Covid police

[Newmama29]

AIBU to not be able to wait for the days when you can create a thread about anything & not having people commenting “is that not against the rules?” Or “are you in the UK? Cause if so then you are breaking covid rules” etc.

This is semi-lighthearted

I agree with you there. Especially if people are just making their own rules up.

Sorry but I don’t understand at all

What are you on about in a semi lighthearted way?

Ah op. You are forgetting the covid thread police.

@leafygarden42 that this was a thread for people to have a joke & a laugh without being attacked by the covid police

I totally get this op. Some many posts where someone has to jump in and say that’s not allowed or where are you .

@Livy178 I know, someone’s asking for completely reasonable advice & there’s always one that says “are you even allowed to do that?”

It feels almost childish being told I’m “not allowed” to do something

Even worse, the covid police break the rules if they deem it necessary! One of the most fervent shouters on SM around here lied about symptoms to get an NHS test. Because she was worried about having gone shopping.

I hear you, OP.

It feels almost childish being told I’m “not allowed” to do something

You're not allowed to say that.

Well I think you're being completely unreasonable being light hearted at a time this, how very dare you. I'm sure it goes against the spirit of lockdown!

@Ifailed

It feels almost childish being told I’m “not allowed” to do something

You're not allowed to say that.

I know! & god forbid I question the logic behind the rules!

I'm even more fed up of any thread mentioning mask, descending into a bitch fest about those who are exempt

*Masks

@CostaDelCovid oh I know! I’m just fed up of all the judgey, perfect peters on here that think that they are above everyone else! It’s no one else’s business why I’m not shopping alone, or why someone else doesn’t wear a mask. I’m not about conspiracy theories but I can’t believe how this virus has turned us into a nation of curtain twitchers & judgemental bastards 😂 we all talk in horror of how the nazi’s managed to get people to turn on their Jewish neighbours but it’s not much different from Jean looking out her window & reporting poor Julie for leaving the house more than once a day 😂

@Tactleneck

Well I think you're being completely unreasonable being light hearted at a time this, how very dare you. I'm sure it goes against the spirit of lockdown!

Oh yes! How right you are. 🤣😉

Looking at some of the threads you would think that the “spirit of lockdown” is a race to the bottom and a competition to see who can be the most miserable. If you aren’t totally miserable then you are not doing it properly and you are the reason the pandemic has not yet subsided.

During the first lockdown we were often being told by these self appointed Covid Police that we couldn’t even have a barbecue in the garden with a glass or three of wine. Nor could we have chocolate or buy Easter Eggs even though the supermarkets were stocking them. We dubbed them the dementors on here because they sucked all the joy out of everything.

The Mask Police are just as ridiculous. I consider them another subdivision of the Covid Police.

@Tactleneck

Well I think you're being completely unreasonable being light hearted at a time this, how very dare you. I'm sure it goes against the spirit of lockdown!

Doesn't everything go against the spirit of lockdown

It’s honestly ridiculous. I’m currently being chastised on another thread because I go to the supermarket with my mum & take my baby. As an adult I thought I was allowed to choose to do as I pleased within reason, not according to the pandemic polis 🙄

Sorry OP but is this thread legal at the moment? I don’t know where you are but should you really be starting this thread in the middle of a global pandemic?

Covid threads are supposed to go in the covid topic.

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You're trying to justify why you go shopping with your mum on a thread which thinks that particular action is necessary and UR, and people told you as much.

Quite how you thought that was going to go is beyond me..

Pretty sure this is a TAAT as well. You're welcome.

@EmilyInParis I don’t have to justify myself to anyone. I’m a grown adult that can choose to shop how I please. My point on that thread was that no one knows other people’s situations so really shouldn’t judge. Maybe for some people my situation seems unreasonable but it’s not really up to the perfect peters of mumsnet to tell me whats deemed right in their eyes. As far as I’m aware I’m not breaking any “rules” that the stupid government have rolled out, so just because you think I should do x,y,z doesn’t mean I have to

Yanbu at all. Though if someone posts about their MIL giving their baby a fruit shoot at a BBQ they were having in their garden with 20 other people, it's totally at odds with the way we're all living at the minute so detracts the point of the post and needs clarity .

As an adult I thought I was allowed to choose to do as I pleased within reason

Well no, at the moment you aren't allowed to do as you please, and I can't believe you can't see that.

There are people on that thread who have very valid reasons for not being able to shop alone, but you really aren't one of them.

Nothing wrong with being a bit light-hearted (we all need some of that) but when you are actively posting on another thread to say that you don't want to follow the guidance then it is a bit disingenuous.

@OlympicProcrastinator that made me laugh!

In a world where it’s all doom & gloom the now, I’m glad to find some other likeminded people who don’t think that covid is the be all end all!