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AIBU to think some people are going to miss covid

106 replies

SuddenArborealStop · 01/05/2021 22:27

There's been threads all with people hand wringing about what the neighbours are up to and who's breaking what covid regulations.
The threads are still happening but seem to be fast losing support as most people are more than happy to resume regular life and appreciate the lowering risk.
AIBU to think some people are going to miss the easy social judgement covid made available to them and they'll miss curtain twitching and pretending to worry about their neighbours when their grandchildren enter the house 1 day earlier than a regulation change.

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Northernsoullover · 01/05/2021 23:46

Ah but who will you be able to feel superior about when the 'some people' get back to non twitching activities Wink? There is a shop by me who are loving it equally as they can protest about vaccines and masks, what will they do I wonder? Its a health food shop. The echinacia (sp?) will save us all apparently Hmm

PrincessTuna · 01/05/2021 23:48

Not sure about people, but I think plenty of dogs will miss covid. Never seen so many pups waiting outside school at collection time. Gonna be a boom in doggy daycare I reckon.

TheSandman · 01/05/2021 23:50

I live in a scenic bit of Scotland. Filling up the car today at the busy garage, watching the endless stream of campervans and tourists driving past, I mentioned to my friend behind the counter that, in a couple of weeks, we were going to look back and miss last year's peace and quiet. She said, 'I'm there already.'

RedcurrantPuff · 01/05/2021 23:51

I actually now feel sorry for the curtain twitchers and those who berate everyone else as selfish. I suspect the real reason for the behaviour has been fear for themselves rather than concern for others and it’s going to be difficult to get past that.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 01/05/2021 23:54

Do you think curtain companies are having good business years?
All that twotching must worn the fabric out and the poles much faster than normally 🤔

tecatea · 01/05/2021 23:56

I suspect the real reason for the behaviour has been fear for themselves rather than concern for others

Totally also there was a lot of I am happy to stay in my house forever but not recognising that in order to do that others need to facilitate that.

RedcurrantPuff · 02/05/2021 00:04

@tecatea

I suspect the real reason for the behaviour has been fear for themselves rather than concern for others

Totally also there was a lot of I am happy to stay in my house forever but not recognising that in order to do that others need to facilitate that.

Totally

And there is nothing wrong with being afraid. I was in an awful state at the start of the pandemic. I’ve been quite open that I’d have taken my own life if I hadn’t had kids so I had to try and deal with it. But at least try and face it head on.

FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 02/05/2021 00:09

YADNBU.

It really has been the busybody's time to shine. They FINALLY got an opportunity to carry out their interfering curtain-twitching behaviour at the insistence they're just saving the world, thinking it's making their busy-bodiness not only justifiable but commendable. It really hasn't been ok to behave like this. I'll never forget last April on MN one poster saying are these essential items, and one on the list was washing powder. A few people said nothing in the list was essential. Someone popped on to ask how OP was going to clean their clothes, by beating them on a rock? Grin

Thank god MN made COVID its own topic

RedcurrantPuff · 02/05/2021 01:24

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

YADNBU.

It really has been the busybody's time to shine. They FINALLY got an opportunity to carry out their interfering curtain-twitching behaviour at the insistence they're just saving the world, thinking it's making their busy-bodiness not only justifiable but commendable. It really hasn't been ok to behave like this. I'll never forget last April on MN one poster saying are these essential items, and one on the list was washing powder. A few people said nothing in the list was essential. Someone popped on to ask how OP was going to clean their clothes, by beating them on a rock? Grin

Thank god MN made COVID its own topic

The ones I remember are the slagging someone got for buying only 2 cucumbers during a shop and someone calling pensioners selfish cunts for going to buy a daily paper.

Disgusting

Workingfromhomeishell · 02/05/2021 04:23

Yanbu. Covid has been the biggest excuse for people to avoid lots of issues. Including working.

The lazy contingent will be devastated

amylou8 · 02/05/2021 04:49

My local takeaway has 2 doors, one in, one out. Fair enough. If you mistakenly come in the out door you are told to walk back out, go in the correct door to stand back in the same spot you were a few seconds before. It absolutely makes their day when someone uses the wrong door. This type of person is going to miss covid.

HarryElephante · 02/05/2021 05:10

You may miss it, OP. I certainly won't.

HarryElephante · 02/05/2021 05:11

@Workingfromhomeishell

Yanbu. Covid has been the biggest excuse for people to avoid lots of issues. Including working.

The lazy contingent will be devastated

Do you personally know anyone like this? Or is this a Daily Mail type judgement?
FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 02/05/2021 06:33

@HarryElephante

You may miss it, OP. I certainly won't.
So somebody didn't read the OP, at all, then
AnUnoriginalUsername · 02/05/2021 06:38

I will miss people giving me personal space. I'll miss not being obligated to meet up with people. I'll miss having an excuse not to hug people. I'll miss people wearing masks and not breathing their smelly breath on me or coughing and sneezing in my direction. I'll miss people washing their hands regularly.

I won't miss the constant zoom meetings with family. I won't miss the strain on the NHS.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 02/05/2021 06:44

IMO quite a lot of people will miss not needing to make excuses for avoiding social events they don’t want to go to, or activities they know they won’t enjoy.
They’ll be back to being called boring and having PITA people saying, ‘Oh, go on - you’ll enjoy it!’

trappedsincesundaymorn · 02/05/2021 07:15

There's been less of it over the last few weeks but what I won't miss is the assumption that if you lose somebody close through Covid then you have lost the ability to think for yourself. The amount of "you wouldn't say that if...." " trying saying that to somebody who has lost a loved one..." " You'll think differently if someone you love died...." The mere thought of me doing anything other than rocking in a corner cursing anybody daring to go out more than once a day was enough to make some posters last year spontaneously combust.

PlumpAndDeliciousFatcat · 02/05/2021 07:22

YANBU. There is a whole corner of MN where they have based their self-worth on judging everybody against the restrictions. Thankfully it is now receding. There was a thread the other day with an OP trying to start a bitch-fest about her colleagues who were talking about staying away overnight and the majority of posters told her to bore off.

Those same people will have to go back to their old judgment grounds of birth choices / sleep training / children’s diets soon enough. There’s been a rash of obesity threads recently which is presumably a Covid-judger’s methadone.

Whatapalavaa · 02/05/2021 07:29

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER

Agree. I'm one of them.

Langsdestiny · 02/05/2021 07:37

I am going to try really hard to keep some of the things that have come out of an awful situation. I dont go to the shops much, cant believe how much of my life I wasted there, dont drive as much, taken up running, and so on. I just say no to things I dont want to do, it's a bit sad it took this to get me to do these things.

PhilCornwall1 · 02/05/2021 07:37

I know a colleague at work is really going to miss it. They have had more covid tests than the population of a small town and reckon they've had it at least twice and been extremely ill, even though every test has come back negative and they haven't had a day off sick in the last 2 years.

It's now a sport on the daily meeting call to see who can get them to say "you are breaking the rules!!" In their high pitched shouty voice first.

According to them, we should have never ended lockdown 1 and should not come out of it until covid is eradicated in every country.

NotImpossible · 02/05/2021 07:40

This is such a mean spirited thread.

Some people obey rules. Some people have been very, very afraid over the past year. Some people have reacted by trying to control their world as much as possible (not an unusual reaction to fear). Some have seen social changes they'd like to 'stick'. Etc. We're all different.

Do you honestly, genuinely think that many of these people have just been enjoying all this, or is that an easy swipe to take at people who happen to disagree with you?

megletthesecond · 02/05/2021 07:44

I think you're underestimating my ability to judge my grotty neighbours. They provide me with endless ways of judging them.

NotImpossible · 02/05/2021 07:45

It sounds like they're afraid. Disproportionately afraid maybe, but you're making a sport of them by deliberately trying to increase their anxiety? Really? That's horrible. Your colleagues sound like bullies.

NotImpossible · 02/05/2021 07:46

That was in reply to @PhilCornwall1