns out they mean England] because why would you be cutting your MIL's toenails during lockdown?'. You can see how delighted they are to have (they think) caught the OP out.

YANBU - it is so annoying.

Yanbu...they are boring, meddlesome, self-righteous nobs with the onus on the BORING.

I work in a large staff of 80 odd women and work is the same at the moment...everyone is the Covid-19 police.It makes for dull conversation in the staff room just as it makes monotonous posting here.

@BeyondsConstantBangingHeadache

Everyone may not be in the UK, but assuming England is "the UK" is a tad myopic.

Signed,
NI, Scotland and Wales.

This.

Totally English centric and it proper rips my knitting.

@LondonStone

YANBU! I’ve just been reading a thread from a poster in Australia and she mentioned going out for drinks and a meal and the replies were just insane. And even once she clarified she lives elsewhere, it was “well you still shouldn’t be going out for drinks anyway we’re in the middle of a pandemic”. Oh, fuck off.

That was spectacular that one.

No-one should be following their own countries rules and regs. Only England’s rules count. Or more accurately only the MN interpretation of England’s rules count

And then there’s the “essential shopping” police. People who are almost having a coronary because Marks and Sparks haven’t blocked off the socks section and people are - gasp - buying winter socks in the second half of November and they aren’t “essential”.

I am no doctor but I am certain that the virus isn’t spreading solely because Sue put a bar of Dairy Milk in her trolley yesterday. Or because Jim bought a pair of gloves when he was in M and S buying a trifle.

Where I live in Australia we haven’t had any community transmission for over 7 months. Life is pretty much normal, so much so that sometimes I literally forget we are in the middle of a pandemic. Our premier handled it so well that we are able to enjoy normal activities. I can’t even remember lockdown, feels like decades ago.

can’t even remember lockdown, feels like decades ago.

Lucky fucker.

Also the competitive covid martyr-ing that annoys me too, there's a thread going about the 'rules' so of course we have the 'I've not set foot outside my home since March or had any contact with another person, I just don't know why everyone else isn't as good as me...'

" I went to the shop to buy a skirt when suddenly aliens landed picked me up , transported me to their home planet qwrgh and gave me dinner and took me home in time for strictly "

And the first response is

" How are you buying the non essential skirt in lockdown ?"

Agree that some posters will be lost when this is over. Thank goodness I have normal neighbours IRL or they might have reported me for going out 5 days a week back in the spring (to my admin job in nhs when we were told we couldnt work from home)

Where I live in Australia we haven’t had any community transmission for over 7 months. Life is pretty much normal, so much so that sometimes I literally forget we are in the middle of a pandemic. Our premier handled it so well that we are able to enjoy normal activities. I can’t even remember lockdown, feels like decades ago

So envious

....yawn

They’re the ‘and you had more children with this man, why’ posters on acid. They love it. I have a friend the same, this has brought out a whole sanctimonious side I never knew about. She bloody loves a good ‘well, actually...’

I'm in a level2 area in Scotland and it seems people as usual living in the central belt can't understand this .
population around 5 million ... 2 million on level 4 " lockdown "
so actually more people in Scotland are not level 4

Yanbu.

Totally agree with PPs saying some people are loving this. I honestly get the sense that for all the pious sanctimony - "I haven't left the house since February" bollocks, they will be a bit disappointed when its all over. Ironic as they seem to be so focused on "saving lives" and yet, when lives are actually being saved by a vaccine, they'll be disappointed. I also think a portion of vaccine scepticism is about enjoying lockdown a little too much.