To feel like a hypocrite, standing outside my house at 8

[Breastfeedingworries]

My mums just called asking if I was going to respect the 8pm Covid acknowledgement of lives lost and I don’t know if it’s right.

I haven’t stuck to the rules, I’ve seen unhappy stressed out friends, my friend whose single with twins has needed me when she left abusive partner. I’ve also saw close friends of mine. I just wonder if I’m disrespecting the dead. :/

I could’ve been a cause of loss of life and I regret my actions the past year, I’ve been foolish and selfish. Feeling lonely and seeing people, just wanting life to be normal for me and dd, I stopped listening to the news, got on with the life I had, saw people. I’m sadden buy what I’ve done the past year but I was trying to keep positive for dd. Lot of changes this year, some good and bad and I just don’t want to be a hypocrite.

Sorry rant over.

[EarringsandLipstick]

@Buckingafout

OP, I think you are brave to admit all this! Well done for taking the time to reflect on it.

What's she admitted tho?

I think she's been disingenuous at best. Everything she's written may have been permissible, and was for the specific points she made - which happened in August.

'Faux woe' as someone else called it.

[Lalliella]

I could’ve been a cause of loss of life This says all you need to OP. Reflect on that.

[Hamhockandmash]

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

I think the clapping, standing out on doorstep it’s hollow virtue signalling
Make a difference by following rules,maintain good hygiene,support your bubble. That makes a tangible difference
Want to make a difference? write to your MP express displeasure about proposed 1% NHS pay award

This. I lost someone. I didn’t clap or observe any kind of minutes silence. It’s virtue signalling, it’s crap. Enough now.

[Jaxhog]

@Cadent

I haven’t stuck to the rules, I’ve seen unhappy stressed out friends, my friend whose single with twins has needed me when she left abusive partner. I’ve also saw close friends of mine. I just wonder if I’m disrespecting the dead. :/

I really don't like these faux-woe-is-me posts. You clearly don't think you did anything wrong.

This.

So, yes, it would be deeply hypocritical. But the whole thing is just about virtue signaling. If people REALLY cared, they'd be following the rules.

[lljkk]

I've tried hard to keep to the rules (but failed, who knew the police would ban all driving to exercise? & that seeing my friend in an abusive relationship would be illegal?) and mostly didn't agree with the lockdown & rules anyway. I would have accepted a far higher death toll.

So that's why I'm not a hypocrite who didn't stand at door & ... clap? Were we supposed to clap this time?

Don't care if others wanted to express themselves in these ways.

[CodMouth]

Did you get tattoos and go on an around the world trip too op?

[DrSbaitso]

Something about masochistic threads in which the OPs beg for a kicking make me really uneasy. On here it's usually OWs but as we can see, not always.

It's not that it makes these people happy, exactly, but it satisfies some sort of masochistic need in them. I really don't like it.

[TwoBreakingIntoOne]

🥱

[seashells11]

Throughout this pandemic people that work in supermarkets have been there day after day after day..... having to work in close proximity to the public, breathing in their air, possibly touching contaminated food.....and, as far as I know not one of them have been struck down. They're all still going in to work a year down the line. Now THERE'S food for thought. .

[TryingAgain16]

I haven't RTFT but unless you plan to be less selfish in the future and then actually be less selfish, what is the point of your post OP?
If you are doing it to feel better it's just more selfish behaviour surely?

[Tal45]

If you want to do something then why don't you start sticking to the rules from now on? Instead of just feeling sorry for yourself that you're not good enough for the 8pm vigil because you thought you needed botox in a pandemic.

[Twoforthree]

Bollocks are you feeling guilty or you'd not have done half the things.

I can't see the point of this thread unless it's to be goady.

[Shallysally]

Lalliella

I could’ve been a cause of loss of life This says all you need to OP. Reflect on that.

We can all say that, every time we have been grocery shopping, picked something up, checked the use by date, put the item back down. Multiple other incidents of cross contamination.

Getting a little closer than 2 metres. Meeting a friend for a walk because our mental health needed it. Yes there are rules and restrictions and I am as covid careful as they come but it’s about being as well as possible also.

People are bashing the OP. Boris et al have hardy got a great track record in all of this have they?

[Livelovebehappy]

Yes, it would be hypocritical. But tbh there are a lot of hypocrites out there. I think there’s probably very few that have stuck to the letter of the rules. And I think it’s just a load of virtue signalling anyway. We’re, hopefully, near the end of this. People are weary of it all and are just waiting for us to cross the finishing line.

[DropDTuning]

@seashells11

Throughout this pandemic people that work in supermarkets have been there day after day after day..... having to work in close proximity to the public, breathing in their air, possibly touching contaminated food.....and, as far as I know not one of them have been struck down. They're all still going in to work a year down the line. Now THERE'S food for thought.

What in the name of god are you talking about? They have had an incredibly high rate of both cases and deaths.

It's all over the ONS website. They are one of the highest risk groups, death rate approximately 75% higher than the general population.

Whatever bizarre tinfoil-hatted point you were trying to imply with your 'food for thought', it unfortunately couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

[seashells11]

Supermarket workers?

[DropDTuning]

Yes, supermarket workers.

The accompanying datasets provide data on a wide range of occupations. Other than those already mentioned, occupations with the highest rates of death involving COVID-19 included:

social workers (32.4 deaths per 100,000 females; 25 deaths)

national government administrative occupations (27.9 deaths per 100,000 females; 26 deaths)

sales and retail assistants (26.9 deaths per 100,000 females; 111 deaths)

managers and directors in retail and wholesale (26.7 deaths per 100,000 females, 24 deaths)

nursing auxiliaries and assistants (25.3 deaths per 100,000 females; 54 deaths)

nurses (24.5 deaths per 100,000 females; 110 deaths)

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/causesofdeath/bulletins/coronaviruscovid19relateddeathsbyoccupationenglandandwales/deathsregisteredbetween9marchand28december2020

High rate of symptomless COVID-19 infection among grocery store workers

Those in customer-facing roles 5 times as likely to test positive as their colleagues

Grocery store employees are likely to be at heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, with those in customer-facing roles 5 times as likely to test positive as their colleagues in other positions, suggests the first study of its kind, published in the journalOccupational & Environmental Medicine.

www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/high-rate-of-symptomless-covid-19-infection-among-grocery-store-workers/

Your lie that no supermarket workers have died of covid will be distressing to the many families who know, sadly, from first hand experience that it's complete crap.

Would you like to retract your untrue and misleading post now?

[orpah]

you should feel guilty. your actions could well have contributed to deaths

[seashells11]

Well I didn't realise that so I take it back. Sorry.