What were you doing on November 13th 2020

[TeaAndChoccie]

while the PM was partying.....?

What was I doing Nov 13th 2020?.....finalising the details of my dad's funeral whilst also clearing out the house he and mum had lived in for 50 years as mum had died 7 months earlier.

I just looked at some of Boris's party pictures. There's a lot of people blurred out. Are any of the blurred out people getting fines for violating lockdown rules?

I’d suspect that many are junior Cabinet and Private Office staff who don’t have a great deal of agency in what they have to do professionally when told to if they want to remain in a job, and their privacy is being protected from braying mobs in recognition of that understanding.

Interesting story in the Mail:

'We thought it was OK because Boris was there too': Number 10 staffers say they didn't realise they were breaking Covid rules at Downing Street drinks - but also say PM 'may have just been popping through on way to his flat'

I don’t look at these people in a better light despite their defence

They boozed and partied all night and generally forgot the rest of us were in a pandemic

They had the choice

It was 5 days before my planned section. All of my pregnancy had been alone, including several distressing stints in hospital due to HG. I think I had just had my pre-op and possibly drove myself to get tested as needed a negative test before I could have my baby.

Others were much worse off than me, but I will never forget how hard having a newborn in lockdown was. I will remain angry at these horrific people partying away for the rest of my days.

I hate the nonsense 'no one IRL cares about this'. Yes, they fucking do and if the people you surround yourself with dont I think that reflects poorly on you frankly and the company you keep...

Looking forward to a virtual baby shower the following day for my cousin in the states.

Sending my husband off to hospital in an ambulance. I wasn't allowed to go with him and didn't see him again for 3 months, by which time he was a completely changed man and weeks away from death.

I was sitting in a little hospital room watching my mum die after suffering from a stroke. We were in tier 3 but I was allowed to be with her as it was 'end of life'.
I despise the callous, odious liars who are running this country.

@Hbh17 actually I think a vast number of people DO care! My best friend died ALONE in hospital from covid in November 2020. Her children and family didn't get to say goodbye and that moron was quaffing champagne at parties!

He was responsible for the rules. Indeed, he outlined what the rules were in that letter to that little girl. How on Earth could he have no idea that what was going on was against the very rules he himself signed off?

Ds birthday that day, no friends or family over and definitely no party.

I had a two week old newborn baby and a 3 year old, was massively struggling going from 1 to 2 and just wanted my mum. But oh wait I wasn't allowed to see her.

Living my life like every other day of my life

Why not? Weren't childcare bubbles allowed?

Working in a busy A &E

I was visiting my dad in hospital. I was in full PPE, not allowed to touch him or even hold his hand. The same day I watched my mum say goodbye to her husband of 53 years via zoom.
My kids were in university so not allowed to travel.

He died alone the next day.
We had 11 people at his funeral. No wake. No hugs.
It was exactly a year after my husband died.
Whatever anyone says or does will never take away what scars and guilt we feel.

I was building up the courage to ask my abusive husband to leave that weekend, which I did woo!

Childcare bubbles were for childcare. So mum was allowed to care for children while a parent worked, they weren't for family gatherings.

A parent would have been allowed to have support from her mum if she was single, but not if she lived with a partner.

I was looking after people with covid in sweaty PPE hoping I didn't catch it and die and attending 2 funerals of dear friends online because I was not allowed in person. I didn't care about the breaches at first but when I read about the crammed parties, the drunkeness and fights and all night lock downs I thought fuck you. Let's have a general election.

I was still in a state of blissful happiness that after 3 and a half years we’d finally conceived our much wanted baby. We found out in October and I was terribly sick (hypermesis) but I was just so happy.

I didn’t know then that a few months later she’d be born sleeping and that we’d be walking out of the labour ward with empty arms and that we’d have to plan a funeral for our much loved and wanted child.

I’ve not been that blissfully happy since.

Still shielding with my extremely vulnerable parents because we did what we were told to do by these people.

4 days later my mother told me that she had had enough and she passed away in the early hours. She was so upset about not being able to see her granddaughter on her birthday.

Trying to keep my weddings and events business going, when I'd been banned from working and then refused financial support from HMRC.

To put it succinctly, I nearly lost my house because they banned parties.

Ha, all the 'it doesn't matter what Johnson was doing' posts broadly equate to 'I voted Conservative and fully intend to do so again, even if Boris orders the death of all first born sons'...

My birthday. Sat in feeling miserable and my mates came round and sang happy birthday from the street at my front door in the peeing rain.