Crowds in the parks yesterday

[Mrgrinch]

I've been seeing pictures and videos of the amount of people gathering in the sun yesterday and I am genuinely shocked.

Has nobody learned anything in the past year?
Do they want to continue going in and out of lockdown forever?

I really do understand the people who just want their freedom back, I want mine too. But the pictures of Hyde park yesterday look like something from a music festival. Not to mention the mess left behind this morning.

Should I just shut up because transmission is low outdoors? Or is this a sign that warm weather means people ignore all the rules?

Yes there could well be another lockdown , looks at France. Yes meet outside in max of 6, keep distance but the crowds in parks and beaches is ridiculous and asking for trouble.

The mess they left was disgusting. The "risk" of being in a busy park is tiny. Most people aren't bothered about catching covid anymore, the vulnerable are vaccinated, time to get on with our lives.

Only first dose and i dont think its safe and time to get on with our lives for some time yet!

That's fine @Flowers24, you stay at home then.

@Flowers24

Only first dose and i dont think its safe and time to get on with our lives for some time yet!

How few cases do you want to feel safe? Surely to God less than 5,000 is few enough for anyone?

Groups out and about in sun doesn't bother me.

In fact I'd rather in parks etc. Less likely to decide to just go indoors as it cools and gather indoors in groups like garden meetings are.

@BeakyWinder

The mess they left was disgusting. The "risk" of being in a busy park is tiny. Most people aren't bothered about catching covid anymore, the vulnerable are vaccinated, time to get on with our lives.

The vulnerable are only half vaccinated by the 15th April. My mid 80's FIL's 2nd vaccination is next week, so age groups younger than that have a while to go yet.

You may also want to look up underlying conditions for covid. Type 2 diabetes is one, of which approx 1 million people don't know they have it. Also hypertension, aka high blood pressure, which about 5 million adults have, but aren't aware of, and includes people over the age of 20.

Feel free to get on with your life, but the government warned earlier this week that the third wave is coming, so now is not the time to take any stupid risks.

To be honest, scaremongering about a future lockdown just makes me want to get out even more and make the most of every moment of freedom while we can. Hardly worth lifting restrictions if we are all expected to sit at home anyway quaking at the thought of catching Covid.

What a depressing thread. What exactly is the point of the hard, miserable lockdown, getting the situation under better control and getting to where we can be relaxing the rules this little bit and then berating people for actually taking advantage of the tiny new freedoms they have been granted?

I don’t know if this has escaped your attention @Paquerette but France has vaccinated only 10% of its population. We have done nearly 50%. Hence why they’re having another wave and we are not despite the schools opening.

@MinnieMous3

I don’t know if this has escaped your attention *@Paquerette* but France has vaccinated only 10% of its population. We have done nearly 50%. Hence why they’re having another wave and we are not despite the schools opening.

We have half vaccinated nearly 50% and will have only just finished first dose of the vulnerable including over 50's my mid April. Most teachers, pupils and parents of school kids are in the under 50 age group. This is why there is a risk of a third wave, and we're all being asked to stick to rule of 6, and still socially distance for now. 17th May is when all outdoor restrictions are expected to be lifted.

The litter isn’t good. That crowd in Nottingham doesn’t look good but honestly, most of the rest are taken with a long lens which shoots a really long distance and then compresses it to make it look packed. Google focal length crowd comparisons if you’re interested.

Shocking isn't the word - the behaviour of the locals in my local park was grotesque. DH and I took the DCs for a quiet (fat chance!) walk yesterday and saw nothing but gangs of chavvy teenagers littering and PDAing bring back ASBOs i say.

I am also finding it hard to give a fuck.

Crowds, small crowds, big crowds. At this point I just need to feel people around me. For babies, toddlers, children, teens, adults even, this has been an awful year. Some babies and toddlers have not been held by anyone other than their Mum and Dad!

It's mean-spirited of you to start a thread like this. It just shows how nasty we have all become.

I thought that it was only travellers (specifically Irish travellers) who littered? So says a Romany gypsy in any case.

Funny to note that your typical Brit is also incapable of cleaning up after themselves.

I thought that the best descriptor of the effect of lockdown was a Mum on this site who had a young girl, maybe three and a baby born in lockdown. The baby had never been held by anyone but her and her DH. The young child burst into tears at a playground when another child approached her.

This is their developmental years! How the fuck are they going to come out of this half normal?

People like you OP sicken me. You've lived your life. A year out of 40 or 60 (no idea how old you are) is nothing compared to a year in the life of a baby or a child.

@mum2jakie

To be honest, scaremongering about a future lockdown just makes me want to get out even more and make the most of every moment of freedom while we can. Hardly worth lifting restrictions if we are all expected to sit at home anyway quaking at the thought of catching Covid.

Lol quite! It does rather defy the point of lifting lockdown if everyone remains locked down anyway. People need a break! I suspect the introverts have taken over the government. I never trusted that Chris Whitty fellow. Sees us all as numbers.

@ismiseeire

I thought that it was only travellers (specifically Irish travellers) who littered? So says a Romany gypsy in any case. Funny to note that your typical Brit is also incapable of cleaning up after themselves.

I'm sorry but are you suggesting that someone's ability to litter depends on those ethnicity?

I'm a Romany gypsy and I'm thankful it's not us being blamed for once.

@MiddleParking

Honestly, if you’re the sort of pathetic horrible cunt to be unhappy about people going to the park together on a sunny day, then I am genuinely delighted that you’re unhappy and I’m so glad that you’ll be getting more and more miserable and jealous as these restrictions lift. You absolutely deserve it.

Wtf.

It was lovely to see so many people out and about but littering is a concern, I agree.

@Paquerette I know people may have underlying conditions they don't know about, I don't need to look it up. Equally I don't think restrictions should continue just because some under 40's might have underlying conditions. I could have an underlying condition, and I am not worried about covid at all. So my point is, those who are worried can make their lives as restricted as they like, but don't wish that on the rest of us.

17th May is when all outdoor restrictions are expected to be lifted

What magically happens on 17 May? We’re supposed to be following the data, not the date.

I wonder if virus free communities will be a thing after this? Like retirement villages but for all ages, WFH and home school only, all shopping delivered and quarantined before use, daily testing for all possible illnesses, no socialising outside of the community...

I'm sure this would appeal to quite a few!

As soon as the sun comes out people think everything is back to normal. Every time.