Ffs neighbours are having a garden party

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WTAF!?
Just popped out to hang my washing. My dc joined me for a run around.
Lots of noise coming from the neighbours garden (next door but one). Including a continuous cough.
They’ve got four extra cars parked on their drive.
What’s wrong with people?
Why would people do this?

How about if all those people had only seen each other for the last 2 weeks.
You just don’t know

There is a social distancing poster in our local village hall window that says walking is fine. Its in the green 'safe to do' column.

Reading this thread has got me sitting here in despair. I have lost all taste and smell and these are now confirmed symptoms of Covid 19 that are not being fully publicised. I have not been tested because I am not showing serious symptoms. Even before having these symptoms I have stayed away from my grandmother stating that until I had done 2 weeks quarantine without seeing anyone, she wouldn’t be seeing me. I had to drop something to her but wouldn’t pass the threshold. This upset her but I said until I know I am in the clear I won’t come in. Days later my symptoms showed. If I didn’t take it upon myself to do that chances are my grandmother would have the virus. This is going to turn into a horrendous situation soon and no one is talking any notice.

Honestly if anyone comes near my house that shouldn’t be I’m laying at tacks my husband is stuck on a ship at sea bringing power to this horrid country and the longer this goes on the longer my kids won’t see their daddy name and shame send to local authorise get these arseholes stopped pleas there are some of us totally heart broken right now but we soldier on for our kids and I’m being honest my freaking mental health is being affected by these dumbasses

ok folks if we are not going for walks alone or 2 meters away from someone else in the fields due to some risk of falling etc then I'm suggesting in everyone's best interests incase you need that hospital bed:
Stay out in the garden - Seriously ; ) Off the top of my head: you can slip on grass fracturing or breaking bone, be tidying up with secateurs and snip end of finger off, get tetanus with a simple rose prick even if you have had the vax, get severe salmonella requiring hospitalisation from pretty much anything out there, get a anaphylactic shock from the hawthorn, same with bites and stings, fall on the saw when you are doing up the deck - not even going to mention the kids accidents that will happen . I kid you not I know folks who have had all of these not ALL in my own family- ok most ! Better not go up and down stairs while you are at it as the risk of a fall is too great- been there done the A&E , got the cast to prove it !

@Mustbetimeforachange we live in a rural area. We are only going out to exercise our dogs, three working retrievers. I go out on my own at 6.30am every morning to exercise them and there is nobody except an occasional runner out and about at that time. I go out again wit ph my husband around 2pm into the woodland across the road from our house.

Usually we see very few, if any people in the woods. Maybe the odd other dog walker but that’s it.

Yesterday, we were passed by family groups, grandparents, parents and two or three children all happily wandering along the narrow paths in close contact with each other and more bloody annoyingly, passing close to us.

I would love to see my sons and my grandkids but the only contact we are having with our family is via phone and Skype.

If we didn’t have the dogs, we would not leave our property at all, so you are being completely irresponsible. I don’t believe you can maintain a 2 metre distance if you’re walking in a group. People walking together and chatting automatically move closer to each other.

Your reasons are ridiculous. My sister is terminally ill and I know already that I’m very unlikely to see her again. My only contact with her is by phone and it’s breaking my heart but that is the reality of this crisis.

Don’t be so bloody pathetic. All the idiots in the Lake District, Snowdonia and the seaside places yesterday probably would come up with the same stupidity as you. Ah diddums- can’t see friends face to face? Get a grip!

FFS this is the fucking last time I'm going to say this. I'm exhausted with all you moronic fuckers who are in denial and are carrying on as normal. I live in a 'small Spanish town and they are sanitising the streets. We have been on lockdown for two weeks only allowed out for essentials, food, meds, bank. The numbers here are rising daily, not just elderly people either. THIS IS FUCKING SERIOUS. STAY HOME. Or your going to infect not only yourself but others and your loved ones WILL DIE. All hospital appointments have been cancelled here. The health service overwhelmed. If you get a heart attack or stroke, your fucked, because the health service can't cope.Take fucking responsibility for you and yours. Because the UK is behind this. They should ORDER LOCK DOWN NOW. We can get through this but only if people engage their brains. The UK, my country by the way is in for a freakin humongous Shock. STAY HOME.

Here here. Spot on.

Took my dog for a walk today... Alone and got to the park and it heaving. The kiddies playground had been cordoned off but parents were all lifting their kids over to play together. I bloody came home.. Bunch of muppets. I'm in Norfolk and there is a caravan park owner advertising as a lovely place to come isolate yourself. Ffs our nurses are having to have handouts from charities due to all the panic buyers and that cockwomble is trying to put moor strain on our limited resources. Whatever is wrong with people..

My neighbours are the same, all congregated outside 'aving a fag' 😡. They are usually a selfish bunch of twats anyway, so I shouldn't be surprised.

@Pensionista - well said. There will still be loads of people on here justifying their behaviour and ‘need’ to be with their friends.

I heard someone on TV this morning say that if you want to know what 2 metres actually looks like, imagine your loved ones, your mum, your partner for example, lying dead between you. That’s what it looks like. Sobering isn’t it?

As a BTW, if everyone is being so responsible according to their posts, where are all the dickheads who invaded the Peak District (where we live) yesterday?

@Queenofeverything44 - we’ve got a similar issue here in the Peak District. Lovely day out on the Edges - thanks for bringing your disease here. 😏

We live here and we’re keeping away from the moors and the Edges. For Christ’s sake, STAY AT HOME!

We live on an estate in a converted Manor House where there are apartments and houses. We all cancelled our Mother’s Day and phoned etc except my neighbour who invited her family down for the day also she is bringing her daughter and family with children down from London to live until this is over. I am furious

That is shocking. I agree that if it was law you could report them

The problem is it’s just not realistic that people will keep 2m apart at all times and not touch anything the whole time, it’s human nature.

The example above about having a cup of tea in the garden, presumably you’d not have gone in through the house or needed the bathroom while you were there so stayed outside the whole time, didn’t touch the gate or the handle when you came and left, stood up the whole time and took your own tea in a flask?

I can’t get over the lack of responsibility I’m seeing, last week it was “well Boris hasn’t said I CAN’T go to the pub so it must be alright then”, this week ““well kids are going to school so why shouldn’t I go to the hairdressers?”. So many people are making huge sacrifices to stay safe and to see others not giving a fuck or claiming ignorance is galling.

I can't understang family groups going to the shop and parents with young toddlers .yesterday went to the shop (have to buy for my father who stopped going even though he said it was okay he went at 7 and was in and out but I told him we lost mum few years ago I don't want to lose you) the parents with the toddlers who were running up and down aisles not even bothered it was all I could do to say nothing when I ran in the opposite when child ran up to me .It might of been few seconds not minutes needed but it scares me for them .why couldnt one parent stay at home with kids why would you take that chance.

Can't quite figure out why anyone who had been told to socially distance at least 2 metres away from anyone else would want to leave their home and take their family to sit in a caravan. I can't imagine there are many caravans big enough to socially distance in, especially if you have more than 4 people, and lots of caravan owners do. They are super cramped at the best of times.
Plus as for " it's ok we're family" who never caught anything from family, I bet there's not many that haven't had nits, tummy bugs or colds and not caught them from family!

To all those peoe that think there immune and the rules don't apply to them.....you are FUCKTARDS!!!

People

Not peoe

Idiots don't watch or listen to the news...

Unbelievable!!

Same here and our neighbours are joking about catching it 🤬

I am a single mother with a son who has autism and ADHD plus 2 other children which is gonna take its toll on my mental heath stuck at home hahaha But we havnt left the house except when Iv needed essentials , and I’m disgusted in the amount of people who have raided the shops stock piling everything leaving others to suffer . We all can understand how it’s going to be challenging times ahead but we’re all ment to be doing it together ! People are acting like they’re the only ones who are stuck at home . If you want to see your friends and family then face time/video call!!! Make the most out of our great modern technology. I also have migraine seizures and really need my mum in my life on a daily basis but now I cnt have her around to help with my son when I’m having my bad turns because I’m not taking any chance on anyone else’s health ! And people are complaining about not been able to go for a dog walk or pint down pub . Honestly .

Praying for a lockdown when PM speaks at 830.

It seems that unless told they will be punished for doing something, many people can't refrain even if it's clear they are being utterly selfish.

I feel for the people who feel forced to continue to go into work and who are on the front line NHS - it's unimaginable the pressure they are under. I'm self employed aka fucked and I appreciate everything they do.

I do not feel for or understand people who don't need to go into work but insist on visiting friends for a cuppa, nipping to the shop for non essentials etc.

Look at Italy. Look at Spain. Why do some people seem to think things will be any different here?! There is an utter lack of any logic to it. Of course it will happen here.

We are two weeks behind Italy now. So in 14 days will these people still be 'having' to pop in for a cuppa or nipping out for something or going to the garden centre or going for a walk with friends instead of with the people they live with, or alone? No. They'll be crying because people they know will be affected and it will all have become real and relatable.

I'm so sorry to anyone who has already lost people here or anywhere else in the world