Neighbours with group of friends on garden

[FrostyChocolateMilkshake]

Sorry another COVID post but I need to rant and I'm fuming. My neighbours across the road have invited a group of friends over to exercise on the garden. I'm trying to WFH and I can hear them yelling and clanging weights around. There is a child there too.

My life, and so many peoples, are on hold at the moment and these people are brazenly flouting the rules. They garden is in the view of most people on our street (due the set up of our estate).

DH has told me to ignore it and mind my own business but I'm furious over their total lack of respect and regard for other people. Why do some people feel the rules and guidelines don't apply to them!?

So I don't really know what my AIBU is - I guess it would be what would you do? Report it or keep your head down and ignore it?

[quote ripples101]@Fairyliz

If or when I catch covid, I would want it to be at a time when I could get hospital treatment if needed.

Isn’t that the whole point?

Now is not the time to be flaunting the rules, because the NHS is under enormous pressure as it is. It helps absolutely no one if the NHS becomes overwhelmed and ultimately full of people who have ignored the current restrictions and caught it (and passed it on) as a result.[/quote]
@ripples101
But if we can all catch it again and the vaccine doesn’t work/there are new strains will the NHS ever be able to cope?
They will be even less able to cope when there is no money as we are all unemployed and not paying tax.

@FrostyChocolateMilkshake thank you.

@Fairyliz

So what should we do? Compound the issue by just saying sod it, let it rip through the country, and when the NHS is at capacity, leaving people to die in their homes? The death rate would become a lot bigger if that ends up happening. Every single person who needs hospital treatment (and would survive with hospital treatment) but doesn’t that treatment would most likely die.

If what you suggest happens, then we are all screwed. I don’t want that to happen. So I’m adhering to the restrictions. I hate the lockdown. But we will be lock-downed for longer the more people disregard the restrictions. And if their rationale for ignoring restrictions is “I’ll get it sooner rather than later anyway”, then the NHS doesn’t stand a chance.

I, personally, would rather at least give the NHS a chance by doing what I can. And in turn give myself a chance should I catch it and require the NHS’s help to recover from it.

*doesn’t get that treatment

Report it OP. Don't worry about being "that neighbour".

I'm at the point now when people bleat about "you don't know the circumstances" - well, the police can check the circumstances and if what they're doing is somehow allowed (I doubt it) then oh well. My bad.

My best friends mum basically died of a broken leg on Xmas Eve because of this - slipped and broke her leg, went to A&E, no space, no treatment, was moved from Surrey to Central London, wasn't treated over night - no beds. Got a clot in her leg and died the next morning. That is what is happening in our country.

Please please please obey the rules.

Like another poster said up thread, they are waiting for cancer treatment. It's not just people with COVID which need help right now, so many people are waiting for treatment and a lot will die because they don't get it.

How bad does this pandemic need to get for people to follow the rules? Do we need to be at near end of the world levels - swerving dead bodies on the motorway ?

These threads show exactly why we are where we are.

Half the people say its none of your business, or that they have been breaking rules since day 1, or their circumstances are just soooo different to everyone elses so they just have to see their mates everyday. Sick of it.

Thanks @VapeVamp12
I am more in the "report it as it affects other people camp" rather than "just ignore it".
These actions are affecting other people.
Luckily I've not noticed these neighbours with anyone since my post, so hopefully it was a one-off.
Won't hesitate to report if it happens again.
Really sorry to hear about your best friend's mum. That is truly awful

Log it with 101, its MN rules to do so

@VeganVeal I love a bit of sarcasm but seriously, it gets very very tiresome to see neighbours carrying on as normal when most of haven't seen friends or family in weeks/months.

I would report them. Our last neighbours had 3 parties during the first lockdown. Its outrageous

@TwirpingBird

My neighbour has had at least 3 different sets of visitors a week since this all started. Not my business. If they die it's their problem. I refuse to live in an Orwell novel where we call the police on our neighbours for 'the greater good'.

Exactly this

@user1471538283

I would report them. Our last neighbours had 3 parties during the first lockdown. Its outrageous

That's terrible

They're outside.

* Now is not the time to be flaunting the rules, because the NHS is under enormous pressure as it is. It helps absolutely no one if the NHS becomes overwhelmed and ultimately full of people who have ignored the current restrictions and caught it (and passed it on) as a result.*

^This. I really don’t understand why some people find it so hard to understand and still flout the rules with no thought to the consequences.

There is also an end in sight with the vaccine. Surely it isn’t that much to ask to follow the guidelines for just that little bit longer!

As to whether you should report, I’m less sure. I haven’t done that myself, and don’t take much notice of what the neighbours are doing anyway; I have enough of my own shit in my own life to deal with.

@Gwenhwyfar

They're outside.

A group of about 7 men. Huddled close together on a garden. Not quite the same as them being in a field or the countryside with plenty of space.

Today 11:16 FrostyChocolateMilkshake

@DenisetheMenace the only reason I'm hesitant to report is because I don't want to be "that neighbour". Also I'd worry they'd know it's me. Gonna keep my eye out and see if it happens again and report if anything happens over the weekend“

Know exactly what you mean: only hesitated in saying report them because I don’t want to be that poster 😁