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

@Newmama29

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 🙄

The other thread is ridiculous. Go to the supermarket with your mum and baby if you want to. Plenty of people around here do similar.

Chances are that the Covid Police won’t make any direct approaches for the most part. The majority of them are a bunch of keyboard warriors with only the odd one daft enough to make a challenge in real life.

If other people actually read this thread this thread wasn’t to do with the other thread 🤦🏼‍♀️ This was a bit of lighthearted laughs to do with people constantly berating other threads asking if their “allowed to do that” whilst missing the point of the thread in the first place. It only became about the other thread cause I was laughing with likeminded PPs that others think they have the right to tell other people what to do all the time

You made it about how "As an adult" you can do what you want. That's currently incorrect whether you're 8 or 80.

Oh no, I’m going to have “Covid Police” (to the tune of Karma Police by Radiohead) on the brain, all day now!

@hammeringinmyhead I said within reason, & as I wasn’t breaking any laws then yes you can do what you please within the laws & rules. Just because the virtue signallers of the covid era don’t agree doesn’t mean I have to do as they say.

Indeed. I’m scared this is all becoming normalised and people will have a hard time letting go of their judgements even when (if) rules are eased up. Feels like a police state online as well as in real life!

I agree with your general point about overzealous curtain twitches and every virus unrelated thread being invaded but I disagree with your particular example if shopping with mum and baby when all supermarkets are asking people to shop alone where possible. Your mum could watch the baby whole you shop for both of you. There are lots of valid reasons to not shop alone but at this current time, just because you don't want to isn't one of them.

Oh and I am very worried in general about erosion of civil liberties, I'm not overly concerned about the virus for me. I think the rules about outdoor activities are OTT but I get why the shop alone rule is there.

Our local social media pages are a nightmare:

Where can I buy paint? That's not essential, stay the fuck at home! Anyone suggest some nice places for a walk? Someone suggests somewhere not quite local enough. Not allowed - stay the fuck at home! Then endless threads about sightings of people not wearing masks or not wearing them correctly (sometimes with photos or videos), or groups of teens in the park, or people not social distancing etc etc. Covidiots!

The people who really annoy me are those who think they are the voice of authority and instruct us all to stick to the rules (please, please I ask you, limit your interactions blah blah). As though it's somehow more valid because it's come from THEM. These people will often also post how they would like to say a personal thank you to the NHS/key workers/whoever for the splendid work they do like they are the queen or the mayor and again more valid because it's THEM.

I completely understand everyone’s point of view & for the most part I do follow the rules but like others I am getting sick of being policed within an inch of my life. I suffered quite bad anxiety whilst pregnant in the pandemic (I had a terrible experience where a shop worker was terribly rude & I was hormonal) & I still feel it now where I hate to go to shops etc alone (not that I have to justify that to anyone). I can’t ask my mum to get my shopping for her family of 3 & my family of 3 either

Totally agree - I got told I was contributing to deaths by picking up a takeaway coffee once a week! I buy it via drive thru on my way for a walk along the prom each Sunday - it’s a 5 minute drive away and I walk there before picking up my click and collect grocery shop. I hardly leave the house the rest of the week.
Can’t wait to be free of all those who are judging everyone’s actions

I don’t know if people have genuinely gone mad with cabin fever or if they always were and have finally got the reason they needed to publicly vent their spleen, but the ‘Next Door’ threads in my area are hilarious and awful in equal measure. Mad people saying they don’t think runners should be allowed because they run in the road when they’re driving and they run on the pavement when they’re walking and they do BIG BREATHING. And then they post a picture of some poor bastard who’s absolutely miles away and obviously an incredibly accomplished runner and is just trying to safely exercise as normal and has probably been doing so for years and years.

Or the woman who thought that each household should be allocated a time slot to use an enormous AONB near us and took serious umbrage with anyone using it for walking with their families when she was there.

Or the man that decreed only ‘key workers’ should be allowed to work and anyone else should have to stay at home, even if it meant their businesses failing and he wouldn’t accept that people going to work, such as gardeners, tree surgeons and builders, was allowed to happen.

What a time to be alive.

I’m so glad I don’t have Facebook to see this drivel!

@CherryBlossomPink

Totally agree - I got told I was contributing to deaths by picking up a takeaway coffee once a week! I buy it via drive thru on my way for a walk along the prom each Sunday - it’s a 5 minute drive away and I walk there before picking up my click and collect grocery shop. I hardly leave the house the rest of the week. Can’t wait to be free of all those who are judging everyone’s actions

A woman on our local Facebook group got absolutely flamed for saying she'd got a coffee from the Costa drive thru. Lots of comments like 'why can't you just stay home. People are dying' and 'buy a kettle'. By the time I saw it, admin had turned comments off as it was getting so awful.

@MissEliza people have seriously lost the plot! Where have the human brains gone that can make their own risk assessments & judgements? Do we all just turn into complete robots because the government says so 🙄