to be getting really quite pissed off with covid Thread Police?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Not threads about Covid but people who will post on a thread about (say) meeting a mate for a coffee and say "Well you shouldnt be meeting anyone should you?" or "I assume you are in the UK, so YABU for leaving your house at all"

This always happens in threads where there is no information given about "bubbles" or mental health issues etc, but there is always one who does it!

Or people who feel the need to post....."I am meeting my friend for a walk, socially distanced obviously!" because if they dont add the final comment they just know that someone will jump on them.

I agree that we should all be doing what we need to do in lockdown, but I dont assume the worst when someone posts, I assume that whatever it is that they are discussing, they are doing within the law. I dont feel the need to remind them what they already know! And also, if someone is such an asshole that they will ignore the law then nothing said by a sanctimonious MNer will stop them so why bother?!

Vitrue signalling has got so much worse since CV19 imo.

AIBU?

RIGHT!!! OWN UP!!!!

Who's fucking stupid idea was the 2 metre ice cream thing?!

I was talking to my sister on the phone and laughing about the SD ice cream olympic event and my 15 year old son said "What, like this?" and launched a Cornetto at me. Straight from the fridge so it was absolutely solid, it hit me in the face and I now have a bruise on my cheek. Oh and unwrapping it first might have been an idea. I may have called him a twat.

But I let him eat the ice cream.

@SquirtleSquad

I've just opened a thread about someone's shower gel smelling like actual shit and all of the comments are "omg you've got covid" "sense of smell change = covid" "get a test"

Fuck off

I daren't post for any advice as I appear to be a walking symptom - persistent cough, dodgy stomach, itchy skin, strange taste - you name I've got it and I appear to have had covid since birth!

Yanbu!

Yep it’s the clarification that’s tedious.

‘We saw Fanny and the kids’...

‘...On Zoom of course’

@Distractingmyself

Yanbu!

Yep it’s the clarification that’s tedious.

‘We saw Fanny and the kids’...

‘...On Zoom of course’

As irritating as it is, its the fact that MNers feel the need to clarify because they just know that some sanctimonious turd will ask the fucking question thats more annoying.

I take covid seriously (some of the threads on here from posters with ill families are heartbreaking) but I agree the language and expositional contortions around it are just really irritating.

I liked the analogy with the car journey. 'Went for a drive - wearing my seatbelt correctly of course - and I did mirror, signal, manoeuvre as I was taught by my driving instructor blah blah '.

And for some reason I really really can't stand the world 'bubble' now. It reminds me of Tess Daly saying 'couple' on Strictly every ten seconds like she gets paid extra every time she says it with her special fun-but-serious face on.

I haven't had much sleep.

I hate the phrase 'allowed exercise' or 'permitted hour of exercise' - makes my blood boil . On the plus side it also makes me want to be out of the house walking or cycling for way longer than an hour just to be able to say " theres NO flipping time limit"!!!!

Lord give me strength, someone posted on our community Facebook just making people aware of a partial closure on a fairly busy roundabout in town next week and about traffic calming..etc and the first comment:

"There's no need to announce this or for any traffic measures to be put in place as the only people using the roads should be nhs staff and emergency visits to access healthcare or the supermarket if no alternative delivery option is available'

@SquirtleSquad

Lord give me strength, someone posted on our community Facebook just making people aware of a partial closure on a fairly busy roundabout in town next week and about traffic calming..etc and the first comment:

"There's no need to announce this or for any traffic measures to be put in place as the only people using the roads should be nhs staff and emergency visits to access healthcare or the supermarket if no alternative delivery option is available'

People are such dicks, aren't they. "NHS staff"? What about supermarket staff so you can do your precious emergency run for break and milk?

There was a thing on R2 last week with some tosser complaining that they are giving out normal traffic updates which apparently encourages people to travel. So now they say "Please bear in mind you should only make essential journeys" all on the back of that sanctimonious turds whinging.

YANBU at all

Same on our local weather page, they warned about fog and some sanctimonious twat typed the same spiel about not needing the warning as no one should be out 🤦

Cant Mumsnet make some sort of announcement, telling posters to rein it in? (How do we ask?)

@Aloamilk

Same on our local weather page, they warned about fog and some sanctimonious twat typed the same spiel about not needing the warning as no one should be out 🤦

The only people noticeably absent from the streets where I live are the police.

Supermarkets rammed, dentists and opticians open, takeaways and food stores busy, loads of people jogging, cycling, strolling and dog walking, stopping and chatting, driving from A to B, travelling in taxis and on buses, using parks and gardens, queuing outside pharmacies and post offices, and generally doing stuff.

It's not really much of a lockdown tbh.

I left MN at the start of the pandemic for this reason. I came back to see it’s worse than ever!

My Dsis has refused (SD) contact with us for many months now because her family have literally been indoors since March (wealthy & healthy) and she is the type to question ‘is that allowed?’ So I find myself telling her nothing about my real life so that I don’t get all this disapproval. It’s created a huge culture of mistrust and it is so depressing

I find it sad when people feel the need to clarify if their poor relative has died of covid or not. Are those poor souls who have died of covid are more dead?