Neighbours having a gathering for 20 people tonight!

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We live on a private drive tucked away with 5 houses. Our neighbours (very sociable, always breaking Covid rules) invited us neighbours out earlier for a socially distanced drink round a fire pit on his drive, spilling over to ours. Didn’t fancy it tbh. Glad I didn’t cause he’s obviously invited loads of his friends too! So fed up of this now! Selfish people making it worse for everyone else! I wouldn’t mind but he’s always moaning about covidiots on Facebook.

We’re having a party of around 20 people as well and I dare anyone to challenge. We know we don’t have covid.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to put all the selfish idiots like you together in the Nightingale hospital spaces left vacant because there aren't enough medical staff to run them, and let nature take its course - earn yourselves some Darwin awards while you're at it.

This cannot possibly be correct. We're well past 0.02% of the population having died due to covid. (~80,000 deaths, UK population around 70 million implies that at least 0.1% have died)

Surely the "survival rate" should be calculated as the % of people contracting the virus, not the entire population?
Given that we're mainly testing only those with symptoms, we don't have the full picture anyway.

@Anotherpointofview1

Good I hope they have a fabulous time. I'm sure they are willing to do their best against a virus with a 99.98% survival rate.

When you are mourning 15 dead CLOSE friends and relatives, you'll STFU about survival rates.

The survival rate is 99.98 % because hospital staff are killing themselves trying to make people survive. My friend's daughter who is a nurse with a three year old had been working all hours while worrying about her family getting the virus, and my friend looks after the the year old.

Tidying up in the bedroom on New Year’s Eve and looked out of the window In response to lots of noise in the road. Amazed to see cars turning up at several neighbours houses, kids piling out and running into houses, and party food being carried in. Having had two members of our family seriously ill with Covid at the beginning of the outbreak we know what terrible damage - both immediate and long term - this disease can do. I suppose I’m a coward but didn’t feel comfortable reporting them, but still horrified at how cavalier some people’s attitudes are. My sister in law experienced the same thing where she lives - some people just carrying on as though everything is normal. The stark warnings about the virulence of the new strain and the rapidly rising cases just don’t seem to get through to some people who seem determined to risk everything just for a one day celebration. Madness.

@Dowser. Depends on which tier they’re in. Tier 4 social distancing means not meeting indoors under any circumstances. The new strain is ripping through our particular tier 4 area and we’re being told it’s indoor meetings that are the main problem. Loud music and Karaoke wont kill you, Covid probably will.

What makes me bloody angry is the amount of NHS workers breaching Covid rules and how they work for the NHS and ecpect to be treated like gods.

An A & E nurse I know (along with her elderly mother and teenage children) left our tier 3 area christmas eve to visit and stay with family in London for three days.

Another nurse I know spouts crap on facebook about people breaking covid rules allowed her 21 year old daughter to have a birthday party at home with at least seven friends (my son saw it on snapchat).

Another nurse allows her daughter friends in the house. A manager of a care home's son has been to illegal raves, parties etc. The care home was in the local paper regarding the covid deaths.

This really pisses me off.

People should perhaps think differently, not if they might catch Covid, and feel that they may be ok with it. But if they may catch Covid, and unknowingly pass it on to someone else causing a horrible death. As someone said yesterday on the news, if you don't wear a mask you have blood on your hands. If you attend a party with no social distancing, you do and will have blood on your hands. If you can live with that then nothing can change your behaviour.

I am beginning to feel that now, at this critical stage, any serious breaking of the rules, gatherings in particular should be stepped on by the police with heavy fines, and naming and shaming. There is now no room for complacency. Vaccine roll out is having some problems, if we do not want to have Covid all through this year, then we must act responsibly.

I agree - things would change if we all looked beyond just catching Covid ourselves. We’ve had so much emphasis on the simple things like hand washing, face covering and space, maybe the focus should be shifted towards making people think more about their own personal responsibility. In my experience those with vulnerable family members tend to think more about their own behaviour and whether they are putting people at risk. But I think a picture has been emerging for some time of those who think that because they’re fit and healthy they’ll get through Covid with mild or even no symptoms - no thought is given to the fact that they could, through their own selfishness, be personally responsible for the deaths of others and the ensuing grief and misery for their families. If people are still behaving in such a cavalier way even in tier 4 areas with a new and virulent strain on the loose, then obviously more needs to be done to educate and possibly punish irresponsibility. Not even sure what punishment would be appropriate or even enforceable in such circumstances, but as the situation worsens I think more tangible consequences are necessary to curb this kind of behaviour and try to get better control until the vaccine programme is rolled out.

Report them to 101 if your bothered .

@angelfacecuti75

Report them to 101 if your bothered .

Kind of guessing that the party hasn’t continued for 48 hours!

it was quite chilling when a obviously overworked doctor said that if the public did not social distance and wear masks they would have blood on their hands

@Runmybathforme

Report them. My hospital has 300 covid patients, staff being recalled from leave to cover shifts. Those shifts are 12hrs long, with no breaks for food. I’m sick of these selfish bastards.

They were always 12 hours long with few opportunities for 'Food'.

You didn't care then did you? Hmm?

2 posts, OP?

Sounds like you couldn't beat 'em so you joined 'em.

As, I admit, would I have done, SD to the back of the crowd!

As the original poster, no I didn’t report them. Perhaps that was spineless of me. I have since heard on our wattsapp group that one of the neighbours who attended the gathering on NYE tested positive for covid yesterday. I replied back to them all saying that they’d have to isolate. Unsurprisingly heard nothing back and the wife of the man infected has just driven off her in car. Some people really do not care and there is nothing you can do but keep away from the known covidiots. I think like someone said earlier, the Government have to show images of victims rather than releasing infection rates each day and encourage responsibility for the greater good. Are we all really that selfish?

@Anotherpointofview1

Good I hope they have a fabulous time. I'm sure they are willing to do their best against a virus with a 99.98% survival rate.

Aren’t you so clever. You’re not going to spoil your life by sticking to rules. Does t matter about anyone else.

I despise these attitudes. It’s not just about survival. Someone I know who was barely keeping a business afloat has had to send everyone home to isolate after someone turned up for work with Covid...because they are t going to be dictated to blah blah.

The NHS is on its knees FFS..99% survival rate or not.

And sadly, it's not 1% mortality rate in the UK any longer. Closer to 3 %, which is quite high ( 75,000 deaths / 2, 650,000 cases)

@earnshaw47

it was quite chilling when a obviously overworked doctor said that if the public did not social distance and wear masks they would have blood on their hands

What I find chilling is that people are so easily manipulated into feeling chilled by a bit of hyperbole. Another doctor could quite easily have said (as a hospital doctor said to me recently when I asked him about Covid): "I'm so bored that I've started wandering around A&E in the hope of finding some patients."

You can take anything anyone says and make it add up to a whole truth, if you want to.

Has anyone said "shaking and crying" yet?

On you go OP, turn the tears on, do a bit of hysterical hand-wringing and preferably film yourself doing so for broadcast on YouTube.

No one knows the day before and so many have it without symptoms, utterly selfish behaviour makes me wish we lived somewhere where rules were followed, would be gone by now.

@RaspberryCoulis

Has anyone said "shaking and crying" yet?

On you go OP, turn the tears on, do a bit of hysterical hand-wringing and preferably film yourself doing so for broadcast on YouTube.

You’re hilarious......🙄

@Anotherpointofview1

i understand that you don't agree with the 'report them' viewpoint, but is there really any need to respond with such venom ??

ihatefacemasks
Great comment ....some people rather a lot of people are not critically thinking and actually enjoying the drama & conversation around it.
The NHS has been overwhelmed for decades in winter season , December 2017 was a a particularly bad flu year which resulted in many deaths , back in the day when hand sanitiser was merely a green bottle affixed to hospital ward walls ... people barely batted an eyelid let alone shut down society

Not critically thinking.....ha ha ha! More MN Covid bingo.

Yeah the NHS is just a bit busy...nothing to see here.....