Neighbours pis*ed off we're in our garden when isolating

[blakeway45]

Me, DH and 2x DC (age 4 and 2) are isolating due to DH testing positive (the issues that come with this could be a whole other post in itself!).

Neighbours know we are isolating as they know my MIL well.

Yesterday we spent most of the day in and out of the garden. We're all feeling fine, kids have been playing in their paddling pool and on their slide and I've been pottering about and sunbathing. We also had lunch in the garden as a family.

Neighbours are livid we're in the garden when isolating because we could pass it to them over the fence?! I appreciate COVID is making everyone worry in lots of ways, but we are not breaking ANY rules in doing and it's OUR garden?! I'd be going insane if we had no outside space! Although the gardens run alongside each other all the way down, the gardens are pretty wide, it's not like we're sharing a space or are massively on top of each other?! There's a fence and a great big bush between us for goodness sake!!!

They have text me and called my MIL saying they're not pleased we're outside while we have COVID and they'd appreciate it if we'd be more careful and not pass it along the street?!

AIBU????

@Pommie69 WTF are you on about

@Pommie69
This reminded me… “my family and I are following Covid guidelines to the letter of the law… the LETTER! Fella.”
Shouted in a Norn Irish accent

😂😂😂 You couldn't make it up! Wouldn't be happy with gossipy mil! 😬

Does anyone remember the poster that wasn't going to get a box dye for her hair, so her grey roots would serve as proof of how seriously she took the rules.

She was insistent that hair dye wasn't allowed to be put in your basket as part of your weekly shop

Or the poster who encouraged someone to grate cheese into their coffee as it was essentially milk, because popping out just for a pint of milk was non-essential! 😂

I think their point may have been that cheese is also a source of calcium, therefore milk is not necessary for a balanced diet (and is a non-essential purchase) .

@Vintagevixen yes!!!

@Jellybabiesforbreakfast yes, she did eventually clarify. However, that didn't really help avoid a shop when you need to give your kids breakfast. The bread would soon run out and so would everything else. So you would be shopping anyway. Never made sense to me.

@Jellybabiesforbreakfast

I think their point may have been that cheese is also a source of calcium, therefore milk is not necessary for a balanced diet (and is a non-essential purchase) .

They were telling people to put cheese in their coffee if they ran out of milk as milk wasn't an essential item. Was truly nuts.

Wanted to ask them what we should do as we all hate cheese in my house so what should we have done if we ran out of milk? But honestly was scared what their answer would have been!

People were really losing their heads.

Throughout the pandemic there have been people who have created additional rules for themselves completely unnecessarily. This thread is an excellent example of that. Some people wouldn’t be content with 10 days of isolation but would seemingly rather barricade an infected person in one room and ban them from human interaction and their own garden.

I also remember some poor lady got a roasting on a thread for wanting some new clothes for her growing baby (online I hasten to add) and was basically told she was the scum of the earth. Best thing was the poster telling her to just put the baby in one of her tops and tie it. Utter madness!

Some people on this thread seem to think it is acceptable to make someone sleep on the floor for 10 days in order to be able to isolate fully within the house.

Oh I agree I remember 1 last saying that you didn’t even need shoes becaus nowhere to go .
I remember getting into a bit of a row with a few posts that’s said I was irresponsible because i would go out for daily exercise sometimes even more than a hour I was ( tried) to be shut down with “ scientific “ reports of that’s passing someone for 0.01 second was going to kill someone and that if I did ever catch Covid I wasn’t to have a ventilator. I did lol as they really believed what they were saying probably still do they honestly couldn’t see the lunacy of what they were saying .
And don’t get me started on those that said we should have a proper lockdown like Italy and China . Tbf I’m led to believe that China has no Covid if that’s true but Italy and France is no better in fact worse that us even after the ‘proper lockdown’

I dont often use this word but I am so livid for you.

Tell them to FUCK OFF.

There was someone on here last year who said if someone was quarantining the door to the room should be sealed and a hepa filter should be used.

I was called thick DH an idiot as he bought me some chocolate when he was buying milk in the corner shop. Apparently he shouldn't have been buying milk and definitely not spending more time picking up chocolate (which is right in front of the till)!

You’ve done nothing wrong. They’re bonkers.

@Imnothereforthedrama

Oh I agree I remember 1 last saying that you didn’t even need shoes becaus nowhere to go . I remember getting into a bit of a row with a few posts that’s said I was irresponsible because i would go out for daily exercise sometimes even more than a hour I was ( tried) to be shut down with “ scientific “ reports of that’s passing someone for 0.01 second was going to kill someone and that if I did ever catch Covid I wasn’t to have a ventilator. I did lol as they really believed what they were saying probably still do they honestly couldn’t see the lunacy of what they were saying . And don’t get me started on those that said we should have a proper lockdown like Italy and China . Tbf I’m led to believe that China has no Covid if that’s true but Italy and France is no better in fact worse that us even after the ‘proper lockdown’

How come Italy is relaxing all restrictions and making Brits quarantine then?

@Dustyhedge

I also remember some poor lady got a roasting on a thread for wanting some new clothes for her growing baby (online I hasten to add) and was basically told she was the scum of the earth. Best thing was the poster telling her to just put the baby in one of her tops and tie it. Utter madness!

Huh?? I don’t understand. Why can’t you order stuff online?!

@Geamhradh the cases are pretty much the same as England .They haven’t got rid of Covid because they stopped people exercising last year in fact no different to here . We have relaxed restrictions and have quarantine they are similar to us but still had a stricter lockdown . That was my point that people on here were calling to do it like Italy but it was no different.
Going for daily exercise outside will not increase Covid and definitely not sitting in the garden.

Bizawit You’re lucky if that one passed you buy. There was a whole lot of threads on here last year about people using internet shopping being selfish and effectively being responsible for the manslaughter of delivery drivers. Honestly the poor woman wanting baby clothes was ripped to shreds by the unhinged.

[quote Imnothereforthedrama]@Geamhradh the cases are pretty much the same as England .They haven’t got rid of Covid because they stopped people exercising last year in fact no different to here . We have relaxed restrictions and have quarantine they are similar to us but still had a stricter lockdown . That was my point that people on here were calling to do it like Italy but it was no different.
Going for daily exercise outside will not increase Covid and definitely not sitting in the garden.[/quote]
Well, not quite. UK cases are 30% up on the week while Italy is 4% and that's lower than last week, but it was your comment that France and Italy are in a worse situation than the UK, which I took to mean now, when that's clearly not the case. Delta may well run rampant through mainland Europe of course, but it's not doing so at the moment, is it?

I think we will agree to differ on the figures in fact I’ll be honest I don’t scrutinise other countries daily figures although I know Italy and France have no less cases than us over the last year . I was just pointing out the strict lockdown of last year of no exercise made no difference compared to ours. ( in my opinion)

@Dustyhedge

Bizawit You’re lucky if that one passed you buy. There was a whole lot of threads on here last year about people using internet shopping being selfish and effectively being responsible for the manslaughter of delivery drivers. Honestly the poor woman wanting baby clothes was ripped to shreds by the unhinged.

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Seems pretty OTT.

However, being diplomatic I suppose they are probably just anxious and don't have a great understanding of the transmission risks.

I'd reply to say that I don't think there's a need to be concerned as it's completely within the COVID guidelines to be in the garden when isolating, risk of outdoor transmission at +2 metres is very very small. With the best will in the World it's really not reasonable to expect us to stay indoors with two young kids under these circumstances.

YANBU
I would be tempted to send your 'neighbourly' neighbours some estate agents particulars for property on a remote island somewhere far away.
This way they don't need to worry about anyone being within say 1000km of there back garden

Here's a nice one for your neighbours:

Auchterawe, Fort Augustus, PH32

• Half acre of land & mountain views £190,000