Anyone else's Parents swanning about as if they are immortal?

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Just had a chat with my Mum, she then asked if I want anything from B&Q as they are popping in there tomorrow! This is after they went shopping to Sainsburys this morning and then said they are going again on Friday.

I have said I will get any shopping they need, but they keep going out.

FFS they are both over 70 and my Dad will die if he gets the virus. They are not taking it seriously at all.

@horseyhorsey17 Not everything is "Boomers" fault. (hate that term)

What are you talking about diverted all the resources to themselves?

My mother is refusing to self-isolate in case people realise how old she is!!! The vanity of the woman is astounding.
My youngest sister has just been evicted from Argentina and had to get 4 different flights via internally in South America, Spain and Germany. Mother plans to take her shopping for crafting items when she finally arrives back in the country and I am the hysterical one for telling them not to! Oh and they then plan to pop to the other end of the country to visit my brother this weekend.
I am apsolutely livid with them both

I've managed to persuade my Mum that having her friend over for tea at the weekend would be a really bad idea given he's 70 and has a heart condition 🙄

My Mum has been, but for her prescription (they don't deliver), topping up her fridge and freezer and putting plenty of money in her bank account in case she can't get into town.

I've got her four bags of heavy stuff/things she can't find and some optional extras, hoping to drive down later to drop them off.

She's going to have three months where she only sees one of us at the door dropping food off (and that's providing we don't have to isolate, then no one) so I do understand why she's trying to get stuff sorted.

I am so sick to death of hearing the whole 'good for them if they want to go out' argument. Why will they - and their equally stupid supporters - not realise that they WILL be responsible for the virus spreading?

Staying at home is not only for their safety, but for the safety of people of all ages who have UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS WHO WILL DIE IF THEY CATCH IT!!!!

EVERYONE NEEDS TO STOP BEING SO SELFISH AND THINK OF OTHERS!!!!

I couldn't give a damn if you think I'm 'bitter.' My parents and their friends are behaving like tw*ts. Who's going to look after them when they get sick? Muggins here, and I don't even live in the same part of the country, and have the inlaws to look after, so god knows how that's going to pan out.

There's been no suggestion that they'd go back on the front line, and they wouldn't do it if asked.

As retired medical professionals, they’re the people the government is proposing bringing back to work on the front line.
Only those recently retired and under 60.

My parents are mid-70s with underlying health conditions so obviously they're not going to be recruited to the front line. My mum is currently recovering from skin cancer.

MIL off to hairdressers and saying she probably won't catch it! Jesus Christ!

My mother is being a nightmare (over and above the usual variety). She went on the bus for the first time ever yesterday. Absolutely no reason to whatsoever, family were there to get her stuff or take her wherever she wanted to go. She also still drives (of a fashion). She's got this scary rebellious look in her eye. She's 83. She's done nothing but complain about the bus ever since so probably a one off.

My 86 year old mother has caught the bus to go have lunch in Greggs the bakers with a friend who is also in her 80s.

Ifonly she can sign up for the nhspresciption service which sends it st5raight to her house

my df fine 74 been isolating over a week now good

my fil on the other hand same age heart problems wont listen hes going down the pub tonight because he always does-i despair i dont know if he doesnt care or doesnt believe either way hes like a time bomb

The idiots who are refusing to follow advice are going to cause other countries to close their borders to us sooner rather than later....

The thing is, if they want to go out, nobody is going to stop them to be honest. They are adults (agreed, not being responsible) and no amount of telling the stubborn ones is going to make a difference.

Fortunately my parents are being sensible and following exactly what has been said (I have to as well as I'm high risk), but if they didn't, I would say my bit, tell them they are idiots and leave them to it.

My mother thinks it's all very exciting, been singing Vera Lynn songs.
Said the war was much worse- at least we can buy bananas.

Yeah but this is like the start of the war. It hasn't properly started yet. And we don't know how or when it's going to end! And you can't buy bananas (or, currently, anything) in my local supermarkets!

Just got off the phone with my Dad. He has a new cough, it hadn't even occurred to him to self isolate. Not even crossed his mind. In fact, he's been in the pub 'to make a point'.

He spent half an hour waxing lyrical about how the old people were going to show all young people how to handle a crisis It's only young people who are mollycoddled and can't put up with 'mild discomfort' and they had it right with scarlet fever in the 1930s (he was born in 1951). Yet he's mighty pissed off about the lack of football and the possibility of pubs closing.

Today mother text me this morning asking me to pick yp some shopping for her and bring it round. When I finally got her list through it was two ready meals (doesn’t need them- I cook and deliver her meals and she has a full freezer of them) and some fresh raspberries. Then she tr t again saying she only ‘needed’ the raspberries. She does NoT fucking NEED fresh raspberries. She wants me to risk mine and her health for a luxury item she’s just used to having. I’m so cross with her: her bloody raspberries could mean literally life or death. She is so physically frail and unwell and over 80. I text her and nicely IMO said her raspberries were in no way essential. And every time I go to the shop I am risking her life. I also said I’m only trying to protect her because I care. I feel she’s being so monumentally selfish and I’m so stressed about it. She hasn’t replied. She’ll be all depressed and miserable now. Ffs I am so frustrated. If this whole thing were going on and it was just me dh and the kids we would be fine and I wouldn’t be stressed at all. I am just so fuxking worries that me or her are going to catch it and then what. And in all this not once has she mentioned her dh who is dying in a nursing home and can’t have any visitors because obviously he is the most vulnerable of all. Wtf .

My mil (one kidney, frail, doddery, incredibly stubborn) announced to DH yesterday that she intends to go to the next town to the bank on Friday. She said she needs some cash. This is despite having a cash point about 20 years from her front door.
She’s also going to have a coffee and a ‘mooch’ round the shops.
Her friend - also over 70 & an ex nurse who should bloody know better - is visiting, staying at MIlLs but going out and about, going into central London, visiting loads of people and then going back to MILs tiny flat.
MIL got most upset and stubborn when I told her this is not on. She said it was fine to go to town because she’s driving not taking the bus, and she ‘won’t let anyone cough on me’.
I give up. She thinks she’s coming round to ours for lunch on Sunday. She’s wrong.

My Mother (93) and diabetic brother,(70) who live together thought they didn't need to isolate themselves, until I explained how sad the family would be if they were to die from this virus, and I was quite firm in saying that they were being selfish and thoughless. They heard and have now isolated themselves. I hope they will stick to it, but have my doubts.
I've told then I will ring them each day, but haven't set a specific time. They have support if they need it.

Just had a chap on the door from my neighbour to see if I needed anything from the shop. What a lovely, generous thing to do eh? She's in her mid 80s. I'm much younger and when I suggested why I should go for her, she said no it's fine as she's meeting her older sister for lunch. 🤯

I'm furious too. Mine are going out every day with no intention of stopping - combined ailments : diabetic , PPS, COPD, heart attack and one is going in hospital today to have heart re-started to get a better rhythm !! FFS they are could be infected now and have no symptoms yet have willingly taken that virus into the hospital. They most likely will end up there again with covid pneumonia and like others have said , they will take away the beds from those who are younger , who through no fault of their own will fall ill or have accidents . As someone who's child recently had a ruptured appendix - we did not know obviously at the time thats what it was -the local hospital was full and A&E shut down , we were sent home as doors were locked in our face - all ambulance were grounded and parked outside the closed hospital , told that both hospitals that are about 1 hour drive away were also on high alert of closure and that ambulance would be near impossible to get as ours weren't going anywhere . I know some of you would say '"well I'd have driven however far it was to the next open hospital", hopefully you will never be in that exhausted and fearful state in the night - of having to weigh the odds of how sick is my child versus how likely am to cause an accident in this state? We were told to come back next morning . So we went home as child seemed to have settled into a fitful sleep and seemed a bit better- who hasn't been sent home with a tummy bug before? . Worse in morning - A&E open rushed past the many who had waited outside all night, practically causing a riot in the process which was really scary on top of having a very sick child in my arms . Child examined and given morphine straight away slumped in an adults wheelchair in corridor until theatre and bed available. That was the state of the NHS just prior to covid 19 - what extra suffering will all these bloody baby boomers cause because they won't protect themselves when asked to? Its not 'staunch' or 'carrying on' - it's just plain selfishness . Pity the doctors who have to make the call on who gets the beds, if there are any to be had of course...
Sorry about the rant ...

My Dad is 82, fit and well and works. You wouldn't want to break down on the road side in the north, where he is a break down operator, and told walk home and get on with it, if he was forced to stop at home. As long as people are sensible it's not a problem your parents calmly carrying on. I think the younger generations are more worried and sometimes causing the social media panic and panic buying. Try and be reassured your parents are sensible and will stay indoors if things change. Keep smiling

and one is going in hospital today to have heart re-started to get a better rhythm !! FFS they are could be infected now and have no symptoms yet have willingly taken that virus into the hospital

Do you not think the hospital should have cancelled the appointment?

My dad "off for a walk to seaside town. Make sure you get out for a walk and a drive and stuff, don't isolate yourself"
Me er. Isolation is kind of the entire point?